Tolkien didn´t serve in WW1

What if he hadn´t been fit enough for fighting/service on the front and stays on the home front. How would this affect his literature assuming he follows the same career as an linguistic professor and author ?
 
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Also there would be a lot less massive battles in LOTR. And when a thousand humans and elves die on the battlefield, it will not be just covered in one sentence. Prepare for a lot more small scale battles, even duels, but have every death described in full detail.
 
I think it would butterfly a lot of the character of the interior of Mordor and its approaches, the descriptions of which were probably mostly based on his experience of the Western Front. The same applies to the areas dominated by Morgoth/Melkor in the First Age. Possibly the huge armies of Orcs and the human allies of Sauron or Morgoth would also not feature as much.

OTOH, I believe he had already begun the development of the Elvish languages before the war, which might have resulted in a Sillmarillion analogue to provide those languages with a history. If he had created such an Elvish history, he would probably have also created a story similar to The Hobbit for his children at some point, loosely set in his Elvish world.
 
I think it would butterfly a lot of the character of the interior of Mordor and its approaches, the descriptions of which were probably mostly based on his experience of the Western Front.

Not probably. His experiences in the trenches in France during World War I are known to have heavily influenced his conception of Mordor.
 
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