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The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen

Mary Bowman compares the “feigned” historical echoing of Beren and Lúthien in the “Tale of Aragorn and Arwen” with Dante‘s echoing of Lancelot and Guinevere in his tale of Paolo and Francesca, here in an 1862 painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. “‘The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen’ is a story within … Continue reading

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