"First Publication: 1985
Published by: George Allen and Unwin (UK)
Continuing in the same vein as The Book of Lost Tales, this work contains long verse or "lays" of stories in his mythologies. These include "The Lay of the Children of Hurin" and "The Lay of Leithian," each concerning major cycles in his mythology. There was a recent release called The Children of Hurin which itself is worth obtaining, but that version is different from this as well. There are a number of other poems or lays cont"