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''The Fall of Arthur'' is the title of an unfinished poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, concerned with the legend of King Arthur. A first posthumous edition of the poem was published by HarperCollins in May 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Fall of Arthur – J.R.R. Tolkien )〕 The poem is alliterative, extending to close to 1,000 verses imitating the Old English ''Beowulf'' metre in Modern English. Though inspired by high medieval Arthurian fiction, the historical setting of the poem is early medieval, both in form (using Germanic verse) and in content, showing Arthur as a Migration period British military leader fighting the Saxon invasion, while it avoids the high medieval aspects Arthurian cycle (such as the Grail, and the courtly setting); the poem begins with a British "counter-invasion" to the Saxon lands (''Arthur eastward in arms purposed'').〔announcing the 2013 edition, ''The Guardian'' on 9 October 2012 published the poem's first nine verses; Alison Flood, ('New' JRR Tolkien epic due out next year ) guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 9 October 2012.〕 ==Composition history== Tolkien, who was at the time Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford, wrote the poem during the earlier part of the 1930s. He abandoned it at some point after 1934, most likely in 1937 when he was occupied with preparing ''The Hobbit'' for publication.〔 (HarperCollins ) cover text: "() he evidently began it in the earlier nineteen-thirties, and it was sufficiently advanced for 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".〕 Its composition thus dates to shortly after ''The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun'', a poem of 508 lines modelled on the Breton lay genre, written in 1930. When the poem had been abandoned for nearly 20 years, in 1955 (after the publication of ''The Lord of the Rings'' was complete), Tolkien expressed his wish to return to his "long poem" and complete it in a letter to Houghton Mifflin,〔the text of this letter was published as no. 165 in ''The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien'' (1981).〕 but in spite of this the poem remained unfinished. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Fall of Arthur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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