The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It makes available for the first time Tolkien’s extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigurd the Völsung and The Fall of the Niflungs. It includes an introduction by J.R.R. Tolkien, drawn from one of his own lectures on Norse literature, with commentary and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien.

THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN was released on April 17, 2007 to widespread acclaim.

"...delightful...a well-told, dramatic tale" —USA Today

"A superb addition to the Tolkien canon. . . Stunning in its scope, writing and story-telling, it's vintage Tolkien. . . A monumental achievement." —Chicago Sun-Times

"This is a book no Tolkien fan will want to be without." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A full-fledged adventure yarn, complete with narrative urgency, fear of the unknown and recognizably human characters" —Salon.com