The Lady of Dol Amroth - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Lost One · 01-11-2004, 11:21 AM

I think Tolkien was here nodding at the many folkloric stories of the 'fairy-wife': other-worldly ancestresses who one day vanish from their husband and children. The Angevin/Plantagenet dynasty (ancestors of the British royal family) have the fairy Melusine in their ancestry as one such example.

01-11-2004, 11:21 AM	#7
Lost One Haunting Spirit Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 67	I think Tolkien was here nodding at the many folkloric stories of the 'fairy-wife': other-worldly ancestresses who one day vanish from their husband and children. The Angevin/Plantagenet dynasty (ancestors of the British royal family) have the fairy Melusine in their ancestry as one such example.