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Yes, it is the Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf. I started reading it in the airport. In the foreword he makes clear his intentions to use old words current only among his Irish relatives, and English words clearly inherited from Irish, such as (...) (25 years ago, 25-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: LoTR # 1 on IMDB, Beowulf on NYTimes bestseller list
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(...) Well, I did not go to school for that sort of thing. It would be sufficient to have a few names or titles that come to your mind as primary sources. The National Geographic Explorer special on Middle-Earth last night visited with the world's (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) answers! (...) more dessert, please more eggnog, please fortifying said eggnog five pounds gained prepare to diet! prepare to shop! after Christmas sales visits to in-laws off to Grandma's continuing family rituals waiting for Santa finally (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I wrote: "Most of the stuff passing as a plot is little more than rehashed Norse mythology." Is it the case that you want me to compare and contrast Tolkien's work to Northern European mythology? Seems like a rather thankless task. I am also (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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This might seem like a strange area to post this message, but this was the only Off-Topic area that seemed appropriate. In any case, I have an idea and was looking for opinions as to whether or not it would be successful. When one buys memory cards (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Ah, I have almost no idea what kind of press it got -- I rented it on video some several months later on a whim and was happily surprised. It's funny how things like that can work for and against a film. I had no expectations, and therefore (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I wonder if you're referring to the recent Seamus Heaney translation, the one that features a chainmail hood in embossed silver on a black hardcover. I haven't read much of that version, but it's stirred up a little controversy among the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) "Heathers" springs to mind, as does "Doom Generation," and even "A Clockwork Orange," to a certain point (though admittedly in a different direction. Even the awful film "Strange Days" addresses the blurring and isolation of the individual. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: We're all Anoraks on this bus (was Sadness
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(...) Ya know, that describes most people's hobbies to most poeple that don't share them. For example, I find that an excellent descriptor of sports fans. Ugh, I can't imagine a more dreary way to spend a Sunday afternoon than watching football, (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: LoTR # 1 on IMDB, Beowulf on NYTimes bestseller list
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(...) Your remark 'rehash of Northern European mythology', could you elaborate? (...) Tolkien was Professor of Anglo-Saxon (and other languages.) Maybe I am overstating this, but I just looked in the new Beowulf that was on the NY Times bestseller (...) (25 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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