Deze uitgebreide gids duikt in het leven en werk van een van de meest invloedrijke auteurs van de 20e eeuw. Het volgt zijn reis van de kindertijd via zijn academische carrière tot het wereldwijde succes van zijn legendarische creaties. De gids onderzoekt nauwgezet zijn literaire en wetenschappelijke prestaties, de ontvangst van zijn werk en de blijvende nalatenschap die het fantasygenre heeft gevormd. Verwacht gedetailleerde chronologieën, diepgaande analyses van zijn mythologie en inzichten in de werelden die hij meesterlijk heeft gecreëerd.
A comprehensive guide to Tolkien's life and works, featuring synopses, a gazetteer, biographies, and analyses of his 'Silmarillion' mythology, along with discussions of significant places and people in his life.
Reader's Guide Part 2 - Revised and Expanded Edition
Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published. This volume includes a superlative day-by-day chronology of Tolkien's life, presenting the most detailed biographical record available. The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide is a comprehensive handbook to one of the most popular authors of the twentieth century. One of two volumes comprising this definitive work, the Reader's Guide is an indispensable introduction to J. R. R. Tolkien's life, writings, and art. It includes histories and discussions of his works; analyses of the components of his vast 'Silmarillion' mythology; brief biographies of persons important in his life; accounts of places he knew; essays on topics such as Tolkien's interests and attitudes towards contemporary issues, ideas found in his works, adaptations, and invented languages; and checklists of his published works, his poetry, his pictorial art, and translations of his writings.
Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published. This volume includes a superlative day-by-day chronology of Tolkien's life, presenting the most detailed biographical record available.