Note de ce sujet :
  • Moyenne : 0 (0 vote(s))
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Essais - Le mystérieux roi Bladorthin
#55
La référence dans le Hobbit à laquelle je pensais est la suivante, et encore deux pages après, mais l'épisode me paraît plutôt se passer sur les contreforts des Misty Mountains sur la rive droite de l'Anduin si je suis bien le récit, et non du côté de l'Echencrure :
Chap. VI du Hobbit a écrit :In spite of the dangers of this far land bold men had of late been making their way back into it from the South, cutting down trees, and building themselves places to live in among the more pleasant woods in the valleys and along the river-shores. There were many of them, and they were brave and well-armed, and even the Wargs dared not attack them if there were many together, or in the bright day [...] This was dreadful talk to listen to, not only because of the brave woodmen and their wives and children

Dans le Seigneur des Anneaux, il est de nouveau question de ces Woodmen à propos de la traque de Gollum dès le chapitre 2 du Livre I quand Gandalf explique à Frodon ce qu'il sait pour le moment de l'Anneau : 
Chap. II Livre 1 SdA a écrit :Woodmen said that there was some new terror abroad, a ghost that drank blood. It climbed trees to find nests; it crept into holes to find the young; it slipped through windows to find cradles. But at the western edge of Mirkwood the trail turned away. It wandered off southwards

Dans les Appendices, il est question de la géopolitique de la forêt au tout début du Quatrième Âge, et de sa séparation en trois zones de domination, dont la partie centrale qui est cédée aux Béornides et aux Woodmen, dont une autre citation nous dit qu'ils sont à nouveau plutôt à l'ouest de la forêt, et non du côte de l'échencrure : 
Appendix B SdA a écrit :Thranduil took all the northern region as far as the mountains that rise in the forest for his realm; and Celeborn took the southern wood below the Narrows, and named it East Lórien; all the wide forest between was given to the Beornings and the Woodmen.

Appendix F SdA a écrit :Most of the Men of the northern regions of the West-lands were descended from the Edain of the First Age, or from their close kin. Their languages were, therefore, related to the Adunaic, and some still preserved a likeness to the Common Speech. Of this kind were the peoples of the upper vales of Anduin: the Beornings, and the Woodmen of Western Mirkwood; and further north and east the Men of the Long Lake and of Dale. From the lands between the Gladden and the Carrock came the folk that were known in Gondor as the Rohirrim, Masters of Horses.

On retrouve aussi leur trace dès les brouillons du chapitre 2 dans HoMe VI ("I followed him [Gollum]there: he had left a trail of horrible stories behind him, among the beasts and birds and even the Woodmen of Wilderland"), dans HoMe VII ("Rohiroth are relations of Woodmen and Beornings, old Men of the North") et dans HoMe VIII ("Rangers have come and Dun-landers and messengers from the Woodmen of Mirkwood" > "There are Dunlanders here, and some even of the Woodmen from the borders of Mirkwood, and wandering folk of the empty lands").

Enfin, dans le Hobbit annoté, la liaison est faite par John D. Rattelif avec les Hommes du Nord de Vidugavia, même s'il y a bel et bien un trou béant entre les deux de plusieurs siècles et rien qui laisse penser à un puissant royaume pour Bladorthin , je le concède aisément ; difficile de savoir si ces sept cent ans ont pu laisser place à une renaissance au moins un temps :
Citation :Significantly, the woodmen's culture and way of life seem to have changed little in the seventeen hundred years that separates them from the Northmen of Vidugavia's day (a name which, as Christopher Tolkien points out, is itself Gothic for 'Wood-dweller', Widu-gauja; UT.311).

aravanessë
Répondre


Messages dans ce sujet
RE: Essais - Le mystérieux roi Bladorthin - par aravanessë - 14.12.2024, 19:06

Atteindre :


Utilisateur(s) parcourant ce sujet : 5 visiteur(s)