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J. R. R. TOLKIEN, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún. Ed. Christopher Tolkien. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. Pp. 377. ISBN: 978-0-547-27342. $26.00.

Thanks to the remarkable editorial efforts of Christopher Tolkien, the arrival of J. R. R. Tolkien's posthumous publications has continued unabated for the three and a half decades since his death, leaving us now roughly as many books as years since he left this Middle-earth. Though most of these posthumous publications were aimed at narrow audiences, three recent issues have been mass-marketed: Roverandum (1998), The Children of Húrin (2007), and now The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009). For the first two the matter ...

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