''Beowulf and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien'' is a 2002 book edited by

Michael D. C. Drout Michael D. C. Drout (; born 1968) is an American Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of the Medieval at Wheaton College. He is an author and editor specializing in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature, science fiction a ...

that presents scholarly editions of the two manuscript versions of Tolkien's essays or lecture series "''

Beowulf ''Beowulf'' (; ang, Bēowulf ) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature. The ...

'' and the Critics", which served as the basis for the much shorter 1936 lecture " Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics". ''Beowulf and the Critics'' was awarded the 2003 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies.

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Books of literary criticism Essays by J. R. R. Tolkien Tolkien studies 2002 non-fiction books {{lit-criticism-book-stub