The Silmarillion

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Formato: Novela

Título original: The Silmarillion

Autoría: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Año de publicación: 1977

Sinopsis:

The Silmarillion (2021)
The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien’s imaginative writing, a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth, through the Second Age and the rise of Sauron, to the end of the War of the Ring.
They are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-earth, and the Elves made war upon him in his impenetrable fortress in Angband for the recovery of the Silmarils, three jewels containing the last remaining pure light of Valinor, seized by Morgoth and set in his iron crown.

Accompanying these tales are several shorter works. The Ainulindalë is a myth of the Creation, and in the Valaquenta the nature and powers of the gods is described. The Akallabêth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Númenor at the end of the Second Age and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age, as told in The Lord of the Rings.

Tolkien could not publish The Silmarillion in his lifetime, as it grew with him, so he would leave it to his son, Christopher, to edit the work from many manuscripts and bring his father’s great vision to publishable form, so completing the literary achievement of a lifetime. This special edition presents anew this seminal first step towards mapping out the posthumous publishing of Middle-earth, and the beginning of an illustrious forty years and more than twenty books celebrating his father’s legacy.

Also included is a letter by J.R.R. Tolkien written in 1951 that provides a brilliant exposition of the earlier Ages, and almost 50 full-colour paintings by Ted Nasmith, including some of which appear here for the first time.

‘How, given little over half a century, did one man become the creative equivalent of a people?’
Guardian

[Sinopsis en el reverso de la portada de la edición ilustrada de tapa dura de HarperCollins]

El Silmarillion (2009)
El Silmarillion cuenta la historia de la Primera Edad, el antiguo drama del que hablan los personajes de El Señor de los Anillos, y en cuyos acontecimientos algunos de ellos tomaron parte, como Elrond y Galadriel... Una obra de auténtica imaginación, una visión inspirada, legendaria o mítica, del interminable conflicto entre el deseo de poder y la capacidad de crear.

“Invitando a que se lo compare con las mitologías inglesas, alcanza la grandeza de un auténtico mito.”
Financial Times

“Asombra que un solo hombre, en poco más de medio siglo de trabajo, haya llegado a convertirse en el equivalente creativo de todo un pueblo.”
The Guardian

[Contraportada de la edición de bolsillo de Minotauro]

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Edición original: None [1977], George Allen & Unwin

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Autoría: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

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Estudios de Tradición y Recepción Clásica

Birns, N. (2011). “The Stones and the Book: Tolkien, Mesopotamia, and Biblical Mythopoeia” en Fisher, J. (ed.), Tolkien and the Study of His Sources. Critical Essays (45-68). Jefferson NC y Londres: McFarland & Company, Inc.

Bruce, A. (2012). “The Fall of Gondolin and the Fall of Try: Tolkien and Book II of The Aeneid”. Mythlore 30:3/4, 103-115.

Carreño Ramos, S. (2024). “’Esclavo del destino’. El final de Túrin Turambar de J. R. R. Tolkien a la luz de la tragedia griega” en Urbano-Ruiz, M. (ed.), Conventus Granatensis: contribuciones de investigadores noveles Ganimedes a la Filología Clásica (43-53). Rhemata: Tarragona.

Delattre, C. (2007). “Númenor et l’Atlantide: une écriture en héritage”. Revue de littérature comparée 323, 303-322.

Librán Moreno, M. (2015). “La tragedia de Túrin Turambar y Edipo Rey de Sófocles en la obra de J. R. R. Tolkien”. Littera Aperta 2, 69-101.

Pezzini, G. (2022). “(Classical) Narratives of Decline in Tolkien: Renewal, Accommodation, Focalization”. thersites 15/2022, 25-51, DOI: https:/….

Shipley, G. J. (2021). “Afterword: Tolkien’s Response to Classics in Its Wider Context”, en Williams, H. (ed.), Tolkien and the Classical World (379-394). Zurich – Jena, Walking Tree Publishers.

Weiner, J. (2017). “Classical Epic and the Poetics of Modern Fantasy”, en Rogers, B. M. y Stevens, B. E., Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy (25-46). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Williams, H. (ed.) (2021). Tolkien and the Classical World. Zúrich – Jena, Walking Tree Publishers.
• Astrup Sundt, P., “The Love Story of Orpheus and Eurydice in Tolkien’s Orphic Middle-earth” (165-189).
• Clare, R., “Greek and Roman Historiographies in Tolkien’s Númenor” (37-68).
• Eilmann, J., “Horror and Fury: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Children of Húrin and the Aristotelian Theory of Tragedy” (247-268).
• Harrisson, J., “’Escape and Consolation’: Gondor as the Ancient Mediterranean and Rohan as the Germanic World in The Lord of the Rings” (329-348).
• Kleu, M., “Plato’s Atlantis and the Post-Platonic Tradition in Tolkien’s Downfall of Númenor” (193-215).
• Pezzini, G., “The Gods in (Tolkien’s) Epic: Classical Patterns of Divine Interaction” (73-103).
• Stevens, B. E., “Middle-earth as Underworld: From Katabasis to Eucatastrophe” (105-130).
• Williams, H., “Tolkien the Classicist: Scholar and Thinker” (3-36).

Otros estudios

Carpenter, H. (1992): J.R.R Tolkien. Una biografía, trad. Carlos Peralta. Barcelona, Minotauro.

Izzo, M. (2019): “Worldbuilding and Mythopoeia in Tolkien and post-Tolkienian Fantasy Literature”, en Fimi, D. y Honegger, T. (eds.), Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work, its Precursors and its Legacies (31-55). Zúrich – Jena, Walking Tree Publishers.

Tolkien, J. R. R. (2023). The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Humphrey Carpenter con la colaboración de Christopher Tolkien. Londres: HarperCollins.

Mark R. Kelly, M. R. y the Locus Science Fiction Foundation (2012-2024). “J. R. R. Tolkien”, Science Fiction Awards Database. http://…

Última modificación: SamuelCarrenno-10, April 16, 2024

Creador de la ficha: Samuel Carreño Ramos