The image of each character of his book, the author puts a part of himself, his life experience. And it is not surprising that sometimes the prototypes of female characters become your favorite women writers. It was a real sense, the authors attached to their characters, what makes them so vivid and real that we do fall in love with them every time we take a book in hand.
John Tolkien and Edith elf princess
Few people know that the prototype of the elf, whose role in the film adaptation of the film "The Lord of the Rings" played by Liv Tyler, was the beloved wife of JRR Tolkien - Edith.
On the left we see a real photo of Edith, and the right - the portrait painted by an unknown artist, who portrayed her in the form of the Elven princess.
It is a walk in the forest with his wife inspired the author to create a love story of a mortal warrior Beren and Luthien Tinuviel the elven princess, which has become central in the book "The Silmarillion".
"Sun permeated tree branches and the stems high gilded. Edith hair looked black as a raven's wing, gray eyes shining. She sang beautifully - and danced in a sunny forest! "- commented a writer creating this image.
Their life was not unclouded: in my youth they were denied because of the different religions, then the war broke out, after - the sudden fame. In spite of everything, they lived together for half a century. Edith died before, but Tolkien could not live, and soon followed his wife without her.
The writer has often said: "She was my Lúthien - and knew it." On their grave in the cemetery at Wolvercote Oskforde near real names are inscribed the names Beren and Lúthien.
Mikhail Bulgakov and Margarita
On the image of the iconic works of Margarita "Master and Margarita", the writer was inspired by his third wife Elena Shilovskaya, because the love of Bulgakov to leave her husband, an outstanding Soviet military leader Eugene Shilovsky, which, in spite of the complete material prosperity, it was not happy.
Casual acquaintance with Bulgakov turned her life. Parting with her husband proved difficult, but Elena has never regretted his decision. It was for Bulgakov not only the beloved, but also a loyal friend, muse and assistant keeper of the literary heritage.
"Despite everything, despite the fact that there were moments of black, quite terrible, not boredom and terror of failed literary life, if you tell me that I had a tragic life, I will answer you: not! Audio seconds. It was the lightest life, what you can currently choose the most happy, "- she wrote after the death of Mikhail Bulgakov.
Marlene Dietrich - Joan Madou of Remarque's novel "Arc de Triomphe"
The prototype image of a capricious and contradictory beautiful singer Joan Madu from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque's "Arc de Triomphe" was the great Marlene Dietrich, in which the writer was painfully in love throughout his life in Paris before the Second World War.
It is their country, bright, dramatic novel formed the basis of the love story of a German surgeon Ravick and foolish singer. Impermanence, coldness, giddiness, and the search for new sensations in the arms of strangers - all the charges against the literary hero beloved, is the genuine experience of Remarque.
Dietrich he wrote many passionate letters, which were later published in a book: "Honey, God-given. I think we gave each other, and at the right time. We are tired of waiting for the pain to each other ", - wrote her Remarque.
F. Scott Fitzgerald and fatal Nicole from the novel "Tender Is the Night"
To create the image of eccentric and charming beauty of Nicole's atmospheric novel "Tender Is the Night" inspired writer's wife Zelda. Francis and Zelda were known in high society of New York to their outrageous behavior. Reporters followed at their heels, and they always give rise to rumors and articles in the tabloids. That ride on the roof of the taxi, in the nude said in the theater.
But the bright unbridled joy secular luxury hidden tragedy. Zelda was mentally ill and unlike the heroine of the book, Nicole, cured and could not. The writer put in all my wife and mental strength, in the end, he died of a heart attack, and Zelda came to the clinic for the mentally ill, where 8 years later died in a fire after the death of her husband.
