tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post858367605767559182..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Beowulf:The Monsters and the CriticsAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-73623987253715421722021-05-31T18:15:17.076-04:002021-05-31T18:15:17.076-04:00He left me in the dust with his citations. I can ...He left me in the dust with his citations. I can sometimes sort-of worry out the meaning, but not appreciate why the original language's wording had so much more power.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-71644332422327116462021-05-31T17:29:26.961-04:002021-05-31T17:29:26.961-04:00But then he ruined it by writing popular literatur...But then he ruined it by writing popular literature. As he was always on the edge because of being Roman Catholic, that was eventually unforgivable. That was in the future, though, as <i>The Hobbit</i> had not penetrated anyone's consciousness and they gradually tolerated it, figuring he had gotten that nonsense out of his system. By the time LOTR came out it was already too late, and they couldn't rescind his professorship.<br /><br />To those who think that they could not deny him his place because his other scholarship was simply too devastatingly good, Lewis and Tolkien would both smile indulgently and say "You don't really understand how this works, do you?"Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-11454762734005016382021-05-31T17:18:36.078-04:002021-05-31T17:18:36.078-04:00What always impresses me about that piece is his e...What always impresses me about that piece is his easy deduction— so obvious, after he pointed it out— that the Beowulf was a late feature of a deeply established but lost literature. That’s enough to make a scholar’s reputation, even if he had never done more. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.com