The feedback issue is certainly interesting (says a writer who can never get enough of it). The problem is just that there are so many intersting topics on the list. But if you're going to tackle them all, whenever, that's cool. :)
I figured you'd know that page, but I figured that just in case... nothing more frustrating than doing a lot of research and then finding that there's a resource that could've really helped if one had known about it early enough.
That is fantastic. I've been wondering whether I've been reading too much into those references that I did catch. Since the application of the oral-formulaic theory didn't really drift into Anglo-Saxon studies until the 1950s and didn't gather momentum until the late 1960s, by which time Tolkien's academic time was as good as over, I've sort of been afraid that he just threw in a few of these lines because he was using primary-world chronicles as a model, but not putting that much thought into it. So the fact that you're keeping track of the use of these references and observing patterns behind it excites me more than it reasonably should! (Figures that I've been pondering the question, but never bothered to put actual research into it. How low I have fallen!) Now I wonder whether Tolkien kept up with "recent" research or whether he just intuited that stuff!
I've already downloaded your thesis and I'm very much looking forward to reading it. Seems that the oral-formulaic question is still near and dear to my heart. I wish I could go back to college... ;)
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Date: 2017-03-22 08:56 am (UTC)I figured you'd know that page, but I figured that just in case... nothing more frustrating than doing a lot of research and then finding that there's a resource that could've really helped if one had known about it early enough.
That is fantastic. I've been wondering whether I've been reading too much into those references that I did catch. Since the application of the oral-formulaic theory didn't really drift into Anglo-Saxon studies until the 1950s and didn't gather momentum until the late 1960s, by which time Tolkien's academic time was as good as over, I've sort of been afraid that he just threw in a few of these lines because he was using primary-world chronicles as a model, but not putting that much thought into it. So the fact that you're keeping track of the use of these references and observing patterns behind it excites me more than it reasonably should! (Figures that I've been pondering the question, but never bothered to put actual research into it. How low I have fallen!) Now I wonder whether Tolkien kept up with "recent" research or whether he just intuited that stuff!
I've already downloaded your thesis and I'm very much looking forward to reading it. Seems that the oral-formulaic question is still near and dear to my heart. I wish I could go back to college... ;)