Name: Switzerland in Tolkien'S Middle-Earth: In the Footsteps of his Adventurous Summer Journey in 1911-With Hiking Suggestions (in English)
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Author: John Howe
ISBN: 9783907323021

portada Switzerland in Tolkien'S Middle-Earth: In the Footsteps of his Adventurous Summer Journey in 1911-With Hiking Suggestions (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Martin S. Monsch

Preface by

John Howe

Publisher

Martin S. Monsch

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

296

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.54 kg.

ISBN13

9783907323021

Synopsis "Switzerland in Tolkien'S Middle-Earth: In the Footsteps of his Adventurous Summer Journey in 1911-With Hiking Suggestions (in English)"

A journey in search of Middle-earthIn 1911, at the age of nineteen, J. R. R. Tolkien embarked on an adventurous journey through the Swiss Alps; with a heavy pack, he hiked over many high passes. More than fifty years later, he mentioned in a letter to his son Michael that this trip had deeply affected him. Bilbo's journey in The Hobbit from Rivendell to the other side of the Misty Mountains, he said, was based on his own adventures in 1911. Tolkien himself named a few specific sources of inspiration, most explicitly the Silberhorn (Silverhorn). So I wondered: Was this perhaps only the tip of the iceberg? Following in Tolkien's footsteps, I myself set out into the spectacular mountain world with its stories, myths, and legends, in search of his sources of inspiration; and little by little, a vivid and mysterious world revealed itself to me: a world that helped shape Middle-earth.More than 100 color images accompany the author's research and discovery journey, along with 11 hiking and 3 road trip suggestions that allow readers to recreate Tolkien's experience with all its impressions themselves in the Swiss mountains."This book is above all else an invitation to step into Tolkien's hiking shoes, shoulder his pack, and step back a century into a world which is as far from today as Middle-earth is from our world; a guidebook of impressions, a walking tour of the nature of imagination and the imagination of nature." - John Howe

John Howe

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Es uno de los ilustradores principales y más reconocidos de la obra de Tolkien. Ha participado en la realización de los populares calendarios de Tolkien y diseñado numerosos productos relacionados con éste. Su trabajo también se ha aprovechado para los pósters en conmemoración del cincuenta aniversario de la publicación de El Hobbit y para los del centenario del nacimiento de Tolkien, así como para las sobrecubiertas de las últimas ediciones de El Hobbit, El Señor de los Anillos y El Silmarillion. Howe ha colaborado asimismo en el diseño artístico de la adaptación cinematográfica de la trilogía.

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