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(3.5) | 3 | THE PROFESSOR'S BOOKSHELF #3: THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN - ILLUSTRATED. A story that inspired Professor JRR Tolkien, author of 'The Lord of the Rings". On May 8, 1891, Kelmscott Press published its first book, The Story of the Glittering Plain. This fantasy novel by the famous 19th century English designer, artist and writer William Morris describes the journey of Hallblithe, a young man on an epic quest to rescue his love. J.R.R. Tolkien was two years old when the second edition was published in 1894, complete with decorated borders and capitals by Morris and richly detailed illustrations by Walter Crane. This is a close copy of that book. William Morris was an enormous influence on Tolkien's literary interests. Tolkien discovered Morris's translations in his teens, and his interest in Morris deepened at Exeter College, Oxford, where Morris had also been an undergraduate. When Tolkien was twenty-two he spoke of Morriss romances in a letter to his sweetheart Edith. In 1960 he was still acknowledging his debt of inspiration to Morris, noting that certain elements in The Lord of the Rings ...owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. They owe more to William Morris and his Huns and Romans... Like Morris, the illustrator Walter Crane was associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement. Crane is considered to be the most prolific and influential children's book creator of his generation. The Story of the Glittering Plain is one of several William Morris works known to have inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's creation of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.… (more) |
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William Morris, one of the most eminent imaginative writers of the Victorian Age, differs from most other poets and men of letters in two ways - first, he did great work in many other things as well as in literature; secondly, he had beliefs of his own about the meaning and conduct of life, about all that men think and do and make, very different from those of ordinary people, and he carried out these views in his writings as well as in all the other work he did throughout his life.  It has been told that there once was a young man of free kindred and whose name was Hallblithe: he was fair, strong, and not untried in battle; he was of the House of the Raven of old time. | |
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Yet he was exceedingly valiant and doughty; and he ceased not to go with Hallblithe wheresoever he went, and many deeds they did together, whereof the memory of man hath failed: but neither they nor any man of the Ravens came any more to the Glittering Plain, or heard any tidings of the folk that dwell there. (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) | |
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None ▾Book descriptions THE PROFESSOR'S BOOKSHELF #3: THE STORY OF THE GLITTERING PLAIN - ILLUSTRATED. A story that inspired Professor JRR Tolkien, author of 'The Lord of the Rings". On May 8, 1891, Kelmscott Press published its first book, The Story of the Glittering Plain. This fantasy novel by the famous 19th century English designer, artist and writer William Morris describes the journey of Hallblithe, a young man on an epic quest to rescue his love. J.R.R. Tolkien was two years old when the second edition was published in 1894, complete with decorated borders and capitals by Morris and richly detailed illustrations by Walter Crane. This is a close copy of that book. William Morris was an enormous influence on Tolkien's literary interests. Tolkien discovered Morris's translations in his teens, and his interest in Morris deepened at Exeter College, Oxford, where Morris had also been an undergraduate. When Tolkien was twenty-two he spoke of Morriss romances in a letter to his sweetheart Edith. In 1960 he was still acknowledging his debt of inspiration to Morris, noting that certain elements in The Lord of the Rings ...owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. They owe more to William Morris and his Huns and Romans... Like Morris, the illustrator Walter Crane was associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement. Crane is considered to be the most prolific and influential children's book creator of his generation. The Story of the Glittering Plain is one of several William Morris works known to have inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's creation of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description |
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