A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales
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A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales
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Re: A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales
#2I very strongly recommend Tolkien’s translation of Gawain and the Green Knight.
the audio version recorded by none other than Terry Jones is extremely good. The humour and sexiness of the translation (no, really!) come through in spades, and his midlands accent is exactly correct and sounds wonderful.
Re: A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales
#3Damn, that's an unreadable page. I've got ads (or white space if using ad blockers ) the height of my whole phone screen,a cookie banner that blurs the background, a close button following me around and discracting me with the filing animation, a static button for the smartphone view (that's exactly the same?), A footer that appears if I scroll up and from that point on stays in place...
What else could they do to actively make users run away? Sirens blazing?
Re: A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales
#4I very strongly recommend Tolkien’s translation of Gawain and the Green Knight. the audio version recorded by none other than Terry Jones is extremely good. The humour and sexiness of the translation (no, really!) come through in spades, and his midlands accent is exactly correct and sounds wonderful.
I recently learned that Tolkien's son did some cleanup on the various writings left around after the passing of JRRT. (the phrase was, nothing was added, only removal of any contradictory passages and order). Any tips for finding more of Tolkien's writings, Middle Earth or otherwise?
Re: A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales
#5I very strongly recommend Tolkien’s translation of Gawain and the Green Knight. the audio version recorded by none other than Terry Jones is extremely good. The humour and sexiness of the translation (no, really!) come through in spades, and his midlands accent is exactly correct and sounds wonderful.
I recently learned that Tolkien's son did some cleanup on the various writings left around after the passing of JRRT. (the phrase was, nothing was added, only removal of any contradictory passages and order). Any tips for finding more of Tolkien's writings, Middle Earth or otherwise?
library search, probably.
lesser-known gems i like are his translations ( of gawain, pearl, and sir orfeo), his critical essays (monsters and critics), and his short stories (smith of wooton major, farmer giles of ham).
Re: A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales
#6I very strongly recommend Tolkien’s translation of Gawain and the Green Knight. the audio version recorded by none other than Terry Jones is extremely good. The humour and sexiness of the translation (no, really!) come through in spades, and his midlands accent is exactly correct and sounds wonderful.
I think I'd rather recommend Diana Wynne Jones' The Tough Guide To Fantasyland. On one hand, it's more conventional modern genre fantasy derivative of post-Tolkien writers. On the other, it's an actual survival guide, like the OP.
Re: A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales
#7Damn, that's an unreadable page. I've got ads (or white space if using ad blockers ) the height of my whole phone screen,a cookie banner that blurs the background, a close button following me around and discracting me with the filing animation, a static button for the smartphone view (that's exactly the same?), A footer that appears if I scroll up and from that point on stays in place... What else could they do to ac…
Agreed, though I found if I pressed reader mode quickly enough (Opera on Android) then I got a pretty readable result.
Re: A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales
#8Damn, that's an unreadable page. I've got ads (or white space if using ad blockers ) the height of my whole phone screen,a cookie banner that blurs the background, a close button following me around and discracting me with the filing animation, a static button for the smartphone view (that's exactly the same?), A footer that appears if I scroll up and from that point on stays in place... What else could they do to ac…
this is why i hate the mobile web. its getting to the point i am seriously considering a text mode browser on my phone.
Re: A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales
#9I very strongly recommend Tolkien’s translation of Gawain and the Green Knight. the audio version recorded by none other than Terry Jones is extremely good. The humour and sexiness of the translation (no, really!) come through in spades, and his midlands accent is exactly correct and sounds wonderful.
I think I'd rather recommend Diana Wynne Jones' The Tough Guide To Fantasyland. On one hand, it's more conventional modern genre fantasy derivative of post-Tolkien writers. On the other, it's an actual survival guide, like the OP.
"Gawain" is an example of the source material from which a survival guide could be inferred.
Re: A Survival Guide to Medieval Fairy Tales
#10My point to add is that Fairy tales are not always (maybe not often?) children friendly by modern standards.
Same as modern day "cartoons".
They can have quite graphic content.
My wife and I were reading from a "Trove of childrens songs, fairy tales etc" to our newborn, to get in the practice of reading to our child. Simple rhyming stuff, 3 blind mice, the luminous dong, tom thumb, jack and the beanstalk. It was getting more serious.
Then a story: man earns and travels with a reaver at his side and ends up winning the heart of a princess - who up 'til that point kept a garden decorated with the blood dripping heads of failed suitors. I mean, she was under the influence of an evil troll(iirc) so no disrespect to her but I thought I might wait a few years until I read that one to my kids...