Tolkien collection: The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, edizione inglese 2006

Questi due volumi rappresentano indiscutibilmente il punto di riferimento di tutti i lettori, gli appassionati e gli studiosi della vita di Tolkien e delle sue opere narrative e accademiche.

CHRISTINA SCULL, già Librarian of the Soane Museum di Londra, e WAYNE G. HAMMOND, Chapin Library of Rare Books al Williams College (US), sono autori d'innumerevoli saggi e curatori di pubblicazioni sulla vita e le opere di J. R. R. Tolkien tradotti in diverse lingue. Per citarne alcuni, tutti pubblicati dall’inglese HarperCollins e dall’americana Houghton Mifflin:

J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist andIllustrator (1995);

Roverandom (1998);

The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (2005);

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (2006);

The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder (2006);

The Art of The Hobbit (2011);

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses fromthe Red Book (2014);

Farmer Giles of Ham (2014);

The Art of the Lord of the Rings (2015).

Chronology è un’opera che raccoglie i dettagli sulle evoluzioni delle opere di Tolkien e sulla sua vita accademica e personale curata nei nei minimi dettagli. Una ricerca basata sulla totalità degli anni, quasi sessanta, impiegati sulla creazione della Terra di Mezzo, con ricerche approfondite su fonti contemporanee come scritti accademici, lettere e documenti del servizio di guerra, biografie, corrispondenza, le lettere del suo caro amico C. S. Lewis, e i diari di W. H. Lewis. Un libro che si rivela una risorsa inestimabile per coloro i quali desiderano acquisire una conoscenza completa di Tolkien che non può non essere definito un gigante della letteratura del Novecento.

Reader’s Guide include brevi voci alfabetiche, ma complete, su una vasta gamma di argomenti, tra cui un “chi è chi” delle persone importanti, una guida ai luoghi e alle istituzioni, i dettagli relativi alle fonti di Tolkien, informazioni sugli sconvolgimenti politici e sociali attraverso il quale l'autore ha vissuto, l'importanza della sua cerchia sociale, il servizio militare svolto come fante nella prima guerra mondiale oltre alle informazioni sulla critica al suo lavoro e il "culto di Tolkien".

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Chronology

A cura di Christina Scull e Wayne G. Hammond

HarperCollins Publishers, Londra,

1° ed. 2006, pp. 656

Rilegato con sovraccoperta

Info

Volume 1 di The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, Wayne G. Hammond.

La maggior parte di questo libro consiste in un resoconto cronologico della vita di Tolkien. Esso comprende un gran numero di citazioni di lettere scritte da Tolkien con estratti da alcuni dei suoi diari e documenti presenti in vari archivi e biblioteche, e da altre fonti inedite o di difficile reperimento.

Sono incluse anche alcuni utili elenchi di scritti di Tolkien, disegni e poesie.

Esempio di testo:

10 February 1927 Tolkien and George S. Gordon examine Mary Lascelles of Lady Margaret Hall viva voce on her B.Litt. thesis, Alexander and the Earthly Paradise in Medieval English Literature, at 2.00 p.m. in the Examination Schools.
11 February 1927 Tolkien attends an English Faculty Board meeting. The Applications Committee has approved the B.Litt. thesis subject of Ruth Anna Crook, 'an edition of the prose life of Seinte Margharete, based on MS Bodley 34 and MS Roy 17 A XXVII, with a grammar and glossary which will consider parallels on other texts of the same group'. Tolkien is to continue as her supervisor.
The Committee also assigns him to supervise A.C. Corlett of St Edmund Hall, who has applied for admission to a course of special study preparatory to research for a B.Litt. – Tolkien and George S. Gordon sign their report on the examination of Mary Lascelles.18 February 1927 The Kolbitar meet at Exeter College and begin to read the Volsunga Saga.
Chronology, p. 140

Note

The most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published, including synopses of all his writings, and a Tolkien gazetteer, who's who and chronology. The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide is a comprehensive handbook to one of the most popular authors of the twentieth century. One of two volumes comprising this definitive work, the Chronology traces J.R.R. Tolkien's progress from his birth in South Africa in 1892, to the battlefields of France and the lecture-halls of Leeds and Oxford, to his success as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, until his death in 1973. It is the most extensive biographical resource about Tolkien ever published. Thousands of details have been drawn from letters, contemporary documents in libraries and archives, and a wide variety of other published and unpublished sources. Assembled together, they form a revealing portrait of Tolkien in all his aspects: the distinguished scholar of Old and Middle English, the capable teacher and administrator, the devoted husband and father, the brilliant creator of Middle-earth.

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Reader's Guide

di Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond

HarperCollins, Londra

1° edizione 2006,

Rilegato con sovraccoperta e in cofanetto

Esempio di testo:

Gordon, Eric Valentine (1896-1938). E.V. Gordon was educated at Victoria College and McGill University College in British Columbia, and in 1915 went to University College, ^Oxford to read English as a Rhodes Scholar. His first tutors were *Kenneth Sisam and *Percy Simpson; but war service soon forced a hiatus in his studies. When he returned to Oxford in 1919 he was tutored by Tolkien. After receiving his B.A. in 1920 he began to study for a B.Litt., but left his work uncompleted in January 1922 when he took up a post as Assistant Lecturer in English at Teeds. Tolkien himself was at Leeds by this time, and welcomed Gordon as a valued colleague. He wrote in his diary: 'Eric Valentine Gordon has come and got firmly established and is my devoted friend and pal' (quoted in Biography, p. 104). In 1923, when Tolkien became ill with pneumonia and could not write a commissioned review-essay on Philology for *The Year's Work in English Studies 1922, Gordon did so as his substitute. […]
Reader's Guide, p. 346

Note al 2° volume, Reader's Guide

Questo libro è una combinazione di “Chi è Chi”, “Cosa è cosa” e ”Dove” su tutto ciò che riguarda Tolkien. Il volume comprende un gran numero di citazioni di lettere scritte da Tolkien con estratti da alcuni dei suoi diari, documenti in vari archivi e biblioteche, e da altre fonti inedite o difficili da trovare.

This is the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published, including synopses of all his writings, and a Tolkien gazetteer, who's who and chronology. "The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide" is a comprehensive handbook to one of the most popular authors of the twentieth century. One of two volumes comprising this definitive work, the "Reader's Guide" is an indispensable introduction to J. R. R. Tolkien's life, writings, and art. It includes histories and discussions of his works; analyses of the components of his vast 'Silmarillion' mythology; brief biographies of persons important in his life; accounts of places he knew; essays on topics such as Tolkien's interests and attitudes towards contemporary issues, ideas found in his works, adaptations, and invented languages; and checklists of his published works, his poetry, his pictorial art, and translations of his writings.