The world first publication of a previously unknown work by J.R.R. Tolkien, which tells the extraordinary story of the final days of England\047s legendary hero, King Arthur.\012\012The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skilful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative metre, in which he brought to his transforming perceptions of the old narratives a pervasive sense of the grave and fateful nature of all that is told: of Arthur\047s expedition overseas into distant heathen lands, of Guinevere\047s flight from Camelot, of the great sea-battle on Arthur\047s return to Britain, in the portrait of the traitor Mordred, in the tormented doubts of Lancelot in his French castle.