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Summary
This painting by J.R.R. Tolkien dates from September 1927. Above the coiled dragon are two flowers. Tolkien inscribed the words "hringboga heorte gefýsed" beneath the dragon, which are derived from the Old English poem Beowulf (line 2561), "ða wæs hringbogan heorte gefysed / saecce tó séceanne", rendered as "Now was the heart of the coiling beast stirred to come out to fight" in J.R.R. Tolkien's translation of the poem.[1]
This drawing was published in the J.R.R. Tolkien Calendar 1979 and appears on the cover of the Deluxe edition of The Hobbit (1976). It was reproduced as plate nr. 48 in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator with its inscription as the title. Also used as the front cover of Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (2014). It was also reproduced on the website of the Tolkien Estate.
External links
- Jason Fisher, "“Hringbogan” — it has a nice ring to it ..." 05 October 2007, Lingwë - Musings of a Fish
Licensing
This work is copyrighted and owned by the Tolkien Estate. It is believed that the limited use of this file,
- on the not-for-profit educational Tolkien Gateway website,
qualifies as fair use under copyright law in the United States of America.
References
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator, pp. 52-3
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| current | 22:46, 31 January 2025 | | 1,200 × 1,343 (513 KB) | Dour1234 (talk | contribs) | The full drawing includes the inscription and the two flowers. |
| 01:05, 21 February 2006 |  | 800 × 650 (57 KB) | Hyarion (talk | contribs) | This painting by J.R.R. Tolkien dates from around 1927-8 as the paintings and drawings illustrating The Silmarillion. Beneath the coiled dragon appear in the original some words from the Old English poem Beowulf (line 2561): :hringbogan heorte gefys |
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