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 | Casa editrice: George Allen & Unwin Edizione: 2nd Edition (Revised Edition) Prima Pubblicazione: 1966 Copyright: © George Allen & Unwin Ltd 1966 Formato: Cartonato cm 14,5 x 22,9 - 352 pagine Copertina: Da un disegno di J. R. R. Tolkien Note: Costa in alto colorata in rosso - Allegata Mappa |
Edizioni pubblicate:
1st Impression - 1966 2nd Impression - 1967 3rd Impression - 1968 | 4th Impression - 1970 5th Impression - 1971 6th Impression - 1972 |
Note di copertina:
The Lord of the Rings is not a book to be described in a few sentences. It is an heroic romance—'some-thing which has scarcely been attempted on this scale since Spenser's Faerie Queene, so one can't praise the book by comparisons—there is nothing to compare it with. What can I say then?' continues Richard Hughes, 'for width of imagination it almost beggars parallel, and it is nearly as remarkable for its vividness and for the narrative skill which carries the reader on, enthralled, for page after page.'
By an extraordinary feat of the imagination Mr Tolkien has created, and maintains in every detail, a new mythology in an invented world. As for the story itself 'it's really super science fiction', declared Naomi Mitchison after reading the first part, The Fellowship of the Ring, 'but it is timeless and will go on and on. It's odd you know. One takes it com-pletely seriously: as seriously as Malory.'
C. S. Lewis is equally enthusiastic. 'If Ariosto rivalled it in invention (in fact he does not) he would stili lack its heroic seriousness. No imaginary world has been projected which is at once multi-farious and so trae to its own inner laws; none so seemingly objective, so disinfected from the taint of an author's merely individuai psychology; none so relevant to the actual human situation yet so free from allegory. And what fine shading there is in the variations of style to meet the almost endless diversity of scenes and characters—comic, homely, epic, monstrous, or diabolic.'
Spenser, Malory, Ariosto or Science Fiction? A flavour of ali of them and a taste of its own. Only those who have read The Lord of the Rings will realise how impossible it is to convey ali the qualities of a great book.
'He has distilled elements of Norse, Teutonic and Celtic myth to make a strange but coherent world of his own, presented with a limpid joy in naturai beauty and a Constant undertow of embodied terrors.' The Sunday Times.
Second Edìtion
_________________________________________________________________________________By an extraordinary feat of the imagination Mr Tolkien has created, and maintains in every detail, a new mythology in an invented world. As for the story itself 'it's really super science fiction', declared Naomi Mitchison after reading the first part, The Fellowship of the Ring, 'but it is timeless and will go on and on. It's odd you know. One takes it com-pletely seriously: as seriously as Malory.'
C. S. Lewis is equally enthusiastic. 'If Ariosto rivalled it in invention (in fact he does not) he would stili lack its heroic seriousness. No imaginary world has been projected which is at once multi-farious and so trae to its own inner laws; none so seemingly objective, so disinfected from the taint of an author's merely individuai psychology; none so relevant to the actual human situation yet so free from allegory. And what fine shading there is in the variations of style to meet the almost endless diversity of scenes and characters—comic, homely, epic, monstrous, or diabolic.'
Spenser, Malory, Ariosto or Science Fiction? A flavour of ali of them and a taste of its own. Only those who have read The Lord of the Rings will realise how impossible it is to convey ali the qualities of a great book.
'He has distilled elements of Norse, Teutonic and Celtic myth to make a strange but coherent world of his own, presented with a limpid joy in naturai beauty and a Constant undertow of embodied terrors.' The Sunday Times.
Second Edìtion
Indice:
Pg. 9 Synopsis
BOOK THREE
Pg. 15 I The Departure of Boromir
Pg. 23 II The Riders of Rohan
Pg. 47 III TheUruk-hai
Pg. 61 IV Treebeard
Pg. 91 V The White Rider
Pg. 110 VI The King of the Golden Hall
Pg. 131 VII Helm's Deep
Pg. 148 VIII The Road to Isengard
Pg. 165 IX Flotsam and Jetsam
Pg 181 X The Voice of Saruman
Pg. 193 XI The Palantir
BOOK FOUR
Pg. 209 I The Taming of Sméagol
Pg. 227 II The Passage of the Marshes
Pg. 244 III The Black Gate is Closed
Pg. 256 IV Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
Pg. 271 V The Window on the West
Pg. 292 VI The Forbidden Pool
Pg. 303 VII Journey to the Cross-Roads
Pg. 312 VIII The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
Pg. 326 IX Shelob's Lair
Pg. 337 X The Choices of Master Samwise
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