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  • Title: Time and J.R.R. Tolkien's "Riddles in the Dark" (Critical Essay)
  • Author : Mythlore
  • Release Date : January 22, 2008
  • Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 193 KB

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THOMAS D. HILL NOTED in a Review of English Studies essay titled "Saturn's Time Riddle: An Insular Latin Analogue for Solomon and Saturn Lines 282-91" that the riddle Bilbo was able to "answer" only by a stroke of luck was likely to be familiar to Hobbit readers (282). I am sure it is, and other "Riddles in the Dark" riddles may be familiar as well. As Douglas A. Anderson noted, Tolkien himself wrote in a 1938 letter published in the London Observer that he "would not be at all surprised to learn that both the hobbit and Gollum [would] find their claim to have invented any of [their riddles] disallowed" (Annotated Hobbit 120). (1) Anderson makes the following connections between riddles Bilbo and Gollum pose in Chapter Five of The Hobbit and their possible sources. Bilbo's "teeth" riddle, he writes, is a "touched up" version of a riddle that appears as Riddle 229 in Iona and Peter Opie's Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (121-22). Citing a connection made by Taum Santoski, he notes a "dark" riddle connection to an analogue from Jon Arnason's Izlenskar Gatur, a collection of Icelandic riddles (123). He quotes Letter No. 110 in Humphrey Carpenter's edition of The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, in which Tolkien called Bilbo's "egg" riddle "a reduction to a couplet [...] of a longer literary riddle," provides a text for the Hobbit egg riddle source, and presents Tolkien's Old English version of the "longer literary riddle" (123-24). Anderson sees Gollum's "fish" riddle as a "slight analogue to [a] riddle [that appears] in the Old Norse Saga of King Heidrek the Wise" (125-26), and he also notes a connection between Bilbo's "leg" riddle and "a very common riddle" included in The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (126-27).


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