28-01-2003, 00:03
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Alors qu'on trouve au final plutot le schema suivant:
on le trouvera pas du tout, allez voir la source de la page si cela vous interesse
Je concluerai par cette citation:
My father spent several months choosing the names of the books, or, to be more accurate, waiting for replies from Ray (Rayner Unwin) who had insisted the Story be separated into three so as to ease the eventual movie production into three easily digestable 10-hour pictures.
Ray accepted the names of the first and last books without question but rejected Of what happenned in the middle as title of the second within the first three months. He told my father that it needed to be more descriptive of the content.
My father remembered the trouble he'd gone to constructing a whole new elvish etymology in order not to have to name all the towers in the story "minas something" (which is also responsible for the cool ways in which sindarin pluri-syllables form their plural forms - and the huge number of typesetting errors made in an effort to correct all the amoin muil's into emyn muil).
He then decided to call the book the five towers, but Ray argued that the reader's short term memory stack of 8 objects just wouldn't handle 5 towers plus all the stupid jokes Gimli kept making. As result and to my great relief, my father told Gimli to just be quiet and fall in love with Galadriel.
In characteristic form, "five" was misprinted as "two" in the final publication and my father's symbolic depiction of each of these was chopped off on the cover with little regard for the effort involved.
Curiously enough, the recent movie production chose to reinstate gimli's jokes while keeping the number of towers to two. keep it simple, keep it funny Peter Jackson told me the other day. I just hope my father doesn't find out that Pete has decided to take the ring out of the film on the grounds that people don't like to be presented with sentient beings they cannot account for...
HoME XIII, 173-174
Greg