This week, Bilbo meets Beorn in the seventh chapter of The Hobbit!
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There And Back Again is a Point North Media production by Alastair Stephens, and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Sharealike license.
The “Withered Heath Song” is my all-time favorite Tolkien poem (aside from those by Gollum), combining detailed ‘real’-world imagery of the Wild with beautiful metaphors like the moon sailing the night-sky sea. But I disagree with one of your interpretations of it. I don’t believe it describes the wind scouring bare the trees of Mirkwood, but roiling through them and shaking off some of their leaves, as winds more usually do – an ongoing occurrence in the world the dwarves moved through.
I learned about Point North Media recently and am listening my way through There And Back Again, hoping to participate more actively after catching up. Thank you for this podcast.
This week, Bilbo meets Beorn in the seventh chapter of The Hobbit!
For the slides which accompany this lecture, click here; for the complete series schedule, click here!
The “Withered Heath Song” is my all-time favorite Tolkien poem (aside from those by Gollum), combining detailed ‘real’-world imagery of the Wild with beautiful metaphors like the moon sailing the night-sky sea. But I disagree with one of your interpretations of it. I don’t believe it describes the wind scouring bare the trees of Mirkwood, but roiling through them and shaking off some of their leaves, as winds more usually do – an ongoing occurrence in the world the dwarves moved through.
I learned about Point North Media recently and am listening my way through There And Back Again, hoping to participate more actively after catching up. Thank you for this podcast.