{"id":21160,"date":"2025-09-20T12:03:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21160"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:03:53","slug":"j-r-r-tolkien-translated-beowulf-of-course-he-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=21160","title":{"rendered":"J.R.R. Tolkien Translated Beowulf? Of Course, He Did"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is Tolkien&#039;s Beowulf ANY GOOD? A Review by a Medievalist\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yN4QkyTmtqE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New YouTuber Gavin the Medievalist breaks down what he found in Tolkien&#8217;s translation and commentary of the Old English epic Beowulf and whether you should be reading it in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New YouTuber Gavin the Medievalist breaks down what he found in Tolkien&#8217;s translation and commentary of the Old English epic Beowulf and whether you should be reading it in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[302,1345],"class_list":["post-21160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-beowulf","tag-j-r-r-tolkien"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21161,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21160\/revisions\/21161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}