The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun

The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun was a Medieval story written by J.R.R. Tolkien as a 508-line poem in 1930. The poem concerns a Breton man, Aotrou, and his barren wife, Itroun, who become involved with the witch Corrigan. The couples' names are Breton translations of "lord" and "lady". Though Tolkien did not specify the primary inspiration for the poem, Tom Shippey believes it is An Aotrou Nann hag ar Gorigann, from Breton folklore, telling of a Lord Nann and a similar witch, Korrigan.Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-earth, pgs. 245-6 & 320
==Background==
It was first published in the former literary magazine The Welsh Review in December of 1945."The Welsh Review" on Tolkienbooks.net Fifty years later in 2002, the poem was reprinted in a limited bilingual Serbian/English book, Pesma o Otruu i Itrun with only 500 copies.Index Translationum (search result for Tolkien + Serbian)" on "Unesco.org" The book was republished as an expanded edition in June of 2015.PESMA O OTRUU I ITRUN – Dž.R.R. Tolkin on Art-Anima In 2016, the poem was republished in English as a book by HarperCollins as The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, together with The Corrigan Poems. The 2016 book was edited by Verlyn Flieger and includes peripheral materials and commentary on the poem's background and development. In 2024, excerpts from The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun and it’s earlier versions, The Corrigan poems, were included as entry 116 in The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien.
==Contents==
* Note on the Text
* Introduction
* Acknowledgments
* Part One: The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
** The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
** Notes and Commentary
* Part Two: The Corrigan Poems
** Introduction
** 'The Corrigan' I
** Notes and Commentary
** 'The Corrigan' II
** Notes and Commentary
* Part Three: The Fragment, Manuscript Drafts and Typescript
** The Fragment
** The Manuscript Drafts
** Aotrou & Itroun fair copy manuscript
** Notes and Commentary
** The Typescript
** Commentary
* Part Four: Comparative Verses
** Comparative Verses
** Opening verses: Breton, French, English; Tolkien
** Closing verses: Breton, French, English; Tolkien
Footnotes
==In other versions==
===The Corrigan I===
===The Corrigan II===
===The Fragment===
===The Manuscript Drafts===
===Aotrou & Itroun fair copy manuscript===
===The Typescript===
===Further revisions===
==External links==
* Official page
* Barnes & Noble 
* Amazon.com
== References ==
Category:Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien
Category:Primary literature
Category:Books on Medieval texts
Category:Primary lit. published by HarperCollins
Category:2016 publications
Category:Official posthumous J.R.R. Tolkien editions
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Category:Tolkien's Medieval works