Not just a 'tender of beasts' : Radagast's connection to Slavic Mythology - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Sarumian · 11-12-2013, 06:22 PM

Just recently I have also come across Radagaisus, king of Gots. No relationship to Radagast, just some similarity in the name...

William Cloud Hicklin · 11-13-2013, 04:43 PM

Radagaisus and Radigost, both, are hardly new in Tolkien studies. As jallanite says, he mentioned them in his book which has been out now for a very long time, and there's a fair-sized note in Doug Anderson's Annotated Hobbit as well.

But I agree with DA when he says "Yet these similarities in name reveal nothing about Tolkien's wizard Radagast the Brown."

11-13-2013, 04:43 PM	#2
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	Radagaisus and Radigost, both, are hardly new in Tolkien studies. As jallanite says, he mentioned them in his book which has been out now for a very long time, and there's a fair-sized note in Doug Anderson's Annotated Hobbit as well. But I agree with DA when he says "Yet these similarities in name reveal nothing about Tolkien's wizard Radagast the Brown." __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.

11-12-2013, 06:22 PM	#1
Sarumian Wight Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 129	Just recently I have also come across Radagaisus, king of Gots. No relationship to Radagast, just some similarity in the name...