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Bêthberry · 04-04-2007, 11:50 AM

Fascinating quotation, Squatter old chap.

It tickles the funny bone to see Tolkien imagining Chaucer in his--Tolkien's--own image. Tolkopomorphism anyone?

On the other hand, it is equally a good tickle to know that The Wife of Bath shares more than a few characteristics with the well-known stock character figure in medieval literature: the cockwold.

(To say nothing about the hilarious irony of using the blundering narrator's agreement with the worldly monk who perverts his monastic ideal--and whose tale is a poor version of Boccacio's "De Casibus Virorum Illustrium." Chaucer had so much fun making his character the worst story teller. Oh, by gosh and by golly, I am taking a witty salvo too seriously. )

Some writers will do anything for a private giggle.

04-04-2007, 11:50 AM	#22
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	Fascinating quotation, Squatter old chap. It tickles the funny bone to see Tolkien imagining Chaucer in his--Tolkien's--own image. Tolkopomorphism anyone? On the other hand, it is equally a good tickle to know that The Wife of Bath shares more than a few characteristics with the well-known stock character figure in medieval literature: the cockwold. (To say nothing about the hilarious irony of using the blundering narrator's agreement with the worldly monk who perverts his monastic ideal--and whose tale is a poor version of Boccacio's "De Casibus Virorum Illustrium." Chaucer had so much fun making his character the worst story teller. Oh, by gosh and by golly, I am taking a witty salvo too seriously. ) Some writers will do anything for a private giggle. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.