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	Medieval Bestiary : Introduction
		A large number of bestiary manuscripts are written in Latin, in the Middle Ages the common language of scholars and clerics, with many more written in vernacular languages, mostly French.
		The bestiary also describes a beast and uses that description as a basis for an allegorical teaching, but by including text from other sources it goes further; and while still not a "zoology textbook", it is not only a religious text, but also a description of the world as it was known.
		If you are interested in bestiary manuscripts, start wil the section on the manuscript families, which will link you to various other pages of interest.
	bestiary.ca /intro.htm (1843 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bestiary of Middle earth
		His departure from Middle Earth brings closure to the Immortal races' meddling in the affairs of Middle Earth – a meddling brought to a head in Sauron's rise and fall.
		It was time for Bombadil to leave his beloved forest and the rest of Middle Earth to the mortal races and to return Undying Lands.
		Middle Earth that Tolkien describes in the Silmarillion.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bestiary-of-Middle_earth (444 words)

	snarkout: flatland
		A few church fathers in the early middle ages argued for the flat earth, but the whole idea was tied to the question of whether Jesus had redeemed the people walking upside down in the antipodes.
		The contemporary Flat Earth Society is sadly self-aware and Fortean, throwing the question of how serious their predecessors were into severe doubt.
		But Columbus seized upon the theorists (until Magellan circumnavigated the globe, there were no scientists engaged in practical studies of the earth's size) who agreed with him, ignoring such cutting edge thinkers as Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who calculated a reasonably accurate value for earth's diameter.
	www.snarkout.org /archives/2005/01/28 (794 words)

	ChristStory Phoenix Page
		It is made of all the most desirable parts of earth's creatures: the snake's neck, the crane's forehead, the dragon's stripes, the fish's tail, the tortoise's shell, the swallow's throat, and the fowl's bill.
		During the Middle Ages, it was believed to rise from the dead after three days.
		Often, as an emblem of Christ, it was found with the palm tree (another symbol of resurrection) or carrying a palm branch (a symbol of triumph over death), or carrying an olive branch (a symbol of God's peace offered to humans).
	ww2.netnitco.net /users/legend01/phoenix.htm (929 words)

	BESTIARY, Greek Mythology Link.
		As Hyrieus was childless and asked the gods for children, they urinated in the hide of the sacrificed bull, buried it in the earth and from it Orion was born.
		The gold which the griffins guard, he says, comes out of the earth; the Arimaspi are men all born with one eye; griffins are beasts like lions, but with the beak and wings of an eagle.
		Double-shaped, she appeared a woman to the middle of her body, with clusters of poisonous serpents for hair.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/BESTIARY.html (4327 words)

	UT Feature Story -- Tolkien and the Tongues of Middle Earth: Hobbits, elves and orcs teach lessons in linguistics
		Hoyt, a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics, plans to use Tolkien’s work to interest other students in the study of linguistics with a course he is teaching in the spring, The Linguistics of Middle Earth.
		J.R.R. Tolkien, author of “The Lord of the Rings,” “The Hobbit” and other stories of Middle Earth, spent his professional career as a philologist—a classical linguist—immersed in Old English and Old Norse as a professor at Oxford University in Great Britain.
		UT Feature Story -- Tolkien and the Tongues of Middle Earth: Hobbits, elves and orcs teach lessons in linguistics
	www.utexas.edu /features/archive/2002/tolkien.html (930 words)

	Map of Middle Earth and Undying Lands
		which shows the relationship between the Continent of Middle Earth and the Continent of the Undying Lands in the West...not to mention the placement of all the cities, towers, mountains, mansions, gardens, woodlands and pastures that are found there, too.
		David Day's map is NOT an accurate map as it shows landscapes from all three incarnations of the Earth (Arda); from the Flat Earth of the First Age to the features that existed in the Third Age after Ilúvatar (Eru) changed its shape to round.
		One of the best tools is the map; it gives concrete detail to the descriptions, and helps one focus on where the events took place.
	balder.prohosting.com /jjck25/lotr/midearthmap.htm (322 words)

	ChristStory Griffin or Gryphon Page
		It is the king of birds and lord of the air united with the king of beasts and lord of the earth.
		The griffin's dual nature led it to be associated with Jesus Christ, God and man, king of heaven and earth.
		Because of the griffin's strength and powers of sight, it was believed to guard hidden treasures and hide them in their nests with their young.
	ww2.netnitco.net /users/legend01/griffin.htm (739 words)

	Antlion Pit: "Medieval Bestiaries and the Birth of Zoology"
		What is interesting about the medieval bestiary is that it embraced all animals as factual; whether there was any supporting evidence for their existence or not, they were all handled with the same degree of conviction.
		Although the bestiary had its roots in late classical treatises on animals, the moment that information was appropriated and symbolically interpreted, it lost all hope of becoming a zoological treatise and neatly fit into the realm of Christian dogma.
		In studying the illustrations of the bestiary, one of the first things we notice is that exotic animals were illustrated with as much imagination as had been put into the text itself.
	www.antlionpit.com /aura.html (7002 words)

	A Medieval Bestiary
		ECHIDNA: in Greek mythology, she was the daughter of Gaea (the Earth) by Tartaros (the incarnate Underworld), a terror and a mother of monsters; her upper half was a beautiful woman, her lower body a serpent.
		French bestiaries however cite the salamander as a bird that leaves on pure fire and from which is produced something that is neither silk, linen, or wool; cloth made of this thread can only be cleansed by putting it in the fire, where it does not burn.
		The nightmare in Welsh mythology was represented by the capering skeleton of a horse with a broken-off horn; pursuing the dreamer, it is thwarted by a may-tree in flower.
	www.iras.ucalgary.ca /~volk/sylvia/TheBestiaryProject.htm (10919 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Some Middle Earth Geography Questions
		2- Middle Earth is huge, but it seems that civilization has worked its way south, with the stories of old, and the great elvish civilizations being in the north and the current civilizations being in the south.
		That is why it is called "Middle Earth" because there is land to the West and East of it.
		Also worth noting is that there was a whole section of Middle Earth, Beleriand, west of the Grey Havens that no longer exists.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=196624 (2031 words)

	ARRAKIS - TOLKIEN ARCHIVES
		The Biography of J.R.R. Tolkien : Architect of Middle Earth by Daniel Grotta.
		Master of Middle Earth : The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien by Paul H. Kocher.
		Good News from Tolkien's Middle Earth; Two Essays on the 'Applicability' of the Lord of the Rings.
	www.arrakis-ttm.com /compleat_tolkien.html (6470 words)

	TolkNgFaq.txt
		They cannot abide for ever, and though they cannot return to mortal earth, they can and will 'die' - of free will, and leave the world.
		Another clear example comes from the chapter "The Riders of Rohan" in LotR, when the companions reach the edge of Fangorn: Upon a stake in the middle was set a great goblin head; upon its shattered helm the white badge could still be seen.
		In Letter #154, he explains this:...the mythical idea underlying is that for mortals, since their 'kind' cannot be changed for ever, this is strictly only a temporary reward: a healing and redress of suffering.
	tolkien.slimy.com /faq/TolkNgFaq.txt (14174 words)

	Tolkien's Middle-earth: Lesson Plans, Unit Three - Suggested Activities
		The bestiary is large: Grendel, Humbaba, Polyphemus, Fafnir, Tiamat, Python, the Midgard Serpent, a dozen others.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /features/lordoftheringstrilogy/lessons/three/activities.shtml (374 words)

	Medieval Bestiary : Bibliography Detail
		"Drawn from five centuries of travellers' accounts, An Odd Bestiary is the story of a transformation of vision; the story of how men came to view the animate world as a reality with its own unique history, integrity, and order.
		Secondary title: "A compendium of instructive and entertaining descriptions of animals, culled from five centuries of travelers' accounts, natural histories, zoologies, etc. by authors famous and obscure, arranged as an abecedary / designed and illustrated by Alan James Robinson; text compiled and annotated by Laurie Block."
	www.bonus.com /contour/medieval_bestiary/http@@/bestiary.ca/biblios/biblio2693.htm (130 words)

	The Outer Rim: Mythos Bestiary
		He is not man and yet not beast but some middle ground in between.
		The Mythos Bestiary is copyright © 2000-2001 by Laura.
		The Sasquatch is sung to be a solitary creature, dwelling in high mountain ranges and other wild places.
	outer-rim.lweb.net /mythos/37best.html (499 words)

	Whatever: December 2003 Archives
		I should note that in terms of fiddling with graphic equalization, I tend to crank up the higher frequencies, so cranking those frequencies back down diminishes the "sizzle" significantly; when I have the graphic equalization flat, the difference between the original files and their recompressed children is, from a practical point of view, negligible.
		Music companies will still be around (they'll buy into up-and-coming bands and be a relatively safe haven for veterans who don't want the hassle of running their organization) but I imagine their DRM policies, should they exist, will be rather less restrictive than they are now due to business pressures.
		So ultimately, DRM is, in my mind, a middle step between the way the music business was and what it will be in time.
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	Tolkien Society Links Page
		Warren Lawless' essays on aspects of Professor Tolkien's Middle Earth.
		Middle Earth games - home of a Lord of the Rings strategy game.
		My topics include: Kingship in Middle Earth, The Folk of Angmar, The Population of Eriador 2000-3000 TA, The Great Worms, and Relations between Arnor and Gondor.
	www.tolkiensociety.org /links.html (4179 words)

	CHARACTERS FROM TOLKIEN - DAY, David
		All Bestiary entries are listed in the first index, where reference is given to their principal sources in Tolkien books.
		At the back of the book are genealogy tables of the races and kingdoms of Men and Elves and two indexes.
		Followed by a general index to all races, places, characters and events mentioned in the text (taken from the 'Preface').
	www.clentbooks.co.uk /si/3584.html (129 words)

	HPLA - A Lovecraftian Bestiary
		As it was, nearly all the rumours had several points in common; averring that the creatures were a sort of huge, light-red crab with many pairs of legs and with two great bat-like wings in the middle of their back.
		Lateral breakages, as of thinnish stalks, are at equator in middle of these ridges.
		It was perhaps that which certain secret cults of earth have whispered of as YOG-SOTHOTH, and which has been a deity under other names; that which the crustaceans of Yuggoth worship as the Beyond-One, and which the vaporous brains of the spiral nebulae know by an untranslatable Sign...” (“Through the Gates of the Silver Key”)
	www.hplovecraft.com /creation/bestiary.htm (2724 words)

	GreenBooks.TheOneRing.net™ Special Guest The Science of Middle-earth: The Kine of Araw
		Back in what palaeontologists call the Middle Pleistocene, 750,000 years ago or thereabouts, the typical large ungulate in Britain was an odd kind of tall bison with spindly legs.
		About half a million years ago there was a truly terrific glacial episode, in which the advancing Ice Sheet displaced the more northerly-flowing Thames into its present course, rearranging the landscape of Britain and opening the way to a long period of warmth and a whole new range of animals.
		None now survive, but at various times in the past million years, Britain was home to enormous herds of bison to rival anything on the Great Plains, as well as gazelles, saiga, musk oxen and aurochs -- which brings me to the subject of this column.
	greenbooks.theonering.net /guest/files/012005.html (1411 words)

	Tolkien - David Day
		The author of A Tolkien Bestiary presents "a comprehensive guide to every important aspect of Middle-earth and the Undying Lands.
	www.libreriauniversitaria.it /BUS/0684839792/Tolkien.htm (39 words)

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		A part man, part bird being (or lion-headed bird) of Mesopotamian mythology, associated with storms and the South wind, Zuh stole the tablets of destiny - which recorded the fate of everything on Earth - from the god Enlil.
		Monsters from the Middle East (including Islamic, Egyptian and Mesopotamian monsters)
		They were eventually retrieved by Enlil's son, the war god Ninurta.
	members.lycos.co.uk /aspara/mideast.htm (706 words)

	GW Online : The Lord of The Rings : A Middle-earth Bestiary
		GW Online : The Lord of The Rings : A Middle-earth Bestiary
		As the years pass other distractions have taken their toll however, and whilst Gandalf remains attentive to his duties Radagast the Brown spends increasing amounts of time alone in the wilderness, whilst Saruman's investigations into the ways of the Enemy have brought him under Sauron's corrupting influence.
		Copyright © Games Workshop Limited 2006 excepting all materials pertaining to the New Line theatrical productions: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; and The Return of The King which are © MMVI New Line Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
	uk.games-workshop.com /thelordoftherings/bestiary/1 (1190 words)

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		To show that the partition of the novel into male and female editions is not uneconomic would require greater space than is available here, but it would be negligent not to mention a passage in the novel's (para)text which is suggestive:
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	The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum - Tolkien Monster Manual
		This is not just a quibble over definition, though, I would think, but goes to the nature of sentient beings in Middle earth and is related to how Tolkien discusses language.
		Yes, Estelyn, I am aware that 'bestiary' is reserved mainly for medieval lists of real or imaginary animals, and includes fables and allegories of such creatures.
		EDIT: My point about the beastial conundrum was to suggest that the old line drawn between humans and beasts or animals is not tenable in Middle earth.
	forum.barrowdowns.com /archive/index.php/t-11740 (1856 words)

	Tolkien Bestiary - THE TOLKIEN FORUM
		I don't think there is, but you could try something in the Histories of Middle Earth [HoME]; particularly in The Peoples of Middle Earth, book XII, although I haven't read it.
		Was wondering if anyone knows of a detailed FAQ/bible of all the creatues of Middle Earth.
		David Day's Tolkien Bestiary is certainly one of the only illustrated Tolkien encyclopaedias I have seen around, but it can be fairly unreliable (in that Day takes a bit of licence with some of the entries e.g "Kraken" for the Watcher in the water at the gate of Moria).
	www.thetolkienforum.com /showthread.php?t=647 (1861 words)

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