The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

Livre relié, 423 pages

Langue : English

Publié 27 juillet 1988 par Houghton Mifflin Company.

ISBN :: 978-0-395-48931-4
Goodreads:: 77683

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth - home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the "very few works of genius in recent literature."

Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. Donald Barr has described it as "a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world...especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness."

The story of ths world is one of high and heroic adventure. Barr compared it to Beowulf, C.S. Lewis to Orlando Furioso, W.H. Auden to The …

The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien's three-volume epic, is set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth - home to many strange beings, and most notably hobbits, a peace-loving "little people," cheerful and shy. Since its original British publication in 1954-55, the saga has entranced readers of all ages. It is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale. Critic Michael Straight has hailed it as one of the "very few works of genius in recent literature."

Middle-earth is a world receptive to poets, scholars, children, and all other people of good will. Donald Barr has described it as "a scrubbed morning world, and a ringing nightmare world...especially sunlit, and shadowed by perils very fundamental, of a peculiarly uncompounded darkness."

The story of ths world is one of high and heroic adventure. Barr compared it to Beowulf, C.S. Lewis to Orlando Furioso, W.H. Auden to The Thirty-nine Steps. In fact the saga is sui generis - a triumph of imagination which springs to life within its own framework and on its own terms. --front flap

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Oscii@bookrastinating.com a publié une critique de The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings par J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

OK, I admit it, it's quite good

4 étoiles

I don't think I'll ever understand how much boys love this book. I mean, it's a perfectly good book - well characterised, dramatic, evocative. I'm reading it on a promise to my 19yo son, who has, over the years, read a great many books at my behest, and fair's fair. But they read it, breath held, at the age of 12 or so, and then they hold onto it FOREVER. Their first love, their deepest relationship, their lens through which to view the world.

I wish it wasn't quite so bulky. I find the songs easier to stomach if I can work out which Victorian hymn tune they fit to. I cheerfully skip the bits written in Elvish, because it's not even a real language, and if they were saying something important, surely Tolkien would have included a translation?

But it is, I admit, quite a good book. …

I don't think I'll ever understand how much boys love this book. I mean, it's a perfectly good book - well characterised, dramatic, evocative. I'm reading it on a promise to my 19yo son, who has, over the years, read a great many books at my behest, and fair's fair. But they read it, breath held, at the age of 12 or so, and then they hold onto it FOREVER. Their first love, their deepest relationship, their lens through which to view the world.

I wish it wasn't quite so bulky. I find the songs easier to stomach if I can work out which Victorian hymn tune they fit to. I cheerfully skip the bits written in Elvish, because it's not even a real language, and if they were saying something important, surely Tolkien would have included a translation?

But it is, I admit, quite a good book. Probably better than the film.

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