Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro
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You can't compare them really. In any case Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is Middle English (approaching Chaucer-ish) and thus much later - as Mary says, not such an effort to read (it's Arthurian - Sir Gawain is one of the knights of the Round Table). The Norse Volsungasaga is one of many Scandanavian sagas that are much more bloody and pagan. Beowulf lies between the two in age and bloodiness - there's an excellent dragon in it (Grendel). Ferney sums it up well. It's in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) so it's very hard to read in the original. -
Tolkien was prescient:
Although he got the location wrong.Comment
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I read that as "Tolkien was president".Originally posted by Pabmusic View Post
... a sort of Tolkien Head ...[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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The main thing they have in common is that neither of them would have got a satisfactory CRB check back
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Oh please, no!.Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
I went to see his film of King Kong at National Film Theatre and it was one of the longest nights of my life. The man doesn't seem to have an edit function
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Well, I must admit, King Kong was not a really good film, but his production of LOTR and now The Hobbit, are what I was envisaging would be the right way forward, perhaps?Don’t cry for me
I go where music was born
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Your mum 's made some shrewd choices, jlw. Has she read Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance? What's she reading at the moment?Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View PostComment
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