{"id":58991,"date":"2012-07-13T21:30:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T02:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=58991"},"modified":"2012-07-13T21:30:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T02:30:28","slug":"a-new-tolkien-book-looms-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/07\/13\/58991-a-new-tolkien-book-looms-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Tolkien book looms on the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Tolkien scholarly community is afire with curiosity and rumours after it emerged that a new Tolkien book is on the horizon. The book, which we understand will be called The Fall of Arthur<\/span> appears to be set for a May 2013 release going from pre-order information that inadvertently popped up on the website of retailing giant Amazon. It’s possible that it has been edited by Christopher Tolkien, but this is unconfirmed.<\/p>\n

The Fall of Arthur is a long, alliterative poem based on Arthurian legends. Some excerpts<\/a> from it were published in Humphrey Carpenter’s biography of JRR Tolkien. It seems it was written in the 1930s. In Letters of JRR Tolkien there is a bare mention of The Fall of Arthur.<\/p>\n

I write alliterative verse with pleasure, though I have published little beyond fragments in The Lord of the Rings, except ‘The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth’… a dramatic dialogue on the nature of the ‘heroic’ and the ‘chivalrous’. I still hope to finish a long poem on The Fall of Arthur in the same measure.<\/em> Letter 165, Letters of JRR Tolkien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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