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'''''The Devil's Coach-Horses''''' is a [[1925]] essay by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]].
'''''The Devil's Coach-Horses''''' is a [[1925]] essay by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]].


"devil's coach-horse" is a British expression for a particular kind of rove beetle.
The essay discusses ''eaueres'', a word found in the 1922 Early English Text Society Edition of ''[[Wikipedia:Katherine Group|Hali Meiðhad]]''. Tolkien suggests that rather than meaning boar, the word should be translated as draught horse.<ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=13210|articlename=Review of English Studies. July 1925|dated=|website=TB|accessed=14 December 2013}}</ref>
 
The Devil's Coach-Horses was first published in [[The Review of English Studies (Vol. 1  No. 3)|''The Review of English Studies'', Vol. 1  No. 3]] (July 1925), and was reprinted in [[The Review of English Studies (Vol. 1)|''The Review of English Studies'', Vol. 1]] (1969). The essay also appeared separately as a [[The Devil's Coach-Horses (booklet)|six-page pamphlet]].<ref>[[Wayne G. Hammond]], [[Douglas A. Anderson]], ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography]]''</ref><ref>{{webcite|author=|articleurl=http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/details.php?reference=13230|articlename=The Devil's Coach-Horses. 1925. Reprint.|dated=|website=TB|accessed=14 December 2013}}</ref>
 
==See also==
 
*[[Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography]]


* J.R.R. Tolkien, ''The devil's coach-horses'' in: ''The review of English studies: a quarterly journal of English literature and the English language'' vol. 1  no. 3 (July 1925), p. 331-6 (London, Sidgwick&Jackson), reprinted 1950.
==External links==
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*[http://res.oxfordjournals.org/content/os-I/3/331.full.pdf+html ''The Devil's Coach Horses'']
*[http://res.oxfordjournals.org/content/os-I/3/331.full.pdf+html ''The Devil's Coach Horses'']


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Revision as of 00:19, 15 December 2013

The Devil's Coach-Horses is a 1925 essay by J.R.R. Tolkien.

The essay discusses eaueres, a word found in the 1922 Early English Text Society Edition of Hali Meiðhad. Tolkien suggests that rather than meaning boar, the word should be translated as draught horse.[1]

The Devil's Coach-Horses was first published in The Review of English Studies, Vol. 1 No. 3 (July 1925), and was reprinted in The Review of English Studies, Vol. 1 (1969). The essay also appeared separately as a six-page pamphlet.[2][3]

See also

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