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Titolo: Lo Hobbit in 3 puntate...

Anzitutto scusate la mia memoria colabrodo che non mi permette, senza avere
il libro sottomano ("La realtà in trasparenza"), di darvi riferimenti
precisi.
In una sua lettera, Tolkien sfidava i lettori a trovare i due punti in cui
la stesura del libro era stata interrotta per ben 1 anno; preso da una
curiosità scimmiesca, mi sono messo subito a scorrere i capitoli ma non sono
riuscito a cogliere alcuno "slegamento" nella trama (complice forse il fatto
che la traduzione italiana potrebbe aver alterato le tracce).
Qualcuno di voi ci si è cimentato e ha trovato i due punti?
hyppos

 riferimenti precisi.
Uno è la tomba di Balin. Lo rammento chiaramente
L'altro non rammento: forse la fine del tezo libro (in pratica non riusciva 
ad iniziare il viaggio di Frodo e Sam).
NB
Vado a memoria
Ciao
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Io veramente stavo parlando de "Lo Hobbit". La lettera in questione, se non
ricordo male, è stata scritta quando ancora de iSdA esisteva solo il primo
capitolo...
hyppos

 capitolo...
si, la lettera si riferiva a Lo Hobbit, ricordo anch'io... infatti anche a
me era venuta la curiosita' - tra l'altro se ben ricordo sembrava che per
Tolkien i punti potessero essere individuabili abbastanza facilmente...
yours truly
Mr Butterbur
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BB> si, la lettera si riferiva a Lo Hobbit, ricordo anch'io... infatti
BB> anche a me era venuta la curiosita' - tra l'altro se ben ricordo
BB> sembrava che per Tolkien i punti potessero essere individuabili
BB> abbastanza facilmente...
La lettera e` la n. 25, verso la fine: 
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| "... Finally, I present the future researcher with a little problem. 
| The tale halted in the telling for about a year at two separate points:
| where are they? But probably that would have been discovered anyway."
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In The Annotated Hobbit vi sono vari riferimenti a queste misteriose in-
terruzioni, di cui ho trovato un commento in rete:
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| The wonderfully useful Annotated Hobbit's introductory essay (which was
| written by annotator Douglas A. Anderson) tells us what is known of the
| composition of the book.
| 
| The Professor's legendary opening sentence ''In a hole in the ground
| there lived a hobbit'' (which he scribbled down out of boredom as he
| marked student examaination papers during his summer break) appears to
| have been written sometime in the years 1928-1930, with the actual
| writing of the story proper beginning in late 1930 and reaching Chapter
| 12 by January, 1933.
| 
| At this point, a break in the writing occurs, with Tolkien not resuming
| his work until the summer of 1936 at which time publication of The
| Hobbit was under consideration. Tolkien's typescript was sent off to the
| publisher on October 5, 1936 with two sets of page proofs undertaken
| before publication on September 21, 1937.
| 
| Mr. Anderson also summarizes the various stages of The Hobbit as
| follows.
| 
| Stage A which consists of a partial (six pages) handwritten manuscript
| of Chapter 1 in whic the dragon is named Pryftan, Gandalf is the head
| dwarf and the wizard is called Bladorthin.
| 
| Stage B, with a mixture of handwritten and typed manuscript, takes the
| tale up to Chapter 12 (plus Chapter 14) of the pulished version, with
| the renaming of Smaug and the change of Gandalf from dwarf to
| wizard. Thorin becomes our head dwarf while Beorn is known as Medwed. A
| six page outline summarizes action from the Elvenking's Halls until the
| end of the story
| 
| Stage C is a typewritten version of Stage B in which the character of
| Medwed is renamed as Beorn.
| 
| Stage D is a handwritten manuscript covering Chapters 13 and 15-19.
| 
| Stage E is a typed reworking of Stage C and contains a wholly new,
| inserted Chapter 13 plus the new material from Stage D.
| 
| Stage F is a second typescript which was evidently intended for use as a
| printer's typescript, though it was apparently not employed for this
| purpose due to many typographical errors.
| 
| As we can see, the creation of The Hobbit was a seven year odyssey in
| which the writing process was a rather discontinuous process.
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Come dire che Tolkien era stato quanto meno ottimista nel parlare di due
sole interruzioni...
Ora devo scappare, che' il barbiere mi aspetta...
Saluti,
Luca Polo.
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 is renamed as Beorn.
= "orso" nelle lingue scandinave.
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