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실마릴리온 2
톨킨이 창조한, 가운데땅에 전해 오는 신화와 전설 ‘발라들의 땅’을 비추던 두 그루의 나무가 암흑 군주 모르고스에 의해 파괴되고, 그 나무들의 빛이 봉인된 보석 실마릴들조차 모르고스의 손에 들어간다. 잃어버린 실마릴을 되찾기 위한 길고도 격렬한 전쟁, 그 장대한 영웅 서사시. 그가 평생 연구한 신화와 언어에 대한 모든 지식과 문학 작품, 전쟁을 포함하여 그가 겪었던 모든 경험의 총체. 《호빗》과《반지의 제왕》에서 슬쩍 지나쳤거나 간략하게 언급되었던 장면들의 역사적 배경과 뒷이야기. 이 책은 톨킨이 사랑하고 증오하고 두려워했던 모든 것들을 쏟아 부은 신화적 연대기로 실마릴에 얽힌 가운데 땅 역사에 대한 기록이기에 앞서 자신의 개인적 기록이며 그 자신의 전 생애를 지배한 작품이다.
307 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1977
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J.R.R. Tolkien
797 books77.8k followersJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and alphabets.
Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal.
Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist who painted for pleasure and relaxation. He excelled at landscapes and often drew inspiration from his own stories. He illustrated many scenes from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sometimes drawing or painting as he was writing in order to visualize the imagined scene more clearly.
Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years, teaching Old and Middle English, as well as Old Norse and Gothic. His illuminating lectures on works such as the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, illustrate his deep knowledge of ancient languages and at the same time provide new insights into peoples and legends from a remote past.
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892 to English parents. He came to England aged three and was brought up in and around Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1915 and saw active service in France during the First World War before being invalided home. After the war he pursued an academic career teaching Old and Middle English. Alongside his professional work, he invented his own languages and began to create what he called a mythology for England; it was this ‘legendarium’ that he would work on throughout his life. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth, he also wrote poetry, children’s stories and fairy tales for adults. He died in 1973 and is buried in Oxford where he spent most of his adult life.
Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal.
Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist who painted for pleasure and relaxation. He excelled at landscapes and often drew inspiration from his own stories. He illustrated many scenes from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sometimes drawing or painting as he was writing in order to visualize the imagined scene more clearly.
Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years, teaching Old and Middle English, as well as Old Norse and Gothic. His illuminating lectures on works such as the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, illustrate his deep knowledge of ancient languages and at the same time provide new insights into peoples and legends from a remote past.
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892 to English parents. He came to England aged three and was brought up in and around Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1915 and saw active service in France during the First World War before being invalided home. After the war he pursued an academic career teaching Old and Middle English. Alongside his professional work, he invented his own languages and began to create what he called a mythology for England; it was this ‘legendarium’ that he would work on throughout his life. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth, he also wrote poetry, children’s stories and fairy tales for adults. He died in 1973 and is buried in Oxford where he spent most of his adult life.
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October 11, 2016
It is great to have excellent narrator Martin Shaw do the reading for me and let him worry about the pronunciations here. Subtitled, "Of Beren and Lúthien and the Ruin of Beleriand", this middle volume of this abridged audiobook there is a story in the classic mold of a knight in quest for love. Since Thingol refused to give Lúthien's hand in marriage to Beren, a mere mortal, he had to bring back a Silmaril from the Iron Crown of Morgoth in order to win her hand.
Using Lúthien's powers to place Morgoth's court into a deep sleep (kinda like the light of Eärendil for Frodo), they were able to enter Angband where Beren was able to cut a Silmaril from Morgoth's iron crown. However, as they escaped from Angband, the great wolf Carcharoth, whom Morgoth had personally bred, awoke. Beren held out the Silmaril, hoping that its radiance would avert the beast, but he was mistaken ((kinda like The Phial of Galadriel did not completely trounce Shelob for Frodo). Carcharoth bit off his hand, swallowing it along with the Silmaril, and proceeded to run rampant through Doriath. Lúthien and the unconscious Beren were rescued by the Eagles of Manwë. Beren participated in the hunting of Carcharoth, where the beast was slain and the Silmaril recovered; the quest was accomplished, but in the process Beren was mortally wounded.
With this tragedy, there are some intriguing asides about werewolves and vampires. Partly I was disappointed that Tolkien would incorporate such timeworn legends, but intrigued on what he would have done with them, had he given us more details and them a greater role.
Using Lúthien's powers to place Morgoth's court into a deep sleep (kinda like the light of Eärendil for Frodo), they were able to enter Angband where Beren was able to cut a Silmaril from Morgoth's iron crown. However, as they escaped from Angband, the great wolf Carcharoth, whom Morgoth had personally bred, awoke. Beren held out the Silmaril, hoping that its radiance would avert the beast, but he was mistaken ((kinda like The Phial of Galadriel did not completely trounce Shelob for Frodo). Carcharoth bit off his hand, swallowing it along with the Silmaril, and proceeded to run rampant through Doriath. Lúthien and the unconscious Beren were rescued by the Eagles of Manwë. Beren participated in the hunting of Carcharoth, where the beast was slain and the Silmaril recovered; the quest was accomplished, but in the process Beren was mortally wounded.
With this tragedy, there are some intriguing asides about werewolves and vampires. Partly I was disappointed that Tolkien would incorporate such timeworn legends, but intrigued on what he would have done with them, had he given us more details and them a greater role.
September 15, 2019
I have the comlete version in one audiobook. This is my preferred way to read The Silmarillion. The narrator's voice is very soothing.
May 21, 2024
En dépit que ce deuxième tome, tout comme le premier, ne se compte pas telle une bonne lecture à mes yeux, il reste meilleur que le premier de mon point de vue. Je l’ai trouvé plus "facile d’accès" que le premier et il m’a d’autant plus intéressé, puisqu’ici, les fameux anneaux sont évoqués. Néanmoins, j’ai lu les deux tomes du "Silmarillion" par curiosité, je ne suis pas une grande fan du "Seigneur des anneaux" de base. C’est pour cela, que je pense fortement que ces deux ouvrages sont réservés aux grands fans de la saga originale et non aux simples fans ou curieux-euses comme je le suis.
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