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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun |  | Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Creator: Christopher Tolkien
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Category: Book
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Rating:  26 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Complete Numbers Starting with 1, 1st Ed
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 0547273428
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.912
EAN: 9780547273426
Publication Date: May 5, 2009
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Product Description
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the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 Völsung 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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Good, but... February 22, 2010
Bryan S. Sampsel (Colorado Springs, CO United States)
While JRR Tolkien's work was impeccable, his son's commentary was annoying. Worse, while discussing historical mythology, he mentions his father's Lord of the Rings stories and characters. That undermined the legitimacy of JRR Tolkien's original work.
Regardless, I loved what the Mr. Tolkien did for this tale.
 Not Lord of the Rings February 10, 2010
Darrel M. Gander (Hutchinson, MN)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
When I ordered thids book I was expecting something like "The Lord of the Rings" or "The Hobbit". Iwas disappointed to find that it was nothing of the sort. It is Tolkien's re-write of old Norse poetry with many pages of analysis by his son Christopher. My disppointment is my own fault since I neglected to previously investigate the contents. It does give one an education in the Edda from ancient Norway.
not what I expected February 1, 2010
Mrs. D. (somewhere in the US)
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
Well, I purchased this for my husband, who likes Tolkien as a writer. He loved the Hobbit and the Lord of the rings books before they became movies. I must not have realized what I was purchasing, because it's not another story by Tolkien. It's strange and different and most of it is not in english.
 Classroom January 30, 2010
Cynthia H. Grossman (Durham, NC USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I did not realize that this book is a text book. I will eventually read it, cover to cover, but I have to be in a certain frame of mind. I purchased the book because it is a Tolkien book.
Good book , for what it is. December 26, 2009
Seeker Scott (Spring Lake, NC USA)
I have to say that this is a good book for what it is supposed to be. It is a retelling a mythic type poem, and has an introduction, and has analysis.
To me, the language is difficult and unclear. I was personally also hoping the story to be more narrative. Be ready to read and reread for comprehension. If your expecting something along the lines of Lord of the Rings, just know this isn't it.
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