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Presents a portrait of the freemason leader, noting his influence on eighteenth-century artists and royality, and citing his alleged theft of Marie Antoinette's diamond necklace and his arrest by the Inquisition for heresy.

"Since his death on a Persian battlefield in A.D. 363, the violent end of the Emperor Julian has become synonymous with the death of paganism. But how did a young philosopher-warrior, who ruled for only eighteen months, come to be seen as one of the…

Follows The Book of Lost Tales, parts 1 & 2, and precedes The Shaping of Middle-earth.

Tolkien's version of the great legend of Northern antiquity. In the first part, we follow the adventures of Sigurd, the slayer of Fafnir, and his betrothal to the Valkyrie Brynhild. In the second, the tragedy mounts to its end in the murder of Sigurd…