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The Roots of the Mountains
Capítulos (60)
- Epigraph 0:00
- I: Of Burgstead and Its Folk and Its Neighbours 0:49
- II: Of Face-of-God and His Kindred 26:16
- III: They Talk of Divers Matters in the Hall 40:32
- IV: Face-of-God Fareth to the Wood Again 56:50
- V: Face-of-God Falls in with Menfolk on the Mountain 1:18:07
- VI: Of Face-of-God and Those Mountain-Dwellers 1:29:40
- VII: Face-of-God Talketh with the Friend on the Mountain 1:51:36
- VIII: Face-of-God Cometh Home Again to Burgstead 2:09:13
- IX: Those Brethren Fare to the Yew-Wood with the Bride 2:14:23
- X: New Tidings in the Dale 2:21:43
- XI: Men Make Oath at Burgstead on the Holy Boar 2:34:26
- XII: Stone-Face Telleth Concerning the Wood-Wights 2:45:49
- XIII: They Fare to the Hunting of the Elk 2:55:13
- XIV: Concerning Face-of-God and the Mountain 3:04:17
- XV: Murder Amongst the Folk of the Woodlanders 3:16:51
- XVI: The Bride Speaketh with Face-of-God 3:28:46
- XVII: The Token Cometh from the Mountain 3:38:06
- XVIII: Face-of-God Talketh with the Friend in Shadowy Vale 3:55:33
- XIX: The Fair Woman Telleth Face-of-God of Her Kindred 4:06:17
- XX: Those Two Together Hold the Ring of the Earth-God 4:40:02
- XXI: Face-of-God Looketh on the Dusky Men 5:18:52
- XXII: Face-of-God Cometh Home to Burgstead 5:43:42
- XXIII: Talk in the Hall of the House of the Face 6:08:57
- XXIV: Face-of-God Giveth That Token to the Bride 6:16:42
- XXV: Of the Gate-Thing at Burgstead 6:29:40
- XXVI: The Ending of the Gate-Thing 6:59:30
- XXVII: Face-of-God Leadeth a Band Through the Wood 7:17:44
- XXVIII: The Men of Burgdale Meet the Runaways 7:43:33
- XXIX: They Bring the Runaways to Burgstead 8:17:02
- XXX: Hall-Face Goeth Toward Rosedale 8:38:15
- XXXI: Of the Weapon-Show of the Men of Burgdale and Their Neighbours 8:50:10
- XXXII: The Men of Shadowy Vale Come to the Spring Market at Burgstead 9:09:55
- XXXIII: The Alderman Gives Gifts to Them of Shadowy Vale 9:38:42
- XXXIV: The Chieftains Take Counsel in the Hall of the Face 9:47:17
- XXXV: Face-of-God Talketh with the Sun-Beam 10:16:22
- XXXVI: Folk-Might Speaketh with the Bride 10:33:17
- XXXVII: Of the Folk-Mote of the Dalesmen, the Shepherd-Folk, and the Woodland Carles: The Banner of the Wolf Displayed 10:49:13
- XXXVIII: Of the Great Folk-Mote: Atonements Given, and Men Made Sackless 11:01:00
- XXXIX: Of the Great Folk-Mote: Men Take Rede of the War-Faring, the Fellowship, and the War-Leader. Folk-Might Telleth Whence His People Came. The Folk-Mote Sundered 11:12:14
- XL: Of the Hosting in Shadowy Vale 11:32:24
- XLI: The Host Departeth from Shadowy Vale: The First Day’s Journey 11:55:20
- XLII: The Host Cometh to the Edges of Silverdale 12:09:55
- XLIII: Face-of-God Looketh on Silverdale: The Bowmen’s Battle 12:20:40
- XLIV: Of the Onslaught of the Men of the Steer, the Bridge, and the Bull 12:50:05
- XLV: Of Face-of-God’s Onslaught 13:06:42
- XLVI: Men Meet in the Market of Silverstead 13:27:45
- XLVII: The Kindreds Win the Mote-House 13:51:40
- XLVIII: Men Sing in the Mote-House 14:02:19
- XLIX: Dallach Fareth to Rosedale: Crow Telleth of His Errand: The Kindreds Eat Their Meat in Silverdale 14:10:08
- L: Folk-Might Seeth the Bride and Speaketh with Her 14:24:06
- LI: The Dead Borne to Bale: The Mote-House Re-Hallowed 14:33:05
- LII: Of the New Beginning of Good Days in Silverdale 14:37:24
- LIII: Of the Word Which Hall-Ward of the Steer Had for Folk-Might 14:40:20
- LIV: Tidings of Dallach: A Folk-Mote in Silverdale 14:52:06
- LV: Departure from Silverdale 14:59:09
- LVI: Talk Upon the Wildwood Way 15:17:58
- LVII: How the Host Came Home Again 15:21:29
- LVIII: How the Maiden Ward Was Held in Burgdale 15:31:33
- LIX: The Behest of Face-of-God to the Bride Accomplished: A Motestead Appointed for the Three Folks, to Wit, the Men of Burgdale, the Shepherds, and the Children of the Wolf 15:52:08
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Immediately after the publication of The House of the Wolfings in 1889, William Morris set to work on its successor. This story would move on in time from its predecessor, and adopt a slightly different style: less poetic and less overtly Germanic, but retaining the vaguely medieval setting, and the heroic, saga-like tone. The result was The Roots of the Mountains.
The Roots of the Mountains tells the story of the men of Burgdale, now separated from other tribes of men dwelling in the woods and dispersed throughout the dales at the foot of great mountains. One of the leading sons of Burgdale wanders into the mountains to discover that the “Dusky Men”—forerunners of Tolkien’s Orcs—threaten the freedom of the Dalesmen. At the same time, he is awestruck as well as lovestruck by one of the daughters of the House of the Wolf. Together, these encounters lead to the heroic romance of the uniting of the Dalesmen and the defeat of their foes.
Morris’s biographer, J. W. Mackail, recorded that The Roots of the Mountains was, of all Morris’s books, the one “which had given him the greatest pleasure in writing.” Mackail’s own judgment was that although it lacks “strength of its predecessor, The House of the Wolfings, [and] the fairy charm of its successor, The Wood Beyond the World, [still] in its union of the gravity of the Saga with the delicate and profuse ornament of the romance it may perhaps take the first place among the three as a work of art.”