From Baggins to Beowful and Back Again: Teaching (via) Tolkien

Jeff Massey

From Baggins to Beowful and Back Again: Teaching (via) Tolkien

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Abstract

Beowulf , is traditionally at least, a difficult text for incoming freshmen. The Hobbit is arguably less so. In part this has much to do with their respective languages: one is so archaic as to seem foreign, the other is as comfortable as an old English shoe. One is a tale told to children around a quiet fire, the other an elegy shouted above raucous barbarians at beer. Beowulf is peppered with digressions, and shot through with violent revenge cycles. The Hobbit is a relatively straightfoward quest, adventures along the way notwithstanding. They are, on the surface at least, as distinct as night and day.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	In Concerning Hobbits: A Collection of Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien
State	Published - Aug 26 2001

Keywords

tolkien
baggins
beowulf
teaching
old english
quest fiction
education
language
the hobbit
mythlore

Disciplines

Education
English Language and Literature
Higher Education
Literature in English, British Isles

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