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'A thrill . . . “Beowulf― was Tolkienâ€s lodestar. Everything he
did led up to or away from it . . . Perhaps, in the dark of night, he
already knew what would happen: that he would never publish his
beautiful “Beowulf,― and that his intimacy with the poem, more
beautiful, would remain between him and the poet—a secret love.' --
New Yorker'Both scholars and lay readers have long awaited Tolkien's
'Beowulf' translation and its related materials, and everyone will find
something of enduring interest in this collection. For Tolkien,
'Beowulf' was both a brilliant and haunting work in its own right and an
inspiration for his own fiction. It is a poem that will move us as
readers, not forever but as long as we last. Or as Tolkien says, 'It
must ever call with a profound appeal—until the dragon comes.' -- Wall
Street Journal'Tolkien-as-guide is delightful, an irresistibly chatty
schoolmaster in the Chaucerian mold . . . His learning and Beowulfâ€s
patterns of gloom and fragile light feel intimately related . . . his
noble translation joins the ranks of the narrowly saved.' – Slate'This
rendition—edited by his son Christopher and published for the first
time—will delight fans . . . lovers of Tolkien's work will agree that
this is a book long overdue.' – Publishers Weekly'A marvel of vigor
and economy . . . Essential for students of the Old English poem—and
the ideal gift for devotees of the One Ring.' — Kirkus Read more Front
cover: New York Times bestseller   Back cover:  “A thrill . . .
Beowulf was TolkienÂ’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. Â 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 BeowulfÂ’s rising anger at UnferthÂ’s taunting, or looking
up in amazement at GrendelÂ’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
(1892–1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and the author of such

classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit, The Lord of
the Rings, and The Silmarillion. His books have been translated into
more than sixty languages and have sold many millions of copies
worldwide. Â CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN is the third son of J.R.R. Tolkien. He
has devoted himself since his fatherÂ’s death to the editing and
publication of unpublished writings, notably The Silmarillion and the
collections entitled Unfinished Tales and The History of Middle-earth.
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