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 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 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 ...

More than a decade before writing The Hobbit, Tolkien completed his translation from the Old English of this epic poem, whose influence on his Lord of the Rings Trilogy is well known. Tolkien ...

JRR Tolkien's translation of the epic Beowulf is to be published for the first time almost 90 years after its completion. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary will be published in May, giving Tolkien ...

On Nov. 25, 1936, a young Oxford professor delivered a lecture to the British Academy in London about the Old English epic “Beowulf.” Ronald, as the professor’s friends called him, argued that ...

University professor, author and Word on Fire academic fellow Holly Ordway has been fascinated by The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien since her teen years. Indeed, her doctoral thesis was on ...

Tolkien's estate has signed a deal with HarperCollins to release it as a book in May, accompanied by further thoughts on the text which he prepared for a series of lectures given at Oxford during his ...