"Andrew Philip McDowell 'Andy' Orchard", Royal Society of Canada/FRSC (born 1964) is a British academic in Old English, Old Norse/Norse and Celtic literature. He is Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford and a Fellow#Oxford.2C Cambridge and Dublin/fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He was previously Provost (education)/Provost of Trinity College, Toronto/Trinity College, University of Toronto from 2007 to 2013.

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The story is getting out there.

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It's a fabulous story . . . It's got these supernatural elements as well. It's one man's fight against a man-shaped monster and against his mother who is bestial, and then against a dragon.

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There's also all the tedious academic books that come out. There's something like a book or an article on Beowulf being produced every week at the moment.

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The tree-hugging Tolkien freaks, once they get around to seeing the movie and reading the books, tend to go on to read other things that he did. In 1936 he gave a British Academy lecture called Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, which is still one of the most fabulous things that's been written.

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It's the great masterwork of Anglo-Saxon England and everything else flows from that.

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