What is the title of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Old English poem translation published posthumously in 2014?

J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumously published Old English volume is titled Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary.

Christopher Tolkien edited the book from his father’s academic work, and HarperCollins published it in 2014. The volume contains Tolkien’s prose translation of Beowulf together with his commentary on the poem and related material.

Tolkien was a specialist in Old English and taught Beowulf at Oxford. His famous 1936 lecture “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” helped reshape modern scholarly views by arguing that the poem should be valued as a work of art, not merely as historical evidence.

Beowulf influenced Tolkien’s fiction in several ways, including its monsters, heroic culture, names, and dragon imagery. The book is different from Tolkien’s earlier translations of Middle English works such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.