uproxx: Every once in a while, a new bit of Middle Earth history sees the light of day. As J.R.R. Tolkien passed away in 1973, Lord of the Rings fans don’t get a seemingly constant stream of new information that Harry Potter fans are treated to. Annotated maps are all well and good, but they only go so far. However, every once in a while, the Tolkien estate decides to release little gifts from the titan of fantasy’s archives.
According to Time, the rare poem “The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun” will be republished in November after being out of print for 70 years. read more
And they need to republish “The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens and Jorkens Remembers Africa”, by Lord Dunsany.
Have a printer?
http://ae-lib.org.ua/texts-c/tolkien__the_lay_of_aotrou_and_itroun__en.htm
Crap. Just when I was about to rerelease my epic, “there once was a man from Nantucket”
I’ll wait for a while.
Once there was a man from Nantucket
Who kept his balls in a bucket…
@PHenry: Hey, I’m in the same boat as you are. After this, I’ll have to postpone the second edition of my legendary “Here I Sit, Broken Hearted…”
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