Old Straight Road
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The Old Straight Road, the Straight Road, the Lost Road, or the Lost Straight Road, is J. R. R. Tolkien's conception, in his fantasy world of Arda, that his Elves are able to sail to the earthly parad
Tolkien habitually used difficult passages in Beowulf as a source of inspiration, for instance creating Orcs from line 112, eotenas ond ylfe ond orcneas, "ogres and elves and demon-corpses".
In Norse mythology, Bifröst is the rainbow bridge between the earthly realm of Midgard and the god's realm of Asgard. 1895 drawing by Lorenz Frølich
Ælfwine (Tolkien)
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Ælfwine the mariner is a fictional character found in various early versions of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. Tolkien envisaged Ælfwine as an Anglo-Saxon who visited and befriended the Elves and act
The brothers Hengest and Horsa are the legendary founders of England; in The Book of Lost Tales, Tolkien places Ælfwine as their father. Illustration from Edward Parrott's 1909 Pageant of British History