The Professor as scholar

[Lothiriel Silmarien]

Beowulf was an influence to Tolkien while he was writing the trilogy, or so I've read, and his studies of the Anglo-Saxon's were also. So it's a good thing that he was so interested in that! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Bethberry, thank you for that summary, it was very interesting. Oh, Squatter, I just started reading The Book of Lost Tales and I just finished the first chapter about Eriol. I have yet to read that poem!

The character of Eriol (later Ælfwine) was intended to act as a bridge between Tolkien's legends and our own history.

That's interesting also, I didn't know that.

Didn't Tolkien write a poem about the Anglo-Saxon's? I'm not sure, maybe that's just something else that I have it mixed up with. But Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is actually pretty good! (for English class, we had to do that play. Very fun [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] )
Oh, I have this little book, The Languages of Tolkien or something like that, and they have the Anglo-Saxon runes in it, which are very similar to the Elvish runes. They're not that hard to memorize, I think I'm going to memorize them and only write using those runes [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Oh, Belin, do they offer medieval classes at most colleges??? *crosses fingers*

[ September 01, 2002: Message edited by: Lothiriel Silmarien ]