The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by JRR Tolkien

The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by JRR Tolkien is set to be published in May 2009 following christopher tolkiens editing.

The volume was originally written in the early 1920's even before the hobbit and the lord of the rings and tells the story of the Norse legend of Sigurd and the Fall of the Nilfungs. This was also the legend that inspired Wagner to write Der Ring des Nibelungen (the ring of the nibelung).

Very few people have ever read the unpublished manuscript and is is thought the work is narrated poems. It is knownb that Sigurd and the Dragon has been one of tolkiens major influences in his later novels. Tolkien is also known to have written a translation of beowolf and a poem called "The Fall of Arthur".