27 Jul, 2020
2020-7-27 1:58:46 AM UTC
Over at the World Rugby Museum website is a post that discusses Tolkien's background on the rugby team at King Edward's School (including a rarely shared photograph), and quoting some lines from his poem "The Battle of the Eastern Field".
Don't neglect the first comment as well, where John Garth adds more context and names all of the boys pictures in the photograph.
Enjoy!
https://worldrugbymuseum.blog/2017/01/ ... tle-of-the-eastern-field/
27 Jul, 2020
2020-7-27 5:09:52 AM UTC
If you are a member of the Tolkien Society and have not read the poem "The Battle of the Eastern Field", you can download Mallorn 46 from
https://www.tolkiensociety.org/members-area/ for the whole poem and commentary by Maggie Burns.
27 Jul, 2020
2020-7-27 9:30:23 AM UTC
I had never heard of this poem and I thoroughly enjoyed reading the excerpt, thanks. ?
27 Jul, 2020
2020-7-27 11:49:36 AM UTC
27 Jul, 2020
2020-7-27 12:20:43 PM UTC
onthetrail wrote:
You can read the complete poem in Vol 4, no 3 of The Gryphon.
You can't read it in
The Gryphon, because it was never published in
The Gryphon, only in the
King Edward's School Chronicle for February 1911, and reprinted in
Mallorn 12 (1978) and 46 (Autumn 2008). Vol. 4, no. 3 of
The Gryphon will get you 'The Clerke's Compleinte'.
27 Jul, 2020
2020-7-27 12:36:58 PM UTC
Findegil wrote:
onthetrail wrote:
You can read the complete poem in Vol 4, no 3 of The Gryphon.
You can't read it in The Gryphon, because it was never published in The Gryphon, only in the King Edward's School Chronicle for February 1911, and reprinted in Mallorn 12 (1978) and 46 (Autumn 2008). Vol. 4, no. 3 of The Gryphon will get you 'The Clerke's Compleinte'.
Thank you for the correction. Getting my poems all mixed up there.
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