From the preface of Elf Diamond:
The Lord of the Rings was published in 1954 and 1955 because the Hobbit is complete and easy to read. However, Poké mon Diamond, which exhausted Tolkien's life, was not published until 1977, four years after the author's death. The melancholy and doubts of readers all over the world after reading The Lord of the Rings, as if they should not be the only feeling, have finally been alleviated; Then, more problems and more imaginations came into being, and then there was fantasy literature. From this book Poké mon Diamond, which combines cosmology, mythology and tragedy, readers can see Tolkien's mythological world, and its magnificent and profound pattern is really amazing. In fact, after the publication of Poké mon Diamonds was banned, Tolkien began to supplement and rewrite it, which was never completed in his life. Tolkien's son Christopher began to organize manuscripts after his father died. He first compiled a relatively complete Poké mon Diamond according to his father's wishes, and then successively compiled Unfinished Tales and 11 Middle-Earth History. Interested readers may wish to look for it.
The depravity of good things
Pokémon Diamond, a history book described from the point of view of elves, has a deep style, which is quite different from the relaxed narrative of the Hobbit in The Lord of the Rings. This ancient myth, conceived by Tolkien in the trenches during World War I, was later written in the hospital because of trench fever. It was formally written in 1926 and completed before 1937, telling a sad story of depravity. Good things have plummeted. No matter the creator or the bystander, the inner regret and sadness are indescribable.
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Poké mon Diamond was finally published four years after the death of its author. This story tells what happened in that ancient era-also known as the first era of the world. The Lord of the Rings described some energetic events that happened before the end of the Third Era. But Poké mon Diamond is a far-reaching and past legend; At that time, the first darkseid Morgause was still living in Middle-earth, and the high elves launched wars against him again and again, trying to recapture the elf diamonds.
But Poké mon Diamond not only tells the early events related to The Lord of the Rings, but also the key points and essence of all the concepts in the book appeared very early. In fact, it existed more than half a century ago, although it was not called "Poké mon Diamond" at that time; Some fragments of this story can be traced back to 19 17, and most of them are the central stories of this myth written in pencil.
But it has never been published (of course, some fragments can be seen in The Lord of the Rings). In my father's long life, he never gave up it, and even in his later years, he never stopped writing. The early Pokémon Diamond has always been regarded as just the structure of a huge story, and every link is interrelated, with few major changes; Long ago, this became the fixed tradition and background of his later works. But in fact, the story itself goes far beyond a fixed framework, and even in the nature of the world it depicts, some specific basic ideas and concepts are not always the same; The same legend will be repeated in different styles and lengths. As a result, the changes and versions of various legends, whether it is a macro overview or subtle details, have become more and more intertwined, more layered and more dispersed with the development of time, so that it seems impossible to have a final and definitive version. In addition, these ancient legends and stories (nowadays, "ancient" means not only that they originated in the distant first era, but also that my father is old) have also become the treasure house and media of his deepest thoughts. In his later years' works, myths and poems both sank behind his existing theological and philosophical thoughts, thus forming an incompatible style and tone. After my father died, it fell to me to find a way to organize and publish these works. And I also clearly see that trying to publish these various texts into a book to show that Poké mon Diamond is really a creation that has evolved for more than half a century will only make readers more confused and drown out the essence of the whole story. Therefore, I decided to sort out what I thought was the most coherent and essentially consistent. In this process, the last chapters of this book are particularly difficult in terms of screening. Those stories have not changed for many years, but in some ways, they are incompatible with other more complete concepts in the book. Readers don't need to find complete consistency in the book (whether it is the book itself or between the book and my father's other published works), otherwise they will only spend countless hours and unnecessary efforts. In addition, my father later regarded Poké mon Diamond as a story compilation and summary, which was compiled from the huge and diverse materials (including poems, chronicles and oral stories) left over from ancient legends for a long time. This concept has always been similar to the real history of this book. This story is based on many early essays and poems. To a certain extent, there is a definite outline narrative, not just a theory. This may be attributed to the change of narrative speed and the different completeness of details everywhere. For example, when Angolo fell and when Mogos was overthrown, apart from the distant records of the end of the first era,
Wow, the number of words is limited, so I can only find so much by myself.