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Nólë Hyarmenillo
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The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition
When The Lord of the Rings was published in the 1950's it did not sit comfortably among any preconceived notions of literary genre. The critical responses reflected the confusion: for some, it was an unwelcome reappearance of narrative standards that modernism was supposed to have done away with, or just a bad novel. Others considered it a refreshing work in the epic and romance traditions. Ironically, much of the critical prejudice regarding the question of genre in The Lord of the Rings has been motivated by the same kind of blindness that Tolkien denounced in his famous 1936 lecture Beowulf: the monsters and the critics. Like Beowulf, Tolkien's work has also failed to be properly apprecia...
Beren y Lúthien
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Representations of Nature in Middle-Earth
Tolkien's portrayal of nature in Middle-earth has been interpreted in a variety of ways, often depending on the context of the reading. Some have seen Middle-earth and its potential destroyer, the Ring, as an allegory of the European continent under the threat of the atomic bomb, while others have embraced it as an artistic expression of the Green movement's agenda in the face of industrial abuse. Some have read nature in Tolkien's work in terms of myth and religion; yet others take the exhaustive descriptions of the physical environment as a sign that Middle-earth itself is the central protagonist of the stories. All in all, nature in Middle-earth plays a crucial role not only in the creation of atmospheres and settings that enhance the realism as well as the emotional appeal of the secondary world; it also acts as an active agent of change within the setting and the story. This collection of essays explores Middle-earth as an ecological entity, a scene for metaphysical speculation, an arboreal depository of cultural memory and a reflection of real-world natural and imperialistic processes.
Tolkien, tesoros
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Los inklings
Biografía sobre las figuras de Tolkien, C.S. Lewis y el brillante grupo de escritores que surgieron en el Oxford de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Durante años, un reducido número de catedráticos y profesores de Oxford, así como algunos de sus amigos, se reunían en un pub cada martes por la tarde para tomar unas cervezas, debatir sobre cuestiones como la mitología, la religión o la literatura, y leerse mutuamente las obras que estaban escribiendo. Este grupo, que incluía a intelectuales de la talla de Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien y Charles Williams, era conocido por el nombre de Los Inklings y tuvo una gran influencia en el mundo literario de la época. Humphrey Carpenter, quien escribió la aclamada biografía de J.R.R. Tolkien, se basa en cartas y diarios inéditos, a los que tuvo acceso especial, para narrar esta apasionante historia. "Un triunfo de habilidad y tacto... ni una frase aburrida o floja." KINGSLEY AMIS, 'New Statesman'
From East to West
The portrayal of nature in the genre of fantasy fiction, from the Middle Ages to more modern times, has been conditioned by the diverging social, political and historical contexts. This book seeks to disclose how the natural world has been depicted within this genre during different periods, drawing a comparison between the British tradition of fantasy literature and Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea cycle. Le Guin adheres to the general traits of the genre up to a point, but as a woman of the 20th century living in the American West, her works also deviate from the received tradition in many significant ways.
