Tolkien Hobbit Calendar Bard and the Master of Lake-town from Oxford bi-fold November is a painting by Glen McDonald which was uploaded on November 1st, 2013.
Tolkien Hobbit Calendar Bard and the Master of Lake-town from Oxford bi-fold November
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Title
Tolkien Hobbit Calendar Bard and the Master of Lake-town from Oxford bi-fold November
Artist
Glen McDonald
Medium
Painting - Watercolour
Description
I am like a street musician on this page. So if you learn something on this page, buy something on this page. Its the honour system. Little given little expected; Much given much expected.
Help me publish my Tolkien Calendar and my commentary book; Tolkiens Hobbit Revealed please make a comment or ask for it at editors@harpercollins.co
Welcome to the 2014Tolkiens Hobbit Revealed Calendar .
This calendar is made that you may better see Middle-earth in its glimmerings in the sky from wherever you are.
Calendar boxes are set up with our modern, Gregorian dates and matching Shire dates and days.
The sidebars of the calendar feature picture descriptions, and appropriate quotes from The Hobbit, followed by comments on the same quotes from my book: Tolkiens Hobbit Revealed. Enjoy and imagine!
~Glen Gary McDonald
From the Magdalene Bridge In Oxford, Bard/Antinoes warning to the Master of Lake-town/Aquarius. The Master is otherwise preoccupied but Antinoks to Lake-towns peril. The constellations tell the story. Except that Capricorn is made here into a boat-shaped throne I have not recast or changed the constellations.
There was once more a tremendous excitement and enthusiasm. But the grim-faced fellow ran hotfoot to the Master. The dragon is coming or I am a fool! he cried, Cut the bridges! To arms! To arms! H234.05-.08
AD October 14/24 October SC 6:56PM to 7:11PM
The grim faced fellow; Antino8.17, looking east passes the warning to the reclining Master; Aquarius at 7:11PM; when Antinoses the transit of the Meridian on to Aquarius 237.19.
As if to be released from this perilous realm which is about to break on Lake-town, this foreboder; this dreamer calls for the bridges to be cut, not because he wants to forget the portents, or because he wants to maintain the happy delusion of his people 223.29, 234.04, 223.15 he is a guarded guard. The bridges are a barrier and a passage that join the perilous realm of dragons in the sky to men on the earth in this Lake-towns bridges are like Bifrost: the bridge which separated Asgard from the land of the giants and all the rest of the world from Norse myth; Children of Odin (Colum/Simon & Schuster) and more directly,The Edda, and The Elder Edda. This is the time to sever the heavens from the Earth, the home from the horoscope, this is the time to be prepared for the worst. While all Lake-men read the signs of the times, most took them for the best of all possible events, but this grim faced man would hold events back on the chance there is to be evil.
The hot-footed one is something like the astrologer who would throw the all the sibyls from the sky, and separate the Earth from the heavens if it would only stop the horrible auricles. He is like the astronomer who no longer sees groups of stars as Aquarius and Pisces (and Piscus Austrinus) 235.38, or as pictures of a man tipping out a deluge and poisoned poisson, but as an onrushing flood and poisoned fish in his lake. For such a man these visions are too real to stand still for.
I wonder if the Lake-townsfolk hope to touch silver and gold metal this night or just see the colourful lights in the sky and reflections in the Lake.
Every vessel in the town was filled with water, every warrior was armed, every arrow and dart was ready, and the bridge to the land was thrown down and destroyed, before the roar of Smaugs terrible approach grew loud, and the lake rippled red as fire beneath the awful beating of his wings. H234.17-.21
AD October 14/24 October SC
7:11PM to 7:42PM
On the Meridian, Capricorn may represent every vessel 140.16 the boats Argo (Puppis), Sirius and Lepus 193.12 remain out of sight being parts of the morning sky. Also on the meridian, Aquarius is perhaps the archetypical Lake-man 237.19. He seems to be drawing water to fill Capricorn.
Calendar Abbreviations:
AD Our modern Gregorian calendar.
Artist JRR Tolkien Artist and Illustrator (Hamond,Skull/HarperCollins 1995) AH Annotated Hobbit (Anderson/HarperCollins 2003) A/M-e Atlas of Middle Earth (Fonstad/Allen & Unwin/Houghton Mifflin) C/H Children of HTolkien/HarperCollins 2007) H The Hobbit (Tolkien/HarperCollins)
H/H History of The Hobbit (Rateliff/HarperCollins 2008)
LR Lord of the Rings (Tolkien/HarperCollins 1995)
Letters Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (Carpenter(Editor)/Houghten Mifflin/HarperCollins 2006)
MP Untangling Tolkien (M. Perry/Inking Pr. 2006)
S Silmarilion (Tolkien/HarperCollins)
SC Shire Calendar: Days & month are generally common with Gondor. Add 610 for AD and 1600 for Kings Reckoning . See LR appendix D
SN Star Names (Allen/Stechet 1899/Dover)
SR Shire Reckoning: The Shire Calendar feature by which the days of each month and weekdays do not shift each year see LR appendix D
UT Unfinished Tales (Tolkien/A llen & Unwin 1982)
I-XII Volumes 1 to 12 of The History of Middle-Earth (C.Tolkien/HarperCollins)
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