A couple minor questions

bropous · 01-06-2002, 12:02 PM

Hope I don't get thwacked by more experienced mooters for asking questions which may have been already asked, mooted and digested, but here goes [summoning up me newbie elven Warrior's courage]:

1. What exactly is a "hythe"? I take it to be some feature of the landscape, but am unable to find a good definition.

2. How long, exactly, is one of Tolkien's "leagues"? It would help in visualizing the distances travelled.

Thanks for any help, mooters!

Darth Tater · 01-06-2002, 01:55 PM

I used the Entmoot search function, plugged in league, limited the search to the LOTR books forum, and found this: http://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/show...ghlight=league

The search function works great, you should try it

***Sister Golden Hair*** · 01-06-2002, 02:45 PM

According to Webster, a league is approx. 3 miles. I remember wondering this when I read the Sil. and it sad Amon Ethir was a league from the doors of Nargothrond.

bropous · 01-06-2002, 02:49 PM

Thanks, Darth, O Lordly Tuber, and I need to use that search function more often!

Thanks also for the Webster's definition, Sister Golden Hair!

Kirinki54 · 01-06-2002, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by bropous

1. What exactly is a "hythe"? I take it to be some feature of the landscape, but am unable to find a good definition.

So were exactly do you find this word?

emplynx · 01-06-2002, 10:08 PM

From http://www.dictionary.com

Quote:

hythe \Hythe\, n. A small haven. See Hithe. [Obs.]

Quote:

Hithe \Hithe\ (h[imac][th]), n. [AS. h[=y][eth]. Cf. Hide to conceal.] A port or small haven; -- used in composition; as, Lambhithe, now Lambeth. --Pennant.

bropous · 01-07-2002, 12:01 AM

Kirinki, to be honest, I don't recall exactly, but it was in Fellowship, my girlfriend was reading and asked me what it was, and I'd not figured out what it was.

01-06-2002, 12:02 PM	#1
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	A couple minor questions Hope I don't get thwacked by more experienced mooters for asking questions which may have been already asked, mooted and digested, but here goes [summoning up me newbie elven Warrior's courage]: 1. What exactly is a "hythe"? I take it to be some feature of the landscape, but am unable to find a good definition. 2. How long, exactly, is one of Tolkien's "leagues"? It would help in visualizing the distances travelled. Thanks for any help, mooters! __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

01-06-2002, 01:55 PM	#2
Darth Tater The man Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: MA Posts: 4,572	I used the Entmoot search function, plugged in league, limited the search to the LOTR books forum, and found this: http://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/show...ghlight=league The search function works great, you should try it __________________ Visit the worlds greatest webpage! No, not The Tolkien Trail! Just click this! The Tolkien Trail ~Camelot

01-06-2002, 02:49 PM	#4
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Thanks, Darth, O Lordly Tuber, and I need to use that search function more often! Thanks also for the Webster's definition, Sister Golden Hair! __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

01-07-2002, 12:01 AM	#7
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Kirinki, to be honest, I don't recall exactly, but it was in Fellowship, my girlfriend was reading and asked me what it was, and I'd not figured out what it was. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

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01-06-2002, 02:45 PM	#3
*Sister Golden Hair* Queen of Nargothrond Administrator Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Akron, Ohio - USA Posts: 7,121	According to Webster, a league is approx. 3 miles. I remember wondering this when I read the Sil. and it sad Amon Ethir was a league from the doors of Nargothrond.