Название: The Lost Road and Other Writings
Автор: Christopher Tolkien
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Ужасы и Мистика
Серия: The History of Middle-earth
isbn: 9780007348220
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It is reported that before he set out on his last voyage he spoke these verses:
Fela bið on Westwegum werum uncúðra
wundra and wihta, wlitescýne lond,
eardgeard Ylfa and Ésa bliss.
Lýt ænig wát hwylc his longað sý
þám þe eftsíðes yldu getwǽfeð.
‘Many things there be in the West-regions unknown to Men, many wonders and many creatures: a land lovely to behold, the homeland of the Elves and the bliss of the Valar. Little doth any man understand what the yearning may be of one whom old age cutteth off from returning thither.’
Here reappears the idea seen at the end of the outline for the Ælfwine story in The Lost Road (p. 80), that after seeing a vision of Eressëa he was blown back again by a wind from the West. At the time when the outline was written the story that Ælfwine actually came to Tol-eressëa and was there told ‘the Lost Tales’ was also present (p. 78), and in the same way it seems from the present passage that there were the two stories. The idea that Ælfwine never in fact reached the Lonely Isle is found in a version of the old tale of Ælfwine of England, where he did not leap overboard but returned east with his companions (II. 332–3).
The verses that he spoke before his last voyage are those that Alboin Errol spoke and translated to his father in The Lost Road (p. 44), and which were used also in the title-pages to the Quenta Silmarillion (p. 203).
The retention of the name Gondobar right through from The Nameless Land is notable. It is found in the late version of the poem The Happy Mariners, which my father afterwards dated ‘1940?’ (II. 274–5): ‘O happy mariners upon a journey far, / beyond the grey islands and past Gondobar’. Otherwise Gondobar ‘City of Stone’ is one of the Seven Names of Gondolin (II. 158, 172; III. 145–6).
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