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The House of the Wolfings

William Morris

Book Overview: 

The House of the Wolfings tells the story of how Thiodolf and his clan - the Wolfings - fight and vanquish the Roman invaders. Thiodolf is protected by a dwarfish coat of mail, given to him by his lover Wood Sun, herself one of the Vala, the immortals. But things are not what they seem and what is meant to protect him, is also a curse.

For fans of Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .The Wolfings were the tallest and the biggest made; but of those dark-haired men aforesaid, were there fewest amongst the Beamings, and most among the Elkings, as though they had drawn to them more men of alien blood during their wanderings aforesaid.  So they talked together and made each other good cheer, as is the wont of companions in arms on the eve of battle; and the talk ran, as may be deemed, on that journey and what was likely to come of it: and spake an Elking warrior to a Wolfing by whom he rode:

“O Wolfkettle, hath the Hall-Sun had any foresight of the day of battle?”

“Nay,” said the other, “when she lighted the farewell candle, she bade us come back again, and spoke of the day of our return; but that methinks, as thou and I would talk of it, thinking what would be likely to befal.  Since we are a great host of valiant men, and these Welshmen {2} most valiant, and as the rumour runneth bigger-bodied men th. . . Read More

Community Reviews

If Tolkien had never written The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series and everything that came along with that, William Morris’s House of the Wolfings would be a much bigger deal, I think.

Morris’ book is a wine of similar vintage but with the extra maturity that a several decades’ difference mak

This an interesting book on many levels. It is a translation of a Norse saga by a (relatively) modern fantasy writer, and the book influenced or inspired some of the great fantasy writers, especially Tolkien. The vocabulary that is used throughout is archaic (words such as kine, carle, carline, thra

This is a (relatively) modern epic, written at least a century ago, but not in the Dark Ages. I am fond of JRR Tolkien’s books and I read that he was influenced by “The House of the Wolfings”. I could see many of the influences, especially the elevated language and many specific terms found in LoTR.

The first 'fantasy' novel of Morris - and thus, maybe the first fantasy novel ever written, as he really invented the genre. Developed out of his work translating Norse and German medieval epic poems, it tells the story of the Goth tribe who inhabit an area called Mark in the forest of Mirkwood. The

This book, published in 1889, is considered the first modern fantasy novel and influenced an entire genre. The influence it had on Tolkein is very clear, both in language and subject matter. The House of the Wolfings tells the story of an early invasion of the Romans in the Goth's homeland, the Mark

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