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''The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays'' is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's scholarly linguistic essays edited by his son Christopher and published posthumously in 1983. All of them were initially delivered as lectures to academics, with the exception of "On Translating ''Beowulf''", which Christopher Tolkien notes in his foreword is not addressed to an academic audience. ==Essays== The essays are: * "''Beowulf'': the Monsters and the Critics" looks at the critics' understanding of ''Beowulf'', and proposes instead a fresh take on the poem. * "On Translating ''Beowulf''" looks at the difficulties in translating the poem from its Anglo-Saxon. * "On Fairy-Stories," the 1939 Andrew Lang lecture at St Andew's University, is a defence of the fantasy genre. *"A Secret Vice" talks about creating imaginary languages, giving background to Tolkien's Quenya and Sindarin. *"''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight''" is a study of the medieval poem of the same name. *"English and Welsh," the inaugural O'Donnell Memorial Lecture (1955), is a survey of the historical relationship between the two tongues, including an analysis of the word ''Welsh''. *"Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford", given upon his retirement in 1959. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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