“Kind of a fairy tale, and, moreover, it seems not boring.” 80 years of “the hobbit”
The Nazis clarified the origin of John. R. R. Tolkien, who was the first reviewer of “the Hobbit” and how to write correctly in English as “dwarves” in the material TASS on perhaps the greatest storyteller of the twentieth century.
One day (apparently this happened in 1930, but the exact date no one will name) the Professor of Anglo-Saxon language at Oxford University John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was engaged in routine work — check exam essays.
Suddenly, one of the works he came across a blank sheet. The hand of the Professor itself brought on this line: “the ground was a hole and in the hole there lived a hobbit”. It was for Nora, and even more so who was this hobbit, at that time could not answer would have Tolkien.
But this phrase seven years of hard work turned into a book recognized as one of the best children’s stories in history. September 21 1937 “the Hobbit” was released. And it then grew a whole trilogy is not for children, but for adults.
To the eighty-year anniversary book about the journey of Bilbo Baggins “There and back” we have gathered for you the most interesting facts from the life of its author, about his work on “the Hobbit” and not only.
The Boy Rosalind
Tolkien, first and foremost, Ronald, not John, although his middle name. His first name the writer did not like. Here’s what he wrote father Tolkien of his mother after the birth of a boy: “First his name will be John after his grandfather; and full, probably John Ronald Reuel. The OIE (the writer’s mother. — Approx. TASS) wanted to name him Ronald, but I want to keep, and John, and Ruel…” the father Tolkien wanted to call him John Benjamin Reuel (which Tolkien himself, as he admitted, would not have refused), but the mother was sure it was a girl, and wanted to call her Rosalind. Rosalind, as you know, turned into Ronald.
A huge green dragon
Give a word to Tolkien:
The first time I tried to write a story at the age of seven years. And about the dragon. I do not remember about it, except for one philological fact. My mother is about a dragon not a word is said, but drew my attention to what to say should not be “a huge green dragon”, and “a huge green dragon.” I have wondered why; wonder to this day.
The trash and the crumbs
Tolkien really fought in the First world. He served as a signalman and took part in one of the bloodiest battles of the war — the battle of the Somme in which the British army only lost about 420 thousand people were killed. In October 1916 he was sick whether trench fever, or typhus, and was recovering from illness a few years zaslujava the war years in training camps in England. A few close friends, Tolkien did not return from the war.
St. John Ronald Reuel
Tolkien was a deeply religious Christian, with a Catholic and not Anglican. When he was a child, his mother, and after her, of course, Ronald and his brother Hilary moved into the Catholicism that had an immediate impact on their already precarious financial situation from Mabel turned away relatives-Anglican, and Tolkien’s father at that time was no longer alive.
About Lord of the Rings Tolkien so straight and wrote this work “religious and Catholic”.
By the way, the current Pope Francis, while still Archbishop of Buenos Aires, in one of his sermons in 2008, talked about Tolkien: his heroes cast true Christian drama of the struggle between good and evil in Tolkien’s books always present the concept of “consolation” and “hope” etc. And in the UK even occasionally, seriously discussed the proposal of the group of Catholics about adding Tolkien to the saints.
In the country named Hollywood, where he spread darkness
If Tolkien were still alive, we probably would never see adaptations of his books. Tolkien believed that it is impossible to film, and they resisted any attempts to write a screenplay for “Lord of the Rings” because he was convinced that adaptation will destroy all the intricacies of the plot moves. In addition, he was confident that his works will be screened either by the Disney Studio, or at least in her style, but about Disney he wrote: “From their work, my soul gate”. Son Christopher Tolkien, who, as we have said, is the main guardian of the heritage of his father, the film adaptation by Peter Jackson, by the way, I dislike it terribly.
William The Conqueror? No, not heard
Tolkien is no exaggeration to hate all French people, culture and cuisine. He believed that the French “vulgar, waffling, whistle and behave indecently.”
It got to the point that Tolkien despised the conquest of England by the Normans in 1066. He believed that it put an end to the Golden age of Anglo-Saxon culture, sasori its European influences.