Help to find an edition of The Lord of the Rings
9 Jul, 2025
2025-7-9 2:58:07 AM UTC
2025-7-9 2:58:07 AM UTC
Please help with identifying the edition.
One of the early Russian unofficial translations (‘samizdat’) was being made in 1980-es by Revolt Ivanovich Pimenov. Pimenov (1931–1990) was a mathematician, a Soviet dissident and a participant of the human rights movement who, after penal exile to a northern town, remained to live there. I wonder what edition he used. One person said he had used a 1974 edition while another said about 1960-es edition.
Pimenov wrote the pages he used to translate poems:
‘Bath song’ I, 126; ‘Drinking song’ I, 193 (obviously this or the previous one is wrong); ‘Boromir’s Riddle’ I, 236; ‘Ere iron was found or tree was hewn’ II, 130; ‘Though Isengard be strong and hard’ II, 149; ‘Ents the earthborn, old as mountains’ II, 169; ‘Tall ships and tall kings’ II, 179; ‘The cold hard lands,’ II, 199; ‘Grey as a mouse’ II, 233.
I have checked, they are not from the first hardback edition, neither from Ace Books or Ballantine first paperback editions.
The second question is, what chapters could be marked by ‘Ring I 77-114’, ‘Ring I 114-130, 130-144’ (Book I, Chapter 5?), ‘Ring I 188-209’ (Book I, Chapter 4?), ‘Ring 211-232’, ‘Ring I 232-255’ (Book II, Chapter 2?), ‘Ring I, 255-277’, ‘Ring, 1, 277-289-302’, ‘Ring, I, 331-353’, ‘Ring I, 353-378’, ‘Ring II-22 - ?’, ‘II, II-28’.
One of the early Russian unofficial translations (‘samizdat’) was being made in 1980-es by Revolt Ivanovich Pimenov. Pimenov (1931–1990) was a mathematician, a Soviet dissident and a participant of the human rights movement who, after penal exile to a northern town, remained to live there. I wonder what edition he used. One person said he had used a 1974 edition while another said about 1960-es edition.
Pimenov wrote the pages he used to translate poems:
‘Bath song’ I, 126; ‘Drinking song’ I, 193 (obviously this or the previous one is wrong); ‘Boromir’s Riddle’ I, 236; ‘Ere iron was found or tree was hewn’ II, 130; ‘Though Isengard be strong and hard’ II, 149; ‘Ents the earthborn, old as mountains’ II, 169; ‘Tall ships and tall kings’ II, 179; ‘The cold hard lands,’ II, 199; ‘Grey as a mouse’ II, 233.
I have checked, they are not from the first hardback edition, neither from Ace Books or Ballantine first paperback editions.
The second question is, what chapters could be marked by ‘Ring I 77-114’, ‘Ring I 114-130, 130-144’ (Book I, Chapter 5?), ‘Ring I 188-209’ (Book I, Chapter 4?), ‘Ring 211-232’, ‘Ring I 232-255’ (Book II, Chapter 2?), ‘Ring I, 255-277’, ‘Ring, 1, 277-289-302’, ‘Ring, I, 331-353’, ‘Ring I, 353-378’, ‘Ring II-22 - ?’, ‘II, II-28’.
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