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Beren and Luthien
“This story not only was very important in the early tales of Middle Earth, but it had particular meaning for Tolkien in his life. As a young man he had fallen in love with Edith Bratt… He and his young wife took a walk in a wood that was filled with hemlock and she danced for him and sang for him and that image, that very very personal image of the woman he loved, became the image that he used to describe the meeting of Beren and Luthien. Tolkien identified so closely with this story that when Edith died, he had the name Luthien written on her tombstone…And when he eventually himself died, the name Beren is on his stone.”
-The Legacy of Middle Earth (‘The War of the Ring’ Documentary) [x]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2p56kizHx1qg0yvfo1_r2_500.jpg)
Beren and Luthien
“This story not only was very important in the early tales of Middle Earth, but it had particular meaning for Tolkien in his life. As a young man he had fallen in love with Edith Bratt… He and his young wife took a walk in a wood that was filled with hemlock and she danced for him and sang for him and that image, that very very personal image of the woman he loved, became the image that he used to describe the meeting of Beren and Luthien. Tolkien identified so closely with this story that when Edith died, he had the name Luthien written on her tombstone…And when he eventually himself died, the name Beren is on his stone.”
-The Legacy of Middle Earth (‘The War of the Ring’ Documentary) [x]
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Rare German etched State Halberd
- Belonged to the guard of Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau
- Dated: 1589
- Measurements: the head 58.2 cm. Overall length 230.3 cm
- Provenance: The Bavarian military occupation of Salzburg in 1809 led to the transfer of a quantity of these halberds to the city Zeughaus in Munich
The head comes with a broad central spike formed with a full-length ridge developing from a rectangular socket, the latter retained by a series of rivets on pounced gilt-brass rosettes extending to two pairs of long straps of near-equal length. It has a flat rear fluke with a reinforced point, an axe-blade with concave leading edge and cut with strongly cusped designs over the rear edges.
There’s also a group of four near-annular piercings at the base of the fluke and axe-blade, both sides etched with panels of swagged strapwork scrolls filled with small scrolling leafy tendrils, involving, at the top, a small cartouche framing the date 1589, three masks, respectively a cherub, a lion and an espangnolette, a pair of crouched centaurs in the middle.
The arms of Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau are quartered with those of the archbishopric of Salzburg below an Bishop’s galero suspending twelve tassels. The straps are decorated over their length with running pattern of small leafy cartouches and retained by brass-capped rivets. In its original pine haft fitted with bone shoe and stamped with the circular mark of an early inventory.
Source: © Hermann Historica
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