Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

NewsScan Daily: December 16, 2004 THAT PESKY TOLKIEN Something didn't sound quite right about "Sir Gawain and the Blue Knight." A google Search for "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" yields 60,300 English pages. A search for "Sir Gawain and the Blue Knight" yields no documents. A search for "Sir Gawain and the Blue" yields one very unfortunate document link which I did not pursue. (Mike Barnes) WHAT COLOR IS YOUR KNIGHT? I am sure someone else has already pointed out the problem here, but I have to be certain: George Myers suggest that if you had included Tolkien's scholarly work in which he translated "Sir Gawain and the Blue Knight" it might have given further insight into his academic and perhaps spiritual side; presumably George means _Sir Gawain and the GREEN Knight_ (my emphasis). I studied this extensively in graduate school, both in the original and in many different translations, of which Tolkien's is certainly my favorite -- but in all of them, Gawain's mysterious opponent is green. (David Sisk, Associate Director, Computing & Information Technology, Macalester College) Wrote to them and received: From NewsScan Thanks, George -- we'll run your note in our next mailbag. Have a great holiday! Best wishes, Suzanne At 02:20 PM 12/16/2004 -0500, you wrote: Oops, J.R.R. Tolkein's "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is correct. I just saw the posts today and wondered where I got the information. Unfortunately I can't find it either after searching all over the internet and in my local ClipCache Plus file where it appears. It is or was damaged in the last system crash (ACPI?). All I have is in my record of as IRC "startrek" chat "Only hobbits can step on flowers sir. J.R.R. Tolkein translated "Sir Gawain and the Blue Knight" written in response to the trivia question: "ST-Trivia Question: TNG: in the episode "justice", wesley was sentenced to death for _____" (stepping on flowers). I usually have the url in ClipCache Plus but from the crash stops at "given further insight into his academic and..."