1 posted on
03/21/2014 4:28:36 PM PDT by
Perdogg
To: SunkenCiv; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; fidelis; JDoutrider; Tax-chick; Altariel; Ann de IL
2 posted on
03/21/2014 4:30:11 PM PDT by
Perdogg
(Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
To: Perdogg
Is Peter Jackson making a movie of it?
To: Perdogg
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.
To: Perdogg
To: Perdogg
10 posted on
03/21/2014 4:58:41 PM PDT by
SkyPilot
To: Perdogg
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 ... “
17 posted on
03/21/2014 5:52:37 PM PDT by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: Perdogg
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.
19 posted on
03/21/2014 6:37:29 PM PDT by
DManA
To: Perdogg
Seamus Heaney did an excellent translation. My wife and I read it out loud to each other one year on a cross-country trip.
24 posted on
03/21/2014 10:31:33 PM PDT by
zeugma
(Is it evil of me to teach my bird to say "here kitty, kitty"?)
To: Anoreth
25 posted on
03/22/2014 2:51:54 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
("Nothing is more serious than our sins, which can destroy us forever." ~Msgr. Pope)
To: Perdogg
I always liked Chrichtons “Eaters of the Dead”
26 posted on
03/22/2014 3:51:47 AM PDT by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: Perdogg
Read _Grendel_. First person narrative by the monster.
27 posted on
03/22/2014 4:54:09 AM PDT by
ctdonath2
(Making good people helpless doesn't make bad people harmless.)
To: Perdogg
One question I’d have is, would this still be under copyright?
28 posted on
03/22/2014 8:52:52 PM PDT by
zeugma
(Is it evil of me to teach my bird to say "here kitty, kitty"?)
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