Obscure JRR Tolkien book Published This Summer

by Hobbit Movie News on February 17, 2009

The Associated Press are reporting that a previously unpublished work by JRR Tolkien will be released this Summer.

“The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun,” a thorough reworking in verse of old Norse epics that predates Tolkien’s writing of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, will be published in May by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

According to Houghton, the book will include an introduction by Tolkien and notes by his son, Christopher Tolkien.

J.R.R. Tolkien, whose fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy have sold millions of copies, died in 1973. “The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun” was written in the 1920s and ’30s, when the author was teaching at Oxford University.

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