Gute Drachen sind rar. Drei Aufsätze
by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
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A writer of fantasies, Tolkien, a professor of language and literature at Oxford University, was always intrigued by early English and the imaginative use of language. In his greatest story, the trilogy The Lord of the Rings (1954--56), Tolkien invented a language with vocabulary, grammar, syntax, even poetry of its own. Though readers have show more created various possible allegorical interpretations, Tolkien has said: "It is not about anything but itself. (Certainly it has no allegorical intentions, general, particular or topical, moral, religious or political.)" In The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962), Tolkien tells the story of the "master of wood, water, and hill," a jolly teller of tales and singer of songs, one of the multitude of characters in his romance, saga, epic, or fairy tales about his country of the Hobbits. Tolkien was also a formidable medieval scholar, as evidenced by his work, Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics (1936) and his edition of Anciene Wisse: English Text of the Anciene Riwle. Among his works published posthumously, are The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur, which was edited by his son, Christopher. In 2013, his title, TheHobbit (Movie Tie-In) made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1983
- First words*
- Manche von Ihnen haben vielleicht von einem Kongress gehört, der vor etwas über einem Jahr in Oxford stattgefunden hat, einem Esperanto-Kongreß; oder vielleicht haben Sie auch nichts davon gehört.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Tatsächlich aber ist er in einer Sprache geschrieben, der nach vielen Jahrhunderten die unsere immer noch wesensverwandt ist; er wurde in diesem Lande geschaffen, er ist heimisch in unserer nördlichen Welt und unter unserem nördlichen Himmel, und bei allen, die in diesem Land geboren sind, muß er immer eine tiefe Resonanz wecken - bis daß der Drache kommt.
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- Englisch
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- This German anthology contains the three texts "A Secret Vice", "On Fairy Stories" and "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" translated into German, originally from the anthology "The Monsters and the Critics and other Essa... (show all)ys".
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