托尔金与生死（五）：托老梦游仙境

主讲：江南辰、文津
插画：文津
剪辑：Lulu

本期节目最后有彩蛋、有彩蛋、有彩蛋！

本期是“生与死”主题的最后一期，我们要来聊聊托尔金创作中的“仙境”，或者说“人间天堂”，以及托尔金对于抵达仙境的可能与期许，发生了怎样的心境与态度变化。除了中洲神话的相关创作，节目中还会提到托尔金的其他小说创作，它们同样动人、清新，深藏作者对人生、死亡、此岸与彼岸的思考。

开头引用了托尔金最著名的讲演之一《论童话》：

FAERIE is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold… The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of a traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gates should be shut and the keys be lost.

本期要点：

①第一类仙境：渴望，也终将抵达——《尼格尔的树叶》
②第二类仙境：渴望，也曾抵达，却无法停留，终于失去——《大伍屯的铁匠》
③第三类仙境：渴望，却无法抵达——努门诺尔、维林诺、《汤姆·邦巴迪尔历险记》
④有幸得以一瞥的仙境：《罗弗兰登》

节目中朗读的几段英语原文如下：

《大伍屯的铁匠》中的三段

《汤姆·邦巴迪尔历险记》之The Last Ship

The oars were stayed. They turned aside:
‘Do you hear the call, Earth-maiden?
Firiel! Firiel!’ they cried.
‘Our ship is not full-laden.
One more only we may bear.
Come! For your days are speeding.
Come! Earth-maiden elven-fair,
Our last call heeding.’
 
Firiel looked from the river-bank,
One step daring;
Then deep in clay her feet sank,
And she halted staring.
Slowly the elven-ship went by
Whispering through the water:
‘I cannot come!’ they heard her cry.
‘I was born Earth’s daughter!’

《罗弗兰登》片段：

Another time he took them to the other side (or as near as he dared), and that was a still longer and more exciting journey, the most marvellous of all Roverandom’s travels, as he realized later, when he was grown to be an older and a wiser dog. It would take the whole of another story, at least , to tell you of all their adventures in Uncharted Waters and of their glimpses of lands unknown to geography, before they passed the Shadowy Seas and reached the great Bay of Fairyland (as we call it) beyond the Magic Isles; and saw far off in the last West the Mountains of Elvenhome and the light of Faery upon the waves. Roverandom thought he caught a glimpse of the city of the Elves on the green hill beneath the Mountains, a glint of white far away; but Uin dived again so suddenly that he could not be sure. If he was right, he is one of the very few creatures, on two legs or four, who can walk about our own lands and say they have glimpsed that other land, however far away.