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Tag: athelas

Posted on June 15, 2020 by Olga · 6 Comments

Come, athelas!

In J. R. R. Tolkien’s world of Arda names bear a great significance. Characters, objects or places are called what they are for a reason, and that is rarely a coincidence: names accurately describe the nature of whatever or whoever they were given to. The healing plant athelas is no exception.

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