03-01-2004, 02:09
Dans la lettre 131 adressée à Milton Waldman ( in " The Letters ", p152, Harper Collins pub., London 1995 ), de chez Collins, Tolkien précise succintement ce que sont les anneaux et leurs pouvoirs:
" The chief power ( of all the rings alike ) was the prevention or slowing of decay ( i.e. " change " viewed as a regrettable thing ), the preservation of what is desired or loved, or its semblance - this is more or less an Elvish motive. But also they enhanced the natural powers of a possessor - thus approaching " magic ", a motive easily corruptible into evil, a lust for domination. And finally, they had other powers, more directly derived from Sauron ( " The Necromancer ": so he is called as he casts a fleeting shadow and presage on the pages of The Hobbit ): such as rendering invisible the material body, and making things of the invisible world visible.
Rappelant ainsi le caractère essentiellement " Elvish " de la nature des anneaux de pouvoir, conçus, à l' origine, comme " outils d' amélioration " de la TdM, non sans insister discretement sur le caractère " négatif " de la chose:
" But at Eregion great work began - and the Elves came their nearest to falling to " magic " and machinery
TB
" The chief power ( of all the rings alike ) was the prevention or slowing of decay ( i.e. " change " viewed as a regrettable thing ), the preservation of what is desired or loved, or its semblance - this is more or less an Elvish motive. But also they enhanced the natural powers of a possessor - thus approaching " magic ", a motive easily corruptible into evil, a lust for domination. And finally, they had other powers, more directly derived from Sauron ( " The Necromancer ": so he is called as he casts a fleeting shadow and presage on the pages of The Hobbit ): such as rendering invisible the material body, and making things of the invisible world visible.
Rappelant ainsi le caractère essentiellement " Elvish " de la nature des anneaux de pouvoir, conçus, à l' origine, comme " outils d' amélioration " de la TdM, non sans insister discretement sur le caractère " négatif " de la chose:
" But at Eregion great work began - and the Elves came their nearest to falling to " magic " and machinery
TB