The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun

The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun PDF Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1328834549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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Book Description
Coming from the darker side of J.R.R. Tolkien's imagination, this is an important non Middle-earth work to set alongside his other retellings of existing myth and legend, "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún," "The Fall of Arthur," and "The Story of Kullervo."

The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun

The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun PDF Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1328834549
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 133

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Book Description
Coming from the darker side of J.R.R. Tolkien's imagination, this is an important non Middle-earth work to set alongside his other retellings of existing myth and legend, "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún," "The Fall of Arthur," and "The Story of Kullervo."

Beowulf

Beowulf PDF Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544442784
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 445

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Book Description
Presents the prose translation of the Old English epic that Tolkien created as a young man, along with selections from lectures on the poem he gave later in life and a story and poetry he wrote in the style of folklore on the poem's themes.

Poems and Stories

Poems and Stories PDF Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Book Description
A collection of The Lord of the Rings author's songs and verses, dramatic poetry, and witty and humorous tales, with an essay on the fairy tale in which he argues for the universality of the form and its relevance for adults. First published in Great Britain by George Allen and Unwin in 1980. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Finn and Hengest

Finn and Hengest PDF Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780261103559
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Tolkien's famous translations and lectures on the story of two fifth-century heroes in northern Europe. Professor J.R.R.Tolkien is most widely known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but he was also a distinguished scholar in the field of Mediaeval English language and literature. His most significant contribution to Anglo-Saxon studies is to be found in his lectures on Finn and Hengest (pronounced Hen-jist), two fifth-century heroes in northern Europe. The story is told in two Old English poems, Beowulf and The Fights at Finnesburg, but told so obscurely and allusively that its interpretation had been a matter of controversy for over 100 years. Bringing his unique combination of philological erudition and poetic imagination to the task, however, Tolkien revealed a classic tragedy of divided loyalties, of vengeance, blood and death. Tolkien's original and persuasive solution of the many problems raised by the story ranged widely through the early history and legend of the Germanic peoples. The story has the added attraction that it describes the events immediately preceding the first Germanic invasion of Britain which was led by Hengest himself. This book will be of interest not only to students of Old English and all those interested in the history of northern Europe and Anglo-Saxon England, but also admirers of The Lord of the Rings who will be fascinated to see how Tolkien handled a story which he did not invent.

Tolkien's Worlds

Tolkien's Worlds PDF Author: John Garth
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 0711241279
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Book Description
An expertly written investigation of the places that shaped the work of one of the world's best loved authors, exploring the relationship between worlds real and fantastical.

Mr Bliss

Mr Bliss PDF Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007255330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Book Description
Mr. Bliss's first outing in his new motor-car, shared with several friends, bears, dogs, and a donkey, though not the Girabbit, proves to be unconventional though not inexpensive.

The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrún

The Legend Of Sigurd And Gudrún PDF Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547504713
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Book Description
Many years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien composed his own version of the great legend of Northern antiquity, recounted here in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. In the Lay of the Völsungs is told the ancestry of the great hero Sigurd, the slayer of Fáfnir, most celebrated of dragons; of his awakening of the Valkyrie Brynhild, who slept surrounded by a wall of fire, and of their betrothal; and of his coming to the court of the great princes who were named the Niflungs (or Nibelungs), with whom he entered into blood-brotherhood. In scenes of dramatic intensity, of confusion of identity, thwarted passion, jealousy, and bitter strife, the tragedy of Sigurd and Brynhild, of Gunnar the Niflung and Gudrún his sister, mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd, the suicide of Brynhild, and the despair of Gudrún. The Lay of Gudrún recounts her fate after the death of Sigurd, her marriage against her will to the mighty Atli, ruler of the Huns (the Attila of history), his murder of her brothers, and her hideous revenge.

The Old English Exodus

The Old English Exodus PDF Author: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Book Description
"The Old English Exodus is based on full notes for a series of lectures delivered to a special class in Oxford in the 1930s and 1940s; the notes were retouched in the following decade. It was never intended to be an edition, although the lecturer scrupulously drew up and edited text as basis of his commentary. It is an interpretation of the poem, designed to reconstruct the original (as far as that is possible), and to place it in the context of Old English poetry"--Publisher's description

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo PDF Author:
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780008393625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Book Description
Contains stories from the age of chivalry, knights and holy quests.

Tolkien's Poetry

Tolkien's Poetry PDF Author: Julian Tim Morton Eilmann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783905703283
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Book Description
Includes ten papers that deal with specific aspects of Tolkien's poetry.