Middle Earth stuff

if you scroll down here, you will find several lectures by Tom Shippey.

• February 05, 2004
  "From Book to Screen: Problems Tolkein set for Jackson"
  MP3 audio: "From Book to Screen: Problems Tolkien set for Jackson" (67.5MB)
  video: "From Book to Screen: Problems Tolkein set for Jackson" (170MB)
  This lecture was a 2004 Lansdowne Lecture.
• February 7, 2004
  "Beowulf and the Origins of England"
  MP3 audio: "Beowulf and the Origins of England" (39.2MB)
  This lecture was given at the Seventeenth Annual Medieval Workshop.

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unrelated item: How about downloading Asimov's Foundation triology?