"Heorot or Meduseld?: Tolkien's Use of <i>Beowulf</i> in "The King of t" by Michael R. Kightley

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Heorot or Meduseld?: Tolkien's Use of Beowulf in "The King of the Golden Hall"

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Michael R. Kightley, University of Toronto and Queen's University in OntarioFollow

Abstract

A thorough investigation of the way Tolkien used and built on Beowulf in the chapter “The King of the Golden Hall.”

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