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Der lægges meget ansvar på læreren her. Jeg er med på at lærere altid har indflydelse på deres elever, ordblinde eller ej, men ligefrem at udlægge det som "dårlig oplevelse med lærer = dårlig uddannelse, job og liv". er alligevel lidt voldsomt.
Man kan godt bemærke at læreren skal være obs på deres tilgang uden at placere alt ansvaret.
Måske er det bare formuleringen...

“indianerne”…….

Bjarne, forhelvede…

Én ting er at læse beskrivelsen af hvad de nedgravede skatte indeholdte, noget andet er at se dem. Det er svært virkeligt at forstå hvor stort og rigt indholdet er indtil man ser billedet — især her, hvor det ikke er opstillet, men man ser den voldsomme rodebunke.

“så faldt kongen for den unge — og, må vi formode, velskabte — Judith.”
Sjov formulering? Hvorfor må vi formode det?
Det kunne da også være charme og kløgt? Som der uddybes under, så havde hun politiske evner. Hvis der er en god grund til den her formodning i kilderne (ud over at der kort nævnes at den nye dronning er smuk — det skal de jo næsten skrive) så må det gøres mere klart.

“hvor der i dag stadig hviler en særlig stemning.” Var lige ved at tænke at det her var endnu en lige lovligt subjektivt kommentar, men så bladrede jeg om til næste side med billede af stedet, og ok, ja, I get it.

“Mænd havde sandsynligvis stadig en fortrinsret i arvefølgen, men kvinder kunne arve, når voksne mandlige arvinger manglede.”
Men ved vi det? Og hvis ikke, hvorfor skal det så italesætte på den her måde?
Er det gisninger baseret på forhold andre steder? Kan vi ikke forestille os andre muligheder?
Eller lade være med at kommentere på det, hvis vi ikke VED…
Vi ved at de var begravet ligeværdigt. Slut.

“For mig er det vigtigt at se vikingetiden i et langt tidsperspektiv og i en sammenhæng med den jernalder og middelalder, som den uløseligt er en del af.”
Ja, tak! Så dejligt med en kronologisk gennemgang og bredere kontekst.

"Frodo turned and saw Strider, and yet not Strider; for the weatherworn Ranger was no longer there. In the stern sat Aragorn"
Love that all the hobbits have just continued to use Strider, straight to his face everyday, after Aragorn made it quite clear that he thought the name an offence.

"do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.’"
Okay Tolkien. You go girl.

"Legolas dropped back to earth in surprise and fear."
So far Legolas has contributed next to nothing to the story. Sometimes you even forget that he's there.
He shot one evil wolf, got scared in Moria and gets scared now.

"‘Farewell, Gandalf!’ he [Aragorn] cried. ‘Did I not say to you: if you pass the doors of Moria, beware? Alas that I spoke true!"
Dude.
Gandalf just died and everyone is either catatonic or throwing themselves on the ground crying and mourning, and this is Aragorn. He really doesn't come across as very likeable, except that Frodo adores him.

"I do not doubt that news of the discomfiture of the Riders has already reached him" Already? It been months! I don't get the buildup of Sauron as this all-powerful all-encompassing Shadow. So far it's only told, not shown.

I like how much effort they put into dissuading the hobbits from going, and how much they themselves insisted. But it doesn't really have much impact that Elrond basically chose the rest of the fellowship (he did so because he knew they'd be willing but still). And then just forgot/couldn't decide the last two spots needed to symbolically be a party of nine, for no other reason than Elrond deciding that too.

How many tales ago did Bilbo ask for a lunch break? And everyone just keeps going "And one more thing". I feel for him, I really do.

Aragorn doesn't really come of as very heroic. More... okay smart, sure, but also arrogant and bitter. Eager for power or to show off.

"‘I made that up myself,’ he [Bilbo] whispered to Frodo." That is so anticlimactic. 'The crownless again shall be king' is written on a whim by Bilbo (who is almost made fun of by the elves for making so many poem, not necessarily good ones)

Sauron just seems like such a...worldly power? Everything he does just seems mundane - sending out riders to ask about, not being able to do much when they don't get what they ask for. Sure the riders are creepy, but that's it. No more creepy than other supernatural non-Sauron creatures shown so far. Yes, everyone speaks of him as this great untameable unavoidable evil force, but so far it's just told, not shown.

"Frodo: 'I want to think!’ ‘Good heavens!’ said Pippin. ‘At breakfast?’"
I'll be honest I didn't expect Tolkien to write with actual humour. I expected everything to be all stoic and self important, which it also is, but Pippin is actually purposely written as funny, not just accidentally coming off as so.

"‘But we have no need of other company, and hobbits are so dull,’ they laughed." So much for Tolkien elves being these wise exalted creatures.

"Mr. Frodo was selling Bag End, indeed he had already sold it – to the Sackville-Bagginses!"
Gasp! No! I actually feel this one. Tolkien has succeeded in making the family branch particularly unlikable.
But I don't get Frodo's reasoning here?

How Tolkien thought he could get away with claiming that the Great War had no impact on LotR is beyond me.

"At that time Frodo was still in his tweens, as the hobbits called the irresponsible twenties between childhood and coming of age at thirty-three."
Yes! This is what the term tweens should be used for.

Somehow both of these sections of post modern drivel manage to contain good points.
Yes, it easier to see the story as symbolic instead of real girls getting hurt. Yes, the anachronism defense for historical events and people suck. But the way these points were made was such a sludge.

“if Helen hadn’t been so puffed up with vanity, we might all have been spared the sufferings and sorrow she brought down on our heads by her selfishness and her deranged lust.”
This has got to be the most common and most boring take on Helen’s story.
For a book that’s supposedly about giving a voice to women, it takes the well troded male viewpoint with every take so far.

“The part of the story she [Helen] enjoyed the most was the number of men who’d died in the Athenian war: She took their deaths as tribute to herself.”
And Penelope thinks Helen enjoys the death of men because she is big headed, nothing to do with her being abducted, and as Pen herself alludes, possibly raped as a child.

Helen: “And you’re very clever too, they tell me. So you’ll be able to understand what he says. I certainly never could!”
Right, ‘cause if you’re beautiful you must be not only mean, but also stupid. Such say The Rules of the Flat Boring Stereotypes.

Atwood’s explanation is that Helen went with Paris because he was better looking? What is this, some kid cartoon??

“I was not like cousin Helen who loved to make conquests just to show she could.”
I mean, really?? What Penolope has told us about her world so far, either this perception of Helen is made up by men, or she really is like that and it would be a perfectly reasonable way to react to the misogyny around them. It doesn’t make sense for Pen to bash her like that. Thought Atwood wanted a story with a new perception.

“Helen was never punished, not one bit. Why not, I’d like to know?”
Really? We’re doing the ‘smart plain girl vs. beautiful and therefore cruel woman’?
Even the sources that describe Helen as willing, gives her good reasons for going with Paris. So this seems like A Choice. A tired trope that I didn’t expected from Atwood.