J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Return of the Shadow, "The First Phase: I. A Long-expected Party, (i) The First Version"

The next two outlines (` V' and ` VI') were developed from III, and are very closely related: they were certainly written at the same time. From the rejected sentence in VI `He has a secret' it is seen that my father had IV in front of him, for in that text appears `He has a secret letter from Faramir'. [punctuation sic] The rejected reference in V to `Dunharrow under the Halifirien' relates this outline to the note on Dunharrow in II (see p. 257). There is thus good reason to think that V and VI derive from 1944 rather than 1946....

J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Return of the Shadow, "The First Phase: I. A Long-expected Party, [Untitled section: Notes on letters" Of course this means that such a work is largely boring and not nearly as exciting as it sounds on paper, but there are some real gems that are of particular interest to me as a lover of Tolkien. If you want to write essays about this stuff, you had better read it and the following. However, if you just like Tolkien and want to know what's in here, read on. Tolkien's creativity [ edit ] Navigable diagram of Tolkien's legendarium. Christopher Tolkien placed The History of The Lord of the Rings as four volumes within The History of Middle-earth; the volumes before and after it relate to The Silmarillion. csillag között hezitáltam, de az öt talán túlzás lett volna, mert néha tényleg szinte rá kellett vennem magam, hogy olvassam. Masszívan fanoknak szól, de bevallom, amikor letettem, azonnal elkezdett hiányozni. Szuper visszaröppenni a Gyűrű Szövetsége világába, és rendkívül érdekes és izgalmas belelátni Tolkien fejébe, a regény keletkezéstörténetébe, a különböző vázlatokban kibontakozó ötletekbe (akár végül elvetett, akár végül kibontott-megvalósított ötletről van szó).

The Return of the Shadow is the story of the first part of the history of the creation of The Lord of the Rings, a fascinating study of Tolkien’s great masterpiece, from its inception to the end of the first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring. The second volume continues to the meeting with Théoden king of Rohan, and includes the invention and evolution of Lothlórien and Galadriel; plans for Frodo and Sam's progress to Mordor; the invention and evolution of Treebeard, the Ents, and Fangorn; discussions of the original map of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age; and of the evolution of Cirth in an appendix. ENGLISH: The problem with this book is that it is very difficult to follow, for it tells about many different versions of the first 16 chapters of "The Fellowship of the King" that J.R.R.Tolkien wrote in 1938-40. Not only are there up to six different versions of the first chapters, but each version is corrected once and again with ink of different colors, and Christopher tells us all about it, muddling the issue:-)

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Külön említést érdemel a néhány képes illusztráció, a térképek mellett még sokkal érdekesebb kéziratlapokat látni Tolkien gyönyörű, kalligrafikus betűivel és tündeírásával. The fascinating parts of this chapter for readers are the surprising differences between the four versions and the final result. Below is a short listing of some of the differences: Chirstopher Tolkien minden elismerést megérdemel, hogy ilyen hihetetlen precizitással összeszerkesztette ezt a kötetet (is), de hatalmas dicséret jár a fordítónak, a szerkesztőnek, a szaklektornak és a névjegyzék összeállítóinak is. Igazán figyelemreméltó, Tolkien-rajongóknak kötelező könyv. (Talán még jobb lett volna, ha frissebb az élményem az eredeti könyvről.) Az is igaz viszont, hogy A Gyűrűk Ura iránt csak mérsékelten vagy egyáltalán nem érdeklődőknek egyáltalán nem ajánlanám olvasásra. The History of The Lord of the Rings reveals much of the slow, aggregative nature of Tolkien's creativity. As Christopher Tolkien noted of the first two volumes, Tolkien had eventually brought the story up to Rivendell, but still "without any clear conception of what lay before him". [T 2] He also noted how, on the way, his father could get caught up in a "spider's web of argumentation" [T 3] – what Tom Shippey described as getting "bogged down in sometimes strikingly unnecessary webs of minor causation". [1] Thus (for example) the character eventually known as Pippin Took was, in a series of rewriting and of deleted adventures, variously known as Odo, Frodo, Folco, Faramond, Peregrin, Hamilcar, Fredegar, and Olo – the figures also being Boffins and Bolgers, as well as Tooks. [T 4] The Return of the Shadow seminar originally took place from December 14, 2016 – April 19, 2017 on Wednesdays evenings. Week 1: In Search of a Sequel

After the text of the four versions there is a section containing Tolkien's notes about the brewing story. The impetus for Bilbo's departure is lingering lust for dragon gold, with nothing about the ring except for a few questions in Tolkien's mind. [4] Throughout the four versions and in the subsequent notes the names of the characters are in a state of flux. The Mythgard Academy sessions are always free for all and open to the public. Every week, the first 100 participants will be able to join us for the live discussion, which are recorded and made available at no cost through our iTunes U course and on the Signum University YouTube channel. Bingó és társai, élükön Kótogi (azaz Frodó és Aragorn, ahogy megismertük őket végül) kalandjai hol még kiforratlanok, hol pedig meglepően sokfelé ágazóan alakultak a végleges formájukba. In prior Academy seminars, we have explored the first five volumes in the HoME series, The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1, The Book of Lost Tales, Part 2, The Lays of Beleriand, The Shaping of Middle-earth, and The Lost Road. At the end of this next session, we will be halfway through the entire series that describes the history of the writing of J. R. R. Tolkien’s stories about Middle-earth. The Road to Middle-earth · The Keys of Middle-earth · The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion ·The Return of the Shadow, published in 1988, is the sixth volume of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume book series, The History of Middle-earth, in which he analyzes the unpublished manuscripts of J.R.R. Tolkien. Although I have always read "The Lord of the Rings" in English, I have read this book by Christopher in its Spanish translation, and found out that I don't like the names used by the translators in these two books, both for people and for places. For instance: what is the justification of translating "Woodhall" (a city of the hobbits) as "Casa del Bosque"? If Oxford would appear in a book, would any translator into Spanish convert it into "Vado el Buey"? Not even Google Translator does that :-)

We are able to bring this series to the public only through the generosity of everyone who supports the Mythgard Institute and Signum University through their generous donations, who nominate and vote on the books that we examine in these discussions. In 2016 alone, we’ve been fortunate enough to look at two other volumes in The History of Middle-earth series – The Shaping of Middle-earth and The Lost Road and Other Writings – as well as one of my favorite books ever, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and a book I had never read before, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed. The UK national resilience plan can be a role model / From ​James Ginns, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh and Toby Ord Full Book Name: The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One (The History of Middle-Earth, #6)After all that Tolkien had imagined in his mythology, it's hilarious to see him claiming to have used up all his good ideas in The Hobbit. Either way, the genie is out of the bottle. Putin has broken a post-Cuba taboo on threatening to go nuclear. That, in itself, puts us in new territory. Without most people being aware of it, the world is entering its most dangerous period since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. The majority under the age of 50 have grown up thinking the nuclear spectre is a relic of the last century. In the past few weeks, the prospect of a nuclear exchange has become the most live threat to this century’s peace.