Childe Rowland elements in the Barrow-downs tale
 

Again this is rather cheeky - in preaching to 'Barrow-downers':)

The third and final part to Ms. Seths' series on The Road to Fairyland makes ever so bold a claim – that the segment of story between the green hill on the Barrow-downs and the appearance of the mysterious standing stones has not been understood by anyone.


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As a continuation of a plan embedding a deep layer of fairy story elements within the text by Tolkien – her proposal is that the way to open up the path into Fairyland largely followed classic English fairy tale. Tolkien used the famous Childe Rowland fairy tale and the three-times 'widdershins' route as the method to gain entry to Faerie – the Perilous Realm. Her claim is that there is enough information in the text to allow us to work out three anti-clockwise circuits around the enchanted solitary standing stone atop the mounded hill. Again – I leave it to the reader to decide how compelling the arguments are!