I’m chuffed by the eager response asking me to post the paper I presented at this year’s Oxonmoot. Well, here it is in full (with a few additional notes) for your enjoyment, if such be its fate. Continue reading
“The Shadows Where the Mewlips [really] dwell” – Mapping the road to Mordor?
James
2018, September, Tolkien Essays
Analysis, Aragorn, Battle of the Pelennor Fields, Bilbo, Black Land, Book of Westmarch, Cross-roads, Emyn Muil, Falls of Rauros, Fangorn Forest, First World War, Frodo, Gandalf, Gorcrows, Hobbit, Hobbits, J. R. R. Tolkien, John D. Rateliff, Lonely Mountain, Lorien, Marsh of Tode, Merlock Mountains, Middle-earth, Minas Morgul, Mirkwood, Misty Mountains, Mordor, Morgul Vale, Nen Hithoel, Old English, Old Norse, Orcs, Osgiliath, Oxonmoot, Paper, poem, poetry, Presentation, Samwise Gamgee, Sauron, Shelob, Spiders, Tales from the Perilous Realm, talk, The Dead Marshes, The Fellowhsip of the Ring, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Mewlips, The Return of the King, The Shire, The Two Towers, The War of the Rings, Third Age, Tolkien, Tolkien Society, Tom Shippey