Hi! My goodness, we do have a lot of flisters in common! Clearly you have good taste and we should be friends :)
Also, you live in Norway, wow! I've been twice (Bergen, Oslo, Tromsø and thereabouts), and the area around Flåm has taken my breath away every time. Incredible Middle Earth vibes :)
I have actually -- embarrassingly for a huge Tolkien fan -- never read Tolkien's Beowulf -- one of these days, maybe! I don't remember whose translation we read when I studied it at uni (only that I was disappointed it wasn't Tolkien's, heh. Well, and it wasn't Heaney.), and more recently enjoyed Maria Dahvana Headley's version rather a lot.
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Date: 2024-04-29 05:07 pm (UTC)Also, you live in Norway, wow! I've been twice (Bergen, Oslo, Tromsø and thereabouts), and the area around Flåm has taken my breath away every time. Incredible Middle Earth vibes :)
I have actually -- embarrassingly for a huge Tolkien fan -- never read Tolkien's Beowulf -- one of these days, maybe! I don't remember whose translation we read when I studied it at uni (only that I was disappointed it wasn't Tolkien's, heh. Well, and it wasn't Heaney.), and more recently enjoyed Maria Dahvana Headley's version rather a lot.