Re: The Hobbit, after all these years

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Jenny Tait <piratejenny@verizon.net> wrote:

>
> The letter/rune Wayne's talking about is thorn. At least that's the one I'm
> pretty sure he's talking about.
>
Oh yeah, same rune, different name. I just used the Anglo-Saxon name
because I mostly know it from my Germanic Pagan studies. I don't know
if it still held the same pagan associations once it was passed down
into Old English, and I don't know what Tolkien's source was, so I
don't know if he had reason to be aware of those associations.

Gwyn

--
Rain and sun shall feed me now,
and roots, and nuts, and wild things,
and rustlings in the midnight wood,
half-mad, like Myrddin, wandering.

--Terri Windling

one day I am going to bloom
patient and proud
with fish in my mouth
and eyes in my wings

--Noe Venable


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