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'''Lintips''' were mysterious creatures only mentioned in ''[[One upon a Time]]''. Escaping and laughing at [[Tom Bombadil|Tom]], he complains that they are the "only things that won't talk to me, say what they do or what they be".<ref>[[J.R.R. Tolkien]], "[[Once upon a Time]]", in ''[[The Young Magicians]]'' (ed. [[Lin Carter]])</ref>
'''Lintips''' were mysterious creatures only mentioned in ''[[Once upon a Time]]''. Escaping and laughing at [[Tom Bombadil|Tom]], he complains that they are the "only things that won't talk to me, say what they do or what they be".<ref>[[J.R.R. Tolkien]], "[[Once upon a Time]]", in ''[[The Young Magicians]]'' (ed. [[Lin Carter]])</ref>


==Inspiration==
==Inspiration==

Revision as of 11:42, 23 February 2021

Lintips were mysterious creatures only mentioned in Once upon a Time. Escaping and laughing at Tom, he complains that they are the "only things that won't talk to me, say what they do or what they be".[1]

Inspiration

As in the case of the Mewlips, readers have "failed to identify a source of the 'lintips'".[2] Rhona Beare has suggested that the lintips correspond to the "gleaming spirits" that danced and sipped radiance from the buttercups, in Tolkien's earlier poem An Evening in Tavrobel, which was probably the basis of One upon a Time.[3]

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Legendary races of Arda
 Animals:  Dumbledors · Gorcrows · Hummerhorns · Pards · Swans of Gorbelgod · Turtle-fish
Dragon-kind:  Sea-serpents · Spark-dragons · Were-worms
Evil Races:  Ettens · Giants · Half-trolls · Hobgoblins · Ogres · Snow-trolls · Two-headed Trolls
Other:  Badger-folk · Great beasts · Lintips · Mewlips · Nameless things · Spectres
Individuals:  Talking Gurthang · Talking purse · The Hunter · Lady of the Sun · Lonely Troll · Man in the Moon · The Rider · River-woman · Tarlang · Tim · Tom · White cow