S, F, and E - author's notes

[thrihyrne]

Author's Notes

Gormgloine- “blue-glass” (Irish) My vision is that Narvi’s axe handle has two sapphires embedded in it, and I love that it has the word “Gloin” in it. Many of the weapons in Middle-earth have names, including Orcrist, Thorin's sword. To my knowledge Gimli does not name his axe, but perhaps he’s being coy in that secretive Dwarvish way that they have.

déandorkh- déan (make, making) dorcha- dark (Irish) Yes, I'm afraid it looks like something-dork. I thought that a ‘k’ instead of a ‘c’ would look more Dwarvish. Ultimately I wanted the word to have the sensibility of “sacrilegious,” something that just Would Not Be Done.

The quotations at the beginning of the three sections were all found in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, © 1973

Our friends were not unearthly beautiful. - from “Ideal Landscape” by Adrienne Rich

I keep to myself such measures as I care for, daily the rocks accumulate position. - from “I Keep to Myself Such Measures. . .” by Robert Creeley

The Soul selects her own Society-- from “The Soul selects her own Society” by Emily Dickinson

“What stood will stand” by Wendell Berry, words © 1998. There is one final stanza to it which could not fit within the Ardaverse:

What stood, whole in every piecemeal
Thing that stood, will stand though all
Fall-field and woods and all in them
Rejoin the primal Sabbath’s hymn.