06-11-2002, 11:45
Je n'ai pas les traductions approximatives du Silmarillion sous les yeux :). Mais j'ai dit que le récit de traduction elfique était celui qui avait été *à peu près* intégré au Silmarillion 1977, imparfaitement à ce qu'il semble.
Quoique je répugne à reproduire un texte en entier (mais ce fuseau est suffisamment compliqué) voici le récit du Later Quenta Silmarillion, HOME XI [au passage je dois corriger ma présentation précédente : cette partie du Later Quenta Silmarillion provient de la lettre n°212 - et non l'inverse - désolé] :
Aulë, for instance, one of the Great, in a sense 'fell'; for he so desired to see the Children, that he became impatient and tried to anticipate the will of the Creator. Being the greatest of all craftsmen he tried to make children according to his imperfect knowledge of their kind. When he had made thirteen, God spoke to him in anger, but not without pity: for Aulë had done this thing not out of evil desire to have slaves and subjects of his own, but out of impatient love, desiring children to talk to and teach, sharing with them the praise of Ilúvatar and his great love of the materials of which the world is made.
The One rebuked Aulë, saying that he had tried to usurp the Creator's power; but he could not give independent life to his makings. He had only one life, his own derived from the One, and could at most only distribute it. 'Behold' said the One: 'these creatures of thine have only thy will, and thy movement. Though you have devised a language for them, they can only report to thee thine own thought. This is a mockery of me.'
Then Aulë in grief and repentance humbled himself and asked for pardon. And he said: 'I will destroy these images of my presumption, and wait upon thy will.' And he took a great hammer, raising it to smite the eldest of his images; but it flinched and cowered from him. And as he withheld his stroke, astonished, he heard the laughter of Ilúvatar.
'Do you wonder at this?' he said. 'Behold! thy creatures now live, free from thy will! For I have seen thy humility, and taken pity on your impatience. Thy making I have taken up into my design.'
This is the Elvish legend of the making of the Dwarves; but the Elves report that Ilúvatar said thus also: 'Nonetheless I will not suffer my design to be forestalled: thy children shall not awake before mine own.' And he commanded Aulë to lay the fathers of the Dwarves severally in deep places, each with his mate, save Dúrin the eldest who had none. There they should sleep long, until Ilúvatar bade them awake. Nonetheless there has been for the most part little love between the Dwarves and the children of Ilúvatar. And of the fate that Ilúvatar has set upon the children of Aulë beyond the Circles of the world Elves and men know nothing, and if Dwarves know they do not speak of it.
A chacun de juger ensuite de la part de corruption subies au fil des traditions et traductions par les textes jugés les plus authentiques par JRR Tolkien ;) ... en espérant n'être pas passé moi-même à côté d'un autre texte faisant plus autorité sur le sujet (qu'en pense Cathy HOMEngolmo ;) ?)
Je pense que tu trouveras en tout cas les réponses à tes questions.
Je me permets quand même de te proposer mon idée sur ce point :) : Peut-être Aulë est-il suffisamment saint pour n'avoir pas besoin de se l'entendre dire ;) ?
Dame Michèle :)
As-tu réellement lu mon post ? ? ? et entre autre :
" The One rebuked Aulë, saying that he had tried to usurp the Creator's power; but he could not give independent life to his makings. "
J'ai pris des heures et des heures à lire et relire chacun d'entre nous ; rassure-moi, que je ne l'ai pas fait en vain ;)
Yyr