The essay concludes by looking at the origin-stories of the Hobbits and the Rohirrim in Tolkien’s legendarium and examining what light Tolkien’s work on the Hengest material sheds on the relation of these two origin stories. This is significant as it creates further distance between the English and the continental Goths-often said to be connections of the Geats, who, as Michael Drout pointed out, Tolkien at times wished to identify with the Jutes.

The use of the word 'eotenas,' which can be constructed as either 'monsters' or 'Jutes,' is at the nub of the conflict here, I argue that Alan Bliss, who edited and provided commentary on Tolkien’s Hengest work, actually performs a revisionary move on Tolkien by suggesting Hengest was an Anglian, not a Jute. As opposed to “Beowulf: The Monsters and The Critics,” where Tolkien emphasizes supernatural elements at the expense of history, Tolkien’s lecture on the Finnsburg episode in Beowulf and the Finnsburg fragment seems to present Hengest as an English national hero, despite the bloodiness and vengeance of his reprisals against Hnaef and the Frisian court. Spread the news about this J.R.R.This essay examines Tolkien’s Finn and Hengest, particularly concentrating on Tolkien’s interpretation of the word eotenas as meaning Jutes rather than ‘monsters’. Pascual, analizando el relato Finn and Hengest, parte del poema. Finn and Hengest Paperback 3 April 1998 by Tolkien (Author) 83 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback £7.19 13 New from £6.49 Note: This item is eligible for FREE Click and Collect without a minimum order subject to availability. In his lectures, Tolkien argues that the Hengest of 'The Fight at Finnsburg' and Beowulf was an historical rather than a legendary figure and that these works record episodes from an orally composed and transmitted history of the Hengest named in the 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.' This view has gained acceptance from a number of medieval historian and Anglo-Saxon scholars both since tolkien's initial lectures and since the publication of this posthumous collection. En esta ocasin nos sumergimos en la faceta ms acadmica de Tolkien de la mano de Rafael J. The book is based on an edited series of lectures made by Tolkien before World War II, and some made after.

He and his brother Horsa (the names meaning 'stallion' and 'horse') were the legendary leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon immigrants to Britain as mercenaries in the 5th century). Tolkien edited by Alan Bliss London Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1982 xii, 180 p. Hengest has sometimes been identified with the Jutish king of Kent. Finn and Hengest : the fragment and the episode / J.R.R. Finn and Hengest is a study by J.R.R Tolkien, edited by Alan Bliss and published posthumously in book form in 1982.įinn and Hengest are two Anglo-Saxon heroes appearing in the Old English epic poem Beowulf and in the fragment of 'The Fight at Finnsburg'.

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