Withywindle - Racconti di Tolkien

L'EVOLUZIONE DELLA LEGGENDA - I. Poesia dalla History of Middle Earth [31] Il primo “germe” di The Adventures of Tom Bombadil da The Return of the Shadow

First “germ” of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

(Said I)
‘Ho! Tom Bombadil
Whither are you going
With John Pompador
Down the River rowing?’

(Said he)
‘Through Long Congleby,
Stoke Canonicorum,
Past King’s Singleton
To Bumby Cocalorum –
To call Bill Willoughby
Whatever he be doing,
And ax Harry Larraby
What beer he is a-brewing.’…

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SÔVAL PHÂRË – (La“Lingua Comune”) ~ Rubrica sulla Traduzione in Tolkien - EPISODIO 24: La Guide to the Names of The Lord of the Rings. Toponimi (parte 3)

Cari amici, ben ritrovati al consueto appuntamento con Sôval Phârë, la rubrica dedicata alla traduzione nell’opera letteraria tolkieniana.

Quest’oggi proponiamo gli ultimi tre toponimi di questa breve selezione, per poi passare, dalla prossima volta, a qualche nome di cosa (ricordo che il documento è diviso in tre sezioni: names of persons and peoples; place-names e appunto things), e concludere infine questa disamina sulla utilissima Guide to the Names con qualche ultima considerazione di carattere generale.…

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la barca di Tom tre giorni ferma restò

Three days his boat lay by the hythe at Grindwall,

and then one mom was gone back up Withywindle.

Otter-folk, hobbits said, came by night and loosed her,

dragged her over weir, and up stream they pushed her.

{J. R. R.

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Conosco lì un popol piccino

‘Whee! Tom Bombadil! Whither be you going,

bobbing in a cockle-boat, down the river rowing?’

‘Maybe to Brandywine along the Withywindle;

maybe friends of mine fire for me will kindle

down by the Hays-end. Little folk I know there,

kind at the day’s end.

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Ma un giorno Tom sorprese Baccador la bionda

Wise old Bombadil, he was a wary fellow;

bright blue his jacket was, and his boots were yellow.

None ever caught old Tom in upland or in dingle,

walking the forest-paths, or by the Withywindle,

or out on the lily-pools in boat upon the water.

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Terra di Buck

Nos. 1 and 2 evidently come from the Buckland. They show more knowledge of that country, and of the Dingle, the wooded valley of the Withywindle, {Grindwall was a small port on the north bank of the Withywindle; it was located outside the Barrier and was therefore well guarded and protected by a grind or fence that extended into the water.

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