BATTLE OF MALDON / HOMECOMING OF BEORHTNOTH (HB)

First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war. Illuminated with insightful notes and commentary, leading Tolkien scholar, Peter Grybauskas has produced a definitive critical edition of these works, and argues compellingly that, Beowulf excepted, The Battle of Maldon may well have been ‘the Old English poem that most influenced Tolkien’s fiction’, most dramatically within the pages of The Lord of the Rings.