JRR Tolkien
In this first novel in Tolkien's trilogy, the reader knows gliHobbit, tiny beings and sages lived. Frodo, who came in possessodell'Anello of Power, was forced to leave for the land of darkness. Ungruppo Hobbit and accompanies him along the way, are associated with compagniaaltri beings: Elves, Dwarves and Men, which are also linked to the fate of Frodo. Letappe path leads them through many different experiences, until lascomparsa Gandalf, dragged into the depths of a hideous creature, without lilascia guide. So melts the Fellowship of the Ring and its membris disperse, threatened by dark forces, while half sembradisperatamente away.
at the expense of my reputation as a fast reader, the first reading of the Lord of the Rings for me it was a birth, indeed, we can safely say a pregnant, seeing that lasted almost nine months.
At that time I was 13 and the first impact with the world of Middle-earth was not the best: I think it was for the period, I remember I was always bored to tears, the fact is that I could not overcome the pages of the prologue .
All that talk about hobbits and their habits put me on a nuisance that I abandoned the idea once you read the book and was gathering dust on my nightstand.
After several months, however, I decided to try again ... and that was how I devoured the entire trilogy in three days and became a big fan.
To date I have read the three books in full at least a dozen times, many more if you count when I take them in hand to read my favorite passages.
's why I have decided to dedicate my first online review by the Company of the Ring, what better tribute to one of my favorite books if not present it to others?
But the fact that this is a book on which thousands of people have written them makes it more difficult
like talking about something already so exploited?
how to bring something new?
I will try to present my thoughts on this book and we hope to communicate something important.
At that time I was 13 and the first impact with the world of Middle-earth was not the best: I think it was for the period, I remember I was always bored to tears, the fact is that I could not overcome the pages of the prologue .
All that talk about hobbits and their habits put me on a nuisance that I abandoned the idea once you read the book and was gathering dust on my nightstand.
After several months, however, I decided to try again ... and that was how I devoured the entire trilogy in three days and became a big fan.
To date I have read the three books in full at least a dozen times, many more if you count when I take them in hand to read my favorite passages.
's why I have decided to dedicate my first online review by the Company of the Ring, what better tribute to one of my favorite books if not present it to others?
But the fact that this is a book on which thousands of people have written them makes it more difficult
like talking about something already so exploited?
how to bring something new?
I will try to present my thoughts on this book and we hope to communicate something important.
This book speaks clearly of hobbits.
are secretive creatures hobbits, lovers of peace, calm and well-cultivated land, their asylum was a campaign scrupulously neat and organized.
This book also speaks of wizards, elves, dwarves and men.
describes in detail their world and so when we pass from the gentle hills this story County, the dark shadows of the Old Forest, then we go in the wilderness, swamps, mountains, buildings elf, and even the plains, mining and enchanted woods.
The taste of the modern reader the abundance and complexity of the description may perhaps, at times, be heavy and uncomfortable but, in my opinion, is one of the great riches of this book that it is capable of carrying literally in Middle-earth .
The story presents us with a very linear plot (quiet life - turmoil - adventure) and leads us to follow the adventures of the hobbit Frodo and friends and characters that gradually meets.
It is a Bildungsroman and you know, it takes time for these things, so we find in a book of only 500 pages of the passage has a passage of more than twenty years in fact, twenty passes in just a few lines, with such skill and go largely unnoticed.
But do not pass without changes, because they feel behind the wheels of the world turn, the fait accompli and the moon set.
Only after all the gears are moved and the causes have produced their effects, the story finally Piò continue with a more demanding pace, and events begin to pour on the player with a cascading effect ever more pressing.
then meet the other companions of the adventures of Frodo: hobbits, elves, men, dwarves and sorcerers, and we discover that the task to complete is not finished with the first flight.
is not abandoning his beloved County that you can win the peace only by addressing the whole wide world, making experience, making friends, encountering enemies, learning to understand others and their choices are unable to find their own way.
And in this case the road is the most difficult and full of dangers, to get to Mount Doom and destroy the ring, the only thing that can upset even the most powerful, the lust for power, possession, ' envy ...
In this sense, the various characters you can probably read as representations of the characteristics human kind of guy.
Thus we find that the young must grow with the experience, the faithful friend, the wise, the fighter, the observer, the cautious ... but the characters in this book are much more than simple stereotyping of characters and feelings are real people.
Tolkien manages to create characters that you are capable of moving in history, but who have a past, projects, dreams, ambitions, feelings.
Nothing is left to chance, every detail has a reason.
Here we must say a few words to speak of this world.
Why Tolkien not only created a story, or a network of stories that intertwine perfectly.
from his pen was born a world with its myths, its traditions, its languages \u200b\u200band its peoples, if you dig a little below the main story there are countless other stories, other characters and environments, all fully connected , all fully functional and operational.
that introduction that the first reading I found it so heavy it is only an introduction to Tolkien's way of telling.
It is thanks to this extraordinary framework that we encounter, and we can fully appreciate, the otherwise superfluous characters: Tom Bombadil, Glorfindel, Gloin are some of the secondary characters (But only in this story) that we meet and fall in love with each other.
Another digression should give it to languages. Tolkien was a prolific glottoteta (the one who is dedicated to the creation of artificial languages) and, inspired by Welsh, Finnish, Italian and greek created from nothing a dozen different languages.
How he used to say (maybe or maybe not jokingly): "Nobody believes me when I say that my long book (The Lord of the Rings) is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal sense aesthetic might seem real. But it is true, ". While reading
meet therefore names, spells and songs that draw on these languages, pushing deeper and deeper in history.
is what really makes this book great:
the fact of creating an illusion so perfect to be indistinguishable from reality.
illusion is so compelling the reader to fully abduct and force him to read off the book and then leave with a sense of abandonment unbridgeable only from other chapters of the trilogy (and, for some, many re-readings later)
This alone should push in my opinion, those who have not yet done so to read this masterpiece, if we add that is exciting, funny and sometimes frightening, we understand why is considered a masterpiece of fantasy literature.
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