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Anonymous Sun Apr 19 16:56:23 2015 No.6426218 [Reply] [Original]

Heaney or Tolkien?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 16:58:52 2015 No.6426233 >>6426218 Neither. Chickering.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 17:04:18 2015 No.6426259 >>6426218 >Dirty Taig >Honourable knight Your choice

>>	God Sun Apr 19 17:09:29 2015 No.6426282 Is Tolkien's even that well known or renowned? I liked Heaney because it had the old English as well.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 17:12:03 2015 No.6426289 >>6426218 love heaney's poetry. never read tolkien's work. i'm pretty indifferent to fantasy so i'm sure after all of it i'd still end up picking heaney's poetry. i'll give it a shot some years down the line i guess.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 17:12:11 2015 No.6426290 liuzza

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 17:15:28 2015 No.6426304 >>6426259 shut your gob hun

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 17:19:50 2015 No.6426316 >>6426282 it has only recently been released, but he was/is considered the #1 critic of the poem

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 17:22:25 2015 No.6426322 >>6426316 >>6426289 Heaney's translation was very much based on tolkien's

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 17:26:21 2015 No.6426331 I read heaney for some lit class years ago. It was pretty easy to understand

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 17:31:43 2015 No.6426354 >>6426289 Tolkien is every bit as fantasy as beowulf is

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 17:57:41 2015 No.6426431 >>6426218 Heaney's version is nice, but it's not a very faithful translation. I haven't read Tolkien's Beowulf. Here's a useful overview of most of the popular translations: http://www.editoreric.com/greatlit/translations/Beowulf.html

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 17:59:53 2015 No.6426439 File: 48 KB, 440x503, Anglo-Saxon Cross.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Required reading: http://producer.csi.edu/cdraney/2011/278/resources/Tolkien%20-%20The%20Monsters%20and%20the%20Critics.pdf

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 19 21:20:27 2015 No.6427205 >>6426439 Top-tier taste anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 06:45:44 2015 No.6428690 Niether; Michael Swanton.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 06:59:06 2015 No.6428726 >>6426439 Much appreciation, thanks anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 12:21:11 2015 No.6429548 at my university we don't use a translation

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 15:21:27 2015 No.6430226 >>6429548 >spending money to study a dead culture did you come out of a lake?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 15:32:21 2015 No.6430273 I had the Heaney version in my hand today at a used book store and I didn't buy it. Now I regret it after seeing this thread.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 15:32:27 2015 No.6430274 >>6429548 I recommend doing this too - there are the student editions of Beowulf that can give you direct access to the Old English text.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 19:08:34 2015 No.6431107 Tolkien's. He knew the language, he was a scholar of it. Heanys not a translation, more like sn interpretation, plus hes a mick, what does he know of the angles and saxons? (Kidding).

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 19:13:47 2015 No.6431121 File: 170 KB, 890x898, Anglos.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6427205 >>6428726 May our father bless you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 19:33:07 2015 No.6431175 >>6431121 >roleplaying

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 19:45:25 2015 No.6431216 File: 1.65 MB, 2222x3026, Fréawine.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6431175 >implying I'm not Anglo >implying I'm not Christian

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 19:50:16 2015 No.6431233 >>6431216 >implying you're white

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 19:50:48 2015 No.6431236 File: 556 KB, 647x1024, Anglo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6431233 >

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 19:52:18 2015 No.6431239 >>6431236 I mean offline. Everyone is white on the internet.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 20 19:54:02 2015 No.6431244 File: 37 KB, 431x450, Yorke.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6431239 I put sunscreen on my feet.