On some stars, flowers & places in Middle-earth
Collective work.
Edited by D. Willis.
Founded in 2010, Le Dragon de Brume is a non-profit association of authors and contributors whose main aim is to offer essays in French on the wonderful world of Middle-earth imagined by J. R. R. Tolkien, and on the fantasy genre.
Our primary goals include the writing and the promotion of articles and literary analyses, targeted at the French audience.
In the past years, we published several books, written by specialists and enthusiasts, also including translations of essays by English-speaking scholars: treasures that we enjoyed reading and wanted to make available to our French readership.
In the other direction, we long wanted to share our own studies more widely by offering translations into English. This short collection of essays is a first step in that direction.
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CONTENTS
Selected essays
[Translations from French of essays and articles from earlier volumes published by Le Dragon de Brume, in revised and augmented editions]
Lefèvre, A.* — "On the lost tale of Mercury" pp. 7–12
[Transl. of "Le conte perdu de Mercure — Tuor et Idril élevés au rang d’astre" in Tolkien, le façonnement d'un monde, vol. 1, Le Dragon de Brume, 2011, pp. 211–215]
Lefèvre, A.* — "On the red star near the Hunter’s Moon" pp. 13–28
[Transl. of "L’astre rouge de la Lune du Chasseur" in Tolkien, le façonnement d'un monde, vol. 2, Le Dragon de Brume, 2014, pp. 29–41]
Lefèvre, A.* — "On Elysian fields of mallos and alfirin" pp. 29–53
[Transl. of "Asphodèles et amarantes — Champs élyséens de mallos et d’alfirin" in Tolkien, le façonnement d'un monde, vol. 1, Le Dragon de Brume, 2011, pp. 63–84]
Lefèvre, A.* — "On a dishevelled dryad" pp. 54–66
[Transl. of "À propos d’une dryade déchevelée" in Fées, navigateurs & autres miscellanées en Terre du Milieu, Le Dragon de Brume, 2017, pp. 41–50]
Lefèvre, A.* — "On flying ships, myths and the Machine" pp. 67–114
[Transl. of "Navires volants, du mythe à la Machine" in Fées, navigateurs & autres miscellanées en Terre du Milieu, Le Dragon de Brume, 2017, pp. 69–108]
"On the authors & contributors" p. 115
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