The New Yorker magazine doesn't allow the phrase "World War II " They say it should be "the Second World War." So let's search the following sentence for the banned characters and replace them with the phrase that the New Yorker prefers. It is startling to think that, even in the darkest depths of World War II, J. R. R. Tolkien was writing the trilogy, which contains, wigrasp their minds and motives in ways that they cannot grasp his