Al watz hap upon heȝe in hallez and chambrez/ with lordez and ladies, as leuest him þoȝt.

[oloriel]

Dear brain,

You are supposed to work on your term paper. No, the literature is not supposed to give you plotbunnies about how Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the result of a bet between Maglor and Daeron whether the (Middle) English tongue could be made into something beautiful or not. Sheesh. Even though it would explain why the author of the poem was obviously highly educated, obviously highly intelligent, obviously highly talented, obviously much better with about everything than his contemporaries, and just as obviously disappeared after writing a few brilliant poems and was never actually discovered.

On the other hand...

Dear literary world,

I have solved the mystery around the authorship of Sir Gawain. You may send me my literature Nobel prize at any covenient time.

Yours,

Lyra.

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*facepalms*

Comments

[coppertone.livejournal.com]

And then, a while later, they asked that nice Tolkien boy to look in on it, because it'd turned out pretty well, all things considered?

...

Your Nobel Prize is in the mail. It may sort of resemble contrsuction paper and glitter, but they're supposed to look like that. >_>

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Well, a lot of people had looked in on it, because it'd turned out so well. That Tolkien boy was just one in a very long chain. ;)

Of course they are. *snrks*

[coppertone.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, but him in particular. Or perhaps that's how they found him. Or he them. Or something. Hmm.

Why wouldn't they be? :D

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Nah, I think he was just as oblivious as to who the author was as everyone else. He just read it by coincidence. They met in the trenches, you know that! ;)