Tolkien & the Great War

[Mister Underhill]

davem, your mentioning of Dragons and winged Nazgûl steeds reminded me of Letter 100, partially quoted here:

...it is the aeroplane of war that is the real villain. And nothing can really amend my grief that you [Christopher], my best beloved, have any connexion with it. My sentiments are more or less those that Frodo would have had if he discovered some Hobbits learning to ride Nazgûl-birds, 'for the liberation of the Shire'.