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JRR Tolkien translation of Beowulf to be published after 90-year wait
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Posted on 03/21/2014 4:28:36 PM PDT by Perdogg
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To: livius
They just did a Beowulf movie a couple of years ago.
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posted on
03/21/2014 6:55:47 PM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
To: Talisker
It’s not that hard. A week or two on the basic grammar and syntax, a few simple prose texts, and you are good to go. You can always look up the vocabulary you don’t know. Certainly it’s nowhere near the difficulty of Latin and Greek.
To: Vermont Lt
I happened to see part of that on TV last night. It looked like the whole thing was CGI using the images of real actors. Felt like a video game. Very strange.
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03/21/2014 7:10:45 PM PDT
by
Hugin
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.
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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
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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”
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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.
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posted on
03/22/2014 4:54:09 AM PDT
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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?
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03/22/2014 8:52:52 PM PDT
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zeugma
(Is it evil of me to teach my bird to say "here kitty, kitty"?)
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