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< span id =" Tolkien "/> One modern author who studied alliterative verse and used it extensively in his fictional writings and poetry, was J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1892 – 1973 ).

He wrote alliterative verse in modern English, in the style of Old English alliterative verse ( he was one of the major Beowulf scholars of his time-see Beowulf: the monsters and the critics ).

Examples of Tolkien's alliterative verses include those written by him for the Rohirrim, a culture in The Lord of the Rings that borrowed many aspects from Anglo-Saxon culture.

There are also many examples of alliterative verse in Tolkien's posthumously-published works in The History of Middle-earth series.

Of these, the unfinished ' The Lay of the Children of Húrin ', published in The Lays of Beleriand, is the longest.

Another example of Tolkien's alliterative verse refers to Mirkwood ( see the introduction to that article ).

Outside of his Middle-earth works, Tolkien also worked on alliterative modern English translations of several Middle English poems by the Pearl Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo.

These were published posthumously in 1975.

In his lifetime, as well as the alliterative verse in The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien published The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son in 1953, an alliterative verse dialogue recounting a historical fictional account of the Battle of Maldon.