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as the Lord of the Rings was not published in 1962

An article published Oct. 26 in the cultural pages of the newspaper La Repubblica reveals a particular hitherto unpublished history of Italian publishing Lord of the Rings: in 1962 the largest Italian publishing house, the Arnoldo Mondadori , considered the possibility of publishing an Italian edition of Tolkien's masterpiece. The paper reported
Republic, which you can see a reproduction below is the card reading Lord of the Rings, and contains the famous opinion of Elio Vittorini , director of the series "The Medusa" by Mondadori from since 1960.


rating Vittorini is severe: "inclined to discard, but we may try to buy only one volume as the editors propose to us", George Allen & Unwin obviously not posed too many problems to protect the ' integrity of Tolkien's work, proposing the publication of the Fellowship of the Ring alone (as it actually happened in 1967). Perhaps confident of the success of the book, which led to the publication of two volumes also following ...

The publication of Lord of the Rings by Mondadori was not totally strange, since in its series "The Medusa had been published since 1947 and the novel Out of the Silent Planet, the "space trilogy" by CS Lewis.

A Vittorini Vittorio Sereni responds with a more negative opinion: "If there is time to do it ask for another reading. But the conclusion seems to me to have a NO and preventing the possibility of risking an experiment. "The issue closes with a note of RC, who writes:" Option expired. Therefore, it is not, "and another note (the initials illegible) which reads:" That is a letter to the editor. "

What would happen if The Fellowship of the Ring had been published by Mondadori in 1963? No one can say with certainty, it can be assumed that the volume would have been very successful and that the publication of the "trilogy" would be stranded. Then maybe there would have been the "discovery" of Tolkien in the early '70s by young people on the right, and The Lord of the Rings would see the light in its entirety only to 1978, using the output of Bakshi film. Who knows, we might also have to thank the proceedings of Vittorini ...