The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis The First World War laid waste to a continent and permanently altered the political and religious landscape of the West. For a generation of men and women, it brought the end of innocence—and the end of faith. Yet for J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, the Great War deepened their spiritual quest. Both men served as soldiers on the Western Front, survived the trenches, and used the experience of that conflict to ignite their Christian imagination. Had there been no Great War, there would have been noHobbit, no Lord of the Rings, no Narnia, and perhaps no conversion to Christianity by C. S. Lewis. Unlike a generation of young writers who lost faith in the God of the Bible, Tolkien and Lewis produced epic stories infused with the themes of guilt and grace, sorrow and consolation. Giving an unabashedly Christian vision of hope in a world tortured by doubt and disillusionment, the two writers created works that changed the course of literature and shaped the faith of millions. This is the first book to explore their work in light of the spiritual crisis sparked by the conflict.

Tolkien, Race and Cultural History explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology by examining how it changed as a result of Tolkien's life story and contemporary cultural and intellectual history. The book considers Tolkien's creative writing as an ever-developing 'legendarium': an interconnected web of stories, poems and essays, from his early poems in the 1910s to his latest writings in the early 1970s. Consequently, the book is not restricted to a discussion of Tolkien's best-known works only (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion) but examines the whole corpus of his legendarium, including the 12-volume History of Middle-earth series, which has received little attention from critics. This new approach and scope brings to light neglected aspects of Tolkien's imaginative vision and addresses key features of Tolkien's creativity: the centrality of the Elves and the role of linguistic invention in his legendarium, as well as race and material culture in Middle-earth.

Since the earliest scholarship on The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, critics have discussed how the works of J. R. R. Tolkien seem either to ignore women or to place them on unattainable pedestals. To remedy such claims that Tolkien’s fiction has nothing useful or modern to say about women, Perilous and Fair focuses critical attention on views that interpret women in Tolkien’s works and life as enacting essential, rather than merely supportive roles. Perilous and Fair includes seven classic articles as well as seven new examinations of women in Tolkien’s works and life. These fourteen articles bring together perspectives not only on Tolkien’s most commonly discussed female characters—Éowyn, Galadriel, and Lúthien—but also on less studied figures such as Nienna, Yavanna, Shelob, and Arwen. Among others, the collection features such diverse critical approaches and methods as literary source study, historical context, feminist theory, biographical investigation, close-reading textual analysis, Jungian archetypes, and fanfiction reader-response.

The first ever publication of J. R. R. Tolkien’s final writings on Middle-earth, covering a wide-range of subjects, and the perfect next read for those who have enjoyed Unfinished Tales and the History of Middle-earth series and are hungry for more. The Nature of Middle-earth will comprise numerous late (c. 1959-73) and previously unpublished writings by J.R.R. Tolkien on the “nature” of Middle-earth, in both chief senses of that word: both metaphysical and natural/historical. For Tolkien fans, readers, and scholars interested in learning more about Tolkien’s own views on Middle-earth. It will appeal in particular to those readers who enjoyed Unfinished Tales, and some of the later volumes of the History of Middle-earth. Indeed, many of the texts to be included are closely associated with materials published in those places, and were sent to Hostetter, specifically, in photocopy by Christopher Tolkien for potential publication. Much as Unfinished Tales forms an unofficial thirteenth volume of the History of Middle-earth, this new book will sit very nicely alongside as an unofficial 14th volume. Of particular note, given the impending Amazon series, are several texts detailing the lands, flora, and fauna of Númenor, and the lives of Númenóreans. (from HarperCollins)

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《英国文学史》是中国现代文学大师梁实秋先生晚年的力作，叙述了英国上溯盎格鲁撒克逊时代，下至维多利亚时代的文学进程，重要作家作品，并作出相对应的评价。本书分上中下三卷，文笔古雅，见解独到，是一部极具个人特色的文学史。

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《托尔金的袍子:大作家与珍本书的故事》是一本有纳博科夫标志性手绘蝴蝶的签名本《洛丽塔》、一件衣角有“R•托尔金”铭牌的袍子、一卷一百二十英尺长的《在路上》原稿、一册由伍尔夫夫妇印制发行的艾略特的《诗集》……珍《托尔金的袍子:大作家与珍本书的故事》交易充满了心机算计、叫嚣怒吼、懊悔扼腕，但它也充满了惊喜、友谊与感动。 《托尔金的袍子》追溯了二十部二十世纪经典著作的问世过程，其中不管哪一部，都是全世界读者和收藏家眼中的珍品。曾任文学教授、后又经营珍《托尔金的袍子:大作家与珍本书的故事》买卖二十多年的作者杰寇斯基，以他对文学和珍《托尔金的袍子:大作家与珍本书的故事》的独特感悟，用风趣平实的文笔，带我们走进名著珍本的世界。通过作者经手的这些作品——《洛丽塔》、《道连•葛雷的画像》、《儿子与情人》、《撒旦诗篇》等等——的过程中，我们看到的不仅是这些作品当初问世的曲折历程、文坛巨匠的趣闻轶事、收藏与转手的因缘巧合，也瞥见了精彩刺激的商场心机。

Unlike many of his contemporaries, J.R.R. Tolkien strongly believed that mythology is neither allegory nor historical fact but was instead "a true secondary world born out of language, to be experienced, not excavated." In Tolkien and the Invention of Myth, a collection of eighteen new and classic essays, Jane Chance and established and emerging Tolkien scholars explore the profound influence of late classical and medieval mythologies—ancient Greek, classical and medieval Latin, Old Norse, Old English, and Finnish. Tolkien used writings such as these as he shaped his own mythology in The Silmarillion and the literary masterpiece The Lord of the Rings. Exploring the origins of Tolkien's mythological influences, these essays illuminate the crucial episodes, characters, style, language, and concepts central to Tolkien's complex worlds. The authors probe how such transformations of language and mythology take place in thematic and symbolic form in the novels. They then relate these episodes to Tolkien's understanding of society, culture, history, heritage, tradition, nature, heroism, and love. Among the contributors are well-known scholars Marjorie J. Burns, Michael D.C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger, David Lyle Jeffrey, Tom Shippey, and Richard C. West, whose essays examine Tolkien's literary aesthetic in folklore, his love of philology (his own and medieval), and the philosophical and religious underpinnings of his narratives. The four sections of the book investigate his adaptation of late classical and medieval legends and histories as well as northern European mythological sources. A well-rounded and essential reader for any Tolkien lover, Tolkien and the Invention of Myth also includes several classic essays on the author's mythmaking. No other collection attempts to identify the various medieval mythologies woven into the tapestry of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and to examine how Tolkien rediscovered and reinvented tales of larger-than-life gods and heroes of northern myths.

在魔戒时代之前遥远的第一纪元，精灵和人类的军队在泪雨之战中惨败，黑暗魔王魔苟斯囚禁了人类领袖胡林，对他的一双儿女——图林和妮诺尔降下毒咒。胡林被迫透过魔苟斯的眼睛目睹自己骨肉的遭遇：精灵、矮人、兽人、格劳龙等奇幻角色在中土大地纷纷登场，图林这个刚毅的男儿在魔苟斯的邪念作弄下，亦是在自身孤傲性格的驱使下，一步步走向他人生的宿命。曲折离奇的故事中包含了珍贵的友谊、美丽的爱情和彻骨的悲怆。 《魔戒》作者托尔金于1918年开始创作胡林儿女的故事，与“贝伦和露西安”以及“贡多林的陷落”被视为托尔金创造的中土世界最重要的三大故事骨干。他一生不断修改，留下大量遗稿，最终由他的儿子克里斯托弗·托尔金整理成书。

"Majestic!...readers of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS...will find THE SILMARILLION a cosmology to call their own...medieval romances, fierce fairy tales and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic fury...it overwhelms the reader." TIME Those interested in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth should not be without this grand volume that tells the tragic tale of the struggle for control of the Silmarils, a struggle that would determine the history of the world long before the War of the Ring.

The content of Tolkien's Mythology, the Silmarillion, has been the subject of considerable exploration and analysis for many years, but the logistics of its development have been mostly ignored and deserve closer investigation. Nineteenth-and twentieth-century scholars understood the term "mythology as a gathering of song and story that derived from and described an identifiable world. Tolkien made a continuous effort over several years to construct a comprehensive mythology, to include not only the stories themselves but also the storytellers, scribes, and bards who were the offspring of his thought. In "Interrupted Music Flieger attempts to illuminate the structure of Tolkien's work, allowing the reader to appreciate its broad, overarching design and its careful, painstaking construction. She endeavors to "follow the music from its beginning as an idea in Tolkien's mind through to his final but never-implemented mechanism for realizing that idea, for bringing the voices of his story to the reading public. "In addition, Flieger reviews attempts at myth-making in the history of English literature by Spenser, Milton, and Blake as well as by Joyce and Yeats. She reflects on the important differences between Tolkien and his predecessors and even more between Tolkien and his contemporaries. This in-depth study will fascinate those interested in Tolkien and fantasy literature.

超人的力量能被用来从善，还是常常会诱惑人，从而导致恶果？自然会起而反抗技术吗？长生不老本是令人讨厌的负担？ 托尔金引入胜的史诗《指环王》所提出的扰人问题还有很多。托尔金希望，他的故事可以帮助变得更善良。他有意识地从神话、宗教和哲学思辨中选择了一些最麻烦、最具争议的主题。 巴沙姆和布朗森教授召集了一批既富哲学素养，又熟知中土之事的学者，来研究《指环王》所提出的这些令人着迷的问题。对这部我们时代最宏伟的传奇。大家的目的是要求得更真的理解。 希望本书不仅能帮助您理解一些《指环王》里饶有深意的深层问题，还能激发起您对一些亘古而常青的哲学问题的兴趣。