[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Tolkien testosterone

[Kathryn]

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From: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Date: 24 July 2002 19:54:16 
To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Tolkien testosterone 

AV: 
>>I'm actually really enjoying The Silmarillion for the first time - 
I 
think I'll finish it this time.  I think the first times I tried to 
read it, I hadn't read enough actual epics in my lifetime and was not 
inured to the nodoff factor. Now that I've gotten around to really 
reading more than my teenage self ever dream of Beowulf, the Epic of 
Gilgamesh, the Bible, the Kalevala, etc., the style makes more sense 
to me.>>

I can never do that, just put down a book once I've actually started 
it.  Maybe that's how I was even able to get through The Silmarillion 
the first time I read it... =P Out of the books you've mentioned, the 
only one I've heard of is Beowolf(well, besides the Bible...), and 
that's only because it was on my reading list for school this year.  
Hmm, I think I need to start reading more books, instead of just re-
reading Harry Potter and LotR over and over again. =P
Beowulf is fantastic, especially the recent translation that won a prize -
by someone who's name I forget, ted Hughes maybe? You should read Gilgamesh,
it's fantastic. 

K

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