The Encyclopedia of Arda - Thrushes (original) (raw)

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Location Particularly associated with the region around the Lonely Mountain and Lake-town Species Any of various species in the genus _Turdus_1 Meaning From Old English Þræsce Indexes: Alphabetical: T Animals and Plants About this entry: Updated 16 February 2018 Updates planned: 1 Large speckled brown birds with a special fondness for snails, whose shells they remove by breaking them against stones. A thrush of Erebor was instrumental in the downfall of Smaug. Notes 1 There are various species of thrush found in Europe that could plausibly be the kind imagined by Tolkien, with perhaps the most common being the song thrush Turdus philomelos and the mistle thrush Turdus viscivorus. Of these it is song thrushes that have the habit of knocking snail shells against rocks that was crucial to Bilbo's finding of the secret entrance to Erebor. The particular thrush seen by Bilbo, however, while it had the pale breast common in thrushes, also had unusually dark feathers (said to be 'nearly coal black' in The Hobbit 11, On the Doorstep). This is a feature that does not quite match typical Eurasian thrushes (which are more usually medium brown in colour) so perhaps the variety found in Middle-earth was of a particularly dark kind no longer found today. See also... Clue-finder, Nightingales, Your Magnificence Indexes: Alphabetical: T Animals and Plants About this entry: Updated 16 February 2018 Updates planned: 1 For acknowledgements and references, see the Disclaimer & Bibliography page. Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 1999, 2001, 2018. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ. Website services kindly sponsored by myDISCprofile, the free online personality test.How do your personal strengths fit in with career matching? How can you identify them? Try a free personality test from myDISCprofile.

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SHARE User guide Latest entries FAQ and e-mail Disclaimer and bibliography Awards Old and rare words Lexicon of names Excyclopedia of Arda Movie-goer's Guides: • The Fellowship of the Ring • The Two Towers • The Return of the King The Hobbit Viewer's Companions: • An Unexpected Journey • The Desolation of Smaug • The Battle of the Five Armies Tolkien links Book news Latest Chronicle Calendar Old and rare words Lexicon of names Links Random

Location Particularly associated with the region around the Lonely Mountain and Lake-town Species Any of various species in the genus _Turdus_1 Meaning From Old English Þræsce Indexes: Alphabetical: T Animals and Plants About this entry: Updated 16 February 2018 Updates planned: 1 Large speckled brown birds with a special fondness for snails, whose shells they remove by breaking them against stones. A thrush of Erebor was instrumental in the downfall of Smaug. Notes 1 There are various species of thrush found in Europe that could plausibly be the kind imagined by Tolkien, with perhaps the most common being the song thrush Turdus philomelos and the mistle thrush Turdus viscivorus. Of these it is song thrushes that have the habit of knocking snail shells against rocks that was crucial to Bilbo's finding of the secret entrance to Erebor. The particular thrush seen by Bilbo, however, while it had the pale breast common in thrushes, also had unusually dark feathers (said to be 'nearly coal black' in The Hobbit 11, On the Doorstep). This is a feature that does not quite match typical Eurasian thrushes (which are more usually medium brown in colour) so perhaps the variety found in Middle-earth was of a particularly dark kind no longer found today. See also... Clue-finder, Nightingales, Your Magnificence Indexes: Alphabetical: T Animals and Plants About this entry: Updated 16 February 2018 Updates planned: 1 For acknowledgements and references, see the Disclaimer & Bibliography page. Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 1999, 2001, 2018. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ. Website services kindly sponsored by myDISCprofile, the free online personality test.How do your personal strengths fit in with career matching? How can you identify them? Try a free personality test from myDISCprofile.