The Legend of Sigurd & Gudrún- Softcover book gift idea

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrúnby J.R.R. Tolkien The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún is a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford during the 1920s and ‘30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the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 the legendary hero Sigurd the Völsung (Old Norse: Sigurðr) 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. Softcover; 384 pages size: 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" About the AuthorJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. After serving in World War I, he embarked