Return Of The Shadow

I like reading these books but I don't think very many others will. And I'm starting to get burned out on them. Previously I got the paperback edition of the first 5 books of this series. In the very first book there is a new story and it's a pretty good one. Some of the old stories are introduced to a traveler in the olden days. It's actually very interesting. But then it gets tedious. What is happening here is that JRR Tolkiens son Christopher went through all his Dads old papers to put these books together to show how JRR went about the process of writing Lord of the Rings. This volume and the next deal with Fellowship of the Ring. The story line you read sticks to the Fellowship line but it's different. This book shows the steps of character development. Ideas coming and going. Editing and rewrites. In short, to some folks this would be intensely boring. But I liked this book and I'm about half way through the next one, The Treason of Isengard. It's the same thing, the Fellowship story. Parts of what you read go from ideas that appeared in the Silmarillion to the end of tale of the Rings. Christopher Tolkien must have loved his father very much because he's put together an analytical series of books that leaves no comment untold, no idea unrevealed.

This book shows the progression in the writing of the Lord of the Rings and includes passages which were deleted from the book. a must for LotR fans.

Turns thought on its head that LOTR was a deliberately conceived storyline from the very start and not an organic brainstorming process always developing into the text we have today. Seen via changes of characters, change of races and the late infusion of the Aragorn King of Gondor character - dropped idea of Trotter (Aragorn) once a wild wandering Ranger hobbit or flawed warrior human Boromir also a hobbit. Originally a travelling party made up of hobbits. changed to allow Boromir's contempt of the lost King of Gondor in favour of his father the Steward. Interesting the Frodo name was not a first choice. Dissecting of the well known storyline is of interest to first time fiction writers.

It was good

指輪物語の，待ちに待った誕生祝い～裂け谷を出発してモリアに着くまでの下書きです。トールキンさんがどうやってコミカルなホビットの冒険を，シリアスな指輪物語に発展させていったのか，その過程が示され興味深いです。 最初は，皆が知っている指輪物語よりずっとユーモラスです。トールキンさんて，どうしても人を笑わせたくてたまらない人だったのかな？と思えてしまいます。 主人公の名前はいかにも賢そうなフロドではなく，子供達が遊んでいたコアラのキャラクタ名から取ったビンゴという名前でした。馬に乗った謎の人物は，最初は恐ろしい黒いフードの人たちでありませんでした。ビンゴはオド（ピピンの前身）と大人気ない「2階建て論争」を繰り広げます。またマゴットさんの家では，ビンゴは指輪で姿を消して皆が唖然とするようなオイタをします。すらりとした足にブーツを履いた馳夫さんは，‥全然違う外見でした。ホビット達が古森に去った後，バック郷に取り残された堀窪では，ちょっと違う出来事が起きていました。 同じパートの話を何度も書き直されて，読むのがちょっと大変ですが，ビックリするような楽しい発見が一杯です。ファンの方ならお勧めです。