Tales Before Tolkien (Anderson - paperback)

Editor: Douglas A. Anderson

File under: Tolkien

ISBN: 9780345458551

Binding: paperback

Section: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Andrew Lang’s romantic swashbuckler, “The Story of Sigurd,” features magic rings, an enchanted sword, and a brave hero loved by two beautiful women — and cursed by a ferocious dragon. Tolkien read E. A. Wyke-Smith’s “The Marvelous Land of Snergs” to his children, delighting in these charming tales of a pixieish people “only slightly taller than the average table.” Also appearing in this collection is a never-before-published gem by David Lindsay, author of Voyage to Arcturus,a novel which Tolkien praised highly both as a thriller and as a work of philosophy, religion, and morals.