Barbara Strachey (1912–1999)
Forfatter af Journeys of Frodo: An Atlas of J.R.R.Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings"
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- Juridisk navn
- Strachey, Barbara Halpern
- Fødselsdato
- 1912-07-17
- Dødsdag
- 1999-10-15
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Land (til kort)
- England, UK
- Fødested
- Oxford, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Oxford, England, UK
- Bopæl
- Jericho, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Uddannelse
- Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall)
- Erhverv
- author
broadcaster
photographer - Relationer
- Strachey, Ray (mother)
Strachey, Julia (half-sister)
Berenson, Mary (grandmother)
Whitall Smith, Hannah (great-grandmother)
Pearsall Smith, Logan (great-uncle)
Russell, Alys (great-aunt) (vis alle 12)
Strachey, Marjorie (aunt)
Strachey, James (uncle)
Strachey, Lytton (uncle)
Strachey, Dorothy (aunt)
Stephen, Karin (aunt)
Strachey, Oliver (father) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Tolkien Society Gold Badge
- Kort biografi
- Barbara Strachey was born in Oxford, England, a daughter of Oliver Strachey, a cryptographer in both World War I and World War II, and the feminist politician writer, and amateur painter Rachel "Ray" Strachey. The family belonged to the famous Bloomsbury Group of artists and intellectuals. Barbara attended schools in London, Oxford, Switzerland, and Vienna. She read history at Oxford University and went to work for the BBC for a period. There she was involved in the transformation of the General Overseas Service into the BBC World Service in 1965. In 1934, Barbara married Olaf Hultin, with whom she had a son; they divorced in 1937. She remarried in 1937 to Wolf Halpern, an American, who was killed in 1943 serving in World War II. After the death of her younger brother, computer scientist Christopher Strachey in 1975, she moved to a small house in the Jericho neighborhood of Oxford. She took up writing and produced several biographical works. A devoted fan of J.R.R. Tolkien, she wanted fuller and more detailed maps to go with his books. So she decided to create them herself, although not a professional cartographer or artist. Her efforts provided readers of The Lord of the Rings with a new and more vivid idea of Middle-earth, and her atlas book Journeys of Frodo (1981) remains an essential companion to Tolkien’s masterpiece.
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El libro consta de 51 mapas bicolores (un mapa general de la Tierra Media y 50 mapas numerados) a distintas escalas, basados en originales de Christopher Tolkien a partir de los bocetos de su padre. Cada mapa está en una página a la derecha, en formato apaisado, y representa las características físicas en negro y las rutas que siguen los personajes por carreteras y caminos. Las flechas indican la dirección del viaje y las fechas aparecen en rojo. Indica en los bordes la distancia en millas hacia Bolsón Cerrado y hay así mismo escalas para representar las distancias y una indicación de la fase o fases lunares visibles en las fechas indicadas.
Cada mapa numerado va acompañado de una descripción en la página de la izquierda, en la que Strachey describe la parte de la ruta indicada, justificando a menudo sus decisiones topográficas con citas del libro. En algunos casos señala discrepancias en las descripciones topográficas, por ejemplo alterando ocasionalmente el curso de una carretera o de un río alegando que de otro modo sería incoherente con otras descripciones de Tolkien del terreno.… (mere)