regshoe: Close-up of a grey heron, its beak open as if laughing (Heron 2)
regshoe ([personal profile] regshoe) wrote2021-11-20 05:50 pm

Flight of the Heron read-along: Part III chapter 5

:D

That Night in the Hut.

Next week we'll read the first two chapters of Part IV.
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[personal profile] hyarrowen 2021-11-22 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Hm, I got "yew-tree" for Ewen and "lord of the woods" for Keith - I hadn't picked up the other two meanings. I was happy enough with an arboreal connection for the two of them (possibly significant in a later chapter..?) but those meanings you've found are also quite fascinating and satisfying!

But. She was working at Oxford at the same time as Tolkien. I daresay some of that linguistic stuff osmosed across!
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[personal profile] tgarnsl 2021-12-09 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
Apologies for the late reply — that's also a fascinating meaning for Ewen, and would fit well with the cultural connotations of yews as associated with death, rebirth, and spiritual immortality.
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[personal profile] hyarrowen 2021-12-10 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, I hadn't thought of the spiritual meanings! I didn't see the wood for the trees, as it were.

/tree fan