Auden on Tolkien

[wellinghall]

The Guardian on Auden on Tolkien

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2010/jan/01/religion-whauden

Comments

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Cripes. The New York Times loved both Lord of the Rings and The Da Vinci Code. That combination must be enough to get the lit crit crowd burning copies in the streets of Manhattan.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well quite!

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine reading Tolkien aloud for the sake of the language

Oh, he obviously hasn't imagined what happens in our bedroom! ExMemSec read the Lays of Beleriand to me (also the Kalevala). In both cases, it was for the 'language' (poetry), not the plot.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oh, he obviously hasn't imagined what happens in our bedroom!

*sniggers* ;-)