❞ قصة The Return of the King ❝ ⏤ J.R.R. Tolkien

هذا القسم يحتوي علي العديد من القصص والروايات باللغة الإنجليزية

(Stories and novels) القصص والروايات
الرواية هي سرد نثري طويل يصف شخصيات خيالية أو واقعية وأحداثاً على شكل قصة متسلسلة، كما أنها أكبر الأجناس القصصية من حيث الحجم وتعدد الشخصيات وتنوع الأحداث، وقد ظهرت في أوروبا بوصفها جنساً أدبياً مؤثراً في القرن الثامن عشر، والرواية حكاية تعتمد السرد بما فيه من وصف وحوار وصراع بين الشخصيات وما ينطوي عليه ذلك من تأزم وجدل وتغذيه الأحداث
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the Italian novella for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the Latin novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning "new". Walter Scott made a distinction between the novel, in which (as he saw it) "events are accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and the modern state of society" and the romance, which he defined as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents". However, many such romances, including the historical romances of Scott, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term". This sort of romance is in turn different from the genre fiction love romance or romance novel
A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood.

A dictionary definition is "an invented prose narrative shorter than a novel usually dealing with a few characters and aiming at unity of effect and often concentrating on the creation of mood rather than plot."

The short story is a crafted form in its own right. Short stories make use of plot, resonance, and other dynamic components as in a novel, but typically to a lesser degree. While the short story is largely distinct from the novel or novella (a shorter novel), authors generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques.

The Return of the King
ippin looked out from the shelter of Gandalf's cloak. He wondered if he was awake or still
sleeping, still in the swift-moving dream in which he had been wrapped so long since the great ride
began. The dark world was rushing by and the wind sang loudly in his ears. He could see nothing
but the wheeling stars, and away to his right vast shadows against the sky where the mountains of
the South marched past. Sleepily he tried to reckon the times and stages of their journey, but his
memory was drowsy and uncertain.
 There had been the first ride at terrible speed without a halt, and then in the dawn he had seen a
pale gleam of gold, and they had come to the silent town and the great empty house on the hill. And
hardly had they reached its shelter when the winged shadow had passed over once again, and men
wilted with fear. But Gandalf had spoken soft words to him, and he had slept in a corner, tired but
uneasy, dimly aware of comings and goings and of men talking and Gandalf giving orders. And
then again riding, riding in the night. This was the second, no, the third night since he had looked in
the Stone. And with that hideous memory he woke fully, and shivered, and the noise of the wind
became filled with menacing voices.