This cassette was presented to attendees of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference held in Oxford in 1992 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Tolkien's birth and the 1001st anniversary of the Battle of Maldon.

It includes readings of the three parts of Tolkien's contribution to Essays and Studies 1953:

1) Beorhtnoth's Death - Read by Christopher Tolkien.

2) The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son - Read by J.R.R. Tolkien.

3) Ofermod - Read by Christopher Tolkien.

Extracts from unpublished drafts of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth can be found in Tolkien Studies 2007.