Beren & Luthien - J. R. R. Tolkien - Harper Thorsons
Beren and Luthien
J. R. R. Tolkien
Yayınevi:Harper Thorsons
Format: Kitap
Barkod: 9780008214227
Cilt Durumu: Ciltsiz
Ürün Tanıtımı
Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and
presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic
tale of Beren and Luthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the
Rings with Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures
unique to Tolkien's Middle-earth.
The tale of Beren and
Luthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The
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 Luthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Luthien
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 Luthien. This is the kernel of the legend; and it leads to the supremely
heroic attempt of Beren and Luthien 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 Luthien 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.
Özellikler
Basım Dili: İngilizce
Basım Yeri: Amerika
Sayfa Sayısı: 288
En / Boy: 13,50 / 21,00 cm
Kağıt Cinsi: 2. Hamur
Basım Tarihi: 2020