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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]]. | ||
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> | |||
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*[[Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography]] | |||
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*[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]
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References
- ↑ "Review of English Studies. July 1925", TolkienBooks.net (accessed 14 December 2013)
- ↑ Wayne G. Hammond, Douglas A. Anderson, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography
- ↑ "The Devil's Coach-Horses. 1925. Reprint.", TolkienBooks.net (accessed 14 December 2013)