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Tolkien's First Fantasy Tale to be Published After 100 Years

posted by martyb on Sunday June 14 2015, @06:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the ...and-the-first-will-be-last dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Tolkien wrote the dark tale when he was but a 22 year old student. It is based on a character from Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, which he as a linguist studied. His biographer has said that the work was important for the creation of new languages. Tolkien himself has commented that it was then that he began writing legends of his own.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2015, @08:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2015, @08:42AM (#196399)

    Troll's and Grammar Nazi's worst nightmare. Witty correction, silence. Too obvious, or total whoosh? How can one tell? OK, here we go:

    unpublished works by a diseased deceased author

    FTFY? Auto-correct error? Not all diseased authors become deceased, though some do.