JRR Tolkien's Beowulf with Dr. Tom Shippey - Lecture 2
In January 2017, Signum University welcomed back Dr. Tom Shippey for a special, three-part series on J.R.R. Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf, originally published in 2014. As one of the world’s leading experts in both Tolkien Studies and philology, Dr. Shippey’s insights on the intersection of these topics are always much appreciated. Tolkien’s involvement with the poem Beowulf was lifelong, yet much of his thinking has been revealed only recently, in the translation and commentary published in 2014, along with his story “Sellic Spell.” This, together with the 1982 publication of Finn and Hen…