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<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 18:56, 17 May 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 11:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>| isbn=978-0-00-748994-7</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>| isbn=978-0-00-748994-7</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''''The Fall of Arthur''''' is the title of an poem by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], concerned with the legend of [[King Arthur]]. It will be published [[23 May]] [[2013]].<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Titles/79908/the-fall-of-arthur-j-r-r-tolkien-9780007489947|articlename=The Fall of Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Edited by Christopher Tolkien|website=[http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/ HarperCollins]|accessed=10-October-2012}}</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''''The Fall of Arthur''''' is the title of an poem by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], concerned with the legend of [[King Arthur]]. It will be published <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">on </ins>[[23 May]] [[2013]].<ref>{{webcite|articleurl=http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Titles/79908/the-fall-of-arthur-j-r-r-tolkien-9780007489947|articlename=The Fall of Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Edited by Christopher Tolkien|website=[http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/ HarperCollins]|accessed=10-October-2012}}</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>According to [[Humphrey Carpenter]], who published a few brief extracts from the poem in his [[J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography|biography about Tolkien]], the poem "''has alliteration but no rhyme [and] did not touch on the Grail but began an individual rendering of the [[Wikipedia:Le Morte d'Arthur|Morte d'Arthur]], in which the king and Gawain go to war in 'Saxon lands' but are summoned home by news of Mordred's treachery''". "The Fall of Arthur" was read by [[E.V. Gordon]] and R.W. Chambers, who both approved of the poem.<ref name=Bio>[[Humphrey Carpenter]], ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography]]'' (1977 ed.), pp. 168-8</ref><ref>[[Verlyn Flieger]], "Arthurian Romance", in ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment]]'', pp. 34-5</ref></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>According to [[Humphrey Carpenter]], who published a few brief extracts from the poem in his [[J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography|biography about Tolkien]], the poem "''has alliteration but no rhyme [and] did not touch on the Grail but began an individual rendering of the [[Wikipedia:Le Morte d'Arthur|Morte d'Arthur]], in which the king and Gawain go to war in 'Saxon lands' but are summoned home by news of Mordred's treachery''". "The Fall of Arthur" was read by [[E.V. Gordon]] and R.W. Chambers, who both approved of the poem.<ref name=Bio>[[Humphrey Carpenter]], ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography]]'' (1977 ed.), pp. 168-8</ref><ref>[[Verlyn Flieger]], "Arthurian Romance", in ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment]]'', pp. 34-5</ref></div></td></tr> </table>

Morgan http://tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=The_Fall_of_Arthur&diff=229981&oldid=prev The Fall of Arthur 2013-05-17T18:31:21Z

<p></p> <table style="background-color: white; color:black;"> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <col class='diff-marker' /> <col class='diff-content' /> <tr valign='top'> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan='2' style="background-color: white; color:black;">Revision as of 18:31, 17 May 2013</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 22:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 22:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The world first publication of a previously unknown work by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England’s legendary hero, King Arthur.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The world first publication of a previously unknown work by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England’s legendary hero, King Arthur.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>''The Fall of Arthur'' <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">recounts in verse </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">last campaign </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">King </del>Arthur <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">who</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">even </del>as <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">he stands at </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">threshold </del>of [[<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Mirkwood</del>]] is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">summoned back </del>to Britain <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">by news of </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">treachery </del>of Mordred<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. Already weakened </del>in <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">spirit by Guinevere's infidelity with </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">now-exiled </del>Lancelot<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, Arthur must rouse </del>his <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">knights to battle one last time against Mordred's rebels and foreign mercenaries</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>''The Fall of Arthur''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends </ins>of Arthur <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">King of Britain</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">may well be regarded </ins>as <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">his finest and most skilful achievement in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">use </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the </ins>[[<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Old English</ins>]] <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">alliterative metre, in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful nature of all that </ins>is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">told: of Arthur’s expedition overseas into distant heathen lands, of Guinevere’s flight from Camelot, of the great sea-battle on Arthur’s return </ins>to Britain<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, in </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">portrait </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the traitor </ins>Mordred<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">tormented doubts of </ins>Lancelot <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in </ins>his <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">French castle</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Powerful, passionate and filled with vivid imagery</del>, ''The Fall of Arthur'' <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">reveals Tolkien's gift for storytelling at its brilliant best. Originally composed by J.R.R</del>. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Tolkien </del>in the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1930s</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">this work </del>was <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">set aside </del>for ''[[The Hobbit]]'' and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">has lain untouched for 80 years</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Unhappily</ins>, ''The Fall of Arthur'' <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">was one of several long narrative poems that he abandoned in that period</ins>. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">In this case he evidently began it </ins>in the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">earlier nineteen-thirties</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and it </ins>was <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">sufficiently advanced </ins>for <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">him to send it to a very perceptive friend who read it with great enthusiasm at the end of [[1934]] and urgently pressed him ‘You simply must finish it!’ But in vain: he abandoned it, at some date unknown, though there is some evidence that it may have been in 1937, the year of the publication of </ins>''[[The Hobbit]]'' and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the first stirrings of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. Years later, in a [[Letter 165|letter of 1955]], he said that ‘he hoped to finish a long poem on ''The Fall of Arthur''’; but that day never came</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Now it has been edited for publication by Tolkien's son</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Christopher Tolkien|Christopher]]</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">who contributes three illuminating essays that explore the literary world </del>of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">King Arthur</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">reveal </del>the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">deeper meaning </del>of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">verses and the painstaking work that his father applied to bring it to a finished form</del>, and the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">intriguing links between </del>''The <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Fall of Arthur</del>'' and <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">his greatest creation</del>, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Middle-earth]]</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Associated with the text of the poem</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">however</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are many manuscript pages: a great quantity </ins>of <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">drafting and experimentation in verse</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in which </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">strange evolution </ins>of the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">poem’s structure is revealed</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">together with narrative synopses </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">very significant if tantalising notes. In these latter can be discerned clear if mysterious associations of </ins>the <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Arthurian conclusion with </ins>''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</ins>The <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Silmarillion]]</ins>''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </ins>and <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the bitter ending of the love of Lancelot and Guinevere</ins>, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">which was never written</ins>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>==See also==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>==See also==</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 33:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 33:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>==External links==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>==External links==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*{{WP|Le Morte d'Arthur}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>*{{WP|Le Morte d'Arthur}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">*[[Letter 165]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">References</del>}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">references</ins>}}</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{title|italics}}</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>{{title|italics}}</div></td></tr> </table>

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