Beowolf movie

[The_Celtic_Bard]

yes great name

many great names in that epic

Hrothgar

for one

Beowulf is a tragic hero though

[lalit]

I attended a recitation of Beowulf in Old English, performed by Benjamin Bagby. The story was so spellbinding, that at one point I realized I had stopped reading the subtitles and was caught up in the poetry itself. That was magic.

Looks like they have it on DVD now. I wonder how it will compare to the live performance?
http://www.bagbybeowulf.com/dvd/index.html

[The_Celtic_Bard]

You lucky duck

[Walden]

@Walden

@The_Celtic_Bard

Whose translation for Beowulf is that Walden?

Francis Barton Gummere’s

Here’s a reading of this translation on mp3… http://www.archive.org/details/beowulf

[Tyler]

@The_Celtic_Bard

@djm

@monkey587

I found Mr. Bombadil to be a pretty useless side note in the whole thing

Then you missed Tolkein altogether. Bombadil is the heart and soul of Tolkein’s philosophy for his world. If you don’t “get” that, it’s small wonder you didn’t get anything else about Tolkein’s philosophy.

@TCB

Can I get a first name for this

Frank. Frank Beowulf.

djm

Thank djm Tom Bombadil is essential to the books, the movies it would have been hard to present him, because all though in the books a very important character, his on screen development would have taken a long time. But still I still want to see him in the movies.

ditto this…

When I learned they were making movies of LOTR, I envisioned James Cromwell as Bombadil

[djm]

Cromwell? There is nothing jolly about Cromwell. I can’t help see anyone but John Rhys-Davies as Bombadil, and he wouldn’t need any of the attrocious make-up that he had to endure as Gimli, Gloin’s son.

djm