Tolkien Myths and Legends Box Set: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Legend o

<p><strong>A beautifully designed hardcover box set containing four classic myths and legends composed or translated by J.R.R. Tolkien </strong>--<strong> <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</em>, <em>The Legend of Sigurd and Gudr?n</em>, <em>The Fall of Arthur</em>, and <em>Beowulf</em>.</strong></p> <p><strong>The fifth set in a series of affordable hardcover box sets celebrating the literary achievement of Christopher Tolkien, featuring double-sided dust jackets. Set 5 contains <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</em>, <em>The Legend of Sigurd and Gudr?n</em>, <em>The Fall of Arthur</em>, and <em>Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary</em>.</strong></p><p><strong><em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</em></strong> and <strong><em>Pearl</em></strong> are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. <em>Sir Gawain</em> is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; <em>Pearl</em> is apparently an elegy on the death of a child but, like Gawain, it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters. <em>Sir Orfeo</em> is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien's. The three translations are here uniquely accompanied with the complete text of Tolkien's acclaimed 1953 W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture that he delivered on Sir Gawain.</p><p><strong><em>The Legend of Sigurd and Gudr?n</em></strong> tells the epic story of the Norse hero, Sigurd, the dragon-slayer, during a time o