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 ...

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JRR Tolkien's version of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem 'Beowulf' is set to be released to the Tolkien-craving masses. Tolkien's son Christopher says the book focuses on the backstory of 'Beowulf,' which ...

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 ...

The long Hwaet! is over for scholars and Tolkien fans as the Lord of the Rings author’s translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem is published after 88 years. The latest episode in Peter Jackson’s ...

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 ...

The literary landscape has changed since Tolkien’s day in a way he would neither expect nor acknowledge: he is now more famous than the “fairy stories” that obsessed him. By John Garth Beowulf: a ...

Robert Zemeckis’ new film “Beowulf” gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “the sublime and the ridiculous.” Zemeckis took the oldest and most important text of our ur-language, and turned it into a ...

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 ...

One does not casually read “Beowulf.” It takes commitment. It also takes a good translation, and few were better at that than Oxford don J.R.R. Tolkien, better known now as the author of “The Lord of ...

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 ...