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From: the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:59:06 GMT from Troels Forchhammer
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> Many readers, as far as I know, envision the plot and the world
> vividly, but I don't do that when I read the text, nor do I 'hear'
> the plot -- for me the enchantment is in the words themselves rather
> than in any images or sounds they conjure;
I wonder: do you think not being a native English speaker(*) deepens
your appreciation for the words? I know that when I read French
authors in the original I enjoyed the words as much as the tales.
(*) I'm not sure it's entirely accurate to say that Danes are not
native English speakers. :-) As far as I can see, virtually every
Scandinavian born after about World War II speaks English as well as
most Americans.
> Still, insofar as I do imagine anything when reading, I, too, tend
> to 'hear' the singing of the Ainur as traditional music (symphonic,
> actually)
I think Haydn captured some of their music in /The Creation/. There
are several choruses of angels in it, with "pipes and trumpets and
viols", and whenever I listen to it I think of the Ainulindalė.
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