… The only one left was Christopher Wiseman, who served in the navy. In the first sentence in the Foreword to The Lord of the RingsTolkien describes this trilogy as "a history of the Great War of the Ring". After the war, he went on to write “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.” Glynn-Carney will play Christopher Wiseman, socially adept beyond his … Christopher Luke Wiseman (20 April 1893 Edgbaston - 25 July 1987 Milford-on-Sea) was the only friend of J.R.R. Out of the four young men who formed the core of the T.C.B.S., only Tolkien and naval officer Christopher Wiseman survived the Great War. Tolkien and a member of the T.C.B.S..He attended King Edward's School in Birmingham, as did Tolkien, Christopher Wiseman and the other members of the society, where he first became indulged in poetry. Tolkien himself had survived the war, but carried the scars of it for the rest of his life. Wiseman survived the war and remained a lifelong close friend to Tolkien. He was one who more than once urged Tolkien to write the fantastic epic he thought and talked about so much. In 1904, when J. R. R. Tolkien was 12, his mother died of acute diabetes at Fern Cottage in Rednal, which she was renting. Smith would later attend Corpus Christi College in Oxford, while Tolkien went to nearby … Geoffrey Bache Smith (October 18, 1894 - December 3, 1916) was a close friend of J.R.R. 2nd Lieut Tolkien contracted trench fever towards the end of October and returned to England on 8 November. The Hangover shows us a toxic vision of how many modern men behave, but Tolkien reflects on how they should act with one another, especially after World War … He was one of the T.C.B.S., Barrovian Society and it was after Wiseman who Tolkien named his son, Christopher Tolkien. She was then about 34 years of age, about as old as a person with diabetes mellitus type 1 could live without treatment—insulin would not be discovered until two decades later. The war had killed all but one of Tolkien's close friends, Christopher Wiseman. Tolkien who survived World War I, during which he served as an Instructor Lieutenant in the Royal Navy.