MIRKWOOD

MIRKWOOD

Soon thereafter, the company was attacked by spiders, saved only by Bilbo, who used the power of the Ring to remain invisible. Douglas Anderson's note in The Annotated Hobbit adds that "The name Mirkwood, as a great forest with similar associations, was used earlier in a novel that Tolkien...

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Veröffentlicht in:Mythlore 2019-10, Vol.38 (135), p.51-53
1. Verfasser: Orth, John V
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Sprache:eng
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Scott, Walter (1771-1832)
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Tolkien, Christopher
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (1892-1973)
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Zusammenfassung:Soon thereafter, the company was attacked by spiders, saved only by Bilbo, who used the power of the Ring to remain invisible. Douglas Anderson's note in The Annotated Hobbit adds that "The name Mirkwood, as a great forest with similar associations, was used earlier in a novel that Tolkien knew well: A Tale of the House of the Wolfings (1888) by William Morris" (H 183n10). William Morris's The House of the Wolfings (1889) is set in Mirkwood, where the settlements of the Goths stand in forest clearings, rather like those of the Woodmen of Mirkwood in The Lord of the Rings or the earlier Woodmen of Brethil in The Silmarillion.
ISSN:0146-9339