Hwæt! Almost 90 years after JRR Tolkien translated the 11th-century poem Beowulf, The Lord of the Rings author's version of the epic story is to be published for the first time in an edition which his ...

Although some might see yet another posthumous publication from JRR Tolkien as scraping the barrel, John Garth says that the author's expertise on the Old English epic suggests it should be taken ...

Fans of J R R Tolkien must wonder why there is any controversy associated with the recent publication of his 1926 translation of Beowulf. For them anything new from Tolkien is welcome. But imagine if ...

Everyone knows J.R.R. Tolkien as the author of The Lord of the Rings. It should probably come as no surprise that the man who wrote eloquent prophecies and invented an entire elvish language and ...

JRR Tolkien's translation of the 11th-century poem Beowulf will finally be published this spring, 90 years after the author wrote it. The author's son, Christopher Tolkien edited the translation of ...

The story of Beowulf, the longest epic poem in Old English, was turned into a film in 2007 starring Ray Winstone as the dragon-slaying warrior JRR Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf, the epic ...

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JRR Tolkien's 1926 translation will be accompanied by his previously unpublished short story Sellic Spell Wikimedia Commons JRR Tolkien's translation of Beowulf, the longest epic poem in Old English ...

In 1926, J.R.R. Tolkien, one of fiction’s finest crafters of fantasy worlds, translated the 11th-century epic “Beowulf.” Nearly 90 years later, his son Christopher Tolkien is releasing an edited ...