The Fall of Arthur is an incomplete, alliterative poem by J.R.R. Tolkien about the life of King Arthur from British legend. It was released fully in 2013 by HarperCollins in a publication by Christopher Tolkien, giving background on Tolkien's experimentation and development of the poem. A deluxe hardcover edition of this was also released in the same year.
The poem was based on part of Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory. Though written in Modern English, the poem used the same verse form and style as Beowulf. When Tolkien began or abandoned it is entirely unknown,[1] although Tolkien would write to Houghton Mifflin in 1955 that we hoped to finish it.[2] Some excerpts of the poem appeared in Humphrey Carpenter's J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography (1981).[3]
Contents[]
Frontispiece
Foreword
The Fall of Arthur
Notes on the Text of The Fall of Arthur
The Poem in Arthurian Tradition
The Unwritten Poem and its Relation to The Silmarillion
