tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410716623228444076.post6103575580744078549..comments2024-03-28T13:10:04.655+00:00Comments on The Notion Club Papers - an Inklings blog: Tolkien and GiantsBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410716623228444076.post-64878338150319580142018-03-02T15:30:14.865+00:002018-03-02T15:30:14.865+00:00@David
I do know that Lewis said some very nasty...@David <br /><br />I do know that Lewis said some very nasty things about Geoffrey in Studies in Medieval and reniassance Literature. I would guess he read him in Latin, but I don't know. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2410716623228444076.post-76810431041286985162018-03-02T13:50:42.748+00:002018-03-02T13:50:42.748+00:00Thanks for this - my attention to Geoffrey Ashe - ...Thanks for this - my attention to Geoffrey Ashe - reading him, even hearing him lecture - has clearly been too narrowly Arthurian!<br /><br />I think this ties in interestingly with Ethan Campbell's contribution to our current series at A Pilgrim in Narnia, also with regard to the discussion of "etaynez", "ettins", "eotenas", and 'ents' in the comments:<br /><br />https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2018/02/14/wood-woses-tolkiens-wild-men-and-the-green-knight-by-ethan-campbell/<br /><br />Maybe, too, with Dale Nelson's latest contribution, "Arthurian Literature and the Old Everyman’s Library":<br /><br />https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2018/02/28/el/<br /><br />I'm not sure if we know that Sebastian Evans's translation, appearing first in the Temple Classics series as Geoffrey of Monmouth in 1904 before reappearing as Histories of the Kings of Britain as Everyman's Library volume 577, was known to Tolkien - or the other Inklings - but it seems likely, being such a quick easy ready reference even for the good Latinists among them, as for so many of us, ever since, even after the appearance of Lewis Thorpe's Penguin translation in 1966 (the first form in which I read Geoffrey).<br /><br />David Llewellyn DoddsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com