legoline
01 September 2009 @ 02:03 pm
Oh, Tolkien [Geek-Moment of the Day]  
The fun part about my exam is that I get to read Tolkien's essay on Beowulf. :D The essays's quite interesting, especially since it becomes plain obvious how The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit etc. weren't only influenced by Tolkien's admiration for Beowulf plot-wise, but more importantly by the general atmosphere about the poem.

Tolkien writes:

Beowulf is not an actual picture of historic Denmark or Geatland or Sweden about A.D. 500. But it is (if with certain minor defects) on a general view a self-consistent picture, a construction bearing clearly the marks of design and thought. The whole must have succeeded admirably in creating in the minds of the poet's contemporaries the illusion of surveying a past, pagan but noble and fraught with a deep significance—a past that itself had depth and reached backward into a dark antiquity of sorrow. This impression of depth is an effect and a justification of the use of episodes and allusions to old tales, mostly darker, more pagan, and desperate than the foreground.


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legoline
19 December 2007 @ 12:16 am
And For Those Who Haven't Heard...  
Peter Jackson will actually do two movies based on 'The Hobbit'!

Yay! I'd given up hope already!
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legoline
20 February 2006 @ 10:12 pm
B2MEM - Spread The Tolkien Love  
This is the first stanza of a poem Tolkien wrote in 1915. He revised it several times, but I like this version best and one of these days I'm going to put a tune to it :o) I love the mood of this piece of literature. (And yes, this is related to Middle-earth. In a very first draft the town Kortirion was supposed to be in Valinor - or something like that ^^)

Kortirion Among The Trees

O fading town upon a little hill,
Old memory is waning in thine ancient gates,
The robe gone gray, thine old heart almost still;
The castle only, frowning, ever waits
And ponders how among the towering elms
The Gliding Water leaves these inland realms
And slips between long meadows to the western sea –
Still bearing downward over murmurous falls
One year and then another to the sea;
And slowly thither have a many gone
Since first the fairies built Kortirion.
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legoline
18 February 2006 @ 06:38 pm
Artsy stuff - LOTR!  
Last May I provided myself with a deviantART account but never used it. Today I got so fed up with photobucket not cooperating with my LJ that I decided to upload at least some drawings to deviantART instead.

So, those who requested Varda, Nienna, an amused Gandalf and Beren & Luthien, you can see the drawings here: http://pilgrin.deviantart.com/ :o) I'll try to post the rest of the drawings here, though.

I'm still not too happy with my style, it's too Disney-ish (after I spent months trying to GET to the Disney style, now I don't like it :p ) but I'm getting better on poses, proportions and hands. Yay!

Then I went all crazy and tried to get an Elfwood account - may only take an age or two til the ticket is through ^^

And, finally, a teaser ;o) It's Varda, as requested by [livejournal.com profile] miss_nightowl

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