Slaying Monsters. Tolkien’s “Beowulf.”
J. R. R. Tolkien finished his translation of “Beowulf” in 1926, at the age of thirty-four. Then he put it in a drawer and never published it. Forty years after his death, his son Christopher has brought it out. It is a thrill.
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