Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, Together with Sellic Spell

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The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926 :he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. The author:
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on the 3rd January, 1892 at Bloemfontein in the Orange Free 'state, but at the age of four he and his brother were taken back to England by their mother. After his father's death the family moved to 'sarehole, on the south-eastern edge of Birmingham. Tolkien spent a happy childhood in the countryside and his sensibility to the rural landscape can clearly be seen in his