JRR Tolkien translation of Beowulf to be published after 90-year wait

Guardian UK ^

[Perdogg]

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[River Hawk]

Is Peter Jackson making a movie of it?

[proxy_user]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Perdogg. He had tremendous trouble getting LOTR published, seems strange now, eh?

[Perdogg]

I want to see the Children of Huron or The Silmarillion

[aposiopetic]

Thanks for posting this.

[Perdogg]

Did you know he could not type, so he wrote in pencil and made edits with a pen?

[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.

[SkyPilot]

Lord of the Rings - Lament For Théodred (with lyric)

[Perdogg]

I love the Howard Shore soundtrack, I bought the book on the LOTR trilogy.

[livius]

Somebody should make a movie of it. The story is simple, short and bloody, and would make a great movie.

That said, you can see that it was Tolkien’s inspiration for many things in the LOTR.

It will be interesting to see his translation.

[ClearCase_guy]

Is Peter Jackson making a movie of it?

I'm sure it will be a 4-part epic, and the fight with Grendels' mother will take up two of the movies. You just can't get too much of a good action scene. 5 or 6 hours ought to be sufficient for that particular part of the story.

[SunkenCiv]

I remember in his foreword that he retyped the manuscript by the hunt and peck method, because he couldn’t afford “the ten-fingered” (a drolly amusing reference to Beren and Frodo).

[Perdogg]

With music by Howard Shore.

[ctdonath2]

There have been several movies of Beowulf. Most suck because they try to better the text.

[coloradan]

Modern translation:

“And so, Beowulf was all, like, “Grendel, you know, like, that wasn’t cool” and then Grendel was all, so, like “Talk to the hand” and ... “

[Perdogg]

You forgot the OMG.

[DManA]

Here’s an academic who did all this work and didn’t think to publish it. What a different world he lived in.

Today the ONLY reason an academic does ANYTHING is to be able to publish something.

[Perdogg]

a Christian white male who was an academic.