“On Fairy-Stories” by J. R. R. Tolkien. Original location of this text Russian translation by V.
A. M. / Русский перевод В. А. М. I propose to speak about fairy-stories, though I am aware that this is a rash adventure. The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. There are, however, some questions that one who is to speak about fairy-stories must expect to answer, or attempt to answer, whatever the folk of Faërie may think of his impertinence.
Fairy-story What is a fairy-story? The last two senses would obviously make my topic hopelessly vast. Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. O see ye not yon narrow road So thick beset wi' thorns and briers? And see ye not yon braid, braid road That lies across the lily leven? Origins. Tolkien Studies, Volume 1 - Table of Contents. Tolkien Society Links Page.
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Used with permission. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of our world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. In the 1960s he was taken up by many members of the nascent “counter-culture” largely because of his concern with environmental issues.
Then they moved to the somewhat more pleasant Birmingham suburb of Edgbaston. Tolkien family life was generally lived on the genteel side of poverty. However, another complication had arisen. Home Page - The Tolkien Society. Smaug. Treebeard. Hildebrandt painting. The road goes ever on... Map of the Shire. Map of Middle Earth. Map of Narnia.
George MacDonald. Early cover for The Hobbit. Ted Nasmith "Entering Mirkwood" Alan Lee "The Carrock" (The Hobbit) The Princess and the Goblin. The George MacDonald Informational Web.