Four not-at-all-related items!

[heliopausa]

asakiyume has posted on LJ to say that Irom Sharmila Chanu has arrived in Delhi for trial on the charge of attempting suicide - but what she is actually doing is hunger-striking to protest the appalling

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[wellinghall]

Do you know Tolkien's book Finn and Hengest?

[heliopausa]

No, I don't. Is it semi-history?

[wellinghall]

It looks at two pieces of poetry, one The Fight at Finnsburgh and the other a section of Beowulf, and sees what we can deduce by piecing the two together in a philological way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn_and_Hengest

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Finn-Hengest-The-Fragment-Episode/dp/0261103555

ETA: And yes, it is semi-history, as it touches on why Hengest left his native country and came to England.

[heliopausa]

It sounds terrific! Just the sort of thing I'd like to read. Thank you! :)

[wellinghall]

You're welcome :-)