A significant publication for anyone interested in Tolkien’s alliterative poetry or his views on Old English metre is Peter Grybauskas’s recent edition of Tolkien’s Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son and ‘The Tradition of Versification in Old English’. That’s quite a title, but it indicates the important contents of this … Continue reading Tolkien lecture now in print