"Under Hill"

Mark Millman · 08 May 2002, 17:07 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: Mark Millman <millman at heimdallr.dyndns.org>
Subject: (urth) Re: "Under Hill"
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 13:07:45 -0400 (EDT)
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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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