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Tolkienian Deep Time II: The Mountain, the Abyss, and the Hythe

Tolkienian Deep Time II: The Mountain, the Abyss, and the Hythe

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At the gate of Moria, as pictured by Alan Lee in the centenary edition.

The Hythe

Before getting started with today’s main topic, I would like to share a curiosity that I have discovered regarding use of the word hythe, which I couldn’t figure out how to work into the previous essay. I mentioned that there are multiple attestations of the word in Old Engl…

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