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Daffadowndilly
02:05
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Beautiful she is, sir! Lovely! Sometimes like a great tree in flower, sometimes like a white daffadownlilly, small and slender like. (LOTR 4: V)
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Daisy
03:35
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“Ssss, sss, my precious”, he said. “Sun on the daisies it means, it does”. (Hobbit V)
Proud and far-off as a snow-mountain, and as merry as any lass I ever saw with daisies in her hair. (LoTR 4: V)
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Dandelion
01:40
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“Goldberry was there in a lady-smock
blowing away a dandelion clock”. (TATB, Appendix II)
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Ebony
02:08
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“His bow was made of dragon-horn,
his arrows shorn of ebony”. (LotR 2: I))
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Eglantine
02:46
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“The swift growth of the wild with briar and eglantine and trailing clematis was already drawing a veil over this place of dreadful feast of slaughter”. (LotR 4: IV)
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Elanor
01:12
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“There at last when the mallory-leaves were falling, but spring had not yet come, she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and leaner and niphredil bloom no more east of the sea”. (LotR Appendix A I(v))
“Here ever bloom the winter flowers in the unfading grass: the yellow elanor, and the pale niphredil”. (LotR 2: VI)
Aragorn and Arwen first pledged to marry while walking barefoot “on the undying grass with leaner and niphredil” (LotR Appendix A1 (v))
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Elm
03:22
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Ent & Entwife
07:12
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"Elves began it, of course, waking trees up and teaching them to speak and learn their tree-talk. They always wished to talk to everything, the old Elves did. But then the Great Darkness came, and they passed away over the Sea, or fled into far valleys and hid themselves, and made songs about days that would never come again. Never again.” (LOTR II)
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Fern
01:50
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“Music in Doriath awoke
and there beneath the branching oak
or seated on the beech-leaves brown
Daeron the dark with ferny crown
played on his pipes with elvish art
unbearable by mortal heart”. (Lays IV: lines 39-44)
Frodo awakes on a bed “of fern and grass” the morning after his meeting with elves in the Shire (LotR 1: IV)
Because of the work of Yavanna and the light of the Lamps of the Valar “there arose a multitude of growing things great and small, mosses and grasses and great ferns, and trees whose tops were crowned with cloud as they were living mountains, but whose feet were wrapped in a green twilight” (SILM 1)
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Filbert
00:44
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Fir
02:08
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“Dwalin and Balin had swarmed up a tall slender fir with few branches and were trying to find a place to sit in the greenery of the topmost boughs”. (Hobbit VI)
“It is clad in a forest of dark fir, where trees strive one against another and their branches rot and whiter” (LoTR 2: VI)
Gimli said “My blood runs chill”. The others were silent and “his voice fell dead on the dank fir-needles at his feet” (LoTR 5: II)
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“No tree grew there, only rough grass and many tall plants: stalky and faded hemlocks and wood-parsley, fire-weed seeding into fluffy ashes, and rampant nettles and thistles”. (LotR 1: VI)
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Flag Lily
01:12
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“The lake had become a great marsh, through which the river wandered in a wilderness of islets, and wide beds of reed and rush, and armies of yellow iris that grew taller than a man and gave their name to all the region and to the river from the Mountains about whose lower course they grew most thickly”. (Footnote 13: “The Gladden Fields” in UT 3: I)
As Voronwë, the elven mariner, described to Tour, in Nantathren, the region where the Narrow joined the Sirion River, the rivers “haste no more, but flow broad and quiet through living meads; and all about the shining river are flag lilies like a blossoming forest” (UT 1:I)
Their beauty is enchanting, and truly, in this region, as stated by Voronwë, “Ulmo is but the servant of Yvanna” because the beauty of these wetland plants, which she brought into existence, surpassed that of the river itself, which was sacred to Ulmo.
Given their beauty, it is appropriate that Goldberry, daughter of the Withywindle, when she first met Frodo and his companions, is described as wearing a gown “green as young reeds” and “her belt was of gold, shaped like a chain of flag-lilies” (LotR 1: VII)
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Flax
01:22
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“He chose for himself from the pile a brooch set with blue stones, many-shaded like flax-flowers or the wings of blue butterflies… “Here is a pretty toy for Tom and his lady! Fair was she who long ago wore this on her shoulder. Goldberry shall wear it now, and we will no forget her!”. (LotR 1: VIII)
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Forget-me-not
00:32
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“Old Tom Bombadil had a merry wedding,
crowned all with buttercups, hat and feather shedding;
his bride with forgetmenots and flag-lilies for garland
was robed all in silver-green. He sang like a starling,
hummed like a honey-bee, lilted to the fiddle,
clasping his river-maid round her slender middle.” (TATB 1)
“Her long yellow hair rippled down her shoulders; her gown was green, green as young reeds, shot with silver like beads of dew; and her belt was of gold, shaped like a chain of flag-lilies set with the pale-blue eyes of forget-me-nots” (LOTR 1:VII)
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