The Horn Book Magazine, March 1st, 2002
I first set eyes on J. R. R. Tolkien when I was eighteen years old, a first-year undergraduate at the University of Oxford, sitting in a cavernous lecture hall with pen poised hungrily over notebook. For those first few seconds, however, nobody took notes; we were gazing startled at the chunky gray-haired figure hitching up his academic robe over his tweed jacket. We were listening.
"Hwaet!" he cried.
... we Gar-Dena in gear-dagum peod-cyninga prym gefrunon, hu oa aepelingas ellen fremedon ...
Professor Tolkien had been beginning his lectures by reciting the first lines of Beowulf in Angl...
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