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Ancalagon
04-09-2002, 05:23 PM
Did this mythical creature of Hobbit-lore actually exist or was it truely an allegory of the destruction of Numenore?
Ancalagon
04-09-2002, 09:55 PM
I have obviously stumped everyone!
Turgon
04-09-2002, 10:09 PM
It seems likely that 'Old Horny' was indeed an allegory of the downfall, sometimes hobbit-lore can be deceivingly acurate as in the case of the Oliphaunt. But what then are Mewlips? and where is Merlock mountain? Those hobbits and their pipe-weed!!!
Gamil Zirak
04-10-2002, 04:03 AM
I don't remember reading about Fastitocalon, but it's been a while since I've read the books. Where is this "being" talked about? I'd like to re-read that passage. Thanks.
Turgon
04-10-2002, 06:36 AM
The Fastitocalon is a poem in 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil'. According to Tolkien, the poems come from the Red Book of Westmarch and are little scraps of Hobbit-Lore...
Úlairi
04-10-2002, 12:46 PM
Hmmmmmm, hmmmmmmmmm, that sounds interesting. I guess I'll have to read The Adventures of Tom Bombadil' hmmmmmm.
Camille
04-10-2002, 04:50 PM
Yes I have to read that book too,
Did this mythical creature of Hobbit-lore actually exist or was it truely an allegory of the destruction of Numenore?
You mean that in this poem there are some "creatures" like this Mewlips (if they are creatures) I would like to know if someone can explain.
thanks
BranMuffin
08-14-2003, 10:39 PM
Interesting. In Final Fantasy VIII there was an enemy called Fastitocalon. There were actually two versions of it. One smaller than the other, but both looked like fish.


Fastitocalon (www.9999hp.com/ff8scan/fastitocalon_scan.jpg)
Ciryaher
08-17-2003, 10:49 AM
Perhaps if someone, well wisened in the Old Tongues, could find out if Fastitocalon is an old English word or something similar?