THE LAY OF AOTROU AND ITROUN, en tidig versberättelse av Professorn, har
just släppts. Här är beskrivningen från förlaget:
<<Unavailable for more than 70 years, this early but important work is
published for the first time with Tolkien's 'Corrigan' poems and other
supporting material, including a prefatory note by Christopher Tolkien.
Set 'In Britain's 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. Tolkien's 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 Tolkien's other retellings of myth and
legend, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, 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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