Trotter wrote:

Beowulf: Translation and Commentary

Translation by Tom Shippey, edited by Leonard Neidorf

Has anyone bought and read this book? Any comments (for example, is it a text dedicated to experts on the subject or also readable by amateurs of the genre)? Do you have any photos of the volume to share?
Thank you!

Mauro D86 wrote:

Has anyone bought and read this book? Any comments (for example, is it a text dedicated to experts on the subject or also readable by amateurs of the genre)? Do you have any photos of the volume to share?
Thank you!

I have only had a flick through so far but it appears very accessible. I can't comment too much on the translation so far but what I have read is entertaining. The book is basic, but solid. The image of the spine is just down to how I am holding it, no kinks in it.

onthetrail wrote:

I have only had a flick through so far but it appears very accessible. I can't comment too much on the translation so far but what I ahve read is entertaining. The book is basic, but solid. The image os the spine is just down to how I am holding it, no kinks in it.

onthetrail Thanks for the info!

Looks like The Children of Húrin may have been reprinted with the new paperback cover in the UK.

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The Children of Húrin (UK PB)

HarperCollins (2014-12-16)

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Is that the correct Amazon UK link for CoH?

LanceFormation wrote:

Is that the correct Amazon UK link for CoH?

No, a third party seller has created a listing for five books and given it the ISBN for CoH. It should clear up fairly soon I think.

Urulókë wrote:

LanceFormation wrote:

Is that the correct Amazon UK link for CoH?

No, a third party seller has created a listing for five books and given it the ISBN for CoH. It should clear up fairly soon I think.

Ah ok! I did find it separately…

https://amzn.eu/d/8oziZCH

Amazon UK fixed the strange entry being returned, so the link is correct in the ISBN widget now.

Picked up the new Maps of Middle-Earth hardback today, and it seems like a nice little volume after a cursory flick through.

Four large folded maps (ME, the Hobbit journey, Beleriand and Númenor) redrawn by John Howe and then the book itself goes through each of the four in turn, with a history of Tolkien's work on the maps by Sibley, a piece by Howe on recreating them and a glossary of every location.

Certainly not essential but nicely presented (the book contains a mix of old and new Howe art).

Do you have a confirmation about the publication in two days of Tolkien on Chaucer: 1913-1959 by Pr. Bowers ? It seems that the OUP website haven't publish the cover yet, but the date isn't modified since the beginning. I suppose a delay, maybe.
https://global.oup.com/academic/produc ... r-1913-1959-9780192848888