Fascinating character—among other things, a main mentor to JRR Tolkien, but not only that.
h/t @hokaisobol, somewhat indirectly
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I drew Professor Alfred’s attention to Tolkien’s _The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth_, which he had been unaware of. I think it is Tolkien’s most important work. (But don’t read it if you are expecting more Lord of the Rings! It is ethics, not entertainment.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Homecoming_of_Beorhtnoth_Beorhthelm's_Son …
It is possible that this is what would be most important for me to write about…. Someday, if I live long enough, which is unlikely, or else in the Dream Time, I will finish a monstrous essay notionally about _The Homecoming_, but actually about >
about Being, and Time, and Lineage, and Myth, and the nature of the University, and Tolkien’s professional career which was mostly failed resistance against the scientificalization of philology, and his mixed feelings (and mine) about the pagan heroic vs Christian ethoi, and
postmodernism, postmodernity, and deconstruction, and the proper function of the ruling class, and John Gardner’s _Grendel_, and Gandalf with the Balrog, and Macaulay’s _Lays of Ancient Rome_, and worlds that were, and worlds that are, and worlds that yet may be, because
Whoa! It would be cool to see a family tree visualization of popular stories and their mythological ancestors, trace how they evolved over time. Especially the classics that were eaten by Disney in the mid 20th c.
Doing that for religions then other core narratives of society through NLP & knowledge graphs. Will take a while but be really rather fascinating
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