- "Bagmē
Blōma" (Gothic language: "Flower of the Trees") by J. R. R.
Tolkien is a poem in the 1936
Songs for the Philologists, and the only one ever written...
-
Songs for the Philologists, with E.V.
Gordon et al.,
published 1936:
Bagme Bloma Éadig Béo þu!
Frenchmen Froth From One to Five I Sat upon a
Bench Ides Ælfscýne...
- use of
Gothic as a
creative language. The most
famous example is "Bagme
Bloma" ("Flower of the Trees") by J. R. R. Tolkien, part of
Songs for the Philologists...
- 𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰- (baira-) *bera- bera- 'bear, carry'
bluma 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌼𐌰 (
blōma) *blōmô *
blōma 'bloom, flower'
dagila *𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌹𐌻𐌰 (*dagila) cf. 𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 (dags)...
- "The Good & The Bad (Part 2)" (Ishmael & Amu) 4:48 4. "Sure
Ntombazana (
Bloma Nice)" (Thembi
Seete & Wanda) 5:34 5. "Yizo" (Arthur) 5:10 6. "Umhlaba Uyahlaba"...
- is also rich in
flora including breadnut, ****gany,
Swietenia humilis,
Bloma prisca,
Vitex gaumeri, cedar,
Bucida buceras,
Haematoxylum campechianum...
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including 13 by Tolkien; six of
those are in Old English, and one, "Bagme
Bloma", is the only poem ever
written in Gothic.
Tolkien intended them to be sung...
- Denu
Aflao Tami
Bantierk Kpankpande P****ao
Biakopabe Bidjabe Dimouri Kakpa Bloma Kpalimé
Kpadafe Agoueve Lomé The main
border crossing is at Aflao-Lomé;...
- mola, mitt er hjartað sárum sært, svik er hart að þola.
Beztan veit eg
blóma þinn, blíðu
innst í reitum. Far vel Eyjafjörður minn, ****ri öllum sveitum...
- Atlakviða) in The
Legend of
Sigurd and
Gudrun (2009). His
Gothic poem
Bagme Bloma ("Flower of the Trees") uses a
trochaic metre, with
irregular end-rhymes...
