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en-wikipedia-org-6736		Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5429	576	76	He explains that Beowulf had mainly been quarried as "an historical document",[12] and that most of the praise and censure of the poem was due to beliefs that it was "something that it was not – for example, primitive, pagan, Teutonic, an allegory (political or mythical), or most often, an epic;"[13] or because the scholar would have liked it to be something else, such as "a heathen heroic lay, a history of Sweden, a manual of Germanic antiquities, or a Nordic Summa Theologica."[13] Tolkien gives an allegory of a man who inherits a field full of stone from an old hall. Lee wrote that "Tolkien's manifesto and interpretation have had more influence on readers than any other single study, even though it has been challenged on just about every one of its major points."[4] Seth Lerer wrote that the essay "may well be the originary piece of modern Beowulf criticism.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6736.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6736.txt