"The Drums of Doom: H.G. Wells' <i>First Men in the Moon</i> and <i>The" by Robert Boenig

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The Drums of Doom: H.G. Wells' First Men in the Moon and The Lord of the Rings

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Robert Boenig

Abstract

Suggests that certain scenes from Wells’s First Men in the Moon inspired the Khazad-dûm episode in Fellowship of the Ring.

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