{"product_id":"beowulf-a-translation-and-commentary-9780544570306","title":"Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A thrill . . . \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e was Tolkien's lodestar. Everything he did led up to or away from it.\" --\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e J.R.R. Tolkien completed his translation of \u003cem\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/em\u003ein 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 Beowulf's rising anger at Unferth's taunting, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Essential for students of the Old English poem--and the ideal gift for devotees of the One Ring.\" --\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892-1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and the author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as \u003ci\u003eThe Hobbit, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Silmarillion.\u003c\/i\u003e His books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN is the third son of J.R.R. Tolkien. Appointed by Tolkien to be his literary executor, he has devoted himself to the editing and publication of unpublished writings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50591219417362,"sku":"9780544570306","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eb68cc65-a6da-4795-9a81-55412812c21f.jpg?v=1732087210","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/beowulf-a-translation-and-commentary-9780544570306","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}