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Yes, the author of the bestselling novels such as "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" indeed fought in WWI, as a matter of fact some people believe that he got inspiration from the war.

Germany was east of UK and France, just like Mordor is east from Gondor and Rohan and so on.

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