pstrongA unique parallel edition of emBeowulfem with the original Anglo-Saxon and Gummere's celebrated poetic translation on facing pages.strongppstrongThe whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real. ... . It is laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach of imaginationstrong - J. R. R. Tolkien.ppstrongThe epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf had a deep and detailed impact on what Tolkien wrote - from his earliest poem of Middle-earth 1914, right through emThe Hobbitem ... and emThe Lord of the Ringsem.strong - John Garth author of emTolkien and the Great War.emppstrongThe story of Beowulf, Grendel, Grendel's mother and the Dragon is surely the basic story of all literature ... It is an epic that summons up a world whose trappings have long since disappeared, the trappings of the warrior ethos, and morality of almost prehistoric Germanic times but the essential 'message' has not changed. It is about courage and r