#philologist

[literarydesire]

That thing when you ask your professor a question and they get that distant look in their eyes and stare into space for a while and you can see them racking their brain for an answer and then, they get really excited when they realize that they dont know so now they have an excuse to research something new >>>

[itarille1]

Tolkien’s remarks on his contribution to the preparation of The Jerusalem Bible: 

"Naming me among the 'principal collaborators' was an undeserved courtesy on the part of the editor of the Jerusalem Bible. I was consulted on one or two points of style, and criticized some contributions of others. I was originally assigned a large amount of text to translate, but after doing some necessary preliminary work I was obliged to resign owing to pressure of other work, and only completed 'Jonah', one of the shortest books."

(extract from Tolkien Letter #294, to Charlotte and Denis Plimmer) 

The book of Jonah, was the one which contains the fantastic narrative of the titular prophet being held inside the belly of a gigantic fish for three days and three nights.  Isn’t it fitting for Tolkien to work on this particular book?  

Though I hoped he had worked on the book of Job, too—a poet working on an ancient poetic masterpiece. 

“I was obliged to resign owing to pressure of other work...” What other work was there? The Jerusalem Bible was published in 1966, years after The Lord of the Rings was published.  Perhaps he was working on his legendarium... 

[midnightshaze13]

No one is aware of how obsessed I am from my essence of being a philologist, which is the entire core of my person, the fact that Taylor Swift has released an album called Tortured Poets and The Anthology on these piano poems 📜🎹 !! (more than songs, they feel like piano poems) everything is either hyperbole, sattire or/and an exaggeration of the tragedy and I LOVE it entirely

@taylorswift thank you I adore this album and I protect and appreciate these lyrics with my heart

[alexjcrowley]

Life is going. Whatever.

[nellarw95]

Happy Heavenly Birthday John 🎂💔

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

January 3,1892 - September 2,1973🙏🏻

We Miss You So Much 🕊️♾️

Buon Compleanno in Paradiso 🎂💔

3 Gennaio 1892 - 2 Settembre 1973 🙏🏻

Ci Manchi Moltissimo 🕊️♾️

[butchkaramazov]

[literarydesire]

Me when Roman poets contract verb conjugations to make it fit with the metre but the contraction coincides with another, pre-existing conjugation so you just kinda have to guess

Leonid Pasternak  (Ukrainian, 1862–1945) - The Torments of Creative Work

[portrait-paintings]

Thomas Ruddiman, 1674 - 1757. Philologist and Publisher

Artist: William Denune (Scottish, 1715-1750)

Date: 1749

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: National Galleries' Scotland, Edinburg, Scotland

Description

Thomas Ruddiman was a Scottish publisher and classical scholar. Born in Banffshire, he received a classical education at King’s College, Aberdeen and worked as a schoolmaster in Laurencekirk before moving to Edinburgh in 1700. He started out as a library assistant, but soon became associated with Edinburgh printer and bookseller Robert Freebairn. By 1712 Ruddiman and his brother Walter had established their own printing business. They specialised in school books and their most celebrated title was Ruddiman’s own ‘Rudiments of the Latin Tongue’, first published by Freebairn but subsequently ‘printed and sold by the author’. From 1724 onwards Ruddiman printed the newspaper ‘The Caledonian Mercury’, a platform for moderate Jacobitism that supported Prince Charles Edward's cause in 1745.

[gravedust412]

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL

[literarydesire]

Todays quotes from Dorothy, my ancient greek professor:

"Have you accepted Dionysos as your lord and savior?"

"Hello, and welcome to White Man studies!"

"Oh for fucks sake girls"

"They were what we may call... tent-mates"

"The monks were terrible at greek and that leaves us in quite the predicament"

"How can you be a classisist and homophobic? Do you just ignore 80% of everything you read?"

"Every spear in the Aeneid is a cock. Just remember that"

[finelythreadedsky]

 On one level the book is about the life of a woman who is hardly more than a token in a great epic poem, on another it’s about how history and context shape how we are seen, and the brief moment there is to act between the inescapable past and the unknowable future. Perhaps to write Lavinia Le Guin had to live long enough to see her own early books read in a different context from the one where they were written, and to think about what that means.

-Jo Walton

[fictionadventurer]

I don't think we talk often enough about how amazing a poet J.R.R. Tolkien was.

I just read The Lay of Arthur and it was amazing. I got to the battle scene and was so caught up in the excitement and the sound that I just had to read it aloud. It was its own kind of adrenaline rush. I haven't been caught up in poetry like that in a long time.

[literarydesire]

Imagine rocking up to the function with this bad boy and singing the entire Iliad

Ancient Greek lyre.

Find spot: Athens Materials: wood, tortoise-shell Period / culture: Classical Greek Production date: 5thC BC-4thC BC (probably)

Source

[liittleemiixeer]

did they change the name of the paths? they were called "voice of god" and "whisper of the devil" before, right? I'm not sure if this is a linguistic-based decision or it has something to do with the plot... the meaning changes a liiiiittle bit ...

- screenshot of s2 ep 4 that i just finished (even during the episode I got the panel saying "God's Voice Path") VS. screenshot of s1 ep 1 when it was first released

food for thought...

[exercise-of-trust]

it baffles me, though it probably shouldn't, that someone can write an entire rpf novel about j. r. r. tolkien finding a mysterious ancient book and going on thrilling international adventures, and get it published with enough success that i can accidentally stumble across it in the sff section of the local library

[uritur-infelix]

Thinking about the time I was in an Old Irish classroom and we were reading a poem about an Irish winter, and my teacher had the air conditioner on full-blast, conveniently hitting me in the face with its icy gusts. It's like she was trying to simulate the Irish winter we were reading about 😂😂😂