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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo
Written by J.R.R. Tolkien
Narrated by Terry Jones
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars4.5/5 (25 ratings)
Length: 4 hours
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins UK Audio
- Released:
- May 19, 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780007254293
- Format:
- Audiobook
Description
A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.Sir 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.Pearl 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.Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien’s.The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo
Written by J.R.R. Tolkien
Narrated by Terry Jones
Ratings:
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars4.5/5 (25 ratings)
Length: 4 hours
Description
A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour.Sir 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.Pearl 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.Sir Orfeo is a slighter romance, belonging to an earlier and different tradition. It was a special favourite of Tolkien’s.The three translations represent the complete rhyme and alliterative schemes of the originals.
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins UK Audio
- Released:
- May 19, 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780007254293
- Format:
- Audiobook
About the author
J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892–1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. His books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.
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Nick Braker
The second poem was one of the most beautiful pieces of literature ever composed.
Rating: 5