tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post4382493363616435245..comments2024-03-28T14:05:25.134-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: Books at KalamazooJohn D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-18336292653074054632010-05-19T12:09:24.856-07:002010-05-19T12:09:24.856-07:00Tolkien and serious music sounds like an interesti...Tolkien and serious music sounds like an interesting topic. (We'll put aside the question of Gilbert and Sullivan influence on "Errantry"!)<br /><br />I wonder what JRRT would have thought of a comment linking the feeling, when Feanor and his people come to the Great Ice, with the "Landscape" (lento) portion of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony #7 (Antarctica)? -- not as a matter of "influence" but of "affinity."<br /><br />Speaking of affinity between a musical composition and a fantastic story, try putting Sibelius's symphonic poem "Tapiola" side by side with Blackwood's "Wendigo."Extollagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00580955213307049077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-62215449783194853312010-05-19T06:08:36.604-07:002010-05-19T06:08:36.604-07:00Haven't read Williamson's Sutton Hoo book,...Haven't read Williamson's Sutton Hoo book, but I will throw out a recommendation for Martin Carver's <i>Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings?</i> (now just about 12 years old, but still worthwhile). Alaric Hall is a great guy, and his elves book (based on his doctoral thesis) is likewise excellent. Similarly, I have a lot of time for Marijane Osborn; besides her new romances collection, I strongly recommend her classic <i>Landscape of Desire: Partial Stories of the Medieval Scandinavian World</i> (co-authored with Gillian R. Overing) and her contributions to the <i>Beowulf & Lejre</i> collection (edited by John Niles, which also includes an afterword from Tom Shippey).Carl Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08088507380154524745noreply@blogger.com