Pitchwife
Glad you liked it. I enjoyed it too.
Beyond the botanical and etymological aspects, we also see a fit with some rather puzzling statements which I have never before seen satisfactorily explained. Pulling from Ms. Seth's essay:
“Goldberry, Goldberry, merry yellow berry-o!”.
“O spring-time and summer-time and spring again after!”
“Goldberry represents the actual seasonal changes” in “real river-lands” .
It just goes to show – that even though some of these characters have seemingly been endlessly discussed – there is yet more out there!
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