Pentru vrajitorul care ne-a descretit inimile

One summer's day at Northmoor Road, Ronald was grading exam papers. It was a tedious job, to be sure, and he was relieved when he saw that "One of the candidates had mercifully left one of the pages with no writing on it (which is the best thing that can possibly happen to an examiner)."

But what happened to that blank sheet of paper started a legacy: "I wrote on it: 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.' Names always generate a story in my mind. Eventually I thought I'd better find out what hobbits were like. But that's only the beginning."
Biography of JRRT



Doamnelor și domnilor, un necesar gest de admirație. Acum două zile a fost ziua de naștere a lui John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Să ne aducem aminte de el și să apreciem frumusețea pe care a adus-o în lumea asta a noastră de mijloc, a muritorilor, a celor sortiți pieirii, a urmașilor lui Beor, Haldad și Hador.

Tinúviel elvanui
Elleth alfirin edhelhael
O hon ring finnil fuinui
A renc gelebrin thiliol

The leaves were long, the grass was green,
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
And in the glade a light was seen
Of stars in shadow shimmering.
Tinuviel was dancing there
To music of a pipe unseen,
And light of stars was in her hair,
And in her raiment glimmering.

Tolkien a fost un creator întru totul. Pe lîngă darul scrisului, s-a priceput să și deseneze. A trully gifted artist. Mai jos, cîteva din desenele sale.

Amintiți-vă de el și visați balauri...

:)

Rivendell
Locul cel fără de întristare și suspin


Lothlorien
Pe unde ielele umblă despletite și năprasnice


Mirkwood
Unde păienjenii își țes cuibul vîscos


Bîrlogul lui Smaug
Cînd n-ai ce face și-ți bagi în cîrd cu toți balaurii


Bag End
Unde totul începe


The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.