27-01-2003, 02:04
(3) celui qui est arrivé au seuil de la vie, celui qui commence de se faire vieux :
(3.a) Frodo (après tout, il a 50 ans !):
[citation=I.3.69{88}]‘Be kind to a poor old hobbit!’ laughed Frodo.[/citation]
(3.b) Bill le Poney :
[citation]'A poor old half-starved creature it is,' said Bob; 'but he won't part with it for less than thrice its worth, seeing how you're placed, not if I knows Bill Ferny.'[/citation]
(3.c) le " pauvre vieux troll " : I.12.202{233} et II.1.219{251}
(3.d) le père de Sam, ce " pauvre vieux " (92 ans) :
[citation=II.7.353{396}]'There's some devilry at work in the Shire,' […] Then suddenly Sam gave a cry and sprang away. 'I can't stay here,' he said wildly. `I must go home. They've dug up Bagshot Row, and there's the poor old gaffer going down the Hill with his bits of things on a barrow. I must go home! '[/citation]
(3.e) Bilbo (128 ans):
[citation=VI.4.935]‘Weeks indeed,’ said Pippin. ‘And then Frodo will have to be locked up in a tower in Minas Tirith and write it all down. Otherwise he will forget half of it, and poor old Bilbo will be dreadfully disappointed.’[/citation]
(4) celui qu’on veut protéger du danger (malgré lui parfois) :
(4.a) Sam :
[citation=II.10.392{438}]Frodo rose to his feet. […] `I will do now what I must,' he said. 'This at least is plain: the evil of the Ring is already at work even in the Company, and the Ring must leave them before it does more harm. I will go alone. Some I cannot trust, and those I can trust are too dear to me: poor old Sam, and Merry and Pippin. […]'[/citation]
Ici, le terme ‘old’ ne désigne pas l’âge, tout comme ‘poor’ ne désigne pas la pauvreté matérielle :Frodon, âgé de 50 ans, ne pense à l’âge en s’adressant à Sam, de 12 ans son cadet. Il en va différemment dans la bouche du jeune Pippin (28 ans), un peu plus loin dans le texte, même si là encore, l’adjectif " poor " relève du niveau affectif, de l’amitié, de la compassion devant le danger :
(4.b) Frodon :
[citation=II.10.394{passage oublié dans l’éd. du Centenaire, p.439}]'We must stop [Frodo],' said Pippin. `And that is what he is worrying about, I am sure. He knows we shan't agree to his going east. And he doesn't like to ask anyone to go with him, poor old fellow. Imagine it: going off to Mordor alone! ' Pippin shuddered. 'But the dear silly old hobbit, he ought to know that he hasn't got to ask. He ought to know that if we can't stop him, we shan't leave him.'[/citation]
(4.c) Pippin et Merry :
[citation=V.5.812{889}]Merry wanted somebody to talk to, and he thought of Pippin. But that only increased his restlessness. Poor Pippin, shut up in the great city of stone, lonely and afraid. Merry wished he was a tall Rider like Éomer and could blow a horn or something and go galloping to his rescue.[/citation]
Et Pippin éprouvera la même inquiétude à l’égard de Merry :
[citation=V.8.840-1{919}]‘When we found that you were not with them, Gandalf sent me to look for you. Poor old Merry! How glad I am to see you again! But you are worn out, and I won’t bother you with any talk. But tell me, are you hurt, or wounded?’ (…)
Pippin’s face was anxious. ‘Well, you had better come with me as quick as you can,’ he said. ‘I wish I could carry you. You aren’t fit to walk any further. They shouldn’t have let you walk at all; but you must forgive them. So many dreadful things have happened in the City, Merry, that one poor hobbit coming in from the battle is easily overlooked.’[/citation]
(5) celui qui est en danger, celui qui risque sa vie :
(5.a) Bilbo face à Gollum :
[citation=I.2.53{71}]‘Gollum meant to cheat all the time. He was just trying to put poor Bilbo off his guard. And I daresay it amused his wickedness to start a game which might end in providing him with an easy victim, but if he lost would not hurt him.’[/citation]
(5.b) Merry face à l’Homme-Saule :
[citation=I.6.115{139}]Frodo and Sam beat first upon the tree-trunk where Pippin had lain. They then struggled frantically to pull open the jaws of the crack that held poor Merry. It was quite useless.[/citation]
(5.c) Frodon (et Sam) :
[citation=II.3.265{302}]`Well, anyway,' said Bilbo, 'nothing was decided beyond choosing poor Frodo and Sam. I was afraid all the time that it might come to that, if I was let off. But if you ask me, Elrond will send out a fair number, when the reports come in. Have they started yet, Gandalf?'[/citation]
(Contrairement à la traduction " le choix de ce pauvre Frodon et de Sam ", ne faut-il pas plutôt traduire " le choix des pauvres Frodon et Sam " ? Bilbo n’aurait-il de compassion que pour son seul neveu ?)
(5.d) Sam :
[citation=IV.9.708{777}]But nothing of this evil which they had stirred up against them did poor Sam know, except that a fear was growing on him, a menace which he could not see; and such a weight did it become that it was a burden to him to run, and his feet seemed leaden.
Dread was round him (…)[/citation]
(5.e) Faramir :
[citation=V.4.808]‘By your leave, lord!’ said Pippin and turned and fled in terror from the deathly house. ‘Poor Faramir!’ he thought. ‘I must find Gandalf. Poor Faramir! Quite likely he needs medicine more than tears. Oh, where can I find Gandalf? In the thick of things, I suppose; and he will have no time to spare for dying men or madmen.’[/citation]
(6) a fortiori celui qui meurt (violemment souvent) :
(6.a) Miss Primula Brandybuck (et Frodon, celui qui reste, orphelin) :
[citation=I.1.22{37}]‘Well, so they say,’ said the Gaffer. ‘You see: Mr. Drogo, he married poor Miss Primula Brandybuck. […] and he went out boating on the Brandywine River; and he and his wife were drownded, and poor Mr. Frodo only a child and all.’[/citation]
(6.b) Déagol :
[citation=I.2.54{72-3}]‘There was more than one power at work, Frodo. The Ring was trying to get back to its master. It had slipped from Isildur’s hand and betrayed him; then when a chance came it caught poor Déagol, and he was murdered; and after that Gollum, and it had devoured him.[/citation]
(6.c) Balin :
[citation=II.5.314][…] but I think I can read we have barred the gates, and then can hold them long if, and then perhaps horrible and suffer. Poor Balin! He seems to have kept the title that he took for less than five years.[/citation]
(6.d) Gandalf :
[citation=II.7.351]'Well,' said Sam, 'you can't see nobody working it. No fireworks like poor Gandalf used to show.’[/citation]
(6.e) Boromir :
[citation=III.9.556]'Before he went, we got a little news out of him; and it did not cheer us up at all. But for the moment we thought more about you three than about Frodo and Sam, or about poor Boromir.[/citation]
[citation=IV.5.655]"In Gondor ten thousand years would not suffice." Alas! poor Boromir. Does that not tell you something of him? '[/citation]
(6.f) Mat Piedbruyère :
[citation=VI.970{1057}]‘Three and two,’ said Butterbur, referring to the big folk and the little. ‘There was poor Mat Heathertoes, and Rowlie Appledore, and little Tom Pickthorn from over the Hill; and Willie Banks from up-away, and one of the Underhills from Staddle: all good fellows, and they’re missed.[/citation]
(3.a) Frodo (après tout, il a 50 ans !):
[citation=I.3.69{88}]‘Be kind to a poor old hobbit!’ laughed Frodo.[/citation]
(3.b) Bill le Poney :
[citation]'A poor old half-starved creature it is,' said Bob; 'but he won't part with it for less than thrice its worth, seeing how you're placed, not if I knows Bill Ferny.'[/citation]
(3.c) le " pauvre vieux troll " : I.12.202{233} et II.1.219{251}
(3.d) le père de Sam, ce " pauvre vieux " (92 ans) :
[citation=II.7.353{396}]'There's some devilry at work in the Shire,' […] Then suddenly Sam gave a cry and sprang away. 'I can't stay here,' he said wildly. `I must go home. They've dug up Bagshot Row, and there's the poor old gaffer going down the Hill with his bits of things on a barrow. I must go home! '[/citation]
(3.e) Bilbo (128 ans):
[citation=VI.4.935]‘Weeks indeed,’ said Pippin. ‘And then Frodo will have to be locked up in a tower in Minas Tirith and write it all down. Otherwise he will forget half of it, and poor old Bilbo will be dreadfully disappointed.’[/citation]
(4) celui qu’on veut protéger du danger (malgré lui parfois) :
(4.a) Sam :
[citation=II.10.392{438}]Frodo rose to his feet. […] `I will do now what I must,' he said. 'This at least is plain: the evil of the Ring is already at work even in the Company, and the Ring must leave them before it does more harm. I will go alone. Some I cannot trust, and those I can trust are too dear to me: poor old Sam, and Merry and Pippin. […]'[/citation]
Ici, le terme ‘old’ ne désigne pas l’âge, tout comme ‘poor’ ne désigne pas la pauvreté matérielle :Frodon, âgé de 50 ans, ne pense à l’âge en s’adressant à Sam, de 12 ans son cadet. Il en va différemment dans la bouche du jeune Pippin (28 ans), un peu plus loin dans le texte, même si là encore, l’adjectif " poor " relève du niveau affectif, de l’amitié, de la compassion devant le danger :
(4.b) Frodon :
[citation=II.10.394{passage oublié dans l’éd. du Centenaire, p.439}]'We must stop [Frodo],' said Pippin. `And that is what he is worrying about, I am sure. He knows we shan't agree to his going east. And he doesn't like to ask anyone to go with him, poor old fellow. Imagine it: going off to Mordor alone! ' Pippin shuddered. 'But the dear silly old hobbit, he ought to know that he hasn't got to ask. He ought to know that if we can't stop him, we shan't leave him.'[/citation]
(4.c) Pippin et Merry :
[citation=V.5.812{889}]Merry wanted somebody to talk to, and he thought of Pippin. But that only increased his restlessness. Poor Pippin, shut up in the great city of stone, lonely and afraid. Merry wished he was a tall Rider like Éomer and could blow a horn or something and go galloping to his rescue.[/citation]
Et Pippin éprouvera la même inquiétude à l’égard de Merry :
[citation=V.8.840-1{919}]‘When we found that you were not with them, Gandalf sent me to look for you. Poor old Merry! How glad I am to see you again! But you are worn out, and I won’t bother you with any talk. But tell me, are you hurt, or wounded?’ (…)
Pippin’s face was anxious. ‘Well, you had better come with me as quick as you can,’ he said. ‘I wish I could carry you. You aren’t fit to walk any further. They shouldn’t have let you walk at all; but you must forgive them. So many dreadful things have happened in the City, Merry, that one poor hobbit coming in from the battle is easily overlooked.’[/citation]
(5) celui qui est en danger, celui qui risque sa vie :
(5.a) Bilbo face à Gollum :
[citation=I.2.53{71}]‘Gollum meant to cheat all the time. He was just trying to put poor Bilbo off his guard. And I daresay it amused his wickedness to start a game which might end in providing him with an easy victim, but if he lost would not hurt him.’[/citation]
(5.b) Merry face à l’Homme-Saule :
[citation=I.6.115{139}]Frodo and Sam beat first upon the tree-trunk where Pippin had lain. They then struggled frantically to pull open the jaws of the crack that held poor Merry. It was quite useless.[/citation]
(5.c) Frodon (et Sam) :
[citation=II.3.265{302}]`Well, anyway,' said Bilbo, 'nothing was decided beyond choosing poor Frodo and Sam. I was afraid all the time that it might come to that, if I was let off. But if you ask me, Elrond will send out a fair number, when the reports come in. Have they started yet, Gandalf?'[/citation]
(Contrairement à la traduction " le choix de ce pauvre Frodon et de Sam ", ne faut-il pas plutôt traduire " le choix des pauvres Frodon et Sam " ? Bilbo n’aurait-il de compassion que pour son seul neveu ?)
(5.d) Sam :
[citation=IV.9.708{777}]But nothing of this evil which they had stirred up against them did poor Sam know, except that a fear was growing on him, a menace which he could not see; and such a weight did it become that it was a burden to him to run, and his feet seemed leaden.
Dread was round him (…)[/citation]
(5.e) Faramir :
[citation=V.4.808]‘By your leave, lord!’ said Pippin and turned and fled in terror from the deathly house. ‘Poor Faramir!’ he thought. ‘I must find Gandalf. Poor Faramir! Quite likely he needs medicine more than tears. Oh, where can I find Gandalf? In the thick of things, I suppose; and he will have no time to spare for dying men or madmen.’[/citation]
(6) a fortiori celui qui meurt (violemment souvent) :
(6.a) Miss Primula Brandybuck (et Frodon, celui qui reste, orphelin) :
[citation=I.1.22{37}]‘Well, so they say,’ said the Gaffer. ‘You see: Mr. Drogo, he married poor Miss Primula Brandybuck. […] and he went out boating on the Brandywine River; and he and his wife were drownded, and poor Mr. Frodo only a child and all.’[/citation]
(6.b) Déagol :
[citation=I.2.54{72-3}]‘There was more than one power at work, Frodo. The Ring was trying to get back to its master. It had slipped from Isildur’s hand and betrayed him; then when a chance came it caught poor Déagol, and he was murdered; and after that Gollum, and it had devoured him.[/citation]
(6.c) Balin :
[citation=II.5.314][…] but I think I can read we have barred the gates, and then can hold them long if, and then perhaps horrible and suffer. Poor Balin! He seems to have kept the title that he took for less than five years.[/citation]
(6.d) Gandalf :
[citation=II.7.351]'Well,' said Sam, 'you can't see nobody working it. No fireworks like poor Gandalf used to show.’[/citation]
(6.e) Boromir :
[citation=III.9.556]'Before he went, we got a little news out of him; and it did not cheer us up at all. But for the moment we thought more about you three than about Frodo and Sam, or about poor Boromir.[/citation]
[citation=IV.5.655]"In Gondor ten thousand years would not suffice." Alas! poor Boromir. Does that not tell you something of him? '[/citation]
(6.f) Mat Piedbruyère :
[citation=VI.970{1057}]‘Three and two,’ said Butterbur, referring to the big folk and the little. ‘There was poor Mat Heathertoes, and Rowlie Appledore, and little Tom Pickthorn from over the Hill; and Willie Banks from up-away, and one of the Underhills from Staddle: all good fellows, and they’re missed.[/citation]