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==== Works compiled by Christopher Tolkien ==== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Date !! Title !! Description |- | 2007 || ''[[The Children of Húrin]]'' || Tells the story of [[Túrin Turambar]] and his sister [[Nienor]], children of [[Húrin Thalion]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Grovier |first=Kelly |date=27 April 2007 |title=In the name of the father |url=http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,,2067804,00.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824151048/http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,,2067804,00.html |archive-date=24 August 2007 |access-date=22 September 2007 |publisher=[[The Observer]]}}</ref> |- | 2009 || ''[[The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún]]'' || Retells the legend of [[Sigurd]] and the fall of the [[Niflungs]] from Germanic mythology as a [[narrative poem]] in [[alliterative verse]], modelled after the [[Old Norse]] poetry of the [[Elder Edda]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Allen |first=Katie |date=6 January 2009 |title=New Tolkien for HarperCollins |url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/73781-new-tolkien-for-harpercollins.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430090505/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/73781-new-tolkien-for-harpercollins.html |archive-date=30 April 2009 |access-date=6 January 2009 |publisher=The Bookseller}}</ref> |- | 2013 || ''[[The Fall of Arthur]]'' || A narrative poem that Tolkien composed in the early 1930s, inspired by high medieval Arthurian fiction but set in the Post-Roman [[Migration Period]], showing Arthur as a [[Sub-Roman Britain|British]] [[warlord]] fighting the [[Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain|Saxon invasion]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Flood |first=Alison |date=9 October 2012 |title=New JRR Tolkien epic due out next year |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/09/jrr-tolkien-new-poem-king-arthur |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202023157/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/09/jrr-tolkien-new-poem-king-arthur |archive-date=2 December 2016 |website=guardian.co.uk}}</ref> |- | 2014 || ''[[Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary]]'' || A prose translation of ''[[Beowulf]]'' that Tolkien made in the 1920s, with commentary from Tolkien's lecture notes.<ref>{{cite news |date=20 March 2014 |title=JRR Tolkien's Beowulf translation to be published |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-26662761 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140415081413/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-26662761 |archive-date=15 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=26 May 2014 |title=Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-544-44278-8 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140905170548/http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-544-44278-8 |archive-date=5 September 2014 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]]}}</ref> |- | 2015 || ''[[The Story of Kullervo]]'' || A retelling of a 19th-century Finnish poem that Tolkien wrote in 1915 while studying at Oxford.<ref>{{cite news |last=Flood |first=Alison |date=12 August 2015 |title=JRR Tolkien's first fantasy story to be published this month |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/12/jrr-tolkiens-first-fantasy-story-to-be-published-this-month |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202024432/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/12/jrr-tolkiens-first-fantasy-story-to-be-published-this-month |archive-date=2 December 2016}}</ref> |- | 2017 || ''[[Beren and Lúthien]]'' || One of the oldest and most often revised in Tolkien's legendarium; a version appeared in ''The Silmarillion''.<ref name="edition2017">{{cite news |last=Flood |first=Alison |date=19 October 2016 |title=JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth love story to be published next year |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/19/jrr-tolkiens-middle-earth-love-story-published-beren-and-luthien |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161209023052/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/19/jrr-tolkiens-middle-earth-love-story-published-beren-and-luthien |archive-date=9 December 2016}}</ref> |- | 2018 || ''[[The Fall of Gondolin]]'' || Tells of a beautiful, mysterious city destroyed by dark forces; Tolkien called it "the first real story" of [[Middle-earth]].<ref name="TolkienSociety2">{{cite news |last=Helen |first=Daniel |date=30 August 2018 |title=The Fall of Gondolin published |publisher=Tolkien Society |url=https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2018/08/the-fall-of-gondolin-published/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191204145208/https://www.tolkiensociety.org/2018/08/the-fall-of-gondolin-published/ |archive-date=4 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Flood |first=Alison |date=10 April 2018 |title=The Fall of Gondolin, 'new' JRR Tolkien book, to be published in 2018 |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/10/the-fall-of-gondolin-new-jrr-tolkien-book-to-be-published-in-2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180413110856/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/10/the-fall-of-gondolin-new-jrr-tolkien-book-to-be-published-in-2018 |archive-date=13 April 2018}}</ref> |}
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