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Fictional shepherds, persons who tend, herd, feeds, or guard herds of sheep. Shepherding is one of the world's oldest occupations, and existing in agricultural communities around the world and an important part of pastoralist animal husbandry.
Written with the famous line, "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" Grip, Fang and Wolf The Lord of the Rings: J.R.R. Tolkien: Dogs belonging to Farmer Maggot. Huan: Wolfhound: The Silmarillion: J. R. R. Tolkien: Companion of Valinor, friend and helper of Beren and Lúthien. Missis, Perdita, Pongo, and other Dalmatians Dalmatian
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The pastoral is a literary style that presents a conventionalized picture of rural life, the naturalness and innocence of which is seen in contrast to the corruption and artificiality of city and court. Although pastoral works are written from the point of view of shepherds or rustics, they are always penned by highly sophisticated, urban poets.
A sixteenth-century bestseller, the Diana helped launch a vogue for stories about shepherds, shepherdesses, and their experiences in love. One of its most famous readers was William Shakespeare, who seems to have borrowed the Proteus-Julia-Sylvia plot of The Two Gentlemen of Verona from Felismena's tale in the Diana.
The Second Shepherds' Play (also known as The Second Shepherds' Pageant) is a famous medieval mystery play which is contained in the manuscript HM1, the unique manuscript of the Wakefield Cycle. These plays are also referred to as the Towneley Plays, on account of the manuscript residing at Towneley Hall.
Shepherds travelling in Chambal, India Shepherd with grazing sheep in Făgăraș Mountains, Romania. A shepherd is a person who tends, herds, feeds, or guards flocks of sheep. Shepherding is one of the world's oldest occupations; it exists in many parts of the globe, and it is an important part of pastoralist animal husbandry.
Gottschalk deep in thought with his staff and pipe, while the griffin flies in the distance and his fellow shepherds watch in horror (Illustration by Selous) The Shepherd of the Giant Mountains (German: Der Hirt des Riesengebürgs) is a German ballad by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué which was translated into English by Menella Bute Smedley in ...