Beowulf and the Critics

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.

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Author:J. R. R. Tolkien, Michael D. C. Drout
Genre:Essay
Year published:2002
Number of editions:1

Honors and Awards

YearAward Won
2003 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies
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YearAward Nomination
2003 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies
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Author of Beowulf and the Critics

J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
January 3, 1892 - September 2, 1973

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
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Additional works by J. R. R. Tolkien
BookCopyright DateGenre
The Lord of the Rings 1954 Fantasy
The Hobbit 1937 Children's literature
Songs for the Philologists
The Silmarillion 1977 Alternate history
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien 1981
Smith of Wootton Major Fantasy
The Tolkien Reader 1966 Fantasy
The Children of Húrin High fantasy
The Father Christmas Letters 1976 Fantasy
The History of The Hobbit
The Monsters and the Critics 1983 Essay
Unfinished Tales 1980 Fantasy
Tree and Leaf 1964 Fantasy
Tales from the Perilous Realm 1997 Fantasy
A Tolkien Miscellany
The Fellowship of the Ring Fantasy
Roverandom 1998 Fantasy
Mr. Bliss 1982 Speculative fiction
Finn and Hengest Science Fiction
Leaf by Niggle
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son
Farmer Giles of Ham Fantasy
The War of the Ring 1990 Fantasy
The War of the Jewels 1994 Fantasy
The Peoples of Middle-earth 1996 Fantasy
The Lost Road and Other Writings 1987 Fantasy
The Shaping of Middle-earth 1986 Fantasy
Morgoth's Ring 1993 Fantasy
Tolkien Calendar 2005 Fantasy
The Book of Lost Tales, Part One 1983 Fiction
Tolkien Diary 2003 July 2004 Fantasy
The Treason of Isengard 1989 Fantasy
Literature Guide
Bilbo's last song
The Return of the Shadow 1988 Fantasy
The Lays of Beleriand 1985 Fantasy
The adventures of Tom Bombadil, and other verses from the Red book 1962 Speculative fiction
Sauron Defeated 1992 Speculative fiction
Tolkien Calendar 2009
J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set 1993 Fantasy
The Histories of Middle Earth, Volumes 1-5 Fantasy
Letters From Father Christmas Fiction
Ylastelin Kolec February 1, 2005 Speculative fiction
The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle 1967 Speculative fiction
Poems and Other Stories 1980 Speculative fiction
Hobbits Journal
Arbol y Hoja - Tapa Dura -
Shinpan yubiwa monogatari
Los Pueblos de la Tierra Media
El Seor de Los Anillos
Ring Goes South Book Lord of the Rings
Hobbit, El - Version Infantil
Poemas de J.R.R. Tolkien
Le Seign DES Anneux
Egidio el Granjero de Ham
Las Baladas de Beleriand
Mapa De LA Tierra Media
kleine Hobbit
La Communaute de L'Anneaux (Lord of the Rings
signiore degli anelli
Basil Bunting and J.R.R. Tolkien
Die Wiederkehr Des Konigs III
hobbit,o, La riconquista del tesoro
Tolkien address book
A Cartas de Papa Noel, Las
Das Silmarrion
O Hobbit/ The Hobbit
Herr der Ringe
El Origen Del Senor De Los Anillos
Mo jie er bu qu: shuang cheng qi mou
La Caida de Numenor
Mo jie san bu qu: wang zhe zai lin
El Libro de Los Cuentos Perdidos I
Cartas - Tolkien - Tapa Dura -
Las Cartas de Papa Noel
Poems from the Hobbit Prepack
Yüzüklerin Efendisi
Narn i chin Hurin
Vlastelin Kolec / Lord of the Rings
Beowulf: the monsters and the critics
Hobbito no bōken
O Senor Dos Aneis
Der Herr Der Ringe
Oliphaunt
Hobbit computer tape
Hobbit Lord of the Rings
Mo jie shou bu qu: mo jie xian shen
HOBBIT BIRTHDAY BOOK CL
Władca pieršcieni
Seigneur DES Anneux
El Fin de La Tercera Edad
Mo jie qian zhuan
Appendices Final Book Lord of the Rings
Ring Sets Out Book Lord of the Rings
Pearl and Sir Orfeoa
Die Gefahrten I
Egidio, Hoja de Niggle, El Herrero
Il Signore degli Anelli : Trilogia / Italian edition of The Lord of the Rings
Tolkien-4 Vol
Los Monstruos y Los Criticos y Otros Ensayos
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Michael D. C. Drout
Michael D. C. Drout

Michael D. C. Drout is the Prentice Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Wheaton College and an author and editor specializing in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature, science fiction and fantasy, especially the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin. Drout holds...
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Additional works by Michael D. C. Drout
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Literary Genres

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