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The poem was, like the others in the collection, written as a scholarly philological entertainment. Tolkien had to reconstruct some of the words he used from other Germanic languages, as little of the Gothic language survives. [4] The scholar of historical linguistics Luzius Thöny has analysed the grammar and meaning of the words of the poem.
Pachira aquatica is a tropical wetland tree in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to Central and South America where it grows in swamps. It is known by its common names Malabar chestnut, French peanut, Guiana chestnut, Provision tree, Saba nut, Monguba (), Pumpo and Jelinjoche and is commercially sold under the names Money tree and Money plant.
Tolkien's poem explained and defended creative myth-making. The discussion was recorded in the book The Inklings by Humphrey Carpenter. [3] The poem features words from "Philomythos" (myth-lover) to "Misomythos" (myth-hater) who defends mythology and myth-making as a creative art about "fundamental things". [4]
Bagme Bloma ("Flower of the Trees"), an 18-line poem in Gothic in a trochaic metre, with irregular end-rhymes and irregular alliteration in each line. It is the only poem to be printed in Gothic. It was unofficially published in the rare and soon withdrawn 1936 Songs for the Philologists; [8] also in Tom Shippey's The Road to Middle-Earth. [9]
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Pachira glabra (syn. Bombacopsis glabra) [1] [2] is a tropical wetland tree in the mallow family, Malvaceae, native to eastern Brazil, where it grows along waterways.It is generally known by the nonscientific names Guinea peanut, [3] [2] French peanut, [2] Saba nut, [4] money tree, [2] and lucky tree. [2]
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Tolkien's poetry is extremely varied, including both the poems and songs of Middle-earth, and other verses written throughout his life. J. R. R. Tolkien embedded over 60 poems in the text of The Lord of the Rings; there are others in The Hobbit and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil; and many more in his Middle-earth legendarium and other manuscripts which remained unpublished in his lifetime ...