Questa completa guida approfondisce la vita e l'opera di uno degli autori più influenti del XX secolo. Ripercorre il suo percorso dall'infanzia attraverso la sua carriera accademica fino al successo globale delle sue creazioni leggendarie. La guida esamina meticolosamente i suoi successi letterari e accademici, la ricezione del suo lavoro e l'eredità duratura che ha plasmato il genere fantasy. Aspettatevi cronologie dettagliate, analisi approfondite della sua mitologia e spunti sui mondi che ha magistralmente creato.
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.