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Post by missatheornery on Mar 2, 2009 10:03:30 GMT -5
This one's for Moon--I hope you like it!
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Post by missatheornery on Mar 2, 2009 10:15:29 GMT -5
This one's for Moon--I hope you like it! Sorry this is so huge--Photobucket's being a butt again. (Our school computers are so Commie--it's not fair. )
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Post by moonstone on Mar 2, 2009 11:23:38 GMT -5
I do, indeed, love the images, Miss A. I do, indeed. They look like, maybe ... valkyries ... ? I've always figured valkyries were one of Tolkien's influences of Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings. Strong women, at any rate, and in this case, strong women who love the moon. Nothing at all better than that. Unless it's strong men who love strong women who love the moon, of course. Anyway, these are SO stolen. Thank you.
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Post by missatheornery on Mar 3, 2009 11:01:08 GMT -5
I do, indeed, love the images, Miss A. I do, indeed. They look like, maybe ... valkyries ... ? I've always figured valkyries were one of Tolkien's influences of Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings. Strong women, at any rate, and in this case, strong women who love the moon. Nothing at all better than that. Unless it's strong men who love strong women who love the moon, of course. Anyway, these are SO stolen. Thank you. As a matter of fact, they are valkyries. I'm doing a powerpoint presentation about Norse mythology in my World Religions class. I chose these pictures because, quite frankly, the other pictures were a little....in bad taste. The women in the pictures were barely clothed, and they did not look tough at all. That's why I chose those pictures--the valkyries were strong women. I needed something to reflect that.
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Post by puhlease on Mar 3, 2009 12:57:23 GMT -5
I do, indeed, love the images, Miss A. I do, indeed. They look like, maybe ... valkyries ... ? I've always figured valkyries were one of Tolkien's influences of Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings. Strong women, at any rate, and in this case, strong women who love the moon. Nothing at all better than that. Unless it's strong men who love strong women who love the moon, of course. Anyway, these are SO stolen. Thank you. As a matter of fact, they are valkyries. I'm doing a powerpoint presentation about Norse mythology in my World Religions class. I chose these pictures because, quite frankly, the other pictures were a little....in bad taste. The women in the pictures were barely clothed, and they did not look tough at all. That's why I chose those pictures--the valkyries were strong women. I needed something to reflect that. Anyone who is interested in both Tolkein and Norse mythology will be interested to know that one of his never-before-published works is about to be published. It is a translation of a Norse epic. Now where did I see that?
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Post by moonstone on Mar 3, 2009 13:28:10 GMT -5
As a matter of fact, they are valkyries. I'm doing a powerpoint presentation about Norse mythology in my World Religions class. I chose these pictures because, quite frankly, the other pictures were a little....in bad taste. The women in the pictures were barely clothed, and they did not look tough at all. That's why I chose those pictures--the valkyries were strong women. I needed something to reflect that. Anyone who is interested in both Tolkein and Norse mythology will be interested to know that one of his never-before-published works is about to be published. It is a translation of a Norse epic. Now where did I see that? Maybe Publisher's Weekly? www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6638236.html?nid=2286&source=title&rid="Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has acquired a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was a professor at Oxford during the 1920s and ’30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The house will publish The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún in the U.S. and worldwide on May 5. The publication will mark the first extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigúrd the Völsung and the Fall of the Niflungs. The book will include an introduction by Tolkien, drawn from one of his lectures on Norse literature, with commentary, and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien. Ken Carpenter acquired U.S. hard and soft rights for HMH from HarperCollins UK." Thanks for the tip. Tolkien was a pretty fair writer and had a talent for narrative poetry, not to mention a VERY deep understanding of Norse mythology and Nordic languages. He was really good with a rune. And runes are hard. www.tolkiensociety.org/ed/study_02.htmlMen good with runes are hard to find. Or something like that.
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Post by missatheornery on Mar 4, 2009 9:15:29 GMT -5
Anyone who is interested in both Tolkein and Norse mythology will be interested to know that one of his never-before-published works is about to be published. It is a translation of a Norse epic. Now where did I see that? Maybe Publisher's Weekly? www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6638236.html?nid=2286&source=title&rid="Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has acquired a previously unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien, written while Tolkien was a professor at Oxford during the 1920s and ’30s, before he wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The house will publish The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún in the U.S. and worldwide on May 5. The publication will mark the first extensive retelling in English narrative verse of the epic Norse tales of Sigúrd the Völsung and the Fall of the Niflungs. The book will include an introduction by Tolkien, drawn from one of his lectures on Norse literature, with commentary, and notes on the poems by Christopher Tolkien. Ken Carpenter acquired U.S. hard and soft rights for HMH from HarperCollins UK." Thanks for the tip. Tolkien was a pretty fair writer and had a talent for narrative poetry, not to mention a VERY deep understanding of Norse mythology and Nordic languages. He was really good with a rune. And runes are hard. www.tolkiensociety.org/ed/study_02.htmlMen good with runes are hard to find. Or something like that. Does anyone know of any good books about Norse mythology? I'm in dire need of at least 2 for my project, but...I've already learned so much!
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Post by g1 on Jul 9, 2009 19:44:07 GMT -5
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Post by puhlease on Jul 10, 2009 16:09:36 GMT -5
That is by far the coolest thing I have seen all week. (Last week there were fireworks)
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Post by moonstone on Jul 10, 2009 19:00:15 GMT -5
That is by far the coolest thing I have seen all week. (Last week there were fireworks) These ARE cool. Some are simple, but some are amazing. The one with the couple has a perspective that's actually calculated to be viewed from the vantage point where they took the picture and looks almost three-dimensional. Thanks for this, Lynn. I'll probably steal a few of these. I LOVE crop circles and mysteries like that. I might even post them at Red Queen's World.
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Post by puhlease on Jul 13, 2009 16:15:52 GMT -5
That is by far the coolest thing I have seen all week. (Last week there were fireworks) These ARE cool. Some are simple, but some are amazing. The one with the couple has a perspective that's actually calculated to be viewed from the vantage point where they took the picture and looks almost three-dimensional. Thanks for this, Lynn. I'll probably steal a few of these. I LOVE crop circles and mysteries like that. I might even post them at Red Queen's World. Well, actually you have G1 to thank. He posted the link. I just pointed out the CQ (coolness quotient) of them. I never knew rice plants could be black or white or so many shades of green.
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