Ce guide complet explore la vie et l'œuvre de l'un des auteurs les plus influents du XXe siècle. Il retrace son parcours de l'enfance à travers sa carrière universitaire jusqu'au succès mondial de ses créations légendaires. Le guide examine méticuleusement ses réalisations littéraires et universitaires, la réception de son œuvre et l'héritage durable qui a façonné le genre fantasy. Attendez-vous à des chronologies détaillées, des analyses approfondies de sa mythologie et des aperçus des mondes qu'il a magistralement créés.
A comprehensive guide to Tolkien's life and works, featuring synopses, a gazetteer, biographies, and analyses of his 'Silmarillion' mythology, along with discussions of significant places and people in his life.
Reader's Guide Part 2 - Revised and Expanded Edition
Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published. This volume includes a superlative day-by-day chronology of Tolkien's life, presenting the most detailed biographical record available. 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.
Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published. This volume includes a superlative day-by-day chronology of Tolkien's life, presenting the most detailed biographical record available.