J. R. R. Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf, which dates to the 1920s, will finally be published this year along with his commentary on the poem. Tolkien aficionados may know that it was his 1936 lecture on Beowulf, “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics,” that secured his place in academia.
No word yet on whether Peter Jackson is planning a trilogy of movies based on the epic poem.