Talking about Bilbo and his role in Rivendell, I'm taking this opportunity to go back a couple of chapters (or a couple of years).
A while back I was looking for something. I was interested in whether I could find an acrostic in the Eärendil poem - specifically I wanted to find Bilbo's name. It struck me as something he may have snuck in. “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” Well it isn't there. However...
whilst I had this in my mind something suddenly jumped out at me in the first stanza:
he built a boat of timber felled
So my question for Narnion or anyone else - is this on purpose?
In Errantry the line is, "he built a gilded gondola" so the change from 'gilded gondola' to 'boat' is understandable in the context.
So a coincidence?
I don't think so, but would appreciate opinions more knowledgeable than my own.
A while back I was looking for something. I was interested in whether I could find an acrostic in the Eärendil poem - specifically I wanted to find Bilbo's name. It struck me as something he may have snuck in. “There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.” Well it isn't there. However...
whilst I had this in my mind something suddenly jumped out at me in the first stanza:
he built a boat of timber felled
So my question for Narnion or anyone else - is this on purpose?
In Errantry the line is, "he built a gilded gondola" so the change from 'gilded gondola' to 'boat' is understandable in the context.
So a coincidence?
I don't think so, but would appreciate opinions more knowledgeable than my own.