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Originally Posted by The Squatter of Amon Rûdh
If that means that I don't see (for whatever unfathomable reason) the verse Beowulf, then at least it also means that I won't have to read about a fist-fight in Balliol Quad between Tolkien and F.R. Leavis or Tolkien as the leader of an underground fascist group.
... although I notice that the publication of Here There Be Dragons has gone ahead without their interference, and that a film is planned. |
Well, I would very much like to read about that fist-fight, although I reckon William Empson would definitely have emerged victorious...
I'd never heard of the work you just cited; have wikied, and it looks quite similar to this
Mirkwood thing, but plus better book jokes and King Arthur; is it worth a look?