The Roots of the Mountains
The Roots of the Mountains
Wherein is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale, their Friends, their Neighbours, their Foemen, and their Fellows in Arms
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and the wandering stream there was but a space of fifty acres, and
therein lay Burgstead in a space of the shape of a sword-pommel: and
the houses of the kinships lay about it, amidst of gardens and
orchards, but little ordered into streets and lanes, save that a way
went clean through everything from the tower-warded gate to the
bridge over the Water, which was warded by two other towers on its
hither side.
As to the houses, they were some bigger, some smaller, as the housemates needed. Some were old, but not very old, save two only, and some quite new, but of these there were not many: they were all built fairly of stone and lime, with much fair and curious carved work of knots and beasts and men round about the doors; or whiles a wale of such-like work all along the house-front. For as deft as were the Woodlanders with knife and gouge on the oaken beams, even so deft were the Dalesmen with mallet and chisel on the face of the hewn stone; and this was a great pastime about the Thorp. Within th
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According to Wikipedia, J. R. R. Tolkien was inspired by Morris's reconstructions of early Germanic life in 'The Roots of the Mountains'.
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