Originally posted by:
William Cloud Hicklin:
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Sigurd and Gudrun are Tolkien's original retellings (in verse) of a pre-existing story, not simply translations of the very confused pieces found in the Poetic Edda and the (prose) Volsungasaga.
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So much the better. Essentially (sort of . . .) an original Tolkien work, new to publication. What more could we ask for?
Can't wait!
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But all the while I sit and think of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet and voices at the door.
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