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The Elder Edda
Part of a new series Legends from the Ancient North The Elder Edda is one of the classic books that influenced JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings'I was in the East battling giantswicked-hearted women who wandered the fells;great would be the giant-race if they all lived mankind would be nothing under middle-earth What did you do meantime Grey-beard?'JRR Tolkien spent much of his life studying translating and teaching the great epic stories of northern Europe filled with heroes dragons trolls dwarves and magic He was hugely influential for his advocacy of Beowulf as a great work of literature and even if he had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings would be recognised today as a significant figure in the rediscovery of these extraordinary talesLegends from the
Ancient North brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien's fictionThey are startling brutal strange pieces of writing with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these translationsThey plunge the reader into a world of treachery quests chivalry trials of strengthThey are the most ancient narratives that exist from northern Europe and bring us as near as we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century
Ancient North brings together from Penguin Classics five of the key works behind Tolkien's fictionThey are startling brutal strange pieces of writing with an elemental power brilliantly preserved in these translationsThey plunge the reader into a world of treachery quests chivalry trials of strengthThey are the most ancient narratives that exist from northern Europe and bring us as near as we will ever get to the origins of the magical landscape of Middle-earth (Midgard) which Tolkien remade in the 20th century
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