Comments on: Tolkien keeps churning them out http://oldnorsenews.org/2009/04/tolkien-keeps-churning-them-out/ News, Announcements, Comment and Resources for Medieval Scandinavian Studies Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:18:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sarah http://oldnorsenews.org/2009/04/tolkien-keeps-churning-them-out/comment-page-1/#comment-22154 Sarah Thu, 14 May 2009 20:01:09 +0000 http://oldnorsenews.org/?p=490#comment-22154 Richard, If you flick back through the March 2009 posts you will find one called 'Learn Old Norse -- The Alaric Way'. Follow the link for some very useful Old Norse resources. Happy learning! Richard,

If you flick back through the March 2009 posts you will find one called ‘Learn Old Norse — The Alaric Way’. Follow the link for some very useful Old Norse resources.

Happy learning!

]]> By: Richard Merwood http://oldnorsenews.org/2009/04/tolkien-keeps-churning-them-out/comment-page-1/#comment-21992 Richard Merwood Wed, 13 May 2009 17:37:22 +0000 http://oldnorsenews.org/?p=490#comment-21992 I was certainly surprised to see yet more posthumous Tolkien; how much more can there be? - BUT no hobbits etc and a complete foray into one of the scholar's lifelong specialities and therefore a must-read! It sent me back to the Volsunga Saga and poems from the Elder Edda which I can read only in translation alas, although I have collected a few Norse texts online and am currently searching for a simple guide to the rudiments of the language, with some previous experience of Anglo-Saxon. I was certainly surprised to see yet more posthumous Tolkien; how much more can there be? – BUT no hobbits etc and a complete foray into one of the scholar’s lifelong specialities and therefore a must-read!
It sent me back to the Volsunga Saga and poems from the Elder Edda which I can read only in translation alas, although I have collected a few Norse texts online and am currently searching for a simple guide to the rudiments of the language, with some previous experience of Anglo-Saxon.

]]> By: Sarah http://oldnorsenews.org/2009/04/tolkien-keeps-churning-them-out/comment-page-1/#comment-20952 Sarah Mon, 04 May 2009 19:21:12 +0000 http://oldnorsenews.org/?p=490#comment-20952 I have to agree with the previous comment. Certainly we are getting this NOW on the back of the Tolkien revival and not because of any immense literary value of the work itself. I would prefer it to be otherwise but can't shake the feeling that we will meet with something mediocre... and maybe a little kitsch. Mind you, that didn't stop me from putting it on order several months ago! I have to agree with the previous comment. Certainly we are getting this NOW on the back of the Tolkien revival and not because of any immense literary value of the work itself. I would prefer it to be otherwise but can’t shake the feeling that we will meet with something mediocre… and maybe a little kitsch.

Mind you, that didn’t stop me from putting it on order several months ago!

]]> By: John Kennedy http://oldnorsenews.org/2009/04/tolkien-keeps-churning-them-out/comment-page-1/#comment-20486 John Kennedy Sat, 02 May 2009 01:48:53 +0000 http://oldnorsenews.org/?p=490#comment-20486 It will inded be fascinating to see what appears, though it is a bit worrying that the work is being published not only thirty-six years after Tolkien's death, but in the wake of a large volume of other posthumous publications, some of them nor particulary inspired. Given the remarkable strength of 'Tolkien-mania' during much of the second half of the twentieth century, it is hard to believe anything very readable or significant has remained unpublished until now. But perhaps there was a manuscript that had, as it were, slipped down behind the back of a bookcase. John Kennedy It will inded be fascinating to see what appears, though it is a bit worrying that the work is being published not only thirty-six years after Tolkien’s death, but in the wake of a large volume of other posthumous publications, some of them nor particulary inspired. Given the remarkable strength of ‘Tolkien-mania’ during much of the second half of the twentieth century, it is hard to believe anything very readable or significant has remained unpublished until now. But perhaps there was a manuscript that had, as it were, slipped down behind the back of a bookcase.

John Kennedy

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