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Tolkien and the Beowulf Saga

Posted by michael on from the everything-old-is-new-again dept.

jackalski sent in this story about a translation of the Beowulf epic by J.R.R. Tolkien being discovered and which is now set to be published next year. Tolkien found Beowulf inspirational.

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Suck it trebec.

  2. Photo Shoot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic



    Photo Shoot
    -----------
    The photographer for a national magazine was assigned to get
    photos of a great forest fire. Smoke at the scene was too
    thick to get any good shots, so he frantically called his home
    office to hire a plane.

    "It will be waiting for you at the airport!" he was assured
    by his editor.

    As soon as he got to the small, rural airport, sure enough,
    a plane was warming up near the runway. He jumped in with
    his equipment and yelled, "Let's go! Let's go!" The pilot
    swung the plane into the wind and soon they were in the air.

    "Fly over the north side of the fire," said the photographer,
    "and make three or four low level passes."

    "Why?" asked the pilot.

    "Because I'm going to take pictures! I'm a photographer, and
    photographers take pictures!" said the photographer with great
    exasperation and impatience.

    After a long pause the pilot said, "You mean you're not the
    instructor?"

  3. Dear god... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    let the comments begin!

  4. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp bitch

  5. g to the oatse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    c to the izzex
    what up y'all?

  6. RPN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    With my IP unbanned, here's another RPN example:

    e^( (4+2) / 7!)

    Alg: exp ( (4+2)/7!)

    RPN: 4 Enter 2 + 7 ! / exp

    8 keystrokes, vs 11. RPN wins!

  7. Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this wasn't released until the age where this dominates:

    MZ ÿÿ @ Í!LÍ!This program cannot be run in DOS mode.

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  8. hmm... Tolkien by ejaw5 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    One Beowulf cluster, to rule all clusters.

    --

    $cat /dev/random > Sig
  9. Wow... by wcbarksdale · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought only dead rappers could make new material.

  10. Imagine.... by psyconaut · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ....a beowulf cluster of those! ;)

    -psy

  11. I Thought the Word was Shat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    .. so I looked it up. "Shitted" and "shat" are equivilent.

    Read /., learn something new!

  12. Re:imagine... by mstyne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    turd burgler!

    --
    mstyne: real name, no gimmicks