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The White Councilthe coins of Queen BeruthielTolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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The White Councilthe coins of Queen BeruthielTolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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Posted by Alexander on April 24, 2000 at 14:30:18 I was fascinated by the reference (in the suite 101 essay on the Merchants of Middle Earth) to the lost passage on the coinage of Middle-earth I haven`t been able to find it yet in the Peoples of Middle Earth. Could you tell me where in the book it is? My main question is about Queen Beruthiel. I`m not sure where what I remember about her comes from: the letters I think and also the appendices - but I don`t remember any reference to her being a princess of Umbar, as I remember reading the other day somewhere on this site. It certainly fits the story very nicely - and explains a lot. Is there an expanded version somewhere of the tale that I`ve missed? I had often wondered about that marriage, but never thought of it as an attempt at accomodation with Umbar. As such I suppose it was a failure from the very start. Tarannon`s concern for the fleets can only have been as a challenge to Umbar, and it must already have been his life`s work: one of the problems in the marriage was that she hated the sea, while her husband thought of little else. Do you think there`s a parallel with the Israelite Kings that married Phoenician princesses, who brought their own customs and gods with them - especially Jezebel the daughter of the King of Tyre. These foreign brides seem to have had much a greater influence on their new homes than Beruthiel did. It`s funny how she hated the sea so much - she must have been born by it and lived in sight of it all her life - and probably travelled to Gondor that way. Alexander
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