Lo hobbit o La riconquista del tesoro by J.R.R. Tolkien

Now, fifteen years on, if! were to deconstruct my most basic beliefs about history, politics, narrative, and morality, I suspect that many strands of my adult Weltanschauung would find root somewhere in his mythology.įor me The Hobbit was, in many respects, a beginning. Tolkien’s world-building, his elegant prose, and his characterization to be the gold standard by which all other literature should be measured. Already at the age of seven, I considered J.R.R. Tolkien’s youngest son, his words speak to me with the same timeless quality captured in the books that defined both our childhoods. For me, the cities of The Silmarillion are more real than Babylon.” Although I first encountered Middle-earth some three generations after J.R.R. Tolkien once said of his father’s stories, “As strange as it may seem, I grew up in the world he created. Teaching me to read is just one of the ways Tolkien’s works have influenced me. Of The Return ofthe King, I could follow along with each word. But by the time we reached the last chapter Impenetrable enigma to me, unlocked only by my father’s voice. When we began with The Fellowship ofthe Ring, the thick blocs of text that filled each page remained an On especially cold evenings, we would build a fire. Each night we would settle onto our living room couch to share a chapter or-if I had my way-two. During the following winter, my father read The Lord ofthe Rings aloud to me before bedtime. With Tolkien’s world, and I listened to the whole book twice through. Read-as a Recorded Books production from the Cambridge Public Library.

The Hobbit has been my favorite book since I was seven. To see original format of essay in PDF, please go here “The Hobbit: A Journey from Tolkien to Us…And Back Again” by Ben Goosen

Lo hobbit o La riconquista del tesoro by J.R.R. Tolkien