Middle Earth #1
魔戒首部曲：魔戒現身
故事由魔戒持有者佛羅多展開，他在不知情的狀況下繼承了一枚戒指，卻發現這枚戒指是魔王遲遲不能統治世界的關鍵。他也陷入了善惡雙方爭奪的處境中。幾經波折，他才得知必須攜帶魔戒深入魔王的領土，才能在末日火山摧毀這一切邪惡的根源。
於是，在巫師甘道夫的主導下，由精靈、矮人、哈比人、遊俠和人類組成了魔戒遠征隊，試圖護衛佛羅多前往魔王的老巢。但黑暗的勢力亦非省油的燈，魔王索倫派出黑騎士四處搜捕，並且決心發動大軍入侵，不惜一切代價，只為了找到這枚小小的戒指。而擁有無比力量的魔戒也開始腐蝕人心，讓人陷入黑暗的誘惑之中。正當邪惡的力量四出蠢動之際，善良的力量也因魔戒而陷入分崩離析的困境。
608 pages, Paperback
First published July 29,1954
This edition
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608 pages, Paperback
- Published
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December 20, 2001 by 聯經出版事業股份有限公司
- ISBN
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9789570823363
- ASIN
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9570823364
- Language
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Chinese
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Tolkien's most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal.
Tolkien was an accomplished amateur artist who painted for pleasure and relaxation. He excelled at landscapes and often drew inspiration from his own stories. He illustrated many scenes from The Silmarillion, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, sometimes drawing or painting as he was writing in order to visualize the imagined scene more clearly.
Tolkien was a professor at the Universities of Leeds and Oxford for almost forty years, teaching Old and Middle English, as well as Old Norse and Gothic. His illuminating lectures on works such as the Old English epic poem, Beowulf, illustrate his deep knowledge of ancient languages and at the same time provide new insights into peoples and legends from a remote past.
Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, in 1892 to English parents. He came to England aged three and was brought up in and around Birmingham. He graduated from the University of Oxford in 1915 and saw active service in France during the First World War before being invalided home. After the war he pursued an academic career teaching Old and Middle English. Alongside his professional work, he invented his own languages and began to create what he called a mythology for England; it was this ‘legendarium' that he would work on throughout his life. But his literary work did not start and end with Middle-earth, he also wrote poetry, children's stories and fairy tales for adults. He died in 1973 and is buried in Oxford where he spent most of his adult life.
