and I got to talk to an adorable older gentleman about it

...who after ten full minutes of listening to me probably regretted asking about it

neeeeeeeeeeeerd

tell me it's at least the tolkein one and you didn't get

another one before the tolkein one

yes it's the tolkein one!!

and omg it is already throwing me for a loop fei

it's formatted in indented paragraphs*

this is like. fucking madness.

not indented paragraphs!

I KNOW RIGHT??

A SAGA? IN PARAGRAPHS?

I CANT EVEN WITH THIS RIGHT NOW

you are

such a fucking nerd

look.

i am

/cries

lmfao that poor old man was like

oh that looks interesting is that the same guy who did the hobbit and i was like

have a seat, nice man

i am about to go on a Tangent, the length of which will be worthy for the Geat-land

smh

ashe it comes with

his notes okay

from his lectures

uh hu

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so far i am liking the heaney version more

but i like the notes and preface in this book a ton

and it looks like there's extra translations at the end so like

tolkein >>> heaney on DVD bonus content

heaney >>>>> tolkein on theatrical release