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by Tom Shippey


  Durin, 87, 125, 131

  Dvergatal, see Poetic Edda

  Dwarf’s Hill, 40, 70

  dwarves, as concept, 69–72, 100, 166–7, 266, 390; as word-form, 63–5, 76; names of, 80, 109–10, 131; songs of, 84, 131, 261; relationship to Bilbo, 88–91, 96–7; et passim

  ‘dwimmer-crafty’, 147

  ‘dwimmerlaik’, 394

  ‘dwindle’, 151, 176

  Dyrafjord, 291

  eagles, 77, 84, 91, 184, 198, 226, 280

  Eärendel The (boat), 342, 343

  éarendel (Old English word), 339

  Eärendil (character), 219–20, 221, 223, 254, 277–81, 284, 287, 303, 339

  Early Middle English, 44

  Early South English Legendary, The, 270–1, 327, 394

  ‘Earthly Paradise’, 271

  Easterlings, 18, 20, 268

  Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Bede), 375

  Das Eckenlied (Middle High German poem), 26

  Ector, 202

  Edain, 268

  Edda(s), see Prose Edda, Poetic Edda

  Eddison, E. R., 146

  Eden, 268

  Edward the Confessor, 206

  Ekwall, E., 117, 123

  Elbereth, 128–9, 214, 230

  Elder Edda, see Poetic Edda

  Eldo (Old Age), 341, 342

  Elendil, 256, 337, 343

  Elessar ‘the Elfstone’, 127, 128

  Elfland, 67, 72, 208, 324, 344, 345

  ‘Elf-Latin’, see Quenya

  Eliduc (Breton lay), 293

  Eliot, T. S., 384, 385, 387

  Ellu/Elwë/Olwë, 332

  Elrond, 110, 122, 128, 131, 134, 136, 137, 151, 156, 160, 176, 188, 192, 239, 244, 260, 418–19, 422

  Elu (Thingol), see also Elwë (Singollo), 272, 283, 332

  Elvenking, The, 96, 97, 109; see also Thranduil

  ‘Elverhøj’ (Danish ballad), 68

  elves, elvish, 79, 84, 100, 108, 110, 122, 159, 192, 199, 214, 249, 265, 276, 313, 332, 350, 359; as concept, 54, 56–7, 61–9, 71–4, 314, 350; as word, 147, 149; estrangement from humanity, 249–50, 268–72, 319–21; fate of, 151–2, 176–7; poetry of, 217–21

  ‘Elves of the Light’, 282–284

  elvish languages, see Quenya, Sindarin

  Elwë (Singollo), see also Elu, Thingol, 272, 283–4, 331–2

  Elwing, 221

  Ely, 179

  Emma (Jane Austen), 373

  ‘emnet’, 149

  Emyn Muil, 115, 185

  England, and Elfland, 345–6; and ‘the Little Kingdom’, 111–12; and the Mark, 139–45, 228; and the Shire, 48, 114–17; and Tom Bombadil, 123–4; landscape of, 36–8, 43, 111–12; mythology of, 345–51

  English tradition, hidden continuity of, 40–44, 46–9, 77–80, 205–7, 217; suppression of, 44, 112–14, 182, 196, 276

  The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Child): ‘King Estmere’, 60, 392; ‘King Orfeo’, 392; ‘Lady Isabel’, 67; ‘The Queen of Elfan’s Nourice’, 399; ‘Sweet William’s Ghost’, 238; ‘Tam Lin’, 399; ‘True Thomas’, 67; ‘The Wife of Usher’s Well’, 316–17, See also Child, F. J.

  ‘English and Welsh’ lecture, 129

  English Fairy Tales (Jacobs), 392

  English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians (Campbell and Sharp), 393, 399

  English River Names (Ekwall), 117, 123

  English Studies, 14–15, 26

  entrelacement (interlace), 181–90, 184, 187, 188, 190, 196, 212, 287, 290

  ents, 74–80, 119, 159, 184, 187–9, 194, 196, 199, 350

  Entwash, 114

  Eöl, 70, 286, 287, 304

  Éomer, 68, 140, 142, 144, 145, 146–7, 186, 189, 199, 239, 241, 393

  Eönwë, 280

  éored (word), 23

  Eorl the Young, 142, 199

  Éowyn, 142, 144, 226, 241, 394, 410

  Ephel Dúath, 188

  Erendis, 277–8

  Eriol, 346, 347, 349–50, 371

  Ermanaric (and variant forms), 19–20, 28–9

  Error, symbolic woods of, 223

  Escape from Deathlessness, 269

  ‘escapism’, 154, 158, 318–19, 325, 345, 362–73, 372

  Esgaroth, 109

  Essays and Studies, 45

  Essays in Criticism, 371

  ‘ettens’, 66, 350

  etymology, 169–70, 259, 288–91

  eucatastrophe, 197–9, 226, 227, 344

  evangelica praeparatio, 236

  evangelium, 58

  Evenlode, River, 37

  ‘Everlasting Battle’, 41, 71

  evil, 66, 84, 153, 157, 159–70, 177, 193, 196, 234, 242, 271, 274, 276, 302, 362, 375

  Exeter Book (of Old English poetry), 278

  existentialism, 92

  Exodus (Old English poem), 54, 376, 389, 390

  Faërie, 311, 313, 314, 315, 318

  The Faerie Queene (Spenser), 182, 216, 315

  Fáfnir, 92, 102

  Fáfnismál, see Poetic Edda, 102, 105, 302, 390

  ‘fairy-stories, -tales’, 56, 61, 65, 75, 198, 269, 304, 329–30, 389, 391–2; see also folk-tales

  Fall and Redemption of Man, 159, 267, 268, 273, 347

  ‘fallow’, 387

  Fangorn, 114, 122, 143, 150, 180, 184, 187, 194, 368

  Fangorn Forest, 186, 397

  Fangorn’s song, 36, 205, 221, 230

  fantasy, 2, 51, 56–7, 58, 125, 319, 325, 367, 371–2, 374–5

  Faramir, 67, 146, 147, 148, 150, 157, 173, 179, 180–1, 188, 226, 239, 241, 242, 246, 362, 410, 419–20, 421

  Farthingho, 111, 114

  Farthingstone, 117

  ‘fate’, 151, 172–3, 191–2, 288, 289, 290, 291, 299, 300, 301, 304

  Fawler, 37–8, 61, 63, 387

  Fëanor, 273, 282–3, 286–7, 293, 295

  Felagund, 283, 359

  Felix, 113

  The Fellowship of the Ring, 36, 38, 42, 68, 107, 114, 123, 124, 129, 134, 178, 183, 258, 263, 280, 357

  Fen of Serech, 285

  Fenriswolf, 92, 295

  Field of Cormallen, 227, 242, 373

  Fili, 91, 95, 109

  Finarfin, 282, 332

  Findegil, 133

  Finduilas, 301

  Fingolfin, 282–3

  Fingon, 307

  Finn, 251

  Finnish, 12, 129, 275n

  Finrod, 283, 287, 292–3, 294, 295, 296, 332

  Fíriel (name), 319–20, 323, 324, 343, 371, 373

  First Age, 258, 259, 261, 267

  Five Armies, Battle of, 92, 95

  Flieger, Verlyn, 309

  ‘flittermouse’, Fledermaus, 39

  Folklore in the English and Scottish Ballads (Wimberly), 317, 392

  folk-tales, 105, 346, 391; see also fairy-stories

  Fords of Isen, 143

  Forodwaith, 348

  Forster, E. M., 371

  Forweg, 300

  Four Quartets (Eliot), 384

  ‘fox-glove’, 381

  France, Marie de, 277, 293, 395; see also Breton lays, Eliduc

  Frankenstein (Shelley), 231

  ‘Fredegarius’, 396

  free will, 156, 159, 172–3, 190–1, 303

  French, borrowings from, 97, 140, 148, 181, 245, 246; old opposition to English, 44–8, 81–2, 181, 393

  Freud, Sigmund, 367, 369

  Fróda, 231–7

  Fróda/Fróthi, 233–4, 251

  Frodo, 415–6, 417, 426; as name, 232–3; compared with Bilbo, 211–12; courage of, 248, 262; depression and ‘infatuation’ of, 185–6, 246, 322; symbolic value of, 231–7; temptation of, 161–6; et passim

  Frodos Dreme (poem), 322, 324, 328

  Frogmorton, 115

  Frótha-frith, 234

  Frye, Northrop, 238–9, 245

  Furnivall, F. J., 45

  Galadriel, 36, 67, 69n, 128, 131, 151, 163, 176, 190–1, 201, 203, 208, 221, 230, 241, 272, 283, 295, 379, 423

  Gamgee, Gaffer, 79, 134–5, 136, 236

  Gamgee, S
am, 67, 79, 126, 131, 135, 147, 150, 152, 157, 180–1, 183, 184, 185, 198, 209, 215, 245, 248, 260, 261, 262, 306, 319, 353, 369, 371, 373, 383, 419–20, 421, 422

  Gandalf, 415–16, 425; as name, 110, 242–5; at the Great Gate, 242–5; describes the Ring, 156–7; misspellings of, 5; mode of speech, 136–8; philosophy of, 177, 187–8, 192–3, 207; revised view of, 263–5; et passim

  Ganz, Peter, 27

  Gardner, John, 81

  Garm, 295

  Garth, John, 254

  Gaurwaith, 300

  Gelert, 295

  Genesis, 267–73, 273, 276

  Genesis B (Old English poem), 122, 294

  Genghiz Khan, 170

  Geoffrey of Monmouth, 208

  Germania (Tacitus), 223

  Germanic Consonant Shift, 60

  Germanic languages, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 275n, 279, 300

  Germanic legends, 336

  Germanische Heldensage (Schneider), 20

  giants, 23–6, 54, 85, 177

  Gibbon, Edward, 19, 20, 21, 148, 396; see also Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  Gibica, Gifica, 21

  Gildor (Inglorion), 119, 127, 130, 332

  Gil-galad, 126, 128, 256

  Gimli, 115, 131, 137, 146, 157, 174, 183, 221, 237, 241, 248, 249, 261, 373, 412, 414

  Girion, 95, 100, 109

  Gislaharius, Gislhere, 21

  Gísli, see Saga of Gisli Sursson

  Gladden Fields, 263, 323

  Gladdon, River, 117, 394

  ‘gladdon-swords’, 323

  ‘glamour’ (and variant forms), 58–61, 63, 65, 67, 93, 102, 295, 319–24, 330, 374, 385

  Glaurung the dragon, 301, 303, 362

  Gléowine, 131

  The Glittering Plain (Morris), 397

  Glóin, 98, 134, 137, 165

  Glorund, 362

  Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District(Haigh), 82, 105n

  ‘gnome’, 35, 65, 333

  ‘goblins’, 65, 84, 87, 90, 105, 319

  Goldberry, 119, 120, 121, 123

  Golden Bough, 317

  Golden Fleece, 275

  Golden Hall, 241

  Golden Wood, 147

  Golding, William, 370, 371, 374

  Gollum, 87, 88, 89, 105, 110, 126, 138, 156, 157, 158, 161, 164, 181, 185, 186, 235, 245–6, 247–8, 311, 360, 397, 421–2

  Gondolin, 261, 277, 284–5, 286, 287

  Gondor, 114, 131, 139, 146, 147–8, 156, 206, 228, 236, 240–1, 320

  good, powers of, 170–7, 179–81

  Goodbye to All That (Graves), 383

  Good Solder Schweik, 239

  Gordon, E. V., 6, 204, 394

  Gospel, 58, 223, 231, 238

  Gothic, Goths, ‘Gothia’, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 44, 69, 129, 144, 148, 396

  Gothic History (Jordanes), 18, 228, 396

  Gower, John, 65

  ‘grace’, 147

  Grammaticus, Saxo, 396

  Grand Design, 335, 359, 367, 372

  Grassmann’s Law, 14

  ‘The Grave-Mound’, see Grimms’ Fairy Tales

  Great Haywood, 346

  greed, 100, 101–2

  Greek, 5, 11, 25

  Green, Martin, 383

  Green, Roger Lancelyn, 309

  Grendel, 37, 81, 193, 265

  Grettir’s saga, 281

  Grey Havens, 373

  grima, 302n

  Grima Wormtongue, 195

  Grimm, Jacob, 12, 13–14, 17, 22, 24, 27, 32, 62, 64, 70, 78, 88, 279, 294, 329, 346, 385, 391–2, 394

  Grimm, Wilhelm, 22, 32, 34, 70, 329, 346, 391

  Grimms’ Fairy Tales, 9, 15, 57, 259, 351; ‘The Brave Little Tailor’, 85; ‘The Grave-Mound’, 86n; ‘The King of the Golden Mountain’, 88; ‘Rapunzel’, 294; ‘Rumpelstiltskin’, 132; ‘Snow-White and Rose-Red’, 70; ‘Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs’, 70

  Grimm’s Law of Consonants, 9, 12, 14, 60

  Grindr, 322

  Grand, 242

  Grundtvig, Nicolai, 392–3

  Grundtvig, Svend, 392, 399

  The Gryphon, 99

  Guenevere, 366

  Gundahari, Gundaharius, 21

  Gunnar, 354, 355, 356

  Gwaihir, 184

  Gylfaginning, see Prose Edda

  Hadding, King, 244

  Hador, 300

  Haigh, W. E., 82, 105n. 323

  Halbarad, 175

  Haldir, 247

  ‘Halifirien’, 228

  Halt Meiðhad (Early Middle English text), 7, 44, 45

  Hall, J. R. Clark, 51, 389

  Háma, 141, 142, 175

  Hamlet, see Shakespeare

  Hammerhand, Helm, 362

  Hareth, 282

  Harfoots, 116

  Harley Manuscript (2253), 42

  Hastings, 44, 45, 140

  ‘heathen’, 229, 237

  Heaven, 247, 269, 271

  Hell, 269, 271

  Helm’s Deep, Battle of, 184, 194

  Hengest (and Horsa), 116, 346, 347, 349

  Henry IV Part II, see Shakespeare

  Heorrenda, 346

  Hereford, -shire, 47, 48, 60, 83n, 141

  Herendil, 337

  heroism, embarrassment over, 81–4, 239–41, 306–7; modern images of, 89–97; presentation of, 136–8, 196, 231–7, 290–1

  Hervarar saga, see Saga of King Heidrek

  Hethinn, 71

  ‘high mimesis’, 238, 239, 248, 306

  Hildebrand, 25

  Hildebrandslied (Old High German poem), 29

  Hildr, 71

  The Hill, 110, 114, 115, 124

  Hirt, H., 23

  A History of the Art of War in the Middle Ages (Oman), 397

  History of the Danes (Saxo Grammaticus), 396

  Hitler, Adolf, 171

  Hittites, 15

  Hjaðningavig, 71, 73

  Hjarrandi, 73

  Hoarwell, 116

  hobbit-names, 232–3

  Hobbiton, 110

  hobbits, as name, 74–6, 374; conception of, 43, 48, 74–80, 116–17; names of, 232–3; poetry of, 209–17; speech of, 240, 365–6

  hobbit-poetry, -songs, 209–10, 221, 239

  ‘hobbit-talk’, 334, 365

  Högni, 71

  holbytla, 76, 80

  horns, 244

  The House of the Wolfings (Morris), 397

  Houses of Healing, 241

  Howard, Robert E., 146

  Hoy, island of, 71

  Hrothgar, 193, 251

  Huan, 292, 293, 295

  Huddersfield Glossary (Haigh), see Glossary

  ‘human stories’, 56

  ‘human universale’, 98

  Huns, 18, 20, 21, 22, 145

  Hunthor, 299

  Huorns, 119, 184

  Húrin, 282, 284–5, 286, 298, 300, 303, 305, 306

  Hygelac, 244

  Iarwain Ben-adar, see Bombadil

  Icarus, 128

  Iceland, 291

  Icelandic concepts, 66, 70, 124; literature, 89, 182; see also Old Norse

  Icelandic Dictionary (Cleasby and Vigfusson), 110

  Idril, 287

  The Idylls of the King (Tennyson), 239

  ignis fatuus, 186

  Ilmarinen, 275

  Ilmatar, 275

  Ilúvatar, 266, 268, 273, 275

  ‘imaginative space’, 362

  Imram, The Voyage of Bran Son of Febal, 326, 395

  ‘i-mutation’, 17, 23, 44, 239

  I-narrator, 35

  Incarnation, 234

  Indo-European languages, 15, 23

  ‘infatuation’, 186

  ‘Ing’, 349

  Ingeld, Ingjaldr, 225, 228, 232, 233–4, 235–6

  Ingolondë, 349

  The Inheritors (Golding), 375

  Inklings, 136n., 160, 169, 224

  Inklings (see ‘Abbreviations’), 27

  ‘inner consistency’, 63, 106, 315, 324

  ‘inspiration’, 63, 72, 75, 118, 132, 133, 150, 262, 277, 305, 309, 315,
323

  An Introduction to Elvish (Allan), 275n

  Introduction to the Survey of Place-Names, 38

  ‘invention’, 28, 55, 56, 65, 75, 118, 132, 133, 277, 278, 293, 305, 346

  Ioreth, 236

  Irish literature, 41, 325–6, 395, 398

  Iron Crown, 260, 292, 295

  Iron Hills, 96

  ‘Irontown’, see Isengard irony, 81, 103, 187, 239–40, 248, 298, 304, 306, 358, 359, 380

  Isaacs, Neil D., 29

  Isengard, 133, 184, 185, 194

  Isildur, 138, 147, 161, 176, 256, 263, 323, 422

  ‘isomorphic (with reality)’, 115, 121

  Ithilien, 150

  ‘ivory tower’, see ‘escapism’

  Jackson, Leonard, 367–70, 410

  Jackson, Peter, 409–29 passim

  Jacobs, Joseph, 392

  James, William, 380

  James the First (of England), 206

  jealousy, 287, 296, 299

  Jeremy, Wilfrid Trewin, 338–9

  ‘Jethro’, 339

  John Inglesant (Shorthouse), 262

  Johnson, Judith A., 398

  Jones, Sir William, 11, 12, 23

  Jordanes, 18, 19, 228, 396 see also Gothic History

  Joyce, James, 237

  J.R.R. Tolkien: Six Decades of Criticism (Johnson), 398

  Judgement Day, 288

  Jutes, 116

  Kalevala, 33, 275–6, 294, 297, 395

  Keats, John, 67, 219, 320

  Ker, W. P., 30, 381

  Kermode, Frank, 199, 269

  Khazad-dûm, 245

  Kili, 91, 109

  Killer-Glúmr, 92

  Kindermärchen, see Grimms’ Fairy Tales

  ‘King Estmere’, see English and Scottish Popular Ballads

  King Lear (pre-Shakespearean character), 41

  King Lear, see Shakespeare

  ‘The King of the Golden Mountain’, see Grimms’ Fairy Tales

  ‘King Orfeo’, see English and Scottish Popular Ballads

  Kingsley, Charles, 245

  Kipling, Rudyard, 397

  Kitchener, Lord, 93

  Klaeber, Friedrich, 389

  Kôr, 345

  Korrigan, 318

  Kortirion, 345

  Kottish, 16

  Kristin Lavransdatter (Undset), 69n

  Krogmann, Willy, 29

  Kuhn’s Law, 12

  Kullervo, 297

  Kveld-Ulfr, 301

  ‘Lady Isabel’, see English and Scottish Popular Ballads

  Lake Mithrim, 277

  Lalaith, 299, 302

  ‘lament of the stones’, 38

  Lancashire Fusiliers, 371

  Lancelot, 202

  langoth, 371

  ‘language’, 8, 9, 10, 28–9, 32, 33, 45, 121, 133, 275, 331–4, 379, 385–6

  The Last of the Mohicans (Cooper), 393

  Latin, 5, 11, 12, 23, 48

 

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