tolkien and the great war - john garth

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In the finished ‘Kortirion among the Trees’ this becWinter, and his blue-tipped spears / Marchnconquerable upon the sun / Of bright All-Hallows’.



This is a sly reference to Tolkien’s own April 19oem ‘You and Me and the Cottage of Lost Play’, w

ndeed depicts the original cottage. Tolkien plannedweave his earlier poetry into his prose ‘Book of L

Tales’, and the story of Eriol’s arrival in the Lonely lso contains references to the song he made abKortirion (‘Kortirion among the Trees’) and the Sleephe Tower of Pearl from ‘The Happy Mariners’.



In ‘The Book of Lost Tales’ Meril herself took the phat had been occupied in early Qenya lexicon entrierinti, the Vala of love, music, beauty, and purity, wkewise lived in a circle of elms guarded by fairie

Kortirion. Erinti, as previously noted, was partlepresentation of Edith Tolkien, who therefore haurious link with Galadriel.



Generally the second element inWithernsea is derivedrom , meaning ‘mere’, with reference to the old here.



Christopher Tolkien notes that his father ‘regardedestriction of a vernacular name to this or that spe

within a large group of plants not easily distinguishabhe eye as the pedantry of popularizing botanists –

ught to content themselves with the Linnean names’.



Tolkien erased the original tales and wrote new versver them in ink soon after the war. They are discussehe Epilogue below, together with the rest of ‘The Booost Tales’ composed at that time.



Four of the King Edward’s casualties had sat in fronTolkien and Wiseman in the 1910 portrait of the schugby XV reproduced in this volume: H. L. Higgins anatterson, severely wounded in France, and J

Drummond Crichton and George Frederick Cottrell, ky shells at Cambrai and Ypres.



Tulkas, with his laughter, yellow hair, and sportrowess, may catch aspects of Christopher Wisemanrinti does of Edith, Noldorin of Tolkien, and Amillis brother Hilary.



Tolkien did not number the four epochs of this historght, and they should not to be confused with the l

well-known division of Middle-earth’s history into irst, Second, Third, and Fourth Ages.



Evidence suggests that in the 1917 version, Beren wmortal man (as he is subsequently in the ‘Silmarillioendering the background of distrust even more acute.

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