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Article: "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son": Tolkien as a modern Anglo-Saxon.(J.R.R. Tolkien)(Critical Essay)
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- September 22, 2002
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THE recent success of Seamus Heaney's adaptation of the Old English Beowulf was a phenomenon as surprising to the literary world as to the publishing houses. As copies of this thousand year-old poem flew off the shelves and booksellers scrambled to find more of what had been a very modest print run, the shock was as great at the universities as it was at the New York Times. Why, everyone was suddenly wondering, was a musty old story about monsters and a hero in a strange old language more readable than Harry Potter?
Like the tip of the proverbial iceberg, the Heaney translation uncovers a vast and, for the most part, uncharted field of modern literature which ...
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January 26, 2003 ;
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... ... BOB HAYWOOD FOR nearly 50 years John Tolkien selflessly ministered to the spiritual ... he was the eldest child of J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, the ... more than 40 years on - estimated that Tolkien had probably molested hundreds of youngsters ...
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