Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, Together with Sellic Spell

ISBN-13: 9780007590070 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014

J R R Tolkien

Opis

The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.

Recenzje

"This is long-awaited, and hugely exciting for Tolkien readers" The Guardian

"If he had never written The Lord of the Rings he would have been famous in academic circles for writing one published lecture on Beowulf called The Monsters and the Critics. It turned things upside down. Beowulf was probably the medieval text that influenced him the most and the commentary and lectures are 'nuggets of gold'"
The Independent

"A tantalising prospect. Tolkien's translation of Sir Gawain is a master class in linguistic chicanery - Middle English meets Middle Earth... it will be interesting to see if it gives Heaney's Beowulf a run for its money"
Simon Armitage, The Guardian

O autorze

J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over 60 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.

Christopher Tolkien was born on 21 November 1924. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Air Force, later returning to Oxford University to become a Fellow and Tutor. He devoted himself after his father's death in 1973 to the editing of his unpublished writings, notably The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, the twelve volumes of The History of Middle-earth, The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien and The Fall of Gondolin. He died in 2020 at the age of 95.