Another posthumous J.R.R. Tolkien publication (once again edited by son Christopher Tolkien) is coming our way, though this one isn’t a saga of Middle Earth. Instead, it’s a retelling (which, I guess, means “not an exact translation”) of the Norse legend of Sigurd the Volsung. HarperCollins will publish the text as The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun. Come on, you know you always wanted to know what happened to the Niflungs.
Coming in May: Tolkien Retelling of Norse Legend
– January 7, 2009
Another posthumous J.R.R. Tolkien publication (once again edited by son Christopher Tolkien) is coming our way, though this one isn’t a saga of Middle Earth. Instead, it’s a retelling (which, I guess, means “not an exact translation”) of the Norse legend of Sigurd the Volsung....
About the Author
Carissa Turner Smith is a compulsive reader, writer, and Irish dancer. She earned her Ph.D. in English at Penn State and currently teaches writing and American literature at Charleston Southern University. At age three, she announced that all she wanted to do was “sit at a desk and read and write,” and she has been trying to make good on that promise ever since. Fortunately, she is occasionally distracted from this mission by her husband Stephen and their cheese-obsessed cat. A loyal native of Arkansas, she has always loved the fact that Jesus dwelt in an underappreciated corner of Galilee (see John 1:46). 
Have you read The Children of Hurin? I picked it up a few months back, but it’s still pretty deep in my to-read stack.
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Nope, haven’t read Children of Hurin yet. I’d rather just re-read The Lord of the Rings for the eleventy-first time.
Yeah, I’m always skeptical of works in which the author didn’t hold enough confidence to publish during his life time. But as it’s much shorter than LotR, I think CoH fits better into my reading schedule than the trilogy.
The Danes last blog post..20081119.ChurchLies