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Showing posts with label Homer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homer. Show all posts
23 August 2025

Tolkien: The Monsters and the Fascists

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  War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor...
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24 March 2023

Beren One-Hand, Bruce the Shark, and Homer

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It's fairly common knowledge that, when Tolkien has the werewolf Carcharoth bite off Beren's hand in The Silmarillion , he is drawin...
17 February 2022

The Passing of Evenstar (with Homer on the side)

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Since the early part of the fourteenth century, to say that someone has 'passed away' has often meant that they have died. ( OED   p...
24 August 2020

Σοφιστής and 'Saruman', part two

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Recently  I suggested that 'Saruman' is Tolkien's rendering into Old English of the Ancient Greek σοφιστής. Last night I discove...
20 March 2020

Unceasing burned the pyres (Iliad 1.43-52)

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In the midst of an article about COVID-19 virus in Italy, I came upon this horrific paragraph: With funerals banned under Italy's l...
15 October 2017

Iliad 1.1-52 Mythgard 2017 Webathon Recording

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I make no pretense of being great at reading Homer aloud.  I am well aware I made a number of mistakes in this recording. There were ti...
26 August 2017

Achilles ... terrifies us with his violent shouting.

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Reconstruction of the Shield of Achilles by Kathleen Vail © All Rights Reserved If you've really read The Iliad  through, slogged...
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17 April 2017

A Head Full of Homer, A Trench Full of Blood

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The comradeship of poetry and war is one of the most ancient relationships humanity knows. They have served together on the plains of...
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...