The Monsters and the Critics is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's scholarly linguistic essays published posthumously in 1983. The essays are Beowulf, the Monsters and the Critics, English and Welsh, On Fairy-Stories, On Translating Beowulf, A Secret Vice, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. J. R. R. Tolkien in 1972, in his study at Merton Street (from by H. Carpenter) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) is the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. ... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Beowulf, the Monsters and the Critics looks at Beowulf. The first page of Beowulf This article describes Beowulf, the epic poem. ...

On Translating Beowulf looks at translating Anglo-Saxon language. Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ...

On Fairy-Stories is a defence of the fantasy genre. On Fairy-Stories is an essay written by J. R. R. Tolkien, first published in Essays Presented to Charles Williams, Oxford University Press, 1947. ... For other definitions of fantasy, see fantasy (psychology). ...

A Secret Vice talks about creating imaginary languages, giving background to Tolkien's Quenya and Sindarin. A Secret Vice is the title of a lecture held by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1930 at an Esperanto congress. ... An artificial or constructed language (known colloquially as a conlang among aficionados), is a language whose vocabulary and grammar were specifically devised by an individual or small group, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture as with natural languages. ... Text in Quenya, written in the Tengwar and Latin alphabets Quenya is one of the languages spoken by the Elves in J. R. R. Tolkiens work. ... Sindarin is an artificial language (or conlang) developed by J. R. R. Tolkien. ...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a study of the medieval poem of the same name, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th century metrical romance recorded in a manuscript containing three other pieces of an altogether more Christian orientation, which are linked by a commonality of dialect usage. ...

English and Welsh was Tolkien's valedictory address to the University of Oxford, explaining the origin of the word "Welsh" (see Etymology of Vlach). English and Welsh is the title of J. R. R. Tolkiens valedictory address to the University of Oxford of 1955, explaining the origin of the word Welsh. In a lengthy sidenote, Tolkien discusses his notions of native tounge as opposed to cradle tongue, and of an inherited taste of... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Vlach is a Slavic term used to designate the Latin peoples of South-Eastern Europe: Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians and Istro-Romanians. ...