The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún: Pre- and Reviews - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

The Might · 01-06-2009, 02:23 PM

Wait... so even more quotes to search for in "Minor Works"?

I don't know if I'll read it only because it is by Tolkien... I'll look up the reviews first and read other opinions and then decide if it's worth buying.

davem · 01-06-2009, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by The Might

I don't know if I'll read it only because it is by Tolkien... I'll look up the reviews first and read other opinions and then decide if it's worth buying.

Its not another Children of Hurin, certainly. It belongs with Tolkien's translations of Gawain, Pearl & Orfeo. That said, its the tale of Sigurd & Fafnir the Dragon, & as Tolkien wrote:

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"Best of all [was] the nameless North of Sigurd of the Völsungs, and the prince of all dragons. Such lands were pre-eminently desirable. I never imagined that the dragon was of the same order as the horse. And that was not solely because I saw horses daily, but never even the footprint of a worm. The dragon had the trade-mark Of Faerie written plain upon him. In whatever world he had his being it was an Other-world. Fantasy, the making or glimpsing of Other-worlds, was the heart of the desire of Faërie. I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood, intruding into my relatively safe world, in which it was, for instance, possible to read stories in peace of mind, free from fear. But the world that contained even the imagination of Fáfnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever cost of peril."On Fairy Stories

Bêthberry · 01-06-2009, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by The Might

Wait... so even more quotes to search for in "Minor Works"?

Some day, you might even have to add Tolkien's translation of Beowulf, just to mix up the lines from sagas, to the quote games, although of course after first deciding what is a minor work and what is a major work.

Aaront596 · 01-07-2009, 01:55 AM

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Some day, you might even have to add Tolkien's translation of Beowulf,

i want to read his two versions of Beowulf so bad i'm actually pretty ticked off at his estate for not publishing it yet. But it's good to here that some more tolkien is coming out and i'll be sure to snatch this up right away. Also good to hear that Christopher is behind it, but i still think the two beowulfs should have been published long ago.

davem · 01-07-2009, 06:58 AM

Guardian feature http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009...n-norse-legend

fenris1011 · 01-07-2009, 03:34 PM

This is great news!

I cannot wait. I love Norse Mythology.

William Cloud Hicklin · 01-20-2009, 09:03 AM

Yep, this is the 'verse' I was talking about. But I couldn't at the time be other than vague and let the cat out of the bag.

Beowulf- well, there are issues surrounding that text, and I don't know if CT has the energy left to address them. There may be a certain hope for The Fall of Arthur, and I've been on him to republish Aotrou and Itroun, since it's not like many of us have ever seen that back number of the extinct Welsh Review.

Rune Son of Bjarne · 01-20-2009, 09:23 AM

I will probably buy and read it, but I am slightly annoyd because it will take up some of the time I wanted to use on reading Saxo, Sven Aggesøn, Arild Huitfeldt and the Sagas
(And Grundtvig's tranlation of Beowulf)

01-06-2009, 02:23 PM	#1
The Might Guard of the Citadel Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Oxon Posts: 2,205	Wait... so even more quotes to search for in "Minor Works"? I don't know if I'll read it only because it is by Tolkien... I'll look up the reviews first and read other opinions and then decide if it's worth buying. __________________ “The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.” Delos B. McKown

01-07-2009, 06:58 AM	#5
davem Illustrious Ulair Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In the home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names,and impossible loyalties Posts: 4,240	Guardian feature http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009...n-norse-legend __________________ “Everything was an object. If you killed a dwarf you could use it as a weapon – it was no different to other large heavy objects."

01-07-2009, 03:34 PM	#6
fenris1011 Pile O'Bones Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Missouri Posts: 12	This is great news! I cannot wait. I love Norse Mythology. __________________ From the fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord!

01-20-2009, 09:03 AM	#7
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	Yep, this is the 'verse' I was talking about. But I couldn't at the time be other than vague and let the cat out of the bag. Beowulf- well, there are issues surrounding that text, and I don't know if CT has the energy left to address them. There may be a certain hope for The Fall of Arthur, and I've been on him to republish Aotrou and Itroun, since it's not like many of us have ever seen that back number of the extinct Welsh Review. __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.