The Silmarillion

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE, was an English writer, poet, WWI veteran (a First Lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army), philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the high fantasy classic works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings .Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford from 1925 to 1945, and Merton Professor of English language and literature from 1945 to 1959. He was a close friend of C.S. Lewis.Christopher Tolkien published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion . These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about an imagined world called Arda, and Middle-earth within it. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the word "legendarium" to the larger part of these writings.While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre. This has caused Tolkien to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature—or more precisely, high fantasy. Tolkien's writings have inspired many other works of fantasy and have had a lasting effect on the entire field.In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Forbes ranked him the 5th top-earning dead celebrity in 2009.Religious influencesJ.R.R. Tolkien, was born in South Africa in 1892, but his family moved to Britain when he was about 3 years old. When Tolkien was 8 years old, his mother converted to Catholicism, and he remained a Catholic throughout his life. In his last interview, two years before his death, he unhesitatingly testified, “I’m a devout Roman Catholic.”Tolkien married his childhood sweetheart, Edith, and they had four children. He wrote them letters each year as if from Santa Claus, and a selection of these was published in 1976 as The Father Christmas Letters . One of Tolkien’s sons became a Catholic priest. Tolkien was an advisor for the translation of the Jerusalem Bible .Tolkien once described The Lord of the Rings to his friend Robert Murray, an English Jesuit priest, as "a fundamentally religious and Catholic work, unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision." There are many theological themes underlying the narrative including the battle of good versus evil, the triumph of humility over pride, and the activity of grace. In addition the saga includes themes which incorporate death and immortality, mercy and pity, resurrection, salvation, repentance, self-sacrifice, free will, justice, fellowship, authority and healing. In addition The Lord's Prayer "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil" was reportedly present in Tolkien's mind as he described Frodo's struggles against the power of the "One Ring.''

出版者:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

作者:J.R.R. Tolkien

页数:416

出版时间:2004-11-15

价格:USD 40.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780618391110

图书标签:J.R.R.Tolkien托尔金奇幻英文原版精灵宝钻小说英国JRRTolkien

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A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit.

Tolkien considered The Silmarillion his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing. The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The three Silmarils were jewels created by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves. Within them was imprisoned the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Thereafter, the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils, but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, which was guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy.

This second edition features a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien describing his intentions for the book, which serves as a brilliant exposition of his conception of the carlier Ages of Middle-earth.

This is the story of the First Age, the ancient drama to which characters in "The Lord of the Rings" look back.

读后感

前一段时间，把整个《三体》系列读完，在惊叹于大刘汪洋肆恣的科幻想象之外，我不免也要搜索枯肠，在这两脚书橱里找出一些似曾相识的东西来。 我找到了J.R.R.托尔金的《精灵宝钻》，这本书很难说是完整意义上的小说，更像是托尔金构建中土世界的提纲。 一个是科幻，一个是奇...  

J.R.R. Tolkien 的小说中令人熟知的有“魔戒传奇”(Lord of Rings),拍成了电影。另外几本书是“The Hobbit”，“The Silmarillion”和“The Children Of Hurin”. 我看过这四本书中的三本，只有“The Hobbit”没有看过。我被Tolkien的书迷住了，其实他的书中充满了想象的历史，...  

赫尔路因（天狼星）的蓝色火焰在笼罩于世界边缘的薄雾中闪烁，就在那个时辰，大地的儿女苏醒了，他们便是伊露维塔（中洲至高的神）的首生儿女。在星光照亮的“苏醒之水”奎维耶能湖畔，他们从伊露维塔设定的沉睡中醒来。彼时他们起居于奎维耶能湖边，尚不能言语，万物之中他们...  

对半兽人的繁殖方式，托尔金仅在《精灵宝钻》的两处地方含混提到。一处是第三章，“半兽人有生命，是照着伊露维塔儿女的方式滋生繁衍。”另一处是第十章，半兽人“在黑暗的地底大量繁殖起来”。由于伊露维塔的儿女（也即精灵和人类）是双性繁殖的，似乎可以推论半兽人也采取了...  

J.R.R.托尔金 (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien)出生于1892年，父母均为英格兰人。在读高中的时候和三个死党组成了一个小团体取名为“T.C.B.S.”。后来他们经历了第一次世界大战，而两名成员再也没能从战场上归来。这也许就是为什么在魔戒远征队里，有四个肩并肩作战的霍比特人，他...  

用户评价

这本书的精美真是至矣尽矣，全铜版纸，插图数量远超过中文文景本，私以为插图的细致程度nasmith是要超过alan的。最后附一大张中洲地图，所有这些就够好了

读了doc原版的，拼写错误有...

silmarillion少有的插图版，纸质白硬，印刷精美。

插图非常精美，我最喜欢的版本

霍比特和魔戒三部曲后看精灵宝钻，是相对稳的操作。goodreads一片书评都有相似的体验。