Unfinished Tales - Part Four - II - The Istari - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Formendacil · 04-27-2012, 11:09 AM

I have very little to say about this chapter: not because it doesn't interest me, but because I am not very interesting. The one thing I *do* have to say comes out of the footnotes: namely the fact that we get the story here of Queen Beruthiel. Tolkien's pursuit of small, lost nuggets of history behind names apparently extended not just to his professional philological studies, but also to his own world.

04-27-2012, 11:09 AM	#4
Formendacil Dead Serious Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers. Posts: 3,328	I have very little to say about this chapter: not because it doesn't interest me, but because I am not very interesting. The one thing I do have to say comes out of the footnotes: namely the fact that we get the story here of Queen Beruthiel. Tolkien's pursuit of small, lost nuggets of history behind names apparently extended not just to his professional philological studies, but also to his own world. __________________ I prefer history, true or feigned.