Template:Did you know nominations/Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary

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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 06:17, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary

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• ... that although J. R. R. Tolkien translated the Old English poem Beowulf in the 1920s, he did not like the result so it was published only posthumously in 2014 as Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary?

• Reviewed: Man in the mud
• Comment: Although I have reused quite extensive portions of existing Wikipedia articles, the original content written by me exceeds 2.4k characters. De728631 (talk) 17:26, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

Created/expanded by De728631 (talk). Self nominated at 17:26, 8 June 2014 (UTC).

• I'll take this. Made a minor tweak here and there. Drmies (talk) 21:06, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
• Long enough (a conservative estimate places De's own prose over 2k), new enough. Non-free image is acceptable. I see no undue copying from the sources. Pass it on. Drmies (talk) 21:17, 8 June 2014 (UTC)