 | | Re: LoTR # 1 on IMDB, Beowulf on NYTimes bestseller list —Erik Olson
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 23-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: LoTR # 1 on IMDB, Beowulf on NYTimes bestseller list —Dave Schuler
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: LoTR # 1 on IMDB, Beowulf on NYTimes bestseller list —Erik Olson
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 25-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: LoTR # 1 on IMDB, Beowulf on NYTimes bestseller list —Richard Marchetti
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: LoTR # 1 on IMDB, Beowulf on NYTimes bestseller list —Erik Olson
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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 (...) (23 years ago, 24-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: LoTR # 1 on IMDB, Beowulf on NYTimes bestseller list —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | (...) Well, it wasn't the significant focus of my schoolwork, but I have read mythology almost all my life. The reason I am disadvantaged in giving a truly well-rounded answer to your question is that I haven't "read" Tolkien, but only saw this LOTR (...) (23 years ago, 27-Dec-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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