Beren and Lúthien von John R. R. Tolkien

Kategorie: Bücher
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Verlag: HarperCollins UKHarperCollins
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780008214227

'A seamless editorial construct, the capstone to a job Christopher Tolkien began with The Silmarillion'<br>New Statesman

'Critical moments are caught, as in The Children of Húrin, by Alan Lee's nine outstanding colour plates'<br>Times Literary Supplement

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic tale ofBeren and Lúthienwill reunite fans ofThe HobbitandThe Lord of the Ringswith Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien's Middle-earth.

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic tale ofBeren and Lúthienwill reunite fans ofThe HobbitandThe Lord of the Ringswith Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien's Middle-earth.

The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution ofThe Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year.

Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lúthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal Elf. Her father, a great Elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. This is the kernel of the legend; and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt ofBeren and Lúthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril.

In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Lúthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded; but that story was itself changing as it developed new associations within the larger history. To show something of the process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years, he has told the story in his father's own words by giving, first, its original form, and then passages in prose and verse from later texts that illustrate the narrative as it changed. Presented together for the first time, they reveal aspects of the story, both in event and in narrative immediacy, that were afterwards lost.

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J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writingThe Hobbit,The Lord of the RingsandThe Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over 80 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.

Alan Lee was invited to illustrate the centenary edition ofThe Lord of the Rings, which led to further Tolkien editions, includingThe Hobbitand the three'Great Tales':The Children of Húrin,Beren and LúthienandThe Fall of Gondolin. He worked as Conceptual Designer and Set Decorator on both Middle-earth film trilogies, receiving the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his work onThe Return of the King.

Christopher Tolkien, born on 24 November 1924, was the third son of J.R.R. Tolkien. As his father's literary executor, he devoted over forty years to the publication of his father's unpublished works, fromThe SilmarillionandUnfinished TalestoBeren and LúthienandThe Fall of Gondolin, and within'The History of Middle-earth'series, and was awarded the Bodley Medal for his services to literature in 2016. He died in January 2020 at the age of 95.

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