We have a long way to go, and there is time ahead for thought.
Adventures in Unnatural History and Medieval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus is a poem written by J.R.R. Tolkien and published in June 1927 within The Stapeldon Magazine Vol. 7 No. 40 on pages 123-127. Tolkien used the pen name Fisiologus. The poem was reprinted in a revised form as 'Fastitocalon' within The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. [1]
The name Fisiologus derives from the work entitled Physiologus, composed by an anonymous author between the second and fourth centuries, which set forth the properties of animals, plants and stones, giving an allegorical interpretation of each in order to illustrate Christian ethical or dogmatic teachings. The Physiologus had wide influence on medieval symbology and the literary genre of bestiaries.[1]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J.R.R. Tolkien; Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond (eds), The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, "Commentary", pp. 224