Given that you and I, Bill Ferny, disagree about fundamental principles, I doubt we will be able to discuss much.
Art vs Reality is an old chestnut that would take us off topic, but certainly it needs to be pointed out, on a Tolkien site, that in translating Beowulf Tolkien was concerned with being neither an artist nor a poet. He was a scholar and a philologist. This excerpt of his translation demonstrates that amply, superbly even. His interest was to rattraper le temps perdu and not to create a modern poem in contemporary idiom.
Bethberry
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I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.
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