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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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Tom Beck
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And it’s not even “repackaging” so much as expanding. Tolkien wanted more of Anglo Saxon myth than just Beowulf so he invented more. Lord of the Rings as Beowulf expansion pack.
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