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[TheLastArchivist]

 

Dragon Age ‏@dragonage

Two weeks left to go! #MyInquisition

 

 

 

F. Romance quests

[Potato Cat]

(Middle English ftw)

[timebean]

Not true!  My boyfriend studies it and reads Beowulf to me in Old English.  My "obsession" is with his sexy voice when he does it. It is how he wooed me!!!

To be fair...I don't understand a word of it.  But all those W's...yowza!!

[Sifr]

Being annoying nerd person to point out that no one here could probably understand actual "Old English" (language of Beowulf)

 

*Raises hand slightly*

 

Well, I know a bit of the written stuff, provided it's got a few words that've survived the last 1000 years relatively unchanged to allow me to translate it? I'm good when it comes to most written languages, I tend to read the foreign language versions of guide books on holiday simply because I enjoy figuring the language out.

 

Speaking them on the other hand... can't do that for my life!

[timebean]

(Middle English ftw)

Oh, is it Middle?  I thought Middle was like Canterbury Tales...

[Potato Cat]

Oh, is it Middle?  I thought Middle was like Canterbury Tales...

It is. I'm just voicing my preference for it.

[timebean]

Aww...gotcha!  At least Middle is somewhat decipherable!  I could maybe read it...after a little practice.  But not Old...I don't have the necessary deep voice that makes it sound awesome!!

[Potato Cat]

Aww...gotcha!  At least Middle is somewhat decipherable!  I could maybe read it...after a little practice.  But not Old...I don't have the necessary deep voice that makes it sound awesome!!

It's really not that bad. It's just knowing when to pretend some letters aren't there and when to switch around words. This may sound horrible, but if my friend can read it reasonably well and get the gist, it shouldn't be too bad.

[loominousfish]

Aww...gotcha!  At least Middle is somewhat decipherable!  I could maybe read it...after a little practice.  But not Old...I don't have the necessary deep voice that makes it sound awesome!!

 

My life for a recording of one of Tolkein's lectures on Beowulf... I'd love to hear him recite it! My older sister does a good job when she does some recitals of Old English, and the Canterbury Tales are really fun to read aloud.  

[timebean]

Just had a thought...Cullen singing a song in Middle English. SWOON!!!

[timebean]

My life for a recording of one of Tolkein's lectures on Beowulf... I'd love to hear him recite it!

Hoz about elvish?

[loominousfish]

Just had a thought...Cullen singing a song in Middle English. SWOON!!!

 

...Cullen reading out some Pablo Neruda.   Cause damn if all of his poetry isn't just absolutely sensual.

[Avejajed]

 

My Female Inquisitor is definitely going to try this approach with Cullen...

 

I can not stop watching this gif.

[CuriousArtemis]

What?! So you have to say two weeks?! That's MADDENING!

 

I know, tis mental as you folk would say  

 

Well I can't say as I've ever had reason to refer to two weeks' time. Why not a word for three weeks? Four weeks? Okay there's a month for that.

[Cerulione]

F. Romance quests

 

Seconded. Or using the war table for this purpose as a part of Romance Quest.

[CuriousArtemis]

Not true!  My boyfriend studies it and reads Beowulf to me in Old English.  My "obsession" is with his sexy voice when he does it. It is how he wooed me!!!

 

I stand corrected I find it interesting but can't understand/speak a word of it xD

[timebean]

...Cullen reading out some Pablo Neruda.   Cause damn if all of his poetry isn't just absolutely sensual.

OMG!!!!  I just googled a poem by him to check it out.  Clenched Soul.  SOOOOOOO perfect!!!

Spoiler

We have lost even this twilight.
No one saw us this evening hand in hand
while the blue night dropped on the world.

I have seen from my window
the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.

Sometimes a piece of sun
burned like a coin in my hand.

I remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.

Where were you then?
Who else was there?
Saying what?
Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when I am sad and feel you are far away?

The book fell that always closed at twilight
and my blue sweater rolled like a hurt dog at my feet.

Always, always you recede through the evenings
toward the twilight erasing statues.

[Potato Cat]

...Cullen reading out some Pablo Neruda.   Cause damn if all of his poetry isn't just absolutely sensual.

Oh god. We read one of his poems last year. The whole class was giggling and I didn't understand why, and then it suddenly dawned on me what he was actually banging on about. I went bright red and had to hide my face for the rest of the lesson! It's really not for me! I had so many problems with poetry. There was literally one guy I actually liked.

[loominousfish]

Hoz about elvish?

*snip*

 

I'll take it! I really liked that! Tolkein definitely has more... musicality in the way he speaks Elvish than in the way T.S Eliot recites Prufrock.  Eliot sounds very dry and bored there. Although I suppose that works, because it's Prufrock. But I'm very biased- I like the way I recite Prufrock more. I wrote a really long research paper on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock so I have a lot of really strong opinions about it >.>

 

I found out last year that one of my professors actually got to attend one of Tolkein's lectures on Beowulf. SO jealous!

[CuriousArtemis]

*Raises hand slightly*

 

Well, I know a bit of the written stuff, provided it's got a few words that've survived the last 1000 years relatively unchanged to allow me to translate it? I'm good when it comes to most written languages, I tend to read the foreign language versions of guide books on holiday simply because I enjoy figuring the language out.

 

Speaking them on the other hand... can't do that for my life!

 

Oh I couldn't remember, are some of the words recognizable? I'm so not an expert on this time period lol and don't pretend to be >.> I wouldn't even teach it cause I know nothing. 

 

I like languages, too ^^ I wouldn't say I'm very good at learning them. Only language I ever learned was Latin, and I've mostly forgotten it I hear French around me quite often because of where I live, but I can't speak it, which sucks. 

[Tishina]

Ah, truly? I could've sworn I've heard those troublesome colonials use it in one of their serial dramas or situational comedies.

I've never heard it used normally in the states.

 

Hahha!  Yes, that must be it!!  I am American but from the Appalachians, so we all talk really antiquated-like and hillbilly-ish.  My best friends through life have been British, Irish, and Singaporian...so i have picked up the British lilt at the end of my sentences as well as some words and phrases.  On top of that, I am obsessed with Old English. SO,  basically, when I talk, no one knows where the hell I am from and it wounds really wacky...

Hmm, I'm Appalachian (or grew up there) too, but I've never heard it used except by people doing historical recreations (or in performances).

[loominousfish]

OMG!!!!  I just googled a poem by him to check it out.  Clenched Soul.  SOOOOOOO perfect!!!

*snip*

 

Wow! And that's the first poem that came up?  That actually is kinda perfect. Pablo Neruda was a beautiful wordsmith. My favourite poem of his is Every Day You Play.

 

Edit: sorry broken spoiler tag! fixed it :S

 

Spoiler

Every day you play with the light of the universe.
Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water,
You are more than this white head that I hold tightly
as a bunch of flowers, every day, between my hands.

You are like nobody since I love you.
Let me spread you out among yellow garlands.
Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south?
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.

Suddenly the wind howls and bangs at my shut window.
The sky is a net crammed with shadowy fish.
Here all the winds let go sooner or later, all of them.
The rain takes off her clothes.

The birds go by, fleeing.
The wind.  The wind.
I alone can contend against the power of men.
The storm whirls dark leaves
and turns loose all the boats that were moored last night to the sky.

You are here.  Oh, you do not run away.
You will answer me to the last cry.
Curl round me as though you were frightened.
Even so, a strange shadow once ran through your eyes.

Now, now too, little one, you bring me honeysuckle,
and even your breasts smell of it.
While the sad wind goes slaughtering butterflies
I love you, and my happiness bites the plum of your mouth.

How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me,
my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running.
So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes,
and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans.

My words rained over you, stroking you.
A long time I have loved the sunned mother-of-pearl of your body.
Until I even believe that you own the universe.
I will bring you happy flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses.
I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

[CuriousArtemis]

Oh god. We read one of his poems last year. The whole class was giggling and I didn't understand why, and then it suddenly dawned on me what he was actually banging on about. I went bright red and had to hide my face for the rest of the lesson! It's really not for me! I had so many problems with poetry. There was literally one guy I actually liked.

 

I'm not a contemporary poetry person but e.e.cummings has some pretty sexy poetry, too! Google "i like my body when it is with your body."

[loominousfish]

I'm not a contemporary poetry person but e.e.cummings has some pretty sexy poetry, too! Google "i like my body when it is with your body."

 

"somewhere i have never travelled"  e.e cummings' poetry is lovely

[timebean]

I'll take it! I really liked that! Tolkein definitely has more... musicality in the way he speaks Elvish than in the way T.S Eliot recites Prufrock.  Eliot sounds very dry and bored there. Although I suppose that works, because it's Prufrock. But I'm very biased- I like the way I recite Prufrock more. I wrote a really long research paper on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock so I have a lot of really strong opinions about it >.>

 

I found out last year that one of my professors actually got to attend one of Tolkein's lectures on Beowulf. SO jealous!

 

I LOVE THAT POEM!! You should post one of you reading it!!!

 

Tolkien is my favorite poet of all time. *note my tagline"

 

I love all the Rohan stuff...it was obviously what he loved most to write, being a Beowulf expert and all.  I love the one he wrote that is like The Wanderer (ie, where is the horse gone, where is the rider...).  The Wanderer hangs above my desk, and all my fellow scientist friends always look at it and then me like I am a complete weirdo!!! Tee hee!