书名：Beren and Lúthien贝伦与露西恩 

作者：J. R. R. Tolkien 

出版社名称：HarperCollins 

出版时间：2018 

语种：英文 

ISBN：9780008214227 

商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm 

包装：平装 

页数：288★《霍比特人》、《魔戒》作者J.R.R.托尔金毕生所寄，世间至美的爱情诗篇，人类与精灵联姻，结合作者自身爱恋经历，夫妇合葬墓碑上镌有贝伦与露西恩之名 ★中洲史诗诞生百年、小托诀别中洲之作：1917年“一战”索姆河战场归来，J.R.R.托尔金潜心动笔创世中洲；2017年克里斯托弗·托尔金以父母爱恋凝结成书挥别传奇 ★书中插图由奥斯卡奖得主、英国插画大师艾伦·李绘制 在Beren and Lúthien《贝伦与露西恩》中，克里斯托弗·托尔金作出了全新的尝试：将故事从大背景中抽取出来，利用作者本人在不同创作阶段写出的一系列文稿，对人物与情节的发展脉络进行梳理和对比，从而向读者展示贝伦与露西恩的故事在数十年的光阴中所经历的演变全貌。 Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of Beren and Lúthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien’s Middle-earth. The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of 1916, he wrote the tale in the following year. Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lúthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal Elf. Her father, a great Elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. This is the kernel of the legend; and it leads to the supremely heroic attempt of Beren and Lúthien together to rob the greatest of all evil beings, Melkor, called Morgoth, the Black Enemy, of a Silmaril. In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Lúthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded; but that story was itself changing as it developed new associations within the larger history. To show something of the process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years, he has told the story in his father's own words by giving, first, its original form, and then passages in prose and verse from later texts that illustrate the narrative as it changed. Presented together for the first time, they reveal aspects of the story, both in event and in narrative immediacy, that were afterwards lost. Review ‘A seamless editorial construct, the capstone to a job Christopher Tolkien began with The Silmarillion’--New Statesman ‘Critical moments are caught, as in The Children of Húrin, by Alan Lee’s nine outstanding colour plates’--Times Literary Supplement他唤她“缇努维尔”，她为他改换了命运——在阿拉贡与阿尔玟之前，曾有贝伦与露西恩。 凡人贝伦与出身不朽的精灵一族的露西恩相爱，然而他们的爱情起初无法得到露西恩的父亲——精灵王辛葛的肯定。为使贝伦知难而退，辛葛提出了求娶露西恩的条件：贝伦必须完成一个看似没有希望完成的任务。这个任务就是传奇的核心，它促使贝伦与露西恩一同立下了无上的英雄功绩：从初代黑暗魔君，比后世的索隆还要强大恐怖的魔苟斯那里，夺回一颗精灵宝钻。 贝伦与露西恩的传奇，是J.R.R.托尔金教授创造的瑰丽世界——中洲里重要的故事之一。它位列中洲远古时代的三大传说当中，既是《魔戒》那宏大背景的组成部分，更是《精灵宝钻》的基石，同时在作者自己的人生中也具有非同寻常的意义。在去世的前一年，J.R.R.托尔金曾在一封信中述及他对亡妻的怀念。他写道：“她就是后来成为《精灵宝钻》那个故事的源头……但故事脱离了正轨，我被抛下了，而我无法去铁面无情的曼督斯面前恳求。” 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，他创作了一系列脍炙人口的中洲世界史诗，影响至为深远的是《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丽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。托尔金身后，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至为重要的书籍。 J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over 60 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide. IN A LETTER of my father’s written on the i6th of July 1964 he said: The germ of my attempt to write legends of my own to fit my private languages was the tragic tale of the hapless Kullervo in the Finnish Kalevala. It remains a major matter in the legends of the First Age (which I hope to publish as The Silmarillion), though as ‘The Children of Hurin’ it is entirely changed except in the tragic ending. The second point was the writing, ‘out of my head’, of ‘The Fall of Gondolin’, the story of Idril and Earendel, during sick-leave from the army in 1917; and by the original version of the ‘Tale of Luthien Tinuviel and Beren’ later in the same year. That was founded on a small wood with a great undergrowth of ‘hemlock’ (no doubt many other related plants were also there) near Roos in Holderness, where I was for a while on the Humber Garrison. My father and mother were married in March 1916, when he was twenty-four and she was twenty-seven. They lived at first in the village of Great Haywood in Staffordshire; but he embarked for France and the Battle of the Somme early in June of that year. Taken ill, he was sent back to England at the beginning of November 1916; and in the spring of 1917 he was posted to Yorkshire. This primary version of The The of Tinuviel, as he called it, written in 1917, does not exist — or more precisely, exists only in the ghostly form of a manuscript in pencil that he all but entirely erased for most of its length; over this he wrote the text that is for us the earliest version. The Tale of Tinuviel was one of the constituent stories of my father’s major early work of his ‘mythology’, The Book of Lost Tales, an exceedingly complex work which I edited in the first two volumes of The History of Middle-earth, 1983-4. But since the present book is expressly devoted to the evolution of the legend of Beren and Luthien I will here very largely pass by the strange setting and audience of the Lost Tales, for The Tale of Tinuviel is in itself almost entirely independent of that setting.