The Lord of the Rings

Originally published from 1954 through 1956, J.R.R. Tolkien's richly complex series ushered in a new age of epic adventure storytelling. A philologist and illustrator who took inspiration from his work, Tolkien invented the modern heroic quest novel from the ground up, creating not just a world, but a domain, not just a lexicon, but a language, that would spawn countless imitators and lead to the inception of the epic fantasy genre. Today, THE LORD OF THE RINGS is considered "the most influential fantasy novel ever written." (THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FANTASY)

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Reviews

Une œuvre monumentale et magnifique…

Par quoi commencer, que dire d’intelligent qui n’ait pas déjà été dit ? Je vais donner quelques commentaires sur l’édition anglaise qui est celle que j’ai lue (donc sans l’artifice de la traduction), en version complète avec les annexes.

Il faut le lire, dans le texte. Pour revenir à l’essence du roman, auquel les séries et films (notamment la trilogie de Peter Jackson) ne rendent que très partiellement hommage.

Il fait suite au Hobbit (dont la lecture préalable n’est pas indispensable), un livre plutôt destiné aux enfants, en adoptant un ton résolument plus sérieux et sombre. On y verra l’influence du fascisme dans le monde, retranscrit dans un univers formidable et complet créé de toutes pièces par un professeur érudit d’Oxford, inspiré entre autres par les légendes nordiques.

Les personnages évoluent dans un monde vivant, avec tout un ensemble de mythes et légendes en toile de fond …

Review of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' on 'Goodreads'

In 1980 Heinlein published a novel called The Number of the Beast. It involved parallel universes, The World as Fiction, and dragged in Lazarus Long, as Heinlein seemed to do in most of his later books. While parts of it were fun, it was also confusing and disjointed in my opinion. I will read any Heinlein for the writing alone, so I am a fan (in fact, I was for a time the webmaster for The Heinlein Society), but I can see that some of his stuff is better than others. So when I heard there was an alternate version of this novel, I had to check it out. And The Pursuit of the Pankera keeps the same basic setting and has the same beginning as The Number of the Beast, but I think it is much better. The plot is a lot more cohesive and the novel just flows …