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Definitions for Errantry
ˈɛr ən trier·rant·ry
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errantrynoun
The state of roving in search of chivalrous adventure
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Errantrynoun
Etymology: from errant.
After a short space of errantry upon the seas, he got safe back to Dunkirk. Joseph Addison, Freeholder, №. 36.
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Errantry
"Errantry" is a three-page poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, first published in The Oxford Magazine in 1933. It was included in revised and extended form in Tolkien's 1962 collection of short poems, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Donald Swann set the poem to music in his 1967 song cycle, The Road Goes Ever On. The poem has a complex metre, invented by Tolkien. It fits the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's patter song, "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General". It shares metre and rhyming patterns with the "Song of Eärendil", a poem entirely different in tone. The scholar Paul H. Kocher calls the pair "obviously designed for contrast".The Tolkien scholar Randel Helms calls it "a stunningly skillful piece of versification ... with smooth and lovely rhythms". Tolkien described it as "the most attractive" of his poems.
Webster Dictionary
Errantrynoun
a wandering; a roving; esp., a roving in quest of adventures
Errantrynoun
the employment of a knight-errant
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Errantry
Errantry is a three-page long poem by J.R.R. Tolkien, first published in 1933. It was included in Tolkien's short poetry collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. Tolkien invented the meter, which consists of trisyllabic assonances, three in each set of four lines. The second and fourth line in every quartet rhyme, as do the end of the first line and beginning of the second line in every pair. This was so difficult that he never wrote another poem again in this style, though he later did develop another style from this, and the result, through long evolution from Errantry, was Eärendil the Mariner as published in The Fellowship of the Ring. This poem was set to music by Donald Swann. The sheet music and an audio recording are part of the song-cycle The Road Goes Ever On. Errantry later came to be categorised as a Hobbit poem from Middle-earth. Errantry perfectly fits the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Errantry in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Errantry in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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