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Tolkien, J. R. R; Christopher Tolkien (Editor).
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays.
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, London;
Date of Publication: 1983
Stock Code: 12775
First Edition. Octavo, pp., 240. Publisher’s prussian blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, top-edge stained blue. In the publisher’s unclipped navy blue dust-jacket. Light soiling to bottom third of fore-edge of text-block. Minor browning to verso of dust-jacket, otherwise a fine copy. Published posthumously and edited and with a foreword by his son Christopher Tolkien. This anthology brings together the following seven of J. R. R. Tolkien’s most influential scholarly essays and lectures: Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, On Translating Beowulf, On Fairy-stories, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, A Secret Vice, English and Welsh and Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford. Inevitably, almost all are on some aspect of medieval literature, the nature of language and there influence on his fantasy writings.

£400.00