Je vous livre un battement de coeur, une tension-frisson dans le ventre : ce beau texte du grand Tolkien qui nous invite à contempler le "territoire périlleux". J'y vois le royaume imaginaire qui habite chacun d'entre nous, notre chaudron d'Awen inépuisable, beau et grave, nourricier et destructeur à la fois.
Hier, le 18 novembre, j'ai eu le plaisir et l'honneur de lire certains de mes textes à la librairie "Tournez la page" de Combourg, en compagnie d'Erik Allais, grâce à l'association de poésie vivante Des Rives. Un grand merci à eux pour cette belle soirée ! Une page se tourne...
http://poesiedesrives.canalblog.com/
John Howe, "Glorfindel and the Balrog"
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.
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.
Tolkien, On fairy-stories, conférence donnée le 8 mars 1939.
Ted Nasmith, "Tuor reaches the hidden city of Gondolin"
