Suddenly I'm reminded of a brief foray into American history I made a few years back. I was stuck in my own work (much like now, really), so off to I went the Civil War to exercise the synapses and get unstuck. But of course, I was doing research and sharing my thoughts as I went along, and half the time it turned out the connections I had just made were in the very next source, already made for me (not to mention the well-justified "Well, yes. We know that." responses I got from the poor friend/Civil War historian who had to listen to me). Oh well. It was fun anyway.
have you ever glanced through the "Peoples of Middle-Earth" volume The Treason of Isengard? Unfortunately, no (she blushes). I have a few volumes of the HoME, but not, unfortunately, that one (and the library copy seems to be missing. Figures. With luck it will turn up soon).
but also had the doorwardens spouting an entire paragraph of, yes, Old English What a pity that he did away with that part, then.
Peter Jackson was kind enough to include his unsubtle borrowing from "The Wanderer" in TTT movie I was pleased to see it there, truly (and the "Tolkien was a thief" thing was a joke, of course, but I wouldn't consider it an insult in any case. If anything it puts him on par with his sources, since they certainly weren't above a judicious bit of borrowing either).
All the Anglo-Saxonists (OK, the Anglo-Saxonists under age fifty) I know are salivating over the prospect of getting to explain things in terms of the Rohirrim. I don't doubt it. I only wish I were an Anglo-Saxonist (or Tolkienist) myself, so I could do the same. It would be a bit tough to tie LotR to monasticism, unfortunately, so I think I'm out of luck.
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Date: 2003-03-10 03:09 pm (UTC)have you ever glanced through the "Peoples of Middle-Earth" volume The Treason of Isengard? Unfortunately, no (she blushes). I have a few volumes of the HoME, but not, unfortunately, that one (and the library copy seems to be missing. Figures. With luck it will turn up soon).
but also had the doorwardens spouting an entire paragraph of, yes, Old English What a pity that he did away with that part, then.
Peter Jackson was kind enough to include his unsubtle borrowing from "The Wanderer" in TTT movie I was pleased to see it there, truly (and the "Tolkien was a thief" thing was a joke, of course, but I wouldn't consider it an insult in any case. If anything it puts him on par with his sources, since they certainly weren't above a judicious bit of borrowing either).
All the Anglo-Saxonists (OK, the Anglo-Saxonists under age fifty) I know are salivating over the prospect of getting to explain things in terms of the Rohirrim. I don't doubt it. I only wish I were an Anglo-Saxonist (or Tolkienist) myself, so I could do the same. It would be a bit tough to tie LotR to monasticism, unfortunately, so I think I'm out of luck.