{"id":1949,"date":"2022-12-16T19:29:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T19:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.tolkieniana.net\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2022-12-16T19:29:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T19:29:28","slug":"nota-161-tolkien-e-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuova.tolkieniana.net\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/nota-161-tolkien-e-morris\/","title":{"rendered":"Nota 161 &#8211; Tolkien e Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1949\" class=\"elementor elementor-1949\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3ffe7e9b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3ffe7e9b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2dcf7191\" data-id=\"2dcf7191\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4fd7b860 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4fd7b860\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Nota 161 - Tolkien e Morris<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-107a9993 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"107a9993\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-76f92640\" data-id=\"76f92640\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-233ed574 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"233ed574\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">di Emilio Patavini<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-48a9e79 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"48a9e79\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6229950\" data-id=\"6229950\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a7255d9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"7a7255d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34026d67 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"34026d67\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nella prima lettera dell\u2019epistolario tolkieniano (Lettera 1) alla futura moglie Edith Bratt, Tolkien menziona l\u2019influenza di William Morris sulla storia che stava scrivendo in quel momento (ottobre 1914), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Story of Kullervo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fra le altre cose che faccio sto provando a trasformare una delle storie, una gran bella storia e molto tragica, in un racconto breve nello stile dei romanzi di Morris con brani di poesia in mezzo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<a href=\"#nota1\">[1]<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In un\u2019altra lettera, datata 31 dicembre 1960, scrisse che <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[l]e Paludi Morte e l\u2019avvicinamento al Morannon devono qualcosa alla Francia settentrionale dopo la battaglia della Somme. Devono molto di pi\u00f9 a William Morris e ai suoi Unni e Romani, come in <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The House of the Wolfings<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> o <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Roots of the Mountains<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<a href=\"#nota2\">[2]<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Inklings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, il suo biografo Humphrey Carpenter nota come gi\u00e0 a Birmingham Tolkien <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rest\u00f2 incantato da Morris<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<a href=\"#nota3\">[3]<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Anni dopo, durante il suo terzo anno a Oxford, e precisamente nella primavera del 1914, impieg\u00f2 il denaro vinto grazie allo Skeat Prize (\u00a35) per acquistare una grammatica gallese (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Welsh Grammar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> di Morris-Jones), essenziale per i futuri sviluppi delle lingue elfiche, e tre opere di William Morris: il poema epico <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life and Death of Jason<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, la sua traduzione della <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">V\u00f6lsunga saga<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> islandese e il gi\u00e0 citato <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The House of the<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em> Wolfings<\/em><a href=\"#nota4\">[4]<\/a>.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Grazie a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tolkien\u2019s Library: An Annotated Checklist<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> di Oronzo Cilli (Luna Press, Edinburgh 2019) sappiamo che Tolkien era in possesso di altre opere di Morris: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Defence of Guenevere<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Earthly Paradise<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News from Nowhere<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Roots of the Mountains<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some Hints on Pattern Designing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Story of the Glittering Plain<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Story of Grettir the Strong<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (il primo volume della Saga Library), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Story of Sigurd the Volsung<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Sundering Flood<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tale of Beowulf<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three Northern Love Stories<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Water of the Wondrous Isles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, i due volumi di <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Well at the World\u2019s End<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wood Beyond the World<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, i due volumi della biografia di J.W. Mackail <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life of William Morris<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> e <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">William Morris: His Work and Influence<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> di A. Clutton-Brock.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a9dfec2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a9dfec2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h5 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Bibliografia<\/h5>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c011087 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c011087\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ul><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ul><li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Douglas A. Anderson (ed.), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Ballantine Books, New York 2003;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">M. Burns, Perilous Realms: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celtic and Norse in Tolkien\u2019s Middle-earth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2005;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C. Scull \u2013 W.G. Hammond, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The J.R.R.Tolkien Companion and Guide: Reader\u2019s Guide<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, HarperCollins, London 2006, pp. 598-604;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A. Amison, \u201cAn Unexpected Guest\u201d, in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Vol. 25, No. 1, Article 9 (2006);<\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael W. Perry, \u201cWilliam Morris\u201d in M.C. Drout (ed.), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Routledge, London 2007, pp. 437-439;<\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">K.L. Massey, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Roots of Middle-Earth: William Morris\u2019s Influence upon J.R.R. Tolkien<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, University of Tennessee, 2007 (tesi di dottorato);<\/span><\/li><li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">B.S. Benedikz, \u201cSome Family Connections with J.R.R. Tolkien\u201d, in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Amon Hen: Bulletin of the Tolkien Society<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 209 (January 2008).<\/span><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-52d09aac elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"52d09aac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-15c90608 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"15c90608\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" id=\"nota1\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[1] J.R.R. Tolkien, Lettera n\u00b0 1.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6298b059 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6298b059\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" id=\"nota2\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[2] J.R.R. Tolkien, Lettera n\u00b0 226.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54c619c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"54c619c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" id=\"nota3\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[3] H. Carpenter, <i>The Inklings<\/i>, Allen &amp; Unwin, London 1978, p. 29.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54bad885 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"54bad885\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" id=\"nota4\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify; font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[4] Cfr. J. Garth, <i>Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth<\/i>, HarperCollins, London 2004, p. 35.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nota 161 &#8211; Tolkien e Morris di Emilio Patavini Nella prima lettera dell\u2019epistolario tolkieniano (Lettera 1) alla futura moglie Edith Bratt, Tolkien menziona l\u2019influenza di William Morris sulla storia che stava scrivendo in quel momento (ottobre 1914), The Story of Kullervo: \u201cFra le altre cose che faccio sto provando a trasformare una delle storie, una&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nuova.tolkieniana.net\/index.php\/2022\/12\/16\/nota-161-tolkien-e-morris\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Leggi tutto &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nota 161 &#8211; Tolkien e Morris<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"[\"thumbnail\",\"content\",\"tags\"]","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-kilby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuova.tolkieniana.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuova.tolkieniana.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuova.tolkieniana.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuova.tolkieniana.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuova.tolkieniana.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/nuova.tolkieniana.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1974,"href":"https:\/\/nuova.tolkieniana.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuova.tolkieniana.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuova.tolkieniana.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuova.tolkieniana.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}