The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays.
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Get this from a library! The monsters and the critics, and other essays. (J R R Tolkien; Christopher Tolkien).
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The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays. 126 likes. The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's scholarly.
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics Read to the British Academy in 1936, The Monsters and the Critics (Tolkien was clear which he preferred) became a landmark in the study of Beowulf. Typically, Tolkien blames the authorities for dismissing the story provided by the poet and treating it merely as a quarry for bits of data on history.
The seven essays by J.R.R. Tolkien assembled in this edition were with one exception delivered as general lectures on particular occasions; and while they mostly arose out of Tolkien’s work in medieval literature, they are accessible to all.