Vague or Vivid?: Descriptions in The Lord of the Rings
Vague or Vivid?: Descriptions in The Lord of the Rings
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模糊还是生动？：《指环王》中的描述
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10.1353/tks.2013.0011
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2013
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Nils Ivar Agøy
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作者：
Nils Ivar Agøy
《魔戒》是一本属于自己的书。它是自动个性化的，可以这么说。它以许多微妙的方式邀请参与。然后，如果我们想想象其中发生的事情，我们只需要贡献一些我们自己的东西。托尔金的描述很少是非常详细的。人物、建筑物和物体通常或多或少地被描述成风景或天气，非常模糊，也就是说;从远处看。我们被告知，像阿拉贡这样的主角是长腿和饱经风霜的，但如果他有胡子或衣服上的纽扣就不会了。他坐的椅子又矮又舒服，但它实际上是用什么做的呢？这本书鼓励，几乎是强迫读者自己对人物和环境进行更详细的描述，许多人做得如此彻底，以至于当他们发现，例如，在插图或电影中，其他人看到的东西不同时，他们会变得非常恼火。没有多少书能让你花上十年时间讨论虚构人物的发色、可能的胡子或假想的翅膀。
The Lord of the Rings is a book to make one’s own. It is automatically personalized, so to speak. It invites participation, in many subtle ways. Then, too, we simply have to contribute something of our own if we are to visualize what happens in it. Tolkien’s descriptions are rarely very detailed. People, buildings and objects are usually described more or less as the scenery or weather is described, quite vaguely, that is; as seen from a distance. We are told that a main character like Aragorn is long-legged and weather-beaten, but not if he has a beard or buttons in his clothes. The chair he sits on is low and comfortable, but what is it actually made of? The book encourages, almost forces the reader to make her own, more detailed pictures of people and settings—which many do so thoroughly as to become quite annoyed when they discover, in illustrations or films, for instance, that others see things differently. There are not many books about which you can have decade-long discussions about fictional characters’ hair colour or possible moustaches—or hypothetical wings.