授業で使った本

　今日の英語講読の授業、無味乾燥（易しいけど）な社会学の教科書を少し離れて、こんなのも読んでみたよ。

The Silmarillion

　Chapter 19, "Of Beren and Luthien"の冒頭のパラグラフ。

Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien. Of their lives was made the Lay of Leithian, Release from Bondage, which is the longest save one of the songs concerning the world of old; but here the tale is in fewer words and without song.

　倒置しまくり。"fair"が形容詞だとわからない人も多いし、"of these histories"ってなに？って訊くと、たいてい答えられない。いや、そもそもまず"yet"がわからないらしいが。（これは文法構造というよりは内容上の問題だけど。）
　そういえば第一文、なんとなく再帰的な構造。（ぇ