The Fall of Arthur

The Fall of Arthur is an incomplete, alliterative poem by J.R.R. Tolkien about the life of King Arthur from British legend. It was released fully in 2013 by HarperCollins in a publication by Christopher Tolkien, giving background on Tolkien's experimentation and development of the poem. A deluxe hardcover edition of this was also released, in 2013.
The poem was based on part of Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory. Though written in Modern English, the poem used the same verse form and style as Beowulf. When Tolkien began or abandoned it is entirely unknownThe Fall of Arthur, Foreword (by Christopher Tolkien), although Tolkien would write to Houghton Mifflin in 1955 that we hoped to finish it.The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 165 Some excerpts of the poem appeared in Humphrey Carpenter's J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (1981).Humphrey Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, pgs. 168-8
==Contents==
* Frontispiece
* Foreword
* The Fall of Arthur
* Notes on the Text of The Fall of Arthur
* The Poem in Arthurian Tradition
* The Unwritten Poem and its Relation to The Silmarillion
* The Evolution of the Poem
* Appendix: Old English Verse
==Reviews of the publication==
*"Tolkien’s Unfinished Epic: ‘The Fall of Arthur’" by John Garth for The Daily Beast
*"The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien (review)" by Verlyn Flieger in Tolkien Studies, vol. 11
*Review by Andrew O'Hehir of The New York Times
==External links==
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==References==
Category:Books on Medieval texts
Category:Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien
Category:Primary lit. published by HarperCollins
Category:Primary literature
Category:2013 publications
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Category:Houghton Mifflin publications
Category:Tolkien's Medieval works