It feels different near the Shire.... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 09-30-2002, 01:40 PM

Bethberry: Quite right on the primordial.

Nar: The Angles inhabited East Anglia, whereas the Saxons ingabied Sussex, Wessex, and such areas more in the surround of Oxford and Berkshire. So the Angles as such have little, as a separate culture group, to do with the Westmidland countryside Tolkien evoked. Having said that, I quite agree that it goes deeper than Saxon or Celt, back to primordial humanity/nature. You are saying things that ring true for me, I just didn't know how to get there.

So the "soul of the English countryside" is, we're saying, Child English only in name since they have resided there for the last 1500 years.

09-30-2002, 01:40 PM	#1
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Bethberry: Quite right on the primordial. Nar: The Angles inhabited East Anglia, whereas the Saxons ingabied Sussex, Wessex, and such areas more in the surround of Oxford and Berkshire. So the Angles as such have little, as a separate culture group, to do with the Westmidland countryside Tolkien evoked. Having said that, I quite agree that it goes deeper than Saxon or Celt, back to primordial humanity/nature. You are saying things that ring true for me, I just didn't know how to get there. So the "soul of the English countryside" is, we're saying, Child English only in name since they have resided there for the last 1500 years.