Beowulf and The Critics

Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien is a book edited by Michael D. C. Drout that presents scholary editions of the two manuscript versions of Tolkien's essays or lecture series "Beowulf and the Critics", which served as the basis for the much shorter 1936 lecture "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics".

Beowulf and the Critics was awarded the 2003 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies.

Works by J. R. R. Tolkien
See J. R. R. Tolkien bibliography for a full bibliography.
Fiction
1930s
  • Songs for the Philologists (1936)
  • The Hobbit (1937)
1940s
  • Leaf by Niggle (1947)
  • The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945)
  • Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
1950s
  • The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953)
  • The Lord of the Rings:
    • The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
    • The Two Towers (1954)
    • The Return of the King (1955)
1960s
  • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (1962)
  • Tree and Leaf (1964)
  • The Tolkien Reader (1966)
  • The Road Goes Ever On (1967)
  • Smith of Wootton Major (1967)
Posthumous
fiction
1970s
  • The Father Christmas Letters (1976)
  • The Silmarillion (1977)
1980s
  • Unfinished Tales (1980)
  • Mr. Bliss (1982)
1990s
  • Bilbo's Last Song (1990)
  • The History of Middle-earth (12 Volumes) (1983–1996)
  • Roverandom (1998)
2000s
  • The Children of Húrin (2007)
  • The History of The Hobbit (2007)
  • The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009)
Academic
1920s
  • A Middle English Vocabulary (1922)
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925)
  • Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography (1925)
  • The Devil's Coach Horses (1925)
  • Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad (1929)
1930s
  • The Name "Nodens" (1932)
  • Sigelwara Land Parts I and II, in Medium Aevum (1932–34)
  • Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale (1934)
  • Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1936)
  • The Reeve's Tale: version prepared for recitation at the "summer diversions" (1939)
  • On Fairy-Stories (1939)
1940s
  • Sir Orfeo (1944)
1950s
  • Ofermod and Beorhtnoth's Death (1953)
  • Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic enquiry (1953)
1960s
  • Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (1962)
  • English and Welsh (1963)
  • Introduction to Tree and Leaf (1964)
  • Contributions to the Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer) (1966)
  • Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical) (1966)
Posthumous
academic
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Modern English translations, 1975)
  • Finn and Hengest (1982)
  • The Monsters and the Critics (1983)
  • Beowulf and the Critics (2002)
Beowulf
Characters
  • Beowulf
  • Grendel
  • Grendel's mother
  • Hroðgar
  • Ecgþeow
  • Hygelac
  • Heardred
  • Æschere
  • Onela
  • Wealhþeow
  • Wiglaf
  • Unferð
  • Hygd
  • The Dragon
Scholars &
translators
  • M. H. Abrams
  • Michael J. Alexander
  • Nora Kershaw Chadwick
  • Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • Michael D. C. Drout
  • Seamus Heaney
  • William Morris
  • Frederick Klaeber
  • Burton Raffel
  • J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Charles Leslie Wrenn
Depictions
Books
  • Grendel
  • Eaters of the Dead
  • Beyond Beowulf
Film
  • Grendel Grendel Grendel
  • Beowulf
  • The 13th Warrior
  • Beowulf & Grendel
  • Wrath of Gods
  • Grendel
  • Beowulf
See also
  • Anglo-Saxon paganism
  • Battle of Finnsburg
  • "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics"
  • Heorot
  • Hrunting
  • Nægling
  • Nowell Codex


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