The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
128
Utgivningsdatum
2016-11-03
Förlag
HarperCollins
Medarbetare
Flieger, Verlyn (red.)
Illustratör/Fotograf
5 b, 1 colour plates w illus
Illustrationer
5 b/w illus, 1 col plates
Dimensioner
155 x 153 x 17 mm
Vikt
298 g
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,
ISBN
9780008202132

The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun

av J R R Tolkien, Verlyn Flieger
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Unavailable for more than 70 years, this early but important work is published for the first time with Tolkiens Corrigan poems and other supporting material, including a prefatory note by Christopher Tolkien. Set In Britains land beyond the seas during the Age of Chivalry, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun tells of a childless Breton Lord and Lady (the Aotrou and Itroun of the title) and the tragedy that befalls them when Aotrou seeks to remedy their situation with the aid of a magic potion obtained from a corrigan, or malevolent fairy. When the potion succeeds and Itroun bears twins, the corrigan returns seeking her fee, and Aotrou is forced to choose between betraying his marriage and losing his life. Coming from the darker side of J.R.R. Tolkiens imagination, The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, together with the two shorter Corrigan poems that lead up to it and which are also included, was the outcome of a comparatively short but intense period in Tolkien's life when he was deeply engaged with Celtic, and particularly Breton, myth and legend. Originally written in 1930 and long out of print, this early but seminal work is an important addition to the non-Middle-earth portion of his canon and should be set alongside Tolkiens other retellings of myth and legend, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrn, The Fall of Arthur and The Story of Kullervo. Like these works, it belongs to a small but important corpus of his ventures into real-world mythologies, each of which in its own way would be a formative influence on his own legendarium.
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The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun is a poem in the tradition of the medieval "lay", also illustrated by the Lay of the Children of Hrin, and in the Lay of Leithian. This 556-verse-long poem tells the tragic story of a lord who sacrifices his life by love: in order to have a child with his wife, then to remain faithful to his spouse, he gives his life to a witch. The J.R.R. Tolkien Estate website The language is as time-worn as a Runic engraving yet clear as a bell The holy and the unholy imbue everything. It is a world captured in stained glass. Daily Telegraph

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J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over 60 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.

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