Early JRR Tolkien work set for release.Byline: ANILondon, Feb 19 (ANI): An early, unpublished work by Lord of the Rings author JRR JRR John Ronald Reuel (Tolkien) JRR John Ross Robertson (Toronto, Ontario school) JRR Japanese Research Reactor Tolkien is set to hit bookshelves this spring. On Tuesday, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced that Tolkien's The Legend of Siguard and Gudrun, featuring notes by the author's youngest son, Christopher Tolkien, will be released in May. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, a reworking in verse of old Norse epics, predates Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, reports the BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. . The book was written at least 80 years ago. Tolkien, who published The Hobbit in 1937 and followed with his The Lord of the Rings trilogy, died in 1973. His books have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun was written in the 1920s and 1930s, when the author was teaching at Oxford University. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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