# "Under hill"

*The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 07 May 2002*

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### Paul Duggan
*07 May 2002, 21:07*

New wolfe story online.

http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/under_hill.html

Haven't read it yet

Paul

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### Mark Millman
*08 May 2002, 17:07 · follows Paul Duggan*

Also, the dragon in Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea short
story "The Rule of Names" calls himself Mr. Under-
hill before his disguise is breached.  Before that,
he poses as a somewhat ineffectual wizard.

Mark Millman
(Nacre)

> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Josh Geller wrote:
> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Matthew Davis wrote:

>> [D]oes the title allude
>> to anything?  One of the
>> hobbits went under the
>> false name "Mr Underhill"
>> but nothing else leaps to
>> mind.

> 'Under Hill' is an old. old euphemism
> for what's often called 'Faerie'
> ('faerie' is also a euphemism; this is
> the land of the Dead we are talking
> about (see my post with the subject
> 'Mound Dwellers')).
> 
> The main fairy in John Crowley's
> "Little, Big" is called Mrs. Underhill.

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