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A Tolkien poem to remember ‘The Professor’! Malcolm Guite

Eruonen
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Feb 9, 11:47pm

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1vBmLVYv-o

Eruonen
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Feb 9, 11:59pm

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The Hemlock tree was actually from North America and introduced to the UK [In reply to]	Can't Post

Kimi
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Feb 26, 10:18pm

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Thank you for sharing this heartwarming segment! The lovely poem [In reply to]	Can't Post

(and Tolkien's reminiscences of Edith dancing for him) are actually referring to an umbelliferous plant common in Europe, rather than to the North American tree. See these two posts for more (a great deal more, in fact) detail.

https://www.tolkiensociety.org/...kiens-hemlock-glade/

https://www.tolkiensociety.org/...k-by-any-other-name/

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