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Anonymous Mon Sep 13 11:02:44 2021 No.19040639 [Reply] [Original]

This will always be trash. No matter how hard Tolkien tried to convince people otherwise.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 11:04:26 2021 No.19040652 filtered

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 11:06:40 2021 No.19040667 >>19040639 pretty sure tolkien was the most boring one to read. I read the Heaney and Headley and those were pretty cool in their own way

>>	Anonymouṡ Mon Sep 13 11:08:09 2021 No.19040678 File: 51 KB, 339x600, Honest Male-Female Interaction.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19040639 Grendel's mother is one of the most realistic and nuanced characters in the canon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 11:10:00 2021 No.19040691 >>19040639 Beowulf vs Grendel was Kino especially after reading Grendel. As was Beowulf vs the Dragon with Wiglaf receiving his last words

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 11:11:06 2021 No.19040698 The Bible.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 11:49:40 2021 No.19040894 >t. not European

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 13:13:48 2021 No.19041449 >>19040639 why is the burton raffel translation such shit? are the other translations any better?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 13:17:38 2021 No.19041476 >>19040639 Op is megamidwit.

Anonymous Mon Sep 13 13:32:49 2021 No.19041588
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>>19040639
If you mean the Heaney translation, which makes no sense in context, you are correct. Otherwise KYS. It's one of the greatest things I ever read (in the original). Rebsamen for plebs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 13:34:08 2021 No.19041602 >poetry >good For once, OP is slightly hetero; albeit only in this instance.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 13:44:13 2021 No.19041662 So where do you stand on the dating debate /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 18:23:42 2021 No.19043257 >>19041449 yes

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 18:43:19 2021 No.19043407 >>19041662 The /lit/ consensus is that Beowulf is worth reading, Heaney is based, Tolkien is cringe (by his own admission).

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 18:57:54 2021 No.19043512 >>19043407 I meant the date of the poem

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 19:02:40 2021 No.19043539 File: 108 KB, 1000x1384, 61CO9r9pr5L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Bro!

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 13 19:17:26 2021 No.19043632 >>19043539 The b stands for bait.

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