... Philology and the Literary Muse Thomas Honegger (bio) The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, first published in volume six of Essays and Studies in 1953, was—and still is—an oddity.1 The dramatic dialogue2 in alliterative long lines, which constitutes ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2007 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... in an essay that accompanied his short play The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son,6 which dramatized its emotional consequences.7 In the essay, Tolkien asserted that ofermod should be translated ...
Tópico(s): Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
2008 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... R. R. Tolkien, a short, obscure work entitled The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son illustrates this point perfectly. Based on the fragmentary ... is named. Purely as a work of literature, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son is a fine piece of poetry; it tells ... clear that there is something truly incredible about The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son. This paper explores the unique nature of Tolkien's poem The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son. In doing so it demonstrates that it is ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2002 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... Poet as a Young Man:Noteworthy Omission in The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son Peter Grybauskas (bio) But if we speak of a Cauldron, we must not wholly forget the Cooks. There are many things in the Cauldron, ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2020 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
Since J. R. R. Tolkien's Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, Beorhthelm's Son, (1) commmentary on The Battle of Maldon has focused on one word, sometimes almost to exclusion of rest of poem. That word is, of course, ofermod. ...
Tópico(s): Comics and Graphic Narratives
2003 - University of Iowa | Philological quarterly
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2023 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... his views by writing an original verse drama, Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son. In his fiction, like The Lord of the Rings, he reworked passages from ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2008 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
J.R.R. TOLKIEN INTRODUCED of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son as piece plainly intended as a for two persons, two shapes in 'dim shadow', with help of a few gleams of light and appropriate noises and a chant at end in a footnote to Ofermod, brief essay on excessive pride that accompanied its original publication in Essays and Studies. Critics have given Tolkien's Ofermod essay considerably more attention than they have given his recitation, but then Tolkien himself modestly added [The Homecoming] has of ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2008 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... taking as a starting point his essay-poem «The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son» on The Battle of Maldon. Through academic texts on Beowulf ...
Tópico(s): Child Development and Digital Technology
2021 - University of La Laguna | Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna
... the alliterative verses of Tolkien’s verse play, “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son” (1953), a sort of coda to the famous Anglo Saxon poem “The Battle of Maldon.” ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2016 - Johns Hopkins University Press | The Sewanee review
... for which Tolkien wrote the verse-drama sequel, "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son" (1953). Middle English begins, equally appropriately for Tolkien, with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by Jessie L. Weston (1898). ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2005 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies