The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun

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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudr�nis anbsp;previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ?30s, before he wroteThe HobbitandThe Lord of the Rings. It makes available for the first time Tolkien?s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the V�lsung and The Fall of the Niflungs.It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien.

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Bio of J.R.R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, at Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State of South Africa; but at the age of 4, he and his brother were taken back to England by their mother. After his father's death, the family moved to Sarehole, on the southeastern edge of Birmingham. Tolkien spent a happy childhood in the countryside, and his sensibility to the rural landscape can clearly be seen in his writing and his pictures. His mother died when he was only 12, and both he and his brother were made wards of the local priest and sent to King Edward's School in Birmingham, where Tolkien shone in his classical work. After completing a First in English at the University of Oxford, Tolkien married Edith Bratt. He was also commissioned in the Lancashire Fusiliers and fought in the Battle of the Somme in World War I. After the war, he obtained a post on the New English Dictionary and began to write the mythological and legendary cycle which he originally called The Book of Lost Tales, but which eventually became known as The Silmarillion. In 1920 Tolkien was appointed Reader in English Language at the University of Leeds, and this was the beginning of a distinguished academic career, which culminated in his election as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. Meanwhile Tolkien wrote for his children and told them the story of The Hobbit. It was his publisher, Stanley Unwin, who asked for a sequel to The Hobbit, and gradually Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings, a huge story that took 12 years to complete and which was not published until Tolkien was approaching retirement. After retirement, Tolkien and his wife lived near Oxford, but then moved to Bournemouth. Tolkien returned to Oxford after his wife's death in 1971. He died on September 2, 1973, leaving The Silmarillion to be edited for publication by his son, Christopher.

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Imprint

HarperCollins

Filesize

1.77 MB

Number of Pages

384

eBook ISBN

9780061950933