A tribute embedded in A Wizard of Earthsea? What happens if you want to translate the name of Ursula Le Guin’s world, Earthsea, into the Old Speech, the language of creation and magic there? Let’s see… 1/5
#tolkien #ursulaleguin @ursulaleguin @WorldsofUKL Well, A Wizard of Earthsea helps. The word for “sea” is easy. ‘“We call the foam on waves sukien: that word is made from two words of the Old Speech, suk, feather, and inien, the sea. Feather of the sea is foam.”’ 2/5

The claim that Tolkien's Ruling Ring was inspired by a ring at the Vyne in Hampshire and a curse-inscription at Lydney in Gloucestershire is doing the rounds yet again. It's tenuous, as I argue in THE WORLDS OF JRR TOLKIEN. Here's why…
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#Tolkien #FactCheck Tolkien wrote a paper for the 1932 report on REM Wheeler’s excavations of Romano-British remains at Lydney, Gloucestershire. But Tolkien only dealt with one aspect of the curse tablet there, the divine name Nodens (on which he mostly summarises existing knowledge)…