Hobbit; or, There and Back Again | Techniques
J. R. R. Tolkien saw himself primarily as a medievalist, a scholar specializing in the literature of the British Isles and environs during the period from approximately 700 A.D. to 1500 A.D. Indeed, his major scholarly works neatly bracket that period, beginning with his classic study of the eighth-century Old English Beowulf and ending with his standard edition of the fifteenth-century Middle English masterpiece Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. These two works represent the epitome of the hero tale at two different stages of English literary history. With such a...
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