J.R.R. TOLKIEN -- A GREAT AUTHOR --

raeshad

one's coffee, is another one's tea...........

yatiedin

Originally posted by pessoa at 15-12-2006 01:16 AM
Apa yang bestnya LOTR ni? Meleret-leret, pastu tengah-tengah jalan boleh nyanyi-nyanyi pulak... dahlah bahasa satu macam punya kayu...

I suppose it's an acquired  taste ...

MillionIdeazKid

kalo nk tgk filem bes..cicakman bes.

jakunta

Tadi mase aku gi mph (kinta city) aku ade ternampak buku ni karya terakhir dari j.j.r Tolkien "The Children of Hurin". Tengok kulit buku mcm best aje.. Sape ade beli?  Storylah sikit cite pasal ape ni? Kalau best aku pun nak beli...

[ Last edited by  jakunta at 21-4-2007 09:39 PM ]

jakunta

Yang ini aku amik dari laman web ni http://tolkien.hcp-uk.co.uk/thechildrenofhurin.aspx:

The Children of Hurin

There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World.

In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Turin and his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves.

Their brief and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Hurin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. Against them he sent his formidable servant, Glaurang, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Into his story of brutal conquest and flight, of forest hiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, the mythological persons of the God and the Dragon enter in fearfully articulate form. Sardonic and mocking, Glaurang manipulated the fates of Turin and Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning and guile, and the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled

The earliest versions of this story by J.R.R. Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War and the years that followed; but long afterwards, when The Lord of the Rings was finished, he wrote it anew and greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive and character: it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth. But he could not bring it to final and finished form. In this book I have endeavoured to construct, after long study of the manuscripts, a coherent narrative without any editorial invention.

                                                                                                                                                                          -Christopher Tolkien

[ Last edited by  jakunta at 21-4-2007 10:11 PM ]

jakunta

Huh... takde sape ke berminat pasal buku ni? Nyesalnye aku buat thread ni...   Cik Mod delete jelah thread ni...

limau_nipis

ni kan topik critical reading, heheheh.. sabar2.. it's a good thread

ilyvmZ

just almost finished reading lotr - fellowship of the ring for the 3rd times
i enjoyed the book immersely  been reading since i was in university
and took some times last week to take up reading it again just for the halibut

i love the songs in it   -  it tells great story too -

for those who havent read even one of the trilogy -
it is recommended   -

good plot and awesome story!