[DOC] [TLE] Beowulf - Wikipedia [PAR] Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative lines. It may 
be the oldest ... Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hrothgar, the 
king of the Danes, whose .... Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main 
character is a hero who travels ..... J. R. R. Tolkien argued that the poem is an 
elegy. [DOC] [TLE] Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics - Wikipedia [PAR] ... Tolkien on literary criticism on the Old English heroic epic poem Beowulf. ... In 
doing so he drew attention to the previously neglected literary qualities of the 
poem ... The essay is a redacted version of a series of lectures that Tolkien 
delivered ..... wrote that the title essay "revolutionized the study of the early 
English poem... [DOC] [TLE] Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary - Wikipedia [PAR] In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the aid of ... 
goes home to Geatland in Sweden and later becomes king of the Geats. ... poem 
that became the base for Tolkien's acclaimed 1936 lecture "Beowulf: The ... he 
had to make compromises in translating the original Old English epic. .... 
Characters. [DOC] [TLE] Old English literature - Wikipedia [PAR] Old English literature or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses literature written in 
Old English .... While Anglo-Saxon (Old English) epic poetry may bear some 
resemblance to ... The poem tells the story of the legendary Geatish hero Beowulf
, who is the title character. .... All creation wept, mourned the death of the king. [DOC] [TLE] Beowulf - CliffsNotes [PAR] In a seminal lecture, often anthologized (see CliffsNotes Resource Center), 
English novelist and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien ("Beowulf: The Monsters and the ... 
When he arrives in Hrothgar's kingdom, the hero of the epic is still a very young 
man. ... to blows, as Beowulf's reputation later does when he is the king of 
Geatland. [DOC] [TLE] Slaying Monsters - The New Yorker [PAR] Jun 2, 2014 ... Tolkien finished his translation of the poem in 1926, at the age of ... He had 
learned Old English and started reading the poem at an ... But he also has 
human qualities. ... He has become the King of the Geats and ruled them for fifty 
years. .... According to Tolkien, Beowulf was not an epic or a heroic lay,... [DOC] [TLE] In Beowulf we have ... an historical poem about the pagan past, or [PAR] [In the following excerpt from a 1936 British Academy lecture, Tolkien asserts that 
... successful poem in Old English literature based upon its aesthetic qualities.] ... 
an allegory (political or mythical), or most often, an epic; or to disappointment at 
.... into the past, surveying the history of kings and warriors in the old traditions,... [DOC] [TLE] Beowulf: The Monsters and the Criticst J. R. R. TOLKIEN [PAR] read the books ... which have been printed in our old English, or~ ... "Beawulf: 
The Monsters and the Critics," Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture, Pro- .... voice
); it is a national epic; it is a translation from the Danish; it was .... coming from a 
critic, who deserves the title of the poet's best friend. ...... tale of Grendel to 
Geatland. [DOC] [TLE] Masaryk University Faculty of Arts Department of English and ... [PAR] It describes the qualities of the typical medieval epic hero and compares the ... It 
is the only Old English heroic poem to survive complete and with its 3,182 verses 
it is ... Then Beowulf, a mighty warrior of the Geats and the nephew of their king ... 
J.R.R. Tolkien delivered to the British Academy his lecture on Beowulf called... [DOC] [TLE] Hear Beowulf Read In the Original Old English: How Many Words ... [PAR] Oct 24, 2014 ... Beowulf is, of course, the oldest epic poem in English, written ... The title 
character, a hero of the Geatsor ancient Swedestravels to Denmark to offer 
his services to the king and defeat the monster Grendel (and

Question: Tolkien lectured on this king of the Geats, the title character of an Old English epic poem
Answer: Beowulf