Balancer> Точнее, если совсем от печки, то Профессор, как лингвист, сперва придумал квенью, язык эльфов. Вокруг языка построил мифологию. Потом — начал писать романы.
Ну конечно, конечно. И Сильмариллион, и Хоббит, и ВК - это все тщательно спланированные труды.
Я так понимаю, предисловия к ВК внимательно не читаны, послесловия тоже?
Еще немножко о том, как оно писалось, видно здесь:
C. S. Lewis is the 20th century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met every week in Lewis's Oxford rooms and in nearby pubs. They discussed literature, religion, and ideas; read aloud from works in progress; took philosophical rambles in woods and fields; gave one another companionship and criticism; and, in the process, rewrote the cultural history of modern times. In The Fellowship, Philip and Carol Zaleski offer the first complete rendering of the Inklings' lives and works. The result is an extraordinary account of the ideas, affections and vexations that drove the group's most significant members. C. S. Lewis accepts Jesus Christ while riding in the sidecar of his brother's motorcycle, maps the medieval and Renaissance mind, becomes a world-famous evangelist and moral satirist, and creates new forms of religiously attuned fiction while wrestling with personal crises. J.R.R. Tolkien transmutes an invented mythology into gripping story in The Lord of the Rings, while conducting groundbreaking Old English scholarship and elucidating, for family and friends, the Catholic teachings at the heart of his vision. Owen Barfield, a philosopher for whom language is the key to all mysteries, becomes Lewis's favorite sparring partner, and, for a time, Saul Bellow's chosen guru. And Charles Williams, poet, author of "supernatural shockers," and strange acolyte of romantic love, turns his everyday life into a mystical pageant. Romantics who scorned rebellion, fantasists who prized reality, wartime writers who believed in hope, Christians with cosmic reach, the Inklings sought to revitalize literature and faith in the twentieth century's darkest years-and did so in dazzling style.
// books.google.co.uk
Профессор пинал балду. Развлекался, изобретая мифологию, язык и историю одновременно.
>Чтобы лингвист после 27 лет работ над языком и мифологией «вдруг» понял, что в только что написанной книге имя не годится?
Коенечно -конечно, так не может быть. Ну не может быть так, чтобы Толкиен в 1942 году придумал, что ВК - это на самом деле "перевод с Вестрона"
Gandalf is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's universe, Middle-earth. Along with Merlin, he is often considered the archetypal wizard in Western fiction.
The Old Norse name "Gandalfr" appears in the list of dwarves in the Völuspá of the Elder Edda; the name means "cane-elf". Tolkien took the name along with the dwarves' names when he wrote The Hobbit in the 1930s. He came to regret the creation of this "rabble of eddaic-named dwarves, [...] invented in an idle hour" (The Return of the Shadow:452), since it forced him to come up with an explanation of why Old Norse names should be used in Third Age Middle-earth.
// Дальше — en.wikipedia.org