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Original at Minneapolis Star Tribune external link    Tue, May 26    7 related articles

 MN 10. THE LEGEND OF SIGURD AND GUDRUN, by JRR Tolkien. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26.) The previously unpublished adventures of a medieval Norse hero, written before "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings." 1. ...

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Original at Albany Times Union external link    Sun, May 24    7 related articles

 NY THE LEGEND OF SIGURD AND GUDRUN, by JRR Tolkien. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. The previously unpublished adventures of a medieval Norse hero, written before "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings." New York Times bestsellers: hardcover fiction San Jose Mercury News all 3 news articles

Rate An Old Norse Legend, Courtesy of JRR Tolkien

Original at Wall Street Journal external link    Fri, May 22

By MARJORIE BURNS By JRR Tolkien JRR Tolkien (1892-1973), famous for “Lord of the Rings,” was an Oxford philologist whose expertise in Old Germanic languages included Old Norse (the language spoken by the settlers of Iceland) and Old English (also ...

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Original at Arizona Daily Star external link    Fri, May 22    7 related articles

 AZ Book 7 of the series. 10. THE LEGEND OF SIGURD AND GUDRUN by JRR Tolkien. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26.) The previously unpublished adventures of a medieval Norse hero, written before "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings."

Rate Five fab reads: Summer's first big bestsellers

Original at CTV.ca external link    Sun, May 17

 Canada The Tolkien legacy continues with this previously unpublished work by the "The Lord of the Rings" author. Starting even before "The Hobbit" or "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Tolkien's retelling of the Norse legend of Sigurd the Völsung and the fall ...

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Original at journalgazette.net external link    Sun, May 17    7 related articles

 IN 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Novel” by Alexander McCall Smith 10 “The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun” by JRR Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien. A previously unpublished work by Tolkien, retelling the epic Norse tales. 2 “Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an ...

Rate A Conservative Tears Apart Ayn Rand and 'Atlas Shrugged'

Original at U.S. News & World Report external link    Fri, May 15

U.S. News & World Report, DC Conservatives' embrace of "Atlas Shrugged" today is nothing more than blinkered escapist fantasy — rather like a besieged army turning to Norse mythology or JRR Tolkien to boost morale. He notes that American conservatism has shown great adaptability ...

Rate EDGE: Conservatives and 'Atlas Shrugged'

Original at Washington Times external link    Thu, May 14

 DC The materialism of the season, he wrote, was a feature, not a bug. Conservatives' embrace of "Atlas Shrugged" today is nothing more than blinkered escapist fantasy — rather like a besieged army turning to Norse mythology or JRR Tolkien to boost morale.

Rate Above and Beyond

Original at New Yorker external link    Sun, May 10

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 United States Evan Osnos shares readers' first impressions of Jia Zhangke. Sasha Frere-Jones talks shop with St. Vincent's Annie Clark. George Packer has coffee with Hamid Karzai's rival. The Book Bench: What JRR Tolkien can do for Old Norse. ...

Rate Poetry shows another side of Tolkien

Original at The Olympian external link    Sun, May 10

 WA Before JRR Tolkien was known as the master fantasy writer behind “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit,” he was fascinated with Norse mythology. Lost for 70 years, buried among his papers, were two poems he wrote concerning “the Volsung and Niflung ... Beyond Middle Earth Ottawa Citizen

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Original at ottawacitizen.com external link    Sat, May 9    1 related articles

  Canada A "new" book by JRR Tolkien, based on a Norse myth, will be released in 2009. It wasn't until last summer that JRR Tolkien's publishers learned that a fascinating new saga -- unlike anything he had done before -- had surfaced among the legendary ...

Rate Do Wild Boars Guard JRR Tolkien's Work?

Original at mediabistro.com external link    Fri, May 8

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With the publication of JRR Tolkien's 500-stanza epic poem, "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun," the late author's son worried that many readers would find the book difficult. Christopher Tolkien told the Guardian the book follows a Norse poetic cycle ...

Rate Tolkien out-Wagners Wagner

Original at Times Online external link    Wed, May 6

Axel Olrik wrote his long Danish version of the lost Old Norse Bjarkamál, based on the two surviving stanzas and a paraphrase in Latin by Saxo Grammaticus, and not many years later JRR Tolkien followed suit, writing the two poems in the volume reviewed ...

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Original at Arizona Daily Wildcat external link    Wed, May 6

 AZ - Lisa Gatlin, Lisa Gatlin Written even before "The Hobbit," "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun" is a never-before-published book of Tolkien's. Heavy in Norse Mythology, the book is unaltered as Tolkien wrote it, complete with an introduction written by him. ...

Rate ‘Legend of Siguard' reviews, book on sale today

Original at TheOneRing.net external link    Tue, May 5

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 New Zealand JRR Tolkien's newest posthumous work lands in retail today. The body of the non Middle-earth tale is told in two narrative poems told in the form of Norse mythology with a Tolkien lecture and an introduction from his son Christopher. ...

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Original at Columbus Dispatch external link    Tue, May 5

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 OH The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrun, JRR Tolkien: The previously unpublished work by the deceased author retells an epic Norse tale in English narrative verse. The volume was edited by son Christopher Tolkien. • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Brad Pitt ...

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