Reading The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by Tolkien. It's an adaptation of the Volsung Saga, which is an old Norse legend, done in an old form of Norse poetry. A bit hard to get used to at first, but epic and badass when you do. Sigurd may be more familiar as Siegfried, which is his name in the old Germanic legends.
Edit: Though I have to say, as much as I love Christopher Tolkien for putting so much of his father's work out there, the man can write some of the most obtuse and confusing sentences I've ever read. Of course, his introductions and explanations of Nordic poetry and how they should be read are important and shouldn't be skipped, but good lord how they drag on. Thankfully, once you get past them and on to his fathers actual poems, it's all good.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Last edited by The Batlord; 01-07-2013 at 10:28 AM.
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