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Showing posts with label Beowulf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beowulf. Show all posts
24 August 2024

"Unfey, fearless, and his fate kept him" -- Túrin and Beowulf

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The Lay of the Children of Húrin  exists in two versions, neither of which tells the whole story its title promises. The second version is m...
14 February 2023

Was Tolkien riffing on Genesis A 36-38 at RK 5.vi.841? From the houses of lamentation to the House of Mirth.

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While reading the Old English poem Genesis A this Monday evening (as one does) I came across the word helleheafas  in the following passage ...
04 September 2021

'To Rule the Fate of Many: Truth, Lies, Pity, and the Ring of Power' -- Perhaps a part of an Introduction

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Introduction: ‘the burden of a large story’   ‘They wanted a sequel. But I wanted heroic legends and high romance. The result was Th...
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19 August 2021

Review: 'The Apprenticeship of J. R. R. Tolkien' by Simon J. Cook

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  Simon Cook is one of the most thoughtful and perceptive Tolkien scholars of this generation. His insights into Tolkien's relationship ...
13 September 2018

Waiting for Aeschere's Head -- Beowulf 1419b-1423

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I've been re-reading Beowulf  lately, my second time through the poem in Old English. It brings joy and laughter to my geeky so...
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06 August 2017

'Not Unlike the Verse of the English' -- From Rohan to the Havens of Sirion

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Alan Lee © 2007  Many of us no doubt first encountered alliterative verse in Tolkien, in the scene where Aragorn first chants in th...
05 June 2017

Wonder Invoked -- On the Uses of Enchantment

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Trying to find my room on day one of Mythmoot The theme of the most recent Mythmoot --  held just this past weekend in the Khaza...
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07 May 2017

Dreams of Beowulf

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Sometimes I have the coolest dreams. The other night I fell asleep at my desk (as one does) leaning on my hands, trying to hold ...
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05 May 2017

Aglæca

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 Grendel  © John Howe There was just something about the word  aglæca  -- 'awesome opponent, ferocious fighter' as the DOE ...
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26 April 2017

Barrow-wights, Ringwraiths, and William Morris (FR 2.ii.248)

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"Under the Spell of the Barrow-wight" © Ted Nasmith "Strider" I am to one fat man who lives within a day's mar...
16 June 2016

Nienna's Room With a View -- Silmarillion, 28

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Taken from the International Space Station in September 2010 [Nienna's] halls are west of West, upon the borders of the world; an...