Do we need another Beowulf? Hasn’t our culture had enough of muscular Nordic warriors flinging themselves into battle and generously dispensing loot to their fighting buddies? Judging by this ...

What literary text could seem further from reality these days than Beowulf — that approximately 1,500-year-old Anglo Saxon verse epic about a Scandinavian hero fighting monsters that’s known mainly by ...

The long Hwaet! is over for scholars and Tolkien fans as the Lord of the Rings author’s translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem is published after 88 years. The latest episode in Peter Jackson’s ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There's more to J.R.R. Tolkien than wizards and hobbits. The author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit was also an Oxford ...