Beowulf and the Critics

Beowulf and the Critics
Dustwrapper of first edition
Author(s)	J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Michael D. C. Drout
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Volume 248
Subject(s)	Beowulf criticism
Genre(s)	Literature, Essays
Publisher	Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University
Publication date	2002
Media type	Hardcover
Pages	461
ISBN	0-8669-8290-6
OCLC Number	50002235
Dewey Decimal	829/.3 21
LC Classification	PR1585 .T6 2002

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.

Works by J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction

1930s	Songs for the Philologists (1936) The Hobbit (1937)

1940s	Leaf by Niggle (1947) The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945) Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)

1950s	The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953) The Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) The Two Towers (1954) The Return of the King (1955)

1960s	The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (1962) Tree and Leaf (1964) The Tolkien Reader (1966) The Road Goes Ever On (1967) Smith of Wootton Major (1967)

Posthumous
fiction

1970s	The Father Christmas Letters (1976) The Silmarillion (1977)

1980s	Unfinished Tales (1980) Mr. Bliss (1982)

1990s	Bilbo's Last Song (1990) The History of Middle-earth (12 Volumes) (1983–1996) Roverandom (1998)

2000s	The Children of Húrin (2007) The History of The Hobbit (2007) The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009)

Academic

1920s	A Middle English Vocabulary (1922) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925) Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography (1925) The Devil's Coach Horses (1925) Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad (1929)

1930s	The Name "Nodens" (1932) Sigelwara Land Parts I and II, in Medium Aevum (1932–34) Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale (1934) Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1936) The Reeve's Tale: version prepared for recitation at the "summer diversions" (1939) On Fairy-Stories (1939)

1940s	Sir Orfeo (1944)

1950s	Ofermod and Beorhtnoth's Death (1953) Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic enquiry (1953)

1960s	Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (1962) English and Welsh (1963) Introduction to Tree and Leaf (1964) Contributions to the Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer) (1966) Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical) (1966)

Posthumous
academic

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Modern English translations, 1975)
Finn and Hengest (1982)
The Monsters and the Critics (1983)
Beowulf and the Critics (2002)

Beowulf

Characters

Scholars
Translators

Depictions

Books	Grendel Eaters of the Dead The Legacy of Heorot Beowulf's Children Beyond Beowulf

Film	Grendel Grendel Grendel Beowulf (1999) The 13th Warrior Beowulf & Grendel Wrath of Gods Grendel Beowulf (2007)