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The Monsters and the Critics 
Dustwrapper of first editionAuthor(s) J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien Country United Kingdom, United States Language English Genre(s) Literature, Essays Publisher George Allen & Unwin, Houghton Mifflin Publication date 1983 ISBN 0-0480-9019-0 OCLC Number 9945117 Dewey Decimal 820/.9 19 LC Classification PE27 .T65 1983 The Monsters and the Critics is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's scholarly linguistic essays edited by his son Christopher and published posthumously in 1983.
The essays are:
- "Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics" looks at Beowulf.
- "On Translating Beowulf" looks at translating Anglo-Saxon.
- "On Fairy-Stories," the 1939 Andrew Lang lecture at St Andew's University, is a defence of the fantasy genre.
- "A Secret Vice" talks about creating imaginary languages, giving background to Tolkien's Quenya and Sindarin.
- "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is a study of the medieval poem of the same name.
- "English and Welsh," the inaugural O'Donnell Memorial Lecture (1955), is a survey of the historical relationship between the two tongues, including an analysis of the word Welsh.
- "Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford", given upon his retirement in 1959.
External links
- The Monsters and the Critics publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Works by J. R. R. Tolkien Fiction 1930sSongs for the Philologists (1936) · The Hobbit (1937)1940s1950sThe 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))1960sThe 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
fiction1970sThe Father Christmas Letters (1976) · The Silmarillion (1977)1980s1990s2000sThe Children of Húrin (2007) · The History of The Hobbit (2007) · The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009)Academic 1920sA 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)1930sThe 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)1940sSir Orfeo (1944)1950sOfermod and Beorhtnoth's Death (1953) · Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic enquiry (1953)1960sAncrene 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
academicSir 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)Categories:- Essays in literary criticism
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