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Showing posts with label Chaucer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chaucer. Show all posts
15 August 2023

"What's all this about stock and stone?" -- Treebeard echoes Hesiod

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"Wood and water, stock and stone, I can master." --- Treebeard The word "stock" here comes from Old English "stocc,...
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11 October 2022

'Light as leaf of linden-tree': Chaucer, Langland, and Elven Poetry

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I was browsing in the OED and MED  the other day, as one does, and I decided, unsurprisingly, to see just how many times the OED  quoted To...
17 January 2022

Chaucer's Troilus and Tolkien's Fool of a Took: Troilus and Criseyde V.1800-25 and The Return of the King 5.x.892-93

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  Almost five years back (2 March 2017) I wrote a post about what I took -- and still take -- to be Tolkien having a bit of fun with Chaucer...
15 December 2021

Ylfig and the Foresight of the Elves

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Alaric Hall in his article  Elves on the Brain: Chaucer, Old English, and Elvish  makes an excellent case for believing that in Chaucer'...
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29 July 2021

Eleventy-One: Re-reading The Lord of the Rings 50 years on -- part four

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  Book One, Chapter 2: The Shadow of the Past Indeed, [Frodo] at once began to carry on Bilbo’s reputation for oddity. He refused to go into...
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26 October 2019

Eärendil and Wade's Boat, Or, what do you mean you're not going to tell us the story?

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Artwork copyright Donato Giancola Alan and Shawn over at The Prancing Pony Podcast (which, if you don't already listen to it, why...
18 August 2019

'When winter first begins to bite -- Echoes and Re-echoes of Chaucer at FR 2.iii.273

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In The Road to Middle-earth  Tom Shippey argues (184-85) that the poem Bilbo recites to Frodo in The Ring Goes South 'in ...
20 August 2017

It Wants To Be Found

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Near the beginning of his chapter on 'The Heavens' in The Discarded Image , C. S. Lewis quotes from Chaucer to illustrate the...
02 March 2017

Troilus and WHO? (RK 6.x.892-93)

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Then Pippin stabbed upwards, and the written blade of Westernesse pierced through the hide and went deep into the vitals of the troll,...
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06 June 2016

In the Dead Marshes We Hear No Larks at Morning

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Paul Nash, We Are Making A New World, Imperial War Museum Since at least the twelfth century larks at morning have featured in Engli...
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19 June 2014

The Mythgard Institute

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In the winter of 2012 I was poking around the internet, looking as we all do for god knows what  -- our futures perhaps -- when I came acros...