intimations of immortality

Tolkien’s most famous contribution to scholarship is his idea that the Anglo Saxon poet who composed Beowulf was a Christian who passed over the old pagan gods yet retained the monsters of the ancient mythology. deorc déaþscua,      duguþe ond geogoþe, seomade ond syrede;      sinnihte héold mistige móras;       men ne cunnon, hwyder helrúnan      […]