Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
by J. R. R. Tolkien
97 Members (4.13)
On This Page
Tags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
Members
- Recently Added By
Lists
GreatBooks Worldview Academy Lists
133 works; 4 members
Author Information
601+ Works 516,819 Members
A writer of fantasies, Tolkien, a professor of language and literature at Oxford University, was always intrigued by early English and the imaginative use of language. In his greatest story, the trilogy The Lord of the Rings (1954--56), Tolkien invented a language with vocabulary, grammar, syntax, even poetry of its own. Though readers have show more created various possible allegorical interpretations, Tolkien has said: "It is not about anything but itself. (Certainly it has no allegorical intentions, general, particular or topical, moral, religious or political.)" In The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962), Tolkien tells the story of the "master of wood, water, and hill," a jolly teller of tales and singer of songs, one of the multitude of characters in his romance, saga, epic, or fairy tales about his country of the Hobbits. Tolkien was also a formidable medieval scholar, as evidenced by his work, Beowulf: The Monster and the Critics (1936) and his edition of Anciene Wisse: English Text of the Anciene Riwle. Among his works published posthumously, are The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur, which was edited by his son, Christopher. In 2013, his title, TheHobbit (Movie Tie-In) made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Work Relationships
Is contained in
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
- Disambiguation notice
- This entry is for editions of Tolkien's essay "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" published as a separate work. DO NOT COMBINE with The Monsters and the Critics and other essays or with Michael Drout's analysis o... (show all)f essays Beowulf and the Critics
Classifications
Statistics
- Members
- 97
- Popularity
- 331,908
- Rating
- (4.13)
- Languages
- English, Hungarian, Russian, Swedish
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 6
