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  2. Category:Essays by J. R. R. Tolkien - Wikipedia

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    This category is for essays, lectures, studies, letters and other short works of non-fiction by J. R. R. Tolkien. Pages in category "Essays by J. R. R. Tolkien" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.

  3. The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays - Wikipedia

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    The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's scholarly linguistic essays edited by his son Christopher and published posthumously in 1983. All of them were initially delivered as lectures to academics, with the exception of " On Translating Beowulf " , which Christopher Tolkien notes in his foreword is ...

  4. Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien's essay "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics", initially delivered as the Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture at the British Academy in 1936, and first published as a paper in the Proceedings of the British Academy that same year, is regarded as a formative work in modern Beowulf studies.

  5. Beowulf and the Critics - Wikipedia

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    Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien is a 2002 book edited by Michael D. C. Drout that presents scholarly 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".

  6. Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad - Wikipedia

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    "Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad" is a 1929 essay [1] by J. R. R. Tolkien on the thirteenth century Middle English treatise Ancrene Wisse ("The Anchoresses' Rule") and on the tract on virginity Hali Meiðhad ("Holy Maidenhood"). The essay has been called "the most perfect though not the best-known of Tolkien's academic pieces". [2]

  7. Tolkien and the Invention of Myth - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader is a 2004 collection of scholarly essays on J. R. R. Tolkien's writings on Middle-earth, edited by Jane Chance.It has been warmly welcomed by critics, though some of the student contributions are less useful than the revised journal articles, conference papers and lectures by the more experienced essayists, who include the established Tolkien ...

  8. Sigelwara Land - Wikipedia

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    "Sigelwara Land" is an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien that appeared in two parts, in 1932 and 1934. [1] It explores the etymology of the Old English word for the ancient Aethiopians , Sigelhearwan , and attempts to recover what it might originally have meant.

  9. The Tolkien Reader - Wikipedia

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    The Tolkien Reader is an anthology of works by J. R. R. Tolkien.It includes a variety of short stories, poems, a play and some non-fiction.It compiles material previously published as three separate shorter books (Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham, and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil), together with one additional piece and introductory material.