One of the oldest, longest and most influential works in the history of Old English will soon be experienced through the eyes of one of the world’s most beloved fantasy authors. J.R.R. Tolkien’s ...

J.R.R. Tolkien is, of course, best known for writing a series of books about furry midgets and their taste in jewelry. But he was also a professor of literature, and in fact that was pretty much his ...

JRR Tolkien's translation of the 11th-century poem Beowulf is to finally be published. The Lord of the Rings author's version of the epic fantasy story will be released for the first time since it was ...

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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 ...

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 ...

I started reading Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf on the way to my first cross-country meet in 8th grade. I didn’t know anything about the story—I didn’t even know that the language printed on the other side ...

As mentioned in Good Morning News, the renowned Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, has died. I had plenty of his poetry foisted upon me in my senior high school English class, and various obituaries and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There's more to J.R.R. Tolkien than wizards and hobbits. The author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit was also an Oxford ...

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 ...