[Talisker]

Will it have a parallel original text? That would be most helpful for seeing how Tolkien interpreted the poem, and which way he went on the ambiguous passages.

Wouldn't be much good without an Old English translator.

[proxy_user]

It’s not that hard. A week or two on the basic grammar and syntax, a few simple prose texts, and you are good to go. You can always look up the vocabulary you don’t know. Certainly it’s nowhere near the difficulty of Latin and Greek.