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The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, the revenge of his wife, Gudrun, and the Fall of the Nibelungs.
In the Lay of the Voelsungs is told the ancestry of the great…
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When I was a schoolboy in Oxford in the 1960s, I wrote a letter to Tolkien, and he answered.
I knew even at that time that I shared his preoccupation with the Norse myths. It is a preoccupation that has been with me ever since.
In this book, Tolkien attempts to write his own Eddaic poem. It is dramatic and intense. Those who know only Tolkien’s Middle-earth writings may have trouble adjusting to a tale deliberately told in an antique verse form.
What I especially loved in this poem was the Valkyrie Brynhild. Tolkien has something of a reputation for…
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