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Just finished this. Reminds me of how J.R.R. Tolkien was a huge fan and drew so much of LOTR from Beowulf. I felt like I was reading The Hobbit for parts of it.
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Tom Beck
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I felt the same way reading the Norse Eddas. If they had been packaged as unfinished Tolkien stories, I’m not sure I would have questioned it.
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July
@july
Just really reminds me of how repackaging and renovating old stories to become new stories is really not a bad thing but rather a necessity for us to move forward with our new / old myths
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Tom Beck
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Yes, exactly, and Tolkien was quite explicit in his intent to create an Anglo-Saxon mythology that would feel authentic, though invented.
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