![]() ![]() Eisenbahnen und Verkehrsbetriebe Elbe-Weser.As a result, you can now use Wanderu to find, compare and book bus and train tickets to more than 4,900 destinations across 17 countries, including Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic, among others.Īs part of the deal, Wanderu now offers tickets for routes served directly by Deutsche Bahn, as well as as tickets for trips conducted by the railway operator’s own partners and affiliates. If you were looking for more ways to snag awesome deals to travel around Europe, you’ve come to the right place! We are very excited to announce that we have partnered with Deutsche Bahn, the largest railway operator in Europe. He loves baseball, books, and the music of the sea.Since launching in Europe in January, we’ve added 20+ more carriers to the Wanderu search engine to bring you the best bus & train travel deals and help you explore the Old Continent. Of late he is parsing his way through Beowulf, and looking forward to Old Norse. There are, however, points in the Old English that are not entirely clear, but these do not touch the issue of morþorhete directly.īorn and raised in New York City, Tom for some years had the great pleasure of teaching Latin, Greek, and Ancient History at colleges in the northeastern US. ![]() It may not be elegant, but I believe that it is at least not inaccurate. A passion so strong can unite or divide.ġ The translation offered above is mine, based on the text and notes in Klaeber’s Beowulf (Toronto, 2014). In the end the terms do not prove strong enough, any more for Finn and Hengest than for the orcs Frodo and Sam see in Mordor. The connection here is not to be found in the details of the story of Finn and Hengest, but in the morþorhete that remains alive just below the surface, so ready to break forth that only the threat of violence can suppress it even temporarily. Their murderous hate, a sword would settle it. Though, kingless now, they followed the killer Nor through malice would they ever complain – Nor by deed would any man break the accord, That he, by the authority of his council, On oath to Hengest, nobly, with no dispute, In Beowulf the word appears in the account of the oath that was meant to restore peace after the attack on Finnsburgh: So the word is generally applicable to orcs. Keep in mind, moreover, that every time we see orcs interacting with each other, whether they are of different kinds, as here, of different loyalties ( Two Towers, ‘The Uruk-hai’), or of different commands ( Two Towers, ‘The Choices of Master Samwise’ Return of the King, ‘The Tower of Cirith Ungol’), they always come to blows. It is morþorhete, a compound of morþor, whose primary meaning is ‘murder’ and from which of course derives ‘Mordor’, and hete, ‘hate.’ Morþorhete, occurring only here in extant Old English, denotes a murderous or deadly hatred. For in line 1105 we encounter a word that suits the orcs and Frodo’s description of them perfectly. ( Return of the King, ‘The Land of Shadow’)Īs is often the case with Tolkien a glance at Beowulf can prove interesting. If those two had seen us, they would have dropped all their quarrel until we were dead.’ They hate us far more, altogether and all the time. Orcs have always behaved like that, or so all tales say, when they are on their own. But that is the spirit of Mordor, Sam and it has spread to every corner of it. We have evidently had a very narrow escape, and the hunt was hotter on our tracks than we guessed. ‘If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over.’ ‘Well I call that neat as neat,’ he said. The other ran off across the valley and disappeared.įor a while the hobbits sat in silence. ![]() But the tracker, springing behind a stone, put an arrow in his eye as he ran up, and he fell with a crash. The big orc, spear in hand, leapt after him. The day after Sam rescues Frodo from the tower of Cirith Ungol, two orcs, an Uruk and a smaller tracker, nearly catch them, but a fight breaks out between them: To celebrate Tolkien reading day, Tom Hillman discusses the Old English word Morþorhete and the Spirit of Mordor ![]()
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