The Monsters and the Critics

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  • The
  • complete
  • collection
  • of
  • Tolkien’s
  • essays,
  • including
  • two
  • on
  • Beowulf,
  • which
  • span
  • three
  • decades
  • beginning
  • six
  • years
  • before
  • The
  • Hobbit
  • to
  • five
  • years
  • after
  • The
  • Lord
  • of
  • the
  • Rings.The
  • seven
  • essays
  • by
  • J.R.R.
  • Tolkien
  • assembled
  • in
  • this
  • edition
  • were
  • with
  • one
  • exception
  • delivered
  • as
  • general
  • lectures
  • on
  • particular
  • occasions;
  • and
  • while
  • they
  • mostly
  • arose
  • out
  • of
  • Tolkien’s
  • work
  • in
  • medieval
  • literature,
  • they
  • are
  • accessible
  • to
  • all.
  • Two
  • of
  • them
  • are
  • concerned
  • with
  • Beowulf,
  • including
  • the
  • well-known
  • lecture
  • whose
  • title
  • is
  • taken
  • for
  • this
  • book,
  • and
  • one
  • with
  • Sir
  • Gawain
  • and
  • the
  • Green
  • Knight,
  • given
  • in
  • the
  • University
  • of
  • Glasgow
  • in
  • 1953.Also
  • included
  • in
  • this
  • volume
  • is
  • the
  • lecture
  • ‘English
  • and
  • Welsh’;
  • the
  • Valedictory
  • Address
  • to
  • the
  • University
  • of
  • Oxford
  • in
  • 1959;
  • and
  • a
  • paper
  • on
  • Invented
  • Languages
  • delivered
  • in
  • 1931,
  • with
  • exemplification
  • from
  • poems
  • in
  • the
  • Elvish
  • tongues.
  • Most
  • famous
  • of
  • all
  • is
  • ‘On
  • Fairy-Stories’,
  • a
  • discussion
  • of
  • the
  • nature
  • of
  • fairy-tales
  • and
  • fantasy,
  • which
  • gives
  • insight
  • into
  • Tolkien’s
  • approach
  • to
  • the
  • whole
  • genre.The
  • pieces
  • in
  • this
  • collection
  • cover
  • a
  • period
  • of
  • nearly
  • thirty
  • years,
  • beginning
  • six
  • years
  • before
  • the
  • publication
  • of
  • The
  • Hobbit,
  • with
  • a
  • unique
  • ‘academic’
  • lecture
  • on
  • his
  • invention
  • (calling
  • it
  • ‘A
  • Secret
  • Vice’)
  • and
  • concluding
  • with
  • his
  • farewell
  • to
  • professorship,
  • five
  • years
  • after
  • the
  • publication
  • of
  • The
  • Lord
  • of
  • the Rings.
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