The great J.R.R. Tolkien (may he live forever) has yet another work coming out this week, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun. The Tolkien Library has an FAQ on the book, saying the legend will be released as Tolkien wrote it, not in a heavily edited version. This material was written before The Hobbit and after his translation of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” while the professor was teaching Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. Of note is the introduction, also written by Tolkien. “Introducing the work is one of Tolkien’s lectures on Norse literature, so you get to ‘hear’ the voice of the author as he would have spoken when introducing the legends to students.”

One U.K. newspaper reports The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun was already one of the country’s most pre-ordered titles back in February. The reviewer said, “As in all good sagas, there is a lot of betrayal, love, slaughter, and in the Norse tradition: dragons, dwarves, wolves, kings, queens, golden hoards and a lot of drinking.”