The fifth volume of the History of Middle-earth, containing the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. At the end of 1937, J R R Tolkien reluctantly set aside his work on the myths and heroic legends of Valinor and Middle-earth and began The Lord of the Rings. This fifth volume of The History of Middle-earth completes ...
The fifth volume of the History of Middle-earth, containing the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. At the end of 1937, J R R Tolkien reluctantly set aside his work on the myths and heroic legends of Valinor and Middle-earth and began The Lord of the Rings. This fifth volume of The History of Middle-earth completes the examination of his writing up to that time. Later forms of The Annals of Valinor and The Annals of Beleriand had been composed, The Silmarillion was nearing completion in a greatly amplified form, and a new Map had been made. The legend of the Downfall of Numenor had entered the work, including those central ideas: the World Made Round and the Straight Path into the vanished West. Closely associated with this was the abandoned 'time-travel' story The Lost Road, linking the world of Numenor and Middle-earth with the legends of many other times and peoples. Also included in this volume is the The Lhammas, as essay on the complex languages and dialects of Middle-earth, and an 'etymological dictionary' containing an extensive account of Elvish vocabularies.
In ‘The Silmarillion’ the Gods are ‘physically’ present, because (whatever the actual mode of their own being) they inhabit the same physical world, the realm of the ‘seen’; if, after the Hiding of Valinor, they could not be reached by the voyages sent out in vain by Turgon of Gondolin, they were nonetheless reached by Earendel, sailing from Middle-earth in his ship Wingelot, and their physical intervention of arms changed the world for ever through the physical destruction of the power of Morgoth. Thus it may be said that in ‘The Silmarillion’ there is no ‘religion’, because the Divine is present and has not been ‘displaced’; but with the physical removal of the Divine from the World Made Round a religion arose (as it had arisen in Númenor under the teachings of Thû concerning Morgoth, th... (查看原文)
§ 14 But there remains still a legend of Beleriand: for that land in the West of the Old World, although changed and broken, held still in ancient days to the name it had in the days of the Gnomes. And it is said that Amroth was King of Beleriand; and he took counsel with Elrond son of Earendel, and with such of the Elves as remained in the West; and they passed the mountains and came into inner lands far from the sea, and they assailed the fortress of Thû. And Amroth wrestled with Thû and was slain; but Thû was brought to his knees, and his servants were dispelled; and the peoples of Beleriand destroyed his dwellings, and drove him forth, and he fled to a dark forest, and hid himself. And it is said that the war with Thû hastened the fading of the Eldar, for he had power beyond their meas... (查看原文)
0 有用 罗宾 2021-10-16 00:10:28
未完成的“失落之路”出人意料地让人感动，一个着迷于历史的人如何参与到历史之中……
0 有用 雪莱 2023-03-07 08:22:05 上海
这本是读到现在惊喜最多的，1《失落之路》有一些意境优美的段落，比如埃兰迪尔聆听高楼歌声，只可惜数量不多 2 QS的内容非常流畅简明，可想到如果没有《魔戒》打断，很可能托老是可以写出完整的《宝钻》的（虽然我觉得《魔戒》文字水平胜过《宝钻》）。也因此，看过《宝钻》的人最适合先从这第5卷读起（QS与宝钻出版稿差别最小，又丰富、修改了不少细节），然后逐卷往前读 3 QS有最为流畅的宝钻结尾，从Earend... 这本是读到现在惊喜最多的，1《失落之路》有一些意境优美的段落，比如埃兰迪尔聆听高楼歌声，只可惜数量不多 2 QS的内容非常流畅简明，可想到如果没有《魔戒》打断，很可能托老是可以写出完整的《宝钻》的（虽然我觉得《魔戒》文字水平胜过《宝钻》）。也因此，看过《宝钻》的人最适合先从这第5卷读起（QS与宝钻出版稿差别最小，又丰富、修改了不少细节），然后逐卷往前读 3 QS有最为流畅的宝钻结尾，从Earendil登陆维林诺到最后之战/诸神黄昏，其中包含着不少细节，多少弥补了我对宝钻的遗憾 4 语言部分也很有意思，Lhammas/语言的记述虽然内容上没啥新东西，但从语言角度重述中洲历史，尤其多少被忽略的矮人、绿精灵历史，还是很有新鲜感的。 (展开)
0 有用 caterpillar 2021-03-25 23:10:27
He sought not his own, neither power nor glory, and death was his reward.