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This edition includes an illuminating written Commentary on the poem by the translator himself, drawn from a series of lectures he gave at Oxf.
Tolkien completed his Translation of Beowulf in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.
Everything he did led up to or away from it.- -- New Yorker J.
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Beowulf was Tolkien\'s lodestar. . .
New York Times bestseller -A thrill