"Under hill" The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 07 May 2002 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3230 Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. ============================================================================== 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Millman — 08 May 2002, 17:07 follows, by subject match 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------