未完的传说 Unfinished Tales

基本信息

Format: Paperback| 512 pages  

Dimensions: 105x 174x 27mm| 238g  

Publication date: 01 Sep 1988 

Publisher: Random House USA Inc  

Imprint: Del Rey Books 

ISBN: 9780345357113

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

《未完的传说》汇集了自远古至魔戒大战结束、时间跨度足有数千年之久的种种中洲逸事：

巫师甘道夫对促成矮人聚首袋底洞、谋复孤山的生动叙述；

伊熙尔杜身遭不测，魔戒落入大河的前因后果；

加拉德瑞尔的过往与力量之戒的铸成；

刚铎与洛汗两国缘何结下同仇敌忾的生死盟约；

沉沦之地努门诺尔漫长历史遗留的记载；

以及初代黑暗魔君尚未败亡之时，杜内丹人的先祖图奥是如何亲见司掌众水之神乌欧牟现身于贝烈瑞安德的海滨，传奇英雄图林又何以慨叹自己“自童年起就在魔苟斯的黑暗迷雾中摸索”。

本书是为渴望更加了解中洲的语言文化、历史传说、风土人情的读者准备的厚礼。

诚然，书中“每个故事都是‘未完’的，差别只在程度的深浅，并且是多种意义上的‘未完’”，但传奇本无穷尽，故也永不终结。

This paperback edition of JRR Tolkien’s legacy of short stories which inhabit the realm of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.

Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century’s most acclaimed popular author.

The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as Gandalf’s lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan.

Unfinished Tales also contains the only story about the long ages of Numenor before its downfall, and all that is known about such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantiri and the legend of Amroth. The tales were collated and edited by JRR Tolkien’s son and literary heir, Christopher Tolkien, who provides a short commentary on each story, helping the reader to fill in the gaps and put each story into the context of the rest of his father’s writings.

作者简介

J.R.R. 托尔金（J.R.R.Tolkien）

英国文豪，天才的语言学家，生于1892年1月3日，1925年开始担任牛津大学教授。他创造了一系列脍炙人口的中洲世界史诗，影响Z为深远的是《霍比特人》和《魔戒》。这两部巨作，被誉为当代奇幻作品的鼻祖。1972年3月28日，托尔金获英国女王伊利莎白二世颁发的大英帝国指挥官勋章。

托尔金于1973年9月2日在牛津逝世。托尔金死后，其作品声名未减，至今已畅销2.5亿余册，《魔戒》在英国Waterstones书店和第四频道合办的票选活动中被选为20世纪之书，被亚马逊网络书店票选为两千年以来Z重要的书籍。

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. After serving in World War I, he embarked upon a distinguished academic career and was recognized as one of the finest philologists in the world. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. He is, however, beloved throughout the world as the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic works as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He died on September 2, 1973, at the age of eighty-one.