After the The Lord of the Rings was at last achieved, J R R Tolkien turned his attention once again to 'the Matter of the Elder Days'. Описание: The first of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien's epic tale of war.
#Kullervo tolkien ebook series#
This series of fascinating books has now been repackaged to complement the distinctive and classic style ofe 'black cover' A-format paperbacks of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. Each tale is followed by a commentary in the form of a short essay, together with texts of associated poems, and contains extensive information on names and vocabulary in the earliest Elvish languages.
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This second part of The Book of Lost Tales includes the tale of Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, and the only full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin, itself the finest and most exciting depiction of a battle that Tolkien ever wrote. Описание: The second of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. This series of fascinating books has now been repackaged to complement the distinctive and classic style of the 'black cover' A-format paperbacks ofe Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. In the Tales are found the earliest accounts of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs and Orcs of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor of the geography and cosmology of Tolkien's invented world. Embedded in English legend and English association, they are set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol to the lonely Isle where the Elves dwelt from them he learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Описание: The first of a two-book set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. Transcriptions of Tolkien’s Oxford University lectures on the Kalevala, and editor Flieger’s essay, “Tolkien, Kalevala, and The Story of Kullervo”-in which she describes the tale as “an essential step on Tolkien’s road from adaptation to invention”-provide context for appreciating the nascent genius of one of the 20th century’s greatest fantasists. The story is muddled by name changes midway through its telling and completed from Tolkien’s sketchy notes, but it nevertheless evokes the mythic grandeur that would come to characterize his forays into the fantastic. Tolkien adapted this fragment from an episode of the Finnish epic Kalevala, and his account of the young son of a fratricide and his tragic destiny would ultimately inform the characters and events of the Silmarillion, the narrative framework for all of his fiction. Aimed more at scholars than at the casual reader, this new edition of an early short story-which dates to the years 1912–1916-offers a taste of fantasies to come from the master of Middle-Earth.
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