《J. R. R. Tolkien_ a biography 》作者：- Humphrey Carpenter【EPUB

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Contents Part One A visit page 11 Part Two 1892-1916: Early years 15 1 Bloemfontein 17 2 Birmingham 25 3 ‘Private-lang.’ - and Edith 39 4 ‘T.C. B.S. etc. 52 5 Oxford 60 6 Reunion 69 7 War 808 The breaking of the fellowship 88 Part Three 1917-1925: The making of a mythology 95 1 Lost Tales 97 2 Oxford interlude 107 3 Northern venture 110 Part Four 1925-19490: ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit’ 117 1 Oxford life 119 2 Photographs observed 127 3 ‘He had been inside language 136 4 Jack 147 5 Northmoor Road 156 6 The storyteller 164 Part Five 1925-1949ii: The Third Age 177 1 Enter Mr Baggins 179 2 ‘The new Hobbit’ 187 Part Six 1949-1966: Success 209 1 Slamming the gates 211 2 A big risk 217 3 Cash or kudos 222 Part Seven 1959-1973: Last years 235 1 Headington 237 2 Bournemouth 248 3 Merton Street 254 Part Eight The Tree259 Appendix A Simplified genealogical table 262 B Chronology of events 263 C The published writings of J. R. R. Tolkien 266 D Sources andacknowledgements 276 Index 280 Illustrations between pages 144 and 145 1 Family group Bloemfontein November 1892. 2 Sarehole Mill. 3 Ronald and Hilary Tolkien in May 1905. 4 Father Francis Morgan courtesy of the Birmingham Oratory. 5 Edith Bratt in 1906 aged seventeen. 6 Ronald Tolkien in 1911 aged nineteen. 7 and 8 Edith and Ronald Tolkien in 1916. 9 Family group in the garden at Northmoor Road circa 1936. 10 A page from the manuscript of The Lord of the Rings by permission ofMarquette UniversityMilwaukee. 11 In the study at Merton Street 1972 photos: Billett Potter. 12 The last photograph of Tolkien taken next to one of his favourite trees Pinus Nigra inthe Botanic Garden Oxford 9 August 1973 photo: M. G. R. Tolkien. Author’s note This book is based upon the letters diaries and other papers of the late Professor J. R. R.Tolkien and upon the reminiscences of his family and friends. Tolkien himself did not entirely approve of biography. Or rather he disliked its use as a formof literary criticism. ‘One of my strongest opinions’ he once wrote ‘is that investigationof an author’s biography is an entirely vain and false approach to his works.’ Yet he wasundoubtedly aware that the remarkable popularity of his fiction made it highly likely that abiography would be written after his death and indeed he appears to have made some preparationfor this himself for in the last years of his life he annotated a number of old letters andpapers with explanatory notes or other comments. He also wrote a few pages of recollections ofhis childhood. It may thus be hoped that this book would not be entirely foreign to his wishes