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Best sellers
Original at Minneapolis Star Tribune
• Tue, May 26
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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 The previously unpublished adventures of a medieval Norse hero, written before "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings." 1.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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NY Times BEST-SELLERS
Original at Albany Times Union
• Sun, May 24
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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 The previously unpublished adventures of a medieval Norse hero, written before "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings."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
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An Old Norse Legend, Courtesy of JRR Tolkien
Original at Wall Street Journal
• 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 ...
NY Times best-sellers
Original at Arizona Daily Star
• Fri, May 22
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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 The previously unpublished adventures of a medieval Norse hero, written before "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings."
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Five fab reads: Summer's first big bestsellers
Original at CTV.ca
• 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Canada The Tolkien legacy continues with this previously unpublished work by the "The Lord of the Rings" author.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 ...
Best-sellers
Original at journalgazette.net
• Sun, May 17
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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 A previously unpublished work by Tolkien, retelling the epic Norse tales. 2 “Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an ...
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A Conservative Tears Apart Ayn Rand and 'Atlas Shrugged'
Original at U.S. News & World Report
• 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 ...
EDGE: Conservatives and 'Atlas Shrugged'
Original at Washington Times
• 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.
Above and Beyond
Original at New Yorker
• Sun, May 10
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. ...
Poetry shows another side of Tolkien
Original at The Olympian
• 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
Beyond Middle Earth
Original at ottawacitizen.com
• Sat, May 9
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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 ...
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Do Wild Boars Guard JRR Tolkien's Work?
Original at mediabistro.com
• Fri, May 8
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 ...
Tolkien out-Wagners Wagner
Original at Times Online
• 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 ...
Summer reading
Original at Arizona Daily Wildcat
• 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. ...
‘Legend of Siguard' reviews, book on sale today
Original at TheOneRing.net
• Tue, May 5
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. ...
OUT THIS WEEK
Original at Columbus Dispatch
• Tue, May 5
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 ...