The Old English Exodus
From Tolkien Gateway
| The Old English Exodus | |
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| Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Editor | Joan Turville-Petre |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Released | 28 January 1982 |
| Format | Hardback in dustwrapper |
| Pages | x, 85 |
| ISBN | 0198111770 |
The Old English Exodus collects J.R.R. Tolkien's text and translation of the Old English poem that is known as Exodus. They are accompanied by a commentary that has been produced by editing his notes for a series of informal lectures delivered to a specialist class in Oxford in the 1930s and 1940s.
Although dated 1981, the book was actually published in January 1982. 3,000 copies were printed and it has not been reprinted.[1]
References
- ↑ "The Old English Exodus. 1981", TolkienBooks.net (accessed 26 March 2012)
