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Elucidating Visions

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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 2:49 pm

Okay, so, I normally dislike asking people for help, but this is unavoidable. To put it quite bluntly a very specific path was calling to me, the runes. A kind of pull if you will. Nonetheless I already own three books on the subject; one of which has proven itself as bullshit, another that has Lord of the Rings in the bibliography, and the final having the second in the bibliography. I'm not ruling out the latter two of what I have listed yet though, even if one of my friends does make fun of the little Lord of the Rings fact. What I ask of you today is if you have any book recommendations on this subject. I already asked one of my friends, the one previously mentioned, and she suggested one of Silver RavenWolf's books that just happened to be out of print. Yeah. I'm not paying over $100 for a book just because it's unopened and has all of the cards. Why it came with cards in the first place when it's about runes is unknown to me, but that's an issue for another day.

My town has multiple bookstores, and the other towns around here do as well. The Borders here in particular seems to like to stock up on the Scott Cunningham books, and I haven't checked with the other places recently.

Book Stores in Town
Borders
Barnes and Noble
McKay's Used Books
And a few other used books stores

tl;dr
List any books on runes you wish to suggest for me. Hopefully with correct information.

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 3:23 pm

I highly recommended Diana L. Paxson's "Taking Up the Runes", as it is an excellent resource if one is seriously interested in learning the Runes.

It should be noted that the Runes are very tied to the Norse Gods/Goddess and the Norse culture in general. If you are seriously considering working with the Runes, it is suggested that you have a good relationship with the Norse pantheon. It is very hard to work with the Runes outside of their original context. They do not always have specific meanings, and much of the interpretation relies on having studied the Rune poems and knowing the culture and the nature of the God/ess associated with the Runes.

The following links might be useful as well...

The Poetic Edda (Elder Edda)
The Prose Edda (Younger Edda)
Sagas (and other links of interest)
Links to Several Versions of the Rune Peoms

Stay far away from anything written by Ralph Blum, and DJ Conway.

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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 4:05 pm

too2sweet

I highly recommended Diana L. Paxson's "Taking Up the Runes", as it is an excellent resource if one is seriously interested in learning the Runes.

It should be noted that the Runes are very tied to the Norse Gods/Goddess and the Norse culture in general. If you are seriously considering working with the Runes, it is suggested that you have a good relationship with the Norse pantheon. It is very hard to work with the Runes outside of their original context. They do not always have specific meanings, and much of the interpretation relies on having studied the Rune poems and knowing the culture and the nature of the God/ess associated with the Runes.

The following links might be useful as well...

The Poetic Edda (Elder Edda)
The Prose Edda (Younger Edda)
Sagas (and other links of interest)
Links to Several Versions of the Rune Peoms

Stay far away from anything written by Ralph Blum, and DJ Conway.

Thank you, and I have that book. It's the one my friend likes to make fun of because of the Lord of the Rings thing. I also have one of the Ralph Blum books, but that's the one that was proven mostly false after comparing it to Diana Paxson's book and Kaedrich Olsen's book.

But yes, I am serious about it. I will keep your tips in mind.

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:04 pm

I think that the only reason she has Tolkien in the Bibliography is because she mentions "Lord of the Rings" in the Introduction (pg 2) - as a place where many people first encounter the Runes. It's not meant to be used as a resource, she's just citing the all the materials she used in writing the book.

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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:07 pm

too2sweet

she's just citing the all the materials she used in writing the book.

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Which is what she's supposed to do. It means she's a responsible writer.

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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:20 pm

too2sweet

I think that the only reason she has Tolkien in the Bibliography is because she mentions "Lord of the Rings" in the Introduction (pg 2) - as a place where many people first encounter the Runes. It's not meant to be used as a resource, she's just citing the all the materials she used in writing the book.

Ah, okay. Wasn't sure if there were any other references on it further into the book or not. Well, hopefully I can use that tidbit of information to stop it from getting made fun of, if said action continues.

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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 7:41 pm

Silver RavenWolf's Solitary Witch
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Solitary-Witch/Silver-RavenWolf/e/9780738703190/?itm=3&USRI=Silver+RavenWolf
has at least one good chapter on them though the link I provided looks like it's for a new edition that I don't have...

This may be off topic but what's so bad about having a book referencing Tolken? He was a linquist and I know that his dwarf runes very closly match the Seax-Wicca runes found in Raymond Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Bucklands-Complete-Book-of-Witchcraft/Raymond-Buckland/e/9780875420509/?itm=1&USRI=raymond+buckland (though the chapter on runes in that book is very short and doesn't focus on divination it's still worth a read).

Tolken may have been writing fiction but he knows about language and writing systems and has done his research on them. Just saying don't dimiss it just because it's the Lord of the Rings....

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