Tolkien's time machine: when literary worlds collide

» desertblue - history can be fun

Absolutely wonderful essay! Thank you. I am excited to re-read Homer and think maybe it's time to actually pick up a copy of Beowulf.

I love that you wrestle with the meat of ideas in your articles. There's too much surface-dressing in our modern society. You bridge the gap between "Gee, I like Tolkien" and the voluminous cross-referenced, footnoted scholarly pieces.

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» mkletch - Re: history can be fun

My impression when I finished this can be described by one word: staggered. The essay is certainly impressive, and I've bookmarked the link to that Iliad translation. I'll be thinking about this essay for a while. It doesn't sink in all at once. Definitely in the top three of Michael's essays here.

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