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Post by azriel Thu Apr 24, 2014 11:50 pm

I just Googled Tolkien named roads etc & I found this  cheers
"At least 65 families can tell they live in a street named after the famous author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. In Eastbourne, East Sussex in England, a street was named after Tolkien and is known as Tolkien Road. One would expect many streets and little parks to be named after Tolkien, especially in the United Kingdom where it was some sort of a tradition to name new streets after their local heroes.

The practice has fallen from favour in recent decades but it seems that slowly the idea is being taken up again. Already a road and a swimming centre have been named after Rebecca Adlington, the 19-year-old swimmer who won two Olympic gold medals in Beijing."
Ive been living here long enough to know this  Rolling Eyes Durrrrrrrrrr

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Post by bungobaggins Fri Apr 25, 2014 4:54 am

I'd want to live on Gandalf Street. Smile

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Post by azriel Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:42 am

Id have Elendil  Smile

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Post by Pettytyrant101 Fri Apr 25, 2014 1:58 pm

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Post by azriel Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:07 pm

Dont look like that Petty  Laughing I only meant the name, as for Bungo ? he can talk himself out of that corner  Laughing

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Post by Pettytyrant101 Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:09 pm

Well after all the Aragorn drooling, sorry I mean comments, I thought perhaps you were planning on working your way back through the family line!  Very Happy 

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Post by azriel Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:10 pm

Now there's a thought !  Very Happy
As they say, snow on the roof, fire in the grate !  Laughing

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Post by Pettytyrant101 Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:15 pm

What happens if you lose your roof? (not that I'm worried, not like its getting a bit thin up there, well not so much thin as, absent  Mad )

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Post by azriel Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:19 pm

IL just have to improvise Petty,  Nod  Very Happy

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Post by bungobaggins Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:12 am

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Post by RA Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:06 am

Surprised  What?  Laughing 

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Post by azriel Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:22 pm

Petty's losing his hair  Nod Laughing

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Post by Bluebottle Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:24 pm

Tearing it out while doing his edits more like.  Razz 

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Post by azriel Sun Apr 27, 2014 7:38 pm

probably Blue  Laughing

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Post by Pettytyrant101 Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:48 am

I wouldn't mind if I lost it uniformly, but no, it has go on the top and seemingly grow thicker at the sides than ever before!  Mad 
And it being very red this can be somewhat of a sight (especially in the mornings, when I see mornings).

So if you ever meet me in person the first impression I am likely to give off is that of a very angry clown.

The second impression is of a very drunk, angry clown.

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Post by Eldorion Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:29 am

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I remember seeing the video of that when it happened.  It looks really cool but I'm glad no one was inside.
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Post by bungobaggins Mon Apr 28, 2014 4:22 am

I remembered the day it happened. Big news in the North Star state. Nod

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Post by chris63 Mon May 19, 2014 3:43 am

The General Tolkien News Thread - Page 5 24063-v1-197xBeowulf: A Translation and Commentary
J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-0-544-44278-8
More than a decade before writing The Hobbit, Tolkien completed his translation from the Old English of this epic poem, whose influence on his Lord of the Rings Trilogy is well known. Tolkien continued to refine the phrasing even after 1926, but this rendition—edited by his son Christopher and published for the first time—will delight fans. Tolkien conveys both the pageantry of the fifth-century Danish court and the physicality of the battle between Geat hero Beowulf and man-eating monster Grendel. His alliterative phrasing—“biting the bone-joints...great gobbets gorging down,” “a dragon, even he who on the high heath watched his hoard”—finds some of the same poetry in the archaic prose as Seamus Heaney’s celebrated 2000 translation. In Beowulf’s fight to the death with a gold-hoarding dragon, readers familiar with Tolkien’s fiction will see a precursor of his dragon nemesis Smaug. Editor Tolkien includes lengthy commentary extracted from his father’s lectures at Oxford University, as well as “Sellic Spell,” a previously unpublished fantasy that imagines Beowulf’s biographical backstory, and “The Lay of Beowulf,” two versions of a poem on the epic’s theme. Scholars will no doubt continue to debate Tolkien’s interpretation, but lovers of Tolkien’s work will agree that this is a book long overdue. (May 22)

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Post by Elthir Mon May 19, 2014 1:00 pm

The soonic publication of Beowulf made me get around to The Fall of Arthur finally. Finished it. Liked it. Poetry plus Tolkien plus Arthur! Yeah.

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Post by halfwise Mon May 19, 2014 1:28 pm

My copy arrives sometime in the next two weeks.  :carrot: :carrot: 

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Post by malickfan Tue May 20, 2014 7:18 pm

My copy arrives on Thursday (hopefully). That gives me a day to read 'Monsters and The Critics'...

The first reviews are up:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/05/j_r_r_tolkien_s_beowulf_translation_reviewed.html


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/10835740/Beowulf-translated-by-JRR-Tolkien-review.html

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Post by halfwise Tue May 20, 2014 7:40 pm

The first reviewer was quite delightful (as is her picture. I shall endeavor to marry her.) Both reviewers prefer the Seamus Heaney translation; might be interesting to pick up for comparison. I have others, all seem to have strengths and weaknesses.

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Post by malickfan Tue May 20, 2014 7:50 pm

I have to confess I know next to nothing about Beowulf  Sofa so I'm not entirely sure whether I should have bothered pre ordering it...

Considering this was never intended to be published I'm not expecting much in terms of a landmark translation, I am expecting it to be interesting...

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Post by halfwise Tue May 20, 2014 7:53 pm

I think the Heaney translation is perhaps a better read, but it's not Tolkien, and it doesn't have Tolkien's notes. I think the notes are worth a lot.

Dratted Katy Waldman (first reviewer) doesn't have contact information. I am NOT joiner twitter to get her attention.  Mad  I may have to write a slate article.

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Post by halfwise Fri May 23, 2014 10:37 pm

My book has arrived!  cheers ....right before I head out for a camping holiday. I'll not risk it in the upcoming weather.

But the notes are almost 3 times as long as the translation! Should be interesting. Christopher said this was the reason for the delay, how to organize constantly shifting thoughts - it wasn't as easy as just publishing Tolkien's translation. He did the translation early on, and his thoughts kept shifting ever since.

Clearly getting all the Middle Earth done first was the main priority. I can see now why the translation wasn't allowed to be published by others, they would not have taken the time to get the notes right.

Anyway, I'll start reading it, as will malick, and I think we should start a new thread on our thoughts.

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