Джон Р. Р. Толкин - электронные книги

Джон Рональд Руэл Толкин (3.01.1892—2.09.1973) — писатель, поэт, филолог, профессор Оксфордского университета, родоначальник современной фэнтези. В 1937 году был написан "Хоббит", а в середине 1950-х годов увидели свет три книги "Властелина Колец", повествующие о Средиземье — мире, населенном представителями волшебных рас со сложной культурой, историей и мифологией. В последующие годы эти романы были переведены на все мировые языки, адаптированы для кино, мультипликации, аудиопьес, театра, компьютерных игр, комиксов и породили массу подражаний и пародий. Алан Ли (р. 20.08.1947) — художник-иллюстратор десятков книг в жанре фэнтези.…

Трилогия "Властелин Колец" бесспорно возглавляет список "культовых" книг ХХ века. Ее автор, Дж. Р.Р. Толкин, профессор Оксфордского университета, специалист по древнему и средневековому английскому языку, создал удивительный мир — Средиземье, который вот уже без малого пятьдесят лет неодолимо влечет к себе миллионы читателей. Великолепная кинотрилогия, снятая Питером Джексоном, в десятки раз увеличила ряды поклонников как Толкина, так и самого жанра героического фэнтези.

Джон Рональд Руэл Толкин (3.01.1892—2.09.1973) — писатель, поэт, филолог, профессор Оксфордского университета, родоначальник современной фэнтези. В 1937 году был написан "Хоббит", а в середине 1950-х годов увидели свет три книги "Властелина Колец", повествующие о Средиземье — мире, населенном представителями волшебных рас со сложной культурой, историей и мифологией.В последующие годы эти романы были переведены на все мировые языки, адаптированы для кино, мультипликации, аудиопьес, театра, компьютерных игр, комиксов и породили массу подражаний и пародий. Алан Ли (р. 20.08.1947) — художник-иллюстратор десятков книг в жанре фэнтези.…

"В земле была нора, а в норе жил хоббит". Эти слова написал Джон Рональд Руэл Толкин на обороте школьной экзаменационной работы, которую проверял одним жарким днём. И кто бы мог подумать, что именно из них, как из волшебного зёрнышка, произрастёт одно из самых известных произведений мировой литературы... В данное издание вошёл перевод Н. Рахмановой.

«Письма Рождественского Деда» — сказка, которую Толкин рассказывал своим детям на протяжении более двадцати лет (первое письмо написано старшему сыну в 1920 году и последнее — дочери в 1943). Письма приходили на Рождество, и дети на них отвечали. Рождественский Дед описывал свой дом, друзей и помощников, события, забавные, а порой тревожные, которые случались на Северном полюсе.

Unavailable for more than 70 years, this early but important work is published for the first time with Tolkien's 'Corrigan' poems and other supporting material, including a prefatory note by Christopher Tolkien.

Set 'In Britain's land beyond the seas' during the Age of Chivalry, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun tells of a childless Breton Lord and Lady (the 'Aotrou' and 'Itroun' of the title) and the tragedy that befalls them when Aotrou seeks to remedy their situation with the aid of a magic potion obtained from a corrigan, or malevolent fairy. When the potion succeeds and Itroun bears twins, the corrigan returns seeking her fee, and Aotrou is forced to choose between betraying his marriage and losing his life.

Coming from the darker side of J.R.R. Tolkien's imagination, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, together with the two shorter 'Corrigan' poems that lead up to it and which are also included, was the outcome of a comparatively short but intense period in Tolkien's life when he was deeply engaged with Celtic, and particularly Breton, myth and legend.

Originally written in 1930 and long out of print, this early but seminal work is an important addition to the non-Middle-earth portion of his canon and should be set alongside Tolkien's other retellings of myth and legend, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, The Fall of Arthur and The Story of Kullervo. Like these works, it belongs to a small but important corpus of his ventures into 'real-world' mythologies, each of which in its own way would be a formative influence on his own legendarium.

Repackaged to feature Tolkien’s own painting of the Tree of Amalion, this collection includes his famous essay, ‘On Fairy-stories’ and the story that exemplifies this, ‘Leaf by Niggle’, together with the poem ‘Mythopoeia’ and the verse drama, ‘The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth’, which tells of the events following the disastrous Battle of Maldon.Fairy-stories are not just for children, as anyone who has read Tolkien will know. In his essay On Fairy-Stories, Tolkien discusses the nature of fairy-tales and fantasy and rescues the genre from those who would relegate it to juvenilia. The haunting short story, Leaf by Niggle, recounts the story of the artist, Niggle, who has ‘a long journey to make’ and is seen as an allegory of Tolkien’s life.The poem Mythopoeia relates an argument between two unforgettable characters as they discuss the making of myths. Lastly, and published for the very first time, we are treated to the translation of Tolkien’s account of the Battle of Maldon, known as The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth.Tree and Leaf is an eclectic, amusing, provocative and entertaining collection of works which reveals the diversity of J.R.R. Tolkien’s imagination, the depth of his knowledge of English history, and the breadth of his talent as a creator of fantastic fiction.

A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.Pearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters.Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien’s.The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.

The complete collection of Tolkien’s essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings.

The seven essays by J.R.R. Tolkien assembled in this edition were with one exception delivered as general lectures on particular occasions; and while they mostly arose out of Tolkien’s work in medieval literature, they are accessible to all. Two of them are concerned with Beowulf, including the well-known lecture whose title is taken for this book, and one with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, given in the University of Glasgow in 1953.

Also included in this volume is the lecture ‘English and Welsh’; the Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford in 1959; and a paper on Invented Languages delivered in 1931, with exemplification from poems in the Elvish tongues. Most famous of all is ‘On Fairy-Stories’, a discussion of the nature of fairy-tales and fantasy, which gives insight into Tolkien’s approach to the whole genre.

The pieces in this collection cover a period of nearly thirty years, beginning six years before the publication of The Hobbit, with a unique ‘academic’ lecture on his invention (calling it ‘A Secret Vice’) and concluding with his farewell to professorship, five years after the publication of The Lord of the Rings.