So I brought up a short foreword from "The Hobbit" published by Ballantine Books that I bought in 2005, written by Peter Beagle in Watsonville, California in 1973. He probably also loves Tolkien deeply and refuses to write the foreword long.
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At the moment I alighted from the child care Gold Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh "Lord of the Rings" has been the first time in fifteen years ( Peter wrote this preface in 1973). Before that, I searched for it for four years, all because of reading Auden's book review published in The New York Times. At that time, "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy" was not so famous, and it was not so easy to explain it to others. I often miss that era now. There were not so many magical novels at that time, but it was precisely this that made Frodo a unique treasure and little secret in our hearts. Many years before "Long Live Frodo" appeared in a New York subway station, Toddler had always been a secret hero in my heart.
It's no accident that Tuerkin's work took ten years to become popular overnight. The 60s were no more messy than the 50s, although the 60s inherited some of the wonders of the 50s. But it was in the 1960s that people generally realized the corruption of industrial society-paradoxically unlivable, incalculably immoral, ultimately deadly! The key word in the 1960s is probably that the word "progress" has completely lost its sanctity, and "escape" is no longer an apostate concept. Although the impulse is called "rebellion" now, for those of us who love Middle-Earth, we sincerely yearn for that world, and if we can, we really want to be in it in a blink of an eye!
Because after all, what we love is Middle-Earth and its inhabitants, not the genius of daycare. I want to say it again, that world existed before Tokkin wrote it down, and I believe this deeply. Toddler is the greatest magician. He conjures all our dreams, whether it is daydreams, nightmares, or fantasy under the stars, but he is not a creator: he just gives these fantasy a place to live, Build a safe haven for them in this corrupt world.
From our childhood to adulthood, we have been taught to worship the so-called "heroes"-they are "patriots" who invade other people's land and homes, and "murderers" who kill in the name of Christ. They. Now, let us find back the truly beautiful emotions and guard our last dreams.
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Finally, I would like to say that if there are more Tokien and CSLewis works in the current world, the children will all grow up in the world of middle-earth and Nania , The massacre that occurred in Connecticut the day before yesterday will definitely be much less.
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