New Tolkien book discovered

News.com.au ^ | 12/30/02

[John Farson]

ping

[NovemberCharlie]

Something to watch for.

[2Jedismom]

Wow!!! I have got to get this! I loved Beowulf in high school and can't wait till Matthew is just a little older so I can share it with him!

[CapandBall]

won't it be a 13 warrior repeat?

[Billthedrill]

Well, I have hopes but let's face it - Tolkien was a superb professional philologist whose specialty was mind-bogglingly obscure. Not everyone is going to be enthralled by a learned discussion on the declension of old German verbs...

[HairOfTheDog]

Ring Ping!!

~HairOfTheDog, standing in for the Ring Ping King!

[Ramius]

Ping for "things that make you go hmmm...."

[Alouette]

Tolkien's name on the cover is likely to make the translation a bestseller.

I only wish I could have read this essay when I was learning Beowulf in 11th grade. Although if it is anything like his essay "On Fairy Stories" which is a critique of the fantasy genre, it is not likely to be a page turner.

[HairOfTheDog]

hmmmmmm.

I haven't read it yet! Too busy pinch-pinging

and being harassed on the Hobbit Hole Thread.

[SamAdams76]

Well, I guess this new book is going to generate around 420,000 threads on Free Republic over the next 20 years. We better get used to it.

[aruanan]

A US academic, Michael Drout, found the Tolkien material by accident in a box of papers at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

At least Drout probably isn't doing a Walter Hooper on Tolkien.

[Radix]

Please hide it.

I cannot take another three hour movie.

[Samwise]

I'll wait for the Cliff Notes. I absolutely loathed my British Literature classes. I really despise translating. All of our finals were translation heavy. I made it a point to immediately forget every story line as soon as the finals were over. I do vaguely remember one line of Chaucer about a guy passing wind in someone's face though. I believe he stuck his arse out a window and said "kiss it"....or maybe I'm just remembering Clinton.

[proxy_user]

It's more likely to be like his edition and translation of 'The Fight at Finnesburgh'. Brilliant, yes, but a 148-page book on a 48 line fragment. He also tends to assume you know Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, and Latin at a minimum.

I'm OK with that, but I get stuck in Old Norse sometimes. Anyway, he's no worse than the Klaeber edition everybody uses in grad school.

[John Farson]

Beowulf is superior to Chricton's novel.

[Sabertooth]

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[Corin Stormhands]

...being harassed on the Hobbit Hole Thread.

*Ahem*

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