Peter Grybauskas

Peter Grybauskas is an American, independent scholar of Medieval and fantasy literature and the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. 
He teaches classes on TolkienBook launch interview for A Sense of Tales Untold in the English department of University of Maryland, College Park, and had studied English literature with Verlyn Flieger.Correspondence between Peter Grybauskas and user HiddenVale, December 2022 Prior to teaching at UMD, Grybauskas collaborated with the Roman Association of Tolkien Studies (now the Tolkien Society of Italy / Associazione Italiana Studi Tolkieniani). 
In 2021, Grybauskas' book A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary Canvas was published by Kent State University Press. On the heels of this, he is editor of HarperCollins' book The Battle of Maldon, presenting for the first time Tolkien's translation of the Old English poem "The Battle of Maldon", accompanied by Tolkien's own, connected poem "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son". This book was released in March 2023. In 2011, Grybauskas had written an essay concerning the historical, 10th century Battle of Maldon for the Mythopoeic Society's periodical Mythlore. 
==Essays==
*"Dialogic War: From the Battle of Maldon to the War of the Ring" in Mythlore, vol. 29, no. 3 (2011)
*"Untold Tales: Solving a Literary Dilemma" in Tolkien Studies, vol. 9 (2012)
*"Vita reale, ovvero 'Qualcosa che viene dai Tuc'" in C'era una volta... Lo Hobbit. Alle origini del Signore degli anelli (2012)
*"'Now Often Forgotten': Gollum, the Great War, and the Last Alliance" in Janet Brennan Croft's Baptism of Fire: The Birth of the Modern British Fantastic in World War I (2015)
*"'Green Hill Country': A Scholar's Tale" in A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger (2018)
*"A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man: Noteworthy Omission in The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son" in Tolkien Studies, vol. 17 (2020)
==External links==
*Peter Grybauskas' faculty page
*Official page for A Sense of Tales Untold
==References==
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