John Ronald Reuel Tolkien [dʒɒn ˈɹɒnld ɹuːl ˈtɒlkiːn], CBE war ein britischer Schriftsteller und Philologe. Sein Roman Der Herr der Ringe ist eines der erfolgreichsten Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts und gilt als grundlegendes Werk für die moderne Fantasy-Literatur.
Tolkien, später Professor für englische Sprache an der Universität Oxford, hatte seit seiner Jugend an einer eigenen Mythologie gearbeitet, die auf eigens konstruierten Sprachen basierte und erst postum unter dem Titel Das Silmarillion erschien. Sowohl Der Herr der Ringe als auch das erfolgreiche Kinderbuch Der Hobbit spielen in dieser von Tolkien erfundenen Welt. Auch einige seiner sprach- und literaturwissenschaftlichen Beiträge wie der Essay Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics gelten als wegweisend. Wikipedia
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Der Herr der Ringe
(Gandalf zu Frodo über Gollum) Der Herr der Ringe, Band 1 "Die Gefährten", Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, Erstes Buch, S. 82. Übers.: Margaret Carroux
Original engl.: "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be eager to deal out death in judgement."
Der Herr der Ringe (1954-1955)
„… es ist leichter, Halt! zu rufen als Einhalt zu gebieten.“
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Der Herr der Ringe
(Fangorn zu Merry und Pippin) Der Herr der Ringe, Band 2 "Die zwei Türme", Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-12-908190-9, Drittes Buch, S. 86. Übers.: Margaret Carroux
Original engl.: "... for it is easier to shout stop! than to do it."
Der Herr der Ringe (1954-1955)
„Treulos ist, wer Lebewohl sagt, wenn die Straße dunkel wird.“
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Der Herr der Ringe
(Gimli über seine Treue zu Frodo als Ringträger) Der Herr Der Ringe, Band 1 "Die Gefährten", Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, Zweites Buch, S. 342. Übers.: Margaret Carroux
Original engl.: "Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens"
Der Herr der Ringe (1954-1955)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Der Herr der Ringe
(Gandalf zu Saruman, welcher sich daraufhin als Verräter offenbart) Der Herr der Ringe, Band 1 "Die Gefährten", Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, Zweites Buch, S. 315. Übers.: Margaret Carroux
Original engl.: "And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
Der Herr der Ringe (1954-1955)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien buch Der Hobbit
(Thorins Abschiedsworte zu Bilbo) "Der kleine Hobbit", Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-7915-3554-4, S. 375
Original engl.: "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
Der kleine Hobbit (1937)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Der Herr der Ringe
(Gildor an Frodo) Der Herr der Ringe, Band 1 "Die Gefährten", Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, Erstes Buch, S. 111. Übers.: Margaret Carroux
Original engl.: "... advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill."
Der Herr der Ringe (1954-1955)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Der Herr der Ringe
Quelle: ( Sam zu Frodo auf ihrem Weg)
Die zwei Türme, Der Herr der Ringe (1954- 1955)
veröffentlicht in: The British Esperantist, Vol. 28, Mai 1932. A Philologist on Esperanto http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/A_Philologist_on_Esperanto, Übers.: Wikiquote <br class="br">Original engl.:"My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: "Back Esperanto loyally." <br class="br">Briefe
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, no. 180 Übers.: Wikiquote
„Ein Ring, sie zu knechten, sie alle zu finden, // Ins Dunkel zu treiben und ewig zu binden“
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Der Herr der Ringe
Der Herr der Ringe, Band 1 "Die Gefährten", Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-12-908180-1, S. 7. Übers.: Margaret Carroux
Original engl.: "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, // One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them"
Der Herr der Ringe (1954-1955)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien buch Das Silmarillion
Das Silmarillion, Christopher Tolkien (Hrsg.), Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-608-93521-5, S. 124 Übers.: Wolfgang Krege
Das Silmarillion (postum 1977)
"A Philologist on Esperanto" in The British Esperantist (May 1932).
Years later, in a 1956 letter (quoted more extensively below) he stated that Esperanto and other constructed languages were "dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends."
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien buch On Fairy-Stories
On Fairy-Stories (1939)
No. 163: On his discovery of Finnish language, in a letter to W. H. Auden (1955)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
“Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien buch A Secret Vice
"A Secret Vice" (lecture, 1931) published in The Monsters And The Critics And Other Essays (1983), edited by Christopher Tolkien
But it is, of course, a constant source of consolation and pleasure to me. And, I may say, a piece of singular good fortune, much envied by some of my contemporaries. Wonderful people still buy the book, and to a man 'retired' that is both grateful and comforting.
No. 165: To Houghton Mifflin Co. (30 June, 1955); also quoted in 'Tolkien on Tolkien' in Diplomat magazine (October 1966).
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
“I liked him better than all the other characters, and much more so than Frodo.”
Speaking of Gollum. From J. R. R. Tolkien: An Audio Portrait, BBC Radio Collection (2001), ISBN 0-563-53692-6. CD 1, track 17.
“I think we shall have to give the region a name. What do you propose?”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien buch Leaf by Niggle
"The Porter settled that some time ago," said the Second Voice. "Train for Niggle's Parish in the bay."
Leaf by Niggle (1945)
Quelle: The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981), No. 52: To his son Christopher Tolkien (29 November, 1943)
“I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Der Herr der Ringe
Quelle: The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien buch The Fellowship of the Ring
Quelle: The Fellowship of the Ring, Poem Riddle of Strider
Kontext: Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
Kontext: Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight? A man may do both, said Aragorn. For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!
“If we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later.”
Kontext: 'Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song.
Incorrectly attributed to Tolkien. It is a line from the Hobbit movie that did not appear in the books.
