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There is a book that is overly beautiful as a research monograph. As an album, the capacity is amazing, rigorous and solid.
Professor Tom Hibie, Tolkien Research One Seed Scholar, described it as spectacular. The explanation is superb and the research is very thorough; The pictures are breathtaking.
The Times said it: Every page exudes a mournful tone of J.R.R. Tolkien's work, which is irresistible.
Weekend Sport says it: a five-star masterpiece, a must-have. The book contains illustrations, maps, and photographs of ancient and modern times, which can be called an artistic academic work. The book not only reveals Tolkien's story, but it is moving, it shows that there are still surprises hidden in Tolkien's book.
The New York Journal of Books says it: John Garth adds meticulous observation and steady pace to the growing body of Tolkien-related research. In this book, he explores the intersection between the real world we live in and Tolkien's "storied" world. He traces the source of inspiration that the author saw and heard, and how that inspiration evolved into something that can be gleaned from his stories, letters, drafts, and sketches... Both beginners and experienced pilgrims can learn a lot from this book.
This book is Tolkien's World: A Place of Inspiration in Middle-earth, by John Garth, an expert in Torkien and a creator prize winner.
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Almost all readers who have read Tolkien's works will be amazed by his magnificent imaginary world, the detailed geographical descriptions, and the realness of the landscape that makes people forget that this is a fantasy novel, and they will also have questions——
Where did his Middle World come from? Why does this fantasy country seem so real? There are not only mountains, lakes, seas, woodlands and meadows that can be called (there is usually more than one), various plants with distinctive characteristics and well-rooted growth habits, ingenious man-made buildings and natural creations, but also a wide variety of geology and ecology.
Why Tolkien was able to give such a vivid soul to his landscapes, making them seem both otherworldly and realistic; Both poetry and the daily life we see and experience every day?
And Tolkien once lamented: many critics seem to treat Middle-earth as another planet!
In fact, Middle Continent is our own world. Its name is taken from the Anglo-Saxon name for the known world.
Tolkien's World: A Place of Inspiration in Middle-earth
So John Garth did an "impossible task": how to return the sea to a hundred rivers. Starting from Tolkien's work, he seeks and retraces all the "landscapes" that inspired and inspired him, and demonstrates how these "external landscapes" unconsciously enter Tolkien's creation, imagination and fiction, and become part of the "internal landscape" of his works. The external landscape is both a natural landscape and an artificial landscape at the geographical level, an ancient landscape and a modern landscape; It is also a cultural landscape of literature, psychology, science and technology, and historical events.
In his own words:
This book presents many of my own theories about the sources of inspiration for the "collection of legends and stories" in Middle-earth, as well as the most convincing and interesting claims made by others. But this book is not limited to finding out which real location was the inspiration for a particular location in Middle Continent. The book also examines the places Tolkien learned about real and fictional from reading, and examines the influences that shaped his imaginary culture and cosmology. The book treats place as a combination of location, geology, ecology, culture, naming, and other factors. This book tries to show how the inspiration came about and why.
To investigate, I focused on biography, history, landscape, and language. I carefully observed Tolkien's footsteps, pondered the ins and outs of the story, and tried to put myself in his shoes and emotions.
After reading this book, we understand how the books Tolkien read, the land he traveled, the worldly scenery and natural scenery he saw, how it became Loryon, Jinghui Cave, Doomsday Mountain... His beloved West Midlands and Oxford, his childhood paradise Salho, his inseparable mountains and lakes, monuments and people, how it became the Shire, the valleys, the Helm and the Van Gon...
Lauterbrunnen Valley, Switzerland
Tolkien's paintings: An East View of the Valley
Worcestershire scenery
Tolkien painting: The Hillock: Hobbiton Across the River
Cox Cave, the inspiration for the "Cave of the Rings" in The Lord of the Rings
The River Chevell, the weeping willow meadows of Nantus in The Silmarillion and the Wicker River in The Lord of the Rings
This is a "particularly good-looking" monograph on Tolkien's work. Where is "good-looking"?
First of all, the oversized folio of 210×260 has a great feel on the inside of the cover and a stunning printing effect. To be delicate and delicate, to have a degree of reduction.
Tolkien's World: A Place of Inspiration in Middle-earth
Secondly, there are not many non-fine art research monographs with such rich and wonderful visual experience. The book contains more than a hundred images, including precious illustrations by Tolkien himself, works by other artists, archival images, a wide variety of maps, and spectacular modern photographs.
Essex Bridge
First geological map by William Smith in 1815
Tolkien's Lotse Lorraine
Temporary Military Hospital of the University of Birmingham. Tolkien lived here after returning to Britain from the war in 1916
Moreover, in addition to the extremely solid, rich, and addictive body of the study, there are also many "columns" scattered throughout the pages, covering all kinds of hot and cold knowledge related to Tolkien's works, life, reading tastes, etc. For example, "Sam and Other Sketches from Life", which traces the daily life inspiration of Tolkien's novel characters; "Elves, Finns and Englishmen", for example, explores the relevance of Tolkien's inspiration for elves to medieval ancient Scandinavian views of Finns; Another example is "What does the name mean?" 'Lucian' and 'Reshian'" explain the relationship between the two terms and Britain or England.
Tolkien said: I, like everyone else, take as a model from what I know about "life." And "Tolkien's World" solves the mystery of Tolkien's material. Zhou Yang, translator of "Writer of the Century", said: "This book does not tell us Tolkien's source of inspiration, but it takes us into the real Tolkien's world, a world that may not be as old as Middle Continent, but has also been lost in the process of urbanization and globalization in the 21st century.
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★ The most interesting "impossible mission" of authoritative Tolkien experts on the source of inspiration for the Middle continent world, how did the inspiration for a tested Tolkien creative study ★ of ★ the Middle continent world come from? Why? How did Tolkien make a big move to the real world? ★ The book contains more than 100 images