Appendices

j.r.r. tolkien

Ein Pfad zur Vorgeschichte des Herrn der Ringe Ausgabe zur Serienverfilmung Vor unvordenklichen Zeiten wurden die Ringe der Macht von den Elben geschaffen und Sauron, der Dunkle Herrscher, schmiedete heimlich den Einen Ring und füllte ihn mit seiner Macht, auf dass er über alle anderen Ringe und ihre Träger gebieten konnte.
Der Eine Ring wurde Sauron im Lauf der Zeit genommen und so sehr er ihn auch in ganz Mittelerde suchte, er blieb dennoch für ihn verloren. Zeitalter später fällt der Ring in die Hände des Hobbits Bilbo Beutlin, der ihn an seinen Neffen Frodo weitergibt … und so beginnt das größte und gefährlichste Abenteuer der Fantasyliteratur. Dieser Band ergänzt die die dreibändige Ausgabe »Der Herr der Ringe«:
- Die Anhänge mit ausführlichen Texten zu den númenórischen Königen, zum Haus Eorl und zu Durins Volk
- Die Zeittafel der Westlande vom Zweiten Zeitalter bis zum Aufbruch der Elben in die Unsterblichen Lande und dem Beginn des Vierten Zeitalters
- Der Auenland-Kalender
- Die Sprachen und Völker des Dritten Zeitalters
- Ein ausführliches Personen-, Orts- und Sachregister, sowie ein Register der Gedichte und Lieder

Genres fantasyfictionclassicsgerman literaturehigh fantasyreferencenovelsepic fantasylanguageaudiobook

189 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1954

Series

The Lord of the Rings: Seven Book Editions

This edition

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 1994 by Houghton Mifflin and Company (NY)
ISBN: 9780618042265
ASIN: 0618042261
Language: English

About the author

j.r.r. tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien: writer, artist, scholar, linguist. Known to millions around the world as the author of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien spent most of his life teaching at the University of Oxford where he was a distinguished academic in the fields of Old and Middle English and Old Norse. His creativity, confined to his spare time, found its outlet in fantasy works, stories for children, poetry, illustration and invented languages and alphabets.

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.