{"product_id":"sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-christopher-tolkien","title":"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Christopher Tolkien)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eThis smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. It features a beautifully decorated text and includes as a bonus the complete version of Tolkien's acclaimed lecture on Sir Gawain.\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003ePearl is apparently an elegy on the death of a child, a poem pervaded with a sense of great personal loss: but, like Gawain it is also a sophisticated and moving debate on much less tangible matters.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eSir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien's.\u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThe three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals, and are uniquely accompanied with the complete text of Tolkien's acclaimed 1953 W.P. Ker Memorial Lecture that he delivered on Sir Gawain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJ.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing \u003cem\u003eThe Hobbit\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/em\u003e, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over 80 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristopher Tolkien, born on 24 November 1924, was the third son of J.R.R. Tolkien. As his father's literary executor, he devoted over forty years to the publication of his father's unpublished works, from \u003cem\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUnfinished Tales\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003eBeren and Lúthien\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Fall of Gondolin\u003c\/em\u003e, and within 'The History of Middle-earth' series, and was awarded the Bodley Medal for his services to literature in 2016. He died in January 2020 at the age of 95.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65877591818589,"sku":"K094711133","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9471113300001A.jpg?v=1788979306","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-christopher-tolkien","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}