Middle Earth #2
魔戒二部曲：雙城奇謀
魔戒遠征隊四分五裂、分道揚鑣後，每個成員都將遭遇無法想像的敵人與重重難關。波羅莫被強獸人殺死，兩個哈比人皮聘和梅里也被強獸人綁架，因為強獸人受到白袍巫師薩魯曼的指示，要找到哈比人奪回魔戒。但是真正擁有魔戒的佛羅多和山姆繼續進行摧毀魔戒的艱鉅任務……皮聘和梅里很幸運地被會說話的樹精救了出來，但他們要如何找到灰袍巫師甘道夫眾人？
同時佛羅多和山姆在路途中被長期受到魔戒影響、身心嚴重扭曲的咕魯跟蹤、帶路，又被具重生的戒靈追殺，腹背受敵，但最可怕的是他要抵抗魔戒愈來愈強的誘惑……白袍巫師薩魯曼要強獸人傾巢而出圍攻聖盔谷，也就是亞拉岡、金靂和勒苟拉斯所集結的部隊之根據地——洛汗國。
而掉到摩瑞亞礦坑中無底洞的灰袍巫師甘道夫，在礦坑底下與炎魔大戰多時，最後終於戰勝。由於薩魯曼被魔戒之眼誘惑，終於被除去巫師之名，甘道夫重獲新生，蛻變成為巫師的最高領袖——白袍巫師。一場正邪大戰即將展開。
467 pages, Perfect Paperback
First published November 11,1954
This edition
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467 pages, Perfect Paperback
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December 20, 2001 by 聯經出版事業股份有限公司
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9789570823370
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9570823372
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Chinese
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About the author
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.
