The History of the Hobbit by John D. Rateliff

The History of the Hobbit by John D. Rateliff

Author:John D. Rateliff
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


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The Black Arrow

The motif of the Black Arrow both harkens back to the alliterative poems of the 1920s and ahead to the Númenórean blades in The Lord of the Rings. In ‘The Lay of the Children of Húrin’, Beleg the Bowman carries a special arrow named Dailir,6 of which we are told

. . . Dailir he drew, his dart beloved;

howso far fared it, or fell unnoted,

unsought he found it with sound feathers

and barbs unbroken

—lines 1080–1083a (Canto II: ‘Beleg’) HME III.42.



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