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TCG YouTube Season 1 episode 16 - Tolkien's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

7 Oct, 2022
2022-10-7 4:16:47 PM UTC

Tolkien Collector's Guide Season 1 Episode 16

The team at Tolkien Collector's Guide sit down to talk about JRR Tolkien's work on the Middle English romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which first saw publication in1925 but is still in print today through many editions and more than one co-author.

Links mentioned in the video:
● BBC In our Time - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight episode discussion and link: https://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/n ... ewtopic.php?post_id=21198
● UK editions of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: https://tolkienbooks.net/php/gallery.php?subsection=11
● UK editions of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl & Sir Orfeo: https://tolkienbooks.net/php/gallery2.php?subsection=40&hsection=A
● US editions of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl & Sir Orfeo: https://www.tolkienbooks.us/ap/gpo

With thanks to Tolkieniano for pictures of his SGGK collection

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Huan

8 Oct, 2022
2022-10-8 1:03:30 PM UTC

Thanks, chaps. A nice video.

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Ulmo

8 Oct, 2022
2022-10-8 5:01:57 PM UTC

Thanks for the engaging video!

I didn’t catch this mentioned, but the standalone Gawain (with E.V. Gordon) is the critical edition, i.e., it is the original Middle English text. Whereas Gawain, Pearl, & Orfeo (ed. Christopher) contains Tolkien’s translation into Modern English. Both books are still in print, for this reason.

The original U.S. hardcover of Gawain, Pearl, & Orfeo has an absolutely hideous jacket, but HMC made up for it with their first paperback with lovely cover art by Pauline Baynes. I regret this art never made it onto a hardcover—perhaps in a set matching the 70s Bombadil/Farmer/Smith. Strange the U.K. never got it at all.

I also quite like the John Howe art from 1975. Again sadly paperback-only.

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Ulmo

8 Oct, 2022
2022-10-8 5:15:15 PM UTC

Actually the art I have been recently wowed by is the present Ballantine MMPs, with art by Michael James Bowman. His Gawain is quite good, but I am more impressed by his HoMe/Sil/UT pieces.

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remy

16 Oct, 2022
2022-10-16 11:37:42 AM UTC

Hi Ulmo,

Have you purchased these? I was looking for the Smith Wootton/Farmer Giles - but can't seem to find it online.

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Trotter

16 Oct, 2022
2022-10-16 11:59:30 AM UTC

Smith Wootton/Farmer Giles has been announced as available, but I think it is difficult to actually find copies to buy with the new cover.

http://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/179196/

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remy

16 Oct, 2022
2022-10-16 1:41:43 PM UTC

Thanks Trotter. I am sure it will turn up somewhere in the near future.

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Ulmo

16 Oct, 2022
2022-10-16 6:51:26 PM UTC

Walmart
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Smith-of-Wo ... ck-9780345336064/25676115

Books-a-Million
https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Smith- ... J-R-Tolkien/9780345336064

Nevertheless your guess is as good as mine whether they have the old cover or the new cover actually in stock. Same with Amazon or other sites which still show the old cover. Same ISBN, obvs.

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remy

16 Oct, 2022
2022-10-16 10:20:56 PM UTC

Thanks Ulmo. I will wait until I am sure that it is the new cover.

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