I have met folks in rural Vermont names Underhill…
- 19.036 of Bag-End, Underhill, Hobbiton.
I have met folks in rural Vermont names Underhill…
In this context, the Wain (which means wagon) is a constellation. It is not mentioned in either The Lord of the Rings or in The Silmarillion.
I imagine that Wargs are terrible genetic and magical experiments on wolves, as were Orcs to Elves, Trolls to Ents.
What an evocative, delicious, elegantly simple name. It makes me want to be bewildered. I include here references to “the Wild” as a location – or perhaps a state of being. I look forward to the day when I can expand the concordance to include “wild” in its own right – it is used beautifully in this work.
I have recently learned that talons are the backward-facing raptor claws – the forward-facing ones which grip in toward the talons are the “pounces”.