Name: Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary Together With Sellic Spell
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Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
ISBN: 9780544570306

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Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary Together With Sellic Spell

Type

Physical Book

Author

J. R. R. Tolkien

Christopher Tolkien

Publisher

William Morrow and Company

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8 x 13.2 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9780544570306

Synopsis "Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary Together With Sellic Spell "

New York Times bestseller"A thrill . . . Beowulf was Tolkien's lodestar. Everything he did led up to or away from it." --New Yorker J.R.R. Tolkien completed his translation of Beowulf in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition includes an illuminating written commentary on the poem by the translator himself, drawn from a series of lectures he gave at Oxford in the 1930s. His creative attention to detail in these lectures gives rise to a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if Tolkien entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beach their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to Beowulf's rising anger at Unferth's taunting, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot. "Essential for students of the Old English poem--and the ideal gift for devotees of the One Ring." --Kirkus

J. R. R. Tolkien

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J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was an influential British writer, poet, philologist, and professor, famous for his heroic fantasy works. Among his most notable creations are “The Hobbit”, “The Lord of the Rings” (epic trilogy), and “The Silmarillion”, which explore the world of Middle Earth.

Professor at the University of Oxford and member of the literary group the Inklings (with C.S. Lewis), Tolkien was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1972. His work has marked a milestone in fantasy literature.

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Christopher Tolkien

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(United Kingdom, 1924 - France, 2020) was a British writer, third son of the writer J. R. R. Tolkien and Edith Bratt. He was appointed by him as his literary executor. Besides being the leading global authority on the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, he has been an immensely tenacious, insightful, and competent editor who carried out a titanic task for over forty years. After the death of J.R.R. Tolkien in 1973, Christopher Tolkien left his job at the University of Oxford to dedicate himself to organizing the vast amount of manuscripts that the famous author of The Lord of the Rings had left unpublished.

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