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Толкин о «моральном поражении» Фродо. Выборка текстов

«Mid-October i968-?November 1971Joy Hill makes many visits to Tolkien in Lakeside Road, most only for a day, but on occasion for a longer period, during which Joy stays at the Hotel Miramar. In an article published in 1974 it will be said that Joy used to visit Tolkien every month after he moved to Poole,

laden with fan letters and the presents people sent - a bottle of claret, a tapestry, Hobbit drawings, a silver goblet... a large quantity of mush­rooms___The ceremony of present opening was always the first event

of the visit. Then they would get to work, and often fierce argument over

office practices, as when he wanted to file all amusing letters under 'A'___

'He dominated the visit [Joy recalled]: you talked about what he wanted to talk about. You'd think, "Perhaps I could ask him so-and-so today," and youd never get the opportunity; so the things you were des­perate to know, you never found out. But on the other hand you might be going for a walk, and youd get a fantastic nonstop half-hour lecture on Frodo's moral failure or the origins of a certain word. Or perhaps one on how you were a stupid girl to sit in the sun and how much better it was to have a white skin than a sunburnt one.' [Janet Watts, 'Bilbo Sings Again, The Guardian, 19 September 1974]»

The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion & Guide: Chronology / Christina Scull, Wayne G. Hammond. HarperCollinsPublishers, 2006. P. 735 – можно еще посмотреть

Tolkien wrote this in a letter of 12 December 1955 to Mr David I. Masson, who kindly showed it to me and has given me permission to quote from it here. Irritated evidently by the TLS review of 25 November 1955 (to which Mr Masson had written a reply, published TLS 9 December 1955), Tolkien remarked that the reviewer should not have made such a fuss over giving quarter to orcs. 'Surely how often "quarter" is given is off the point in a book that breathes Mercy from start to
finish: in which the central hero is at last divested of all arms, except his will? "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil", are words that occur to me, and of which the scene in the Sammath Naur was meant to be a "fairy-story" exemplum...' See also Letters, p. 252

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