J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun


BoklivArtikelnr: 9780008202156

Brittisk fantasy om en barnlös lord och lady. Pocketutgåva från Harper Collins UK, 128 sidor.

  • Berättelse om en barnlös bretonsk lord och lady.

  • Innehåller teman av magi och tragedi i mytologi.

  • Utgiven i pocketformat av Harper Collins UK.

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Bokförlag: Harper Collins UK
Omfång: 128 | Språk: Engelska

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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 ('Aotrou' and 'Itroun') 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 are also included here, 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.

Written in 1930, this early but seminal work is an important addition to the non-Middle-earth portion of his canon alongside Tolkien's other retellings of myth and legend, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún, The Fall of Arthur and The Story of Kullervo, a small but important corpus of his ventures into 'real-world' mythologies, each of which would be a formative in?uence on his own legendarium.

Redaktör: Verlyn Flieger


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