17-10-2020, 09:26
Sans prétendre répondre à la question du qualificatif "Sans Père", il y a une lettre de Tolkien datant apparemment de la fin 1968 qui clarifie le rapport entre Bombadil et Treebeard :
[citation=Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull,"The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion", 2005, p. 128, 134, 382.]Iarwain = old-young, presumably because as far as anybody remembered he had always looked much the same: old but very vigorous [...]
I do not know his [Tom Bombadil’s] origin though I might make guesses. He is best left as he is, a mystery. There are many mysteries in any closed/organized system of history/mythology [...]
Eldest was the courtesy title of Treebeard as the oldest surviving Ent. The Ents claimed to be the oldest ‘speaking people’ after the Elves [illegible] until taught the art of speech by the Elves [...] They were therefore placed after the Dwarves in the Old List [...] since Dwarves had the power of speech from their awaking...[/citation]
Je pense que Hyarion appréciera de voir Tolkien affirmer qu'il ne sais pas lui-même qui est Tom Bombadil, même s'il pourrait "faire des suppositions".
E.
[citation=Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull,"The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion", 2005, p. 128, 134, 382.]Iarwain = old-young, presumably because as far as anybody remembered he had always looked much the same: old but very vigorous [...]
I do not know his [Tom Bombadil’s] origin though I might make guesses. He is best left as he is, a mystery. There are many mysteries in any closed/organized system of history/mythology [...]
Eldest was the courtesy title of Treebeard as the oldest surviving Ent. The Ents claimed to be the oldest ‘speaking people’ after the Elves [illegible] until taught the art of speech by the Elves [...] They were therefore placed after the Dwarves in the Old List [...] since Dwarves had the power of speech from their awaking...[/citation]
Je pense que Hyarion appréciera de voir Tolkien affirmer qu'il ne sais pas lui-même qui est Tom Bombadil, même s'il pourrait "faire des suppositions".
E.