A Hobbit – Two Towers link

***Alcuin*** · 03-22-2015, 10:35 PM

In Chapter 8 of The Hobbit, “Flies and Spiders”, there is a direct statement about the fauna of Mirkwood:

Quote:

There were black squirrels in the wood.

In Two Towers, Chapter 6, “The Forbidden Pool”, Anborn discussing Gollum with Faramir in front of Frodo says,

Quote:

I saw … something … strange. … [I]t may have been no more than a squirrel. … Yet if so, it was a black squirrel… A large squirrel, maybe. Perhaps … some of the beasts of Mirkwood are wandering hither to our woods. They have black squirrels there, ’tis said.

A direct and no doubt deliberate connection between the stories.

***Rían*** · 03-23-2015, 11:40 AM

The level of detail Tolkien achieves is amazing!

***Earniel*** · 04-06-2015, 03:01 PM

There are two very dark brown, almost black, squirrels visiting the feeders in our garden this spring. I think they're last year's brood, their tail is still rather flimsy. We do call them the Mirkwood squirrels.

03-23-2015, 11:40 AM	#2
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04-06-2015, 03:01 PM	#3
*Earniel* The Chocoholic Sea Elf Administrator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: N?n in Eilph (Belgium) Posts: 14,363	There are two very dark brown, almost black, squirrels visiting the feeders in our garden this spring. I think they're last year's brood, their tail is still rather flimsy. We do call them the Mirkwood squirrels.