A British soldier began writing “The Fall of Gondolin” while in a hospital bed, stricken by “trench disease” from the lethal front lines of World War I. A German soldier later bemoaned the “lice, rats ...
A graphic novel makes a powerful case that if these two men had never met, 20th-century pop culture might have taken an entirely different course. From “The Mythmakers.”Credit...John Hendrix Supported ...