Mr. Luck

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Mr. Luck (English Mr. Bliss ) is a children's book that was written (probably in the 1930s) by JRR Tolkien . It was first published in 1982 by Allen & Unwin. The German first publication took place in 1983. The translation is by Anja Hegemann.

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Mr. Glück is an eccentric. He wears extremely high hats, owns a house and keeps a giraffe in his garden, on whose advice he gets a car. The reader accompanies Mr. Glück on his first trip, which is also the last with this automobile. On this trip, Mr Glück experiences many adventures and gets to know people like the widow Ritter and Sergeant Buff or the bear brothers Axel, Teddy and Bruno. In addition to a lot of trouble, the trip also costs Mr. Glück a lot of money and almost his good reputation.

background

Tolkien wrote Mr. Bliss, like Roverandom and the Hobbit , for the amusement of his children. He let some of his children's toys flow into the story.

Tolkien illustrated the story richly. These images make up a significant part of the allure of the story. In the German edition, the manuscript pages are compared with the translation of the text by Anja Hegemann. The German reader thus receives a bilingual edition of the book.

Literature and film adaptation

  • JRR Tolkien: Mr. Luck. Hobbit-Presse Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-608-95221-7 .
  • A 33-minute short film was produced for Mr. Bliss with the animated illustrations of the book, which was published in 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mr Bliss Trailer. on youtube.com
Works by JRR Tolkien


Fiction

Songs for the Philologists (1936) • The Hobbit (1937) • Blatt von Tüftler (1947) • The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945) • Bauer Giles von Ham (1949) • The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953) • The Lord of the Rings (1954/55) • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Poems from the Red Book (1962) • Tree and Leaf (1964) • The Tolkien Reader (1966) • The Road Goes Ever On (1967) • Smith of Wootton Major (1967)

Posthumously published
fiction

Santa's Letters (1976) • The Silmarillion (1977) • News from Middle-earth (1980) • Mr. Bliss (1982) • Bilbo's Farewell Song (1990) • The History of Middle-earth (12 volumes; 1983–1996) • The Lost Road and Other Writings (Volume 5, 1987) • Roverandom (1998) • The Children of Húrin (2007) • The History of The Hobbit (2007) • The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009) • King Arthur's Fall (2013) • The Story of Kullervo (2015) • Beren and Lúthien (2017) • The Fall of Gondolin (2018)

Academic works

A Middle English Vocabulary (1922) • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925) • Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography (1925) • The Devil's Coach-Horses (1925) • Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad (1929) • The Name Nodens (1932) • Sigelwara Land Parts I and II, in Medium Aevum (1932–1934) • Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale (1934) • Beowulf: The Monsters and Their Critics (1936) • The Reeve's Tale: version prepared for recitation at the "summer diversions" (1939) • On Fairy-Stories (1939) • Sir Orfeo (1944) • Ofermod and Beorhtnoth's Death (1953) • Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic inquiry ( 1953) • Ancrene Wisse : The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (1962) • English and Welsh (1963) • Introduction to Tree and Leaf (1964) • Contributions to the Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer) (1966) • Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical) (1966)

Posthumous academic
publications

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , Pearl and Sir Orfeo (translations into modern English, 1975) • Finn and Hengest (1982) • The Monsters and the Critics (1983) • Beowulf and the Critics (2002) • Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (2014)