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Anonymous Tue Aug 15 19:01:56 2023 No.22380726 [Reply] [Original]

What I need to read before I reread Tolkien to experience his works to the fullest?
Besides the Bible

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 15 19:05:03 2023 No.22380731 >>22380726 >>22380726 Beowulf, and some basic stuff about the World Wars.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 15 19:07:31 2023 No.22380735 >>22380726 Both Eddas, the Kalevala, as much Old English as you can find, a good etymological dictionary, and his letters.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 15 19:10:01 2023 No.22380741 >>22380735 Also read Lord Dunsany

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 15 20:32:16 2023 No.22380984 >>22380726 The Poetic Edda and the Nibelungenlied. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is a modern rendition.

Anonymous Tue Aug 15 20:48:26 2023 No.22381037
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>experience his works to the fullest

Not much? The Hobbit and LOTR are both pretty accessible to new readers. Then you can read The Silmarillion, which is basically a big history book about everything that happens in Middle-Earth BEFORE LOTR.

Tolkien was a bit autistic in that everything you need to know, he tells you, one way or another.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 15 21:36:32 2023 No.22381185 Beowulf The Poetic Edda The Nibelungenlied or Wagner's das Ring des Nibelungen Gawain and the Green Knight The Mabinogion The Song of Roland

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 16 01:04:17 2023 No.22381771 File: 58 KB, 427x718, Worm1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What these anons have said: >>22380735 >>22380741 >>22381185 Plus pic related.

>>	Sage Wed Aug 16 01:19:00 2023 No.22381822 >>22380726 Do the Yale lectures on the old testament when you read the bible. The two in combination helped me understand what he was working at

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 16 11:56:40 2023 No.22383203 File: 87 KB, 334x334, 1657392809690.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22380731 >>22380735 >>22380741 >>22380984 >>22381037 >>22381185 >>22381771 >>22381822 Thanks for all the replies, I appreciate it

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 16 12:16:03 2023 No.22383217 >>22380726 ITT, his Inkling friends if you want to be thorough.

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