The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays
First edition
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| Editor | Christopher Tolkien |
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| Author | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Literature, Essays |
| Publisher | George Allen & Unwin, Houghton Mifflin |
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Publication date
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1983 |
| ISBN | |
| OCLC | 9945117 |
| 820/.9 19 | |
| LC Class | PE27 .T65 1983 |
| Preceded by | Finn and Hengest |
| Followed by | The Book of Lost Tales |
The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's scholarly linguistic essays edited by his son Christopher and published posthumously in 1983.
All of them were initially delivered as lectures to academics, with the exception of "On Translating Beowulf", which Christopher Tolkien notes in his foreword is not addressed to an academic audience.
The essays are:
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