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SirDennisC
Half-elven
Feb 1, 4:34pm
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I nominate you to finish the poem.
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Good thoughts... I really appreciate where you and Eruonen have gone with this. Just some additional thoughts that I may not be committed to for all time:
The idea of a mythology for "England only" is perhaps a tidge misguided (though not a profoundly bad idea) because the English didn't just appear on the scene from nowhere... they were a mishmash of indigenous islanders and all the other peoples who invaded or simply settled in the British Isles prior to the sense of nationhood called English emerged.
If I follow the reasoning behind the Arthur legends picking up where the Sil leaves off, it is to trace English-ness to a source previously unknown; that is not Roman, Welsh, Pict, Franc, Gaul, Saxon and so on. I can see how Tolkien, as he matured, might have abandoned the project as his intentions might have been misconstrued as promoting racial purity.
On the other hand, if the Sil et al were cast as mythologies that imparted the spark of English-ness to the historical cultural that produced the Arthur legends and present day England... well that seems a less risky proposition.
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The Fall of Arthur by JRR Tolkien
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SirDennisC
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Jan 27, 3:25am
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Arthur, we never knew ye
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squire
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Jan 27, 6:07am
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There's an entire book devoted to the idea that Arthuriana underlies Tolkien's legendarium.
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N.E. Brigand
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Jan 27, 6:53am
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Quite
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SirDennisC
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Jan 27, 10:53pm
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Well well
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Radagast-Aiwendil
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Jan 27, 9:10pm
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What Radagast-Aiwendil said
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Fredeghar Wayfarer
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Jan 28, 10:23pm
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Just a thought, but if we are to imagine the intersection
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Eruonen
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Jan 30, 8:00pm
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I nominate you to finish the poem.
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SirDennisC
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Feb 1, 4:34pm
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is it in Old English?//
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elevorn
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Jan 28, 3:46pm
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Not according to the link NEB posted
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SirDennisC
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Jan 28, 6:02pm
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"His bed was barren; there black phantoms"
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N.E. Brigand
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Jan 29, 6:46am
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Sometimes I look at stuff I wrote yesterday
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SirDennisC
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Jan 29, 3:09pm
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