The Monsters and the Critics
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| Author | J. R. R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien |
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| Country | United Kingdom, United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Literature, Essays |
| Publisher | George Allen & Unwin, Houghton Mifflin |
| Released | 1983 |
| ISBN | 0-0480-9019-0 |
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 language.
- "On Fairy-Stories" 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" was Tolkien's valedictory address to the University of Oxford, explaining the origin of the word "Welsh".
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