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Décembre 2012 Éditorial “In a Hole in the Ground REMERCIEMENTS Décembre 2012 Éditorial “In a hole in the ground REMERCIEMENTS there lived a hobbit.” «A tous ceux ayant participé de près ou de loin à ce numéro, ne phrase et beaucoup d’encre ! Un livre, The Hobbit, un auteur, Tolkien et, au final, Aux éditeurs un univers : Arda et la Terre du Milieu. Amusez-vous à vous renseigner sur les traductions de et photographes, Ul’amorce de ce petit livre pour enfants : vous y verrez une part du monde de Tolkien, la complexité, le débat, la richesse qui en sortent ! A l’équipe de l’Esteren Tour, Voilà exactement ce que nous avons décidé de vous offrir aujourd’hui avec ce numéro Celle du Grimoire, d’YmaginèreS : alors qu’au cinéma Le Hobbit, un voyage inattendu de Peter Jackson ravive la flamme (re)lancée il y a dix ans par Le Seigneur des Anneaux, que dans les librairies se trouve Aux Editions du Matagot EDITORIAL depuis quelques mois Le Hobbit retraduit par Daniel Lauzon (la précédente version datait pour le scénario de 1969) sous trois formes (simple, illustrée et enfin annotée), etc. nous vous proposons Metal Adventures, un petit voyage – attendu, nous vous l’avons annoncé il y a quelque mois mais quelques impondérables (car nous sommes humains) nous ont retardé dans la publication Aux Netscripteurs Editions de notre webzine – non exhaustif dans les différentes facettes d’un univers. et tous ceux qui nous ont Mais les films vous attendent aussi : Peter Jackson et ses œuvres sont au tournant ! soutenus en parlant de nous; Cependant, nous avons refusé de lui laisser la part belle ici : vous lirez partout de quoi nourrir votre curiosité. Alors pourquoi ne pas venir voir des choses plus merci à ceux qui croient « cachées » ? Quelques interviews de personnalités connaissant bien Tolkien, quelques en nous et nous lisent jeux ou adaptation BD le concernant… avec plaisir, Enfin, YmaginèreS spécial Tolkien ne saurait être un bon YmaginèreS sans à ceux qui ont su garder ses traditionnelles nouvelles, ses articles de jeux de rôles et ses autres rubriques ! leur âme d’enfant et un petit Nous avons même distillé ici et là quelques jeux d’esprit… coin de Fantasy dans leur Car Le Hobbit, quelque soit la manière dont l’adapte Peter Jackson, est à la base un conte pour cœur, merci mille fois enfants rempli d’humour ! Il est le chemin vers un monde de rêves, certes parfois sombres, mais à vous tous de nous laissant toujours la lumière briller dans la plus profonde obscurité. Un auteur catholique vivant dans un monde anglican, écrivant de la Fantasy à l’heure de la démocratisation de la voiture, démontrer chaque jour enseignant l’étude de langues disparues alors que la mondialisation frappait à la porte. que rêver n’est pas vain, Et pourtant, ses histoires sont peut être parmi les plus belles que nous entendons… que l’Imaginaire a sa place dans ce monde et qu’il est « Les mythes que nous tissons, même s’ils renferment des erreurs, reflètent inévitablement toujours possible un fragment de la vraie lumière, cette vérité éternelle qui est avec Dieu. » de cheminer en Terre J. R. R. Tolkien du Milieu.» Pierre Chaffard-Luçon YmaginèreS Chapitre 2 - Décembre 2012 Webzine gratuit édité Rédacteurs Illustrateurs Correcteurs Les nouvellistes par www.ascadys.net Françoise «Cybione» OliV Vagabond Pascal Vitte MarcAndré Pezin Anthony Boulanger Boutet Audrey Morelle Syr Rachel Rostalski Christian Perrot Directeur de publication Esther Falcon Vivien Stocker Filo Emilie Milon Tinakë Blog twitter Facebook Aramis Ulric Chatagnon Silvos Leo Codh Matthieu Bonnafoux Thomas Riquet Patrick Cialf Yac La Fée Rédacteur en chef Anne Larue Hadhod Croix-de-Fer Reya Mélusine Pierre Chaffard-Luçon Christian Perrot Doris Facciolo Anthony Dubreuil Vous avez une remarque ou une critique ? Vous voulez participez à l’aventure YmaginèreS ? Direction artistique et maquette Davidalpha Romano Vous aimeriez en savoir plus sur les autres publications ? Rejoignez-nous sur : Albert du Genou Arnaud Cuidet Aramis Mlle Mando Line Contact http://ascadys.fantasyboard.net/ Illustration de couverture Gabriel Féraud [email protected] Pascal Vitte © Tous les textes, photographies ou illustrations utilisés dans les articles de ce webzine sont la propriété de leurs auteurs respectifs. 02 YmaginèreS #2 - Décembre 2012 Chapitre 2 - Décembre 2012 03 Sommaire 36 42 126 SOMMAIRE 58 Spécial Tolkien Littérature & Bandes dessinnées Jeux de rôle & de plateau Cinéma & Série télé Tolkien & Moi 06 La défense Chewbacca 70 Le Hobbit 58 Beren et Lúthien 10 La fumée, la fumée !!! 72 Compléments magazine Didier Willis 18 Eclipse à Rennes ! 78 tolkiendil 136 Les langues et leur place Shade ! la démo 80 dans le récit 24 Histoires d’Amour 138 Interview Mississippi 82 L’influence de Tolkien dans Dans l’esprit d’une chimère la fantasy contemporaine 36 Un bar rôliste 86 entièrement incompatible, LDVELH : le renouveau 88 étude de Galadriel les Contes Tolkien, un grand Mirkwood 140 mélancholique 42 Bienvenue à Minas Tirith 92 L’Admirable 50 Les Enfants de HÚrin 142 Bilbo le Hobbit 48 Scénario Pour la Science 102 Visions 66 Gallerie 144 Scénario Les âmes mortes 106 Mirilnyàrë 94 Cliquez-moi !!! Scénario Sur les ailes du vent 128 @ Nous avons mis en place un système d’accès Quand un Ranger se lance direct pour les différents auteurs et illus- trateurs. Que vous vouliez en savoir plus dans la mise en scène... 118 sur eux ou tout simplement les contacter, 04 n’hésitez pas à cliquer sur l’icone ! YmaginèreS #2 - Décembre 2012 Chapitre 2 - Décembre 2012 05 Tolkien & moi Cybione @ Tolkien & Moi J’ai découvert Tolkien en 1973, grâce à la première parution de Bilbo le Hobbit en édition de poche chez J’ai Lu, collection que je suivais assidûment. Certes, Christian Bourgois l’avait édité le premier en France quelques années auparavant, mais elle était peu diffusée dans les petites librairies. BIOGRAPHIE ilbo me fit découvrir une elfes, gobelins, rois, trolls et tant Bautre approche de la féérie, Et c’est alors que d’autres personnages bouleversa revisitée, modernisée et complé- je découvris toute définitivement la littérature fan- tée par des personnages origi- l’étendue de l’œuvre tastique. naux, tels les hobbits. Et ce, bien de John Ronald Reuel Le plus déstabilisant pour moi que ce ne fût qu’un roman léger, fut d’ailleurs la découverte que clairement destiné aux enfants. Tolkien… © DR les premières éditions dataient Le coup de grâce intervint pour de 1937 pour Bilbo le Hobbit et moi quelques années plus tard du monde féerique, autre que ce- de 1954 pour Le Seigneur des avec la découverte (en édition lui décrit par le folklore, et déve- Anneaux , soit plusieurs décen- de poche, cette fois-ci encore) de loppé par quelques textes (tel La nies auparavant. son œuvre majeure Le Seigneur Fille du roi des aulnes...), souvent Et c’est alors que je découvris des Anneaux : là, on ne jouait anglo-saxons. Donc, la décou- toute l’étendue de l’œuvre de plus du tout dans la même cour ! verte de cet univers, naviguant John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Il faut vous souvenir qu’à cette entre merveilleux et moyen- professeur de langue et de époque, il n’existait pas encore de âge, et dans lequel se côtoyaient >> © DR mythologie précise et ordonnée ! Biographie 1937 The Hobbit (Bilbo le Hobbit - 1969) 1949 Farmer Giles of Ham (Le 1955 The Return of the King (Le 1964 Tree and Leaf , recueil de Fermier Gilles de Ham © 1974 Retour du Roi - 1973) poèmes (2003 - in Faërie Voici, par ordre chronologique, les dates des 1940 On translating Beowulf, essai (Traduire in Faërie) et autres textes) premières parutions de ses ouvrages, en anglais Beowulf - 2006 in Les Monstres et les 1962 The Adventures of Tom Bom- et en version française. critiques et autres essais) 1953 The Homecoming of Beo- badil (Les Aventures de Tom 1967 Smith of Wootton Major rhtnoth, Beorhthelm’s Son Bombadil - 1975) (Ferrant de Bourg-aux-Bois 1922 A middle English vocabulary, essai 1944 Sire Orféo, essai 1974 in Faërie) 1954 The Lord of the Rings (Le Ancrene Wisse: The English 1925 Sir Gawain and the green Knight, essai 1945 Leaf by Niggle (Feuille de Niggle ¨C 1974 The Road Goes Ever On : Seigneur des Anneaux - 1972) Text of the Ancrene Riwle, essai dans Faërie) A song cycle 1931 A secret vice, essai (Un vice secret - 2006 The Fellowship of the Ring (La 1963 English and Welsh, essai The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun Poems and songs of Middle- in Les Monstres et les critiques et autres Communauté de l’Anneau - (L’Anglais et le gallois 2006 in Eath, disque audio lu et chanté essais) 1947 On Fairy-stories (Du conte de fées - 2006 1954) Les Monstres et les critiques et par William Eldin et JRR Tolkien 1936 Songs for the Philologist in Les Monstres et les critiques et autres The Two Towers (Les Deux autres essais) Beowulf, essai (Beowulf - 2006 in Les essais) Tours - 1972) Monstres et les critiques et autres essais) Littérature & Bandes dessinnées 06 Chapitre 2 - Décembre 2012 07 Tolkien & moi pièces par son auteur. Il ne faut Plus tard, au fur et à mesure des du milieu, Les Contes et légendes pas oublier que, outre l’anglais, parutions (en édition de poche, inachevés... Le fond documen- et certains de ses dialectes, il toujours) je découvris L’histoire taire laissé par Tolkien à sa mort enseignait également des lan- de Tom Bombadil, personnage en 1973 est si riche, que ces gues germaniques (norrois et déjà rencontré dans Le seigneur deux œuvres furent publiées à gotique) et parlait l’afrikaans, des Anneaux (mais dont l’ori- titre posthume après sa mort le latin, le grec, l’hébreu, le gal- gine est antérieure, comme en par son fils Christopher.
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