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Narnie 🍃 Storyformed & storyforming | A truffle hog for the Themes | “A dell? Like where fairies and gnomes live?” | “Strange things await us by the eaves of the forest. Good or evil, I do not know; but we are called.”

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

red string of fate faith

[frrenzetic]

[freenarnian]

💚

[yumikohiguchi]

new year 2023

rabbit botanical

[ach-sss-no]

"What do they say?" asked Gandalf and Thorin together, a bit vexed perhaps that even Elrond should have [discovered the moon letters on the map] first, though really there had not been a chance before, and there would not have been another until goodness knows when. "Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks," read Elrond, "and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole." "Durin, Durin!" said Thorin. "He was the father of the fathers of the eldest race of Dwarves, the Longbeards, and my first ancestor: I am his heir." "Then what is Durin's Day?" asked Elrond. -The Hobbit

here's my new headcanon, Elrond Peredhel who's been alive thousands of years and sits around all day in a giant library knows full well what Durin's Day is but he just saw both Thorin and Gandalf throw a tantrum that he found the moon-letters and Elrond Peredhel who's been alive thousands of years and has twin sons sighs to himself and says 'okay I need to make them feel important and thorin is obviously passionate about Durin, I'd better pretend not to know what Durin's Day is'

[freenarnian]

sheerly out of curiosity as it doesn't sound like the type of story that I would read firsthand personally, but what are the Emma Lion books actually about? because at this point I've been assuming it's a period drama of some sort, but as far as plot goes I've just been assuming that the main mystery of the series (if it's a mystery series at all??) is "who actually is this Young Hawkes fellow?"

So, I thought the same thing, and asked myself the same question until about—er, is it in vol. 5 or 6?—the point at which Emma is gifted a copy of Treasure Island and it helps her process and overcome the grief of a loved one's death. I was admittedly not sold or at least not invested until then, but what can I say? [IT GOT TO ME meme]

Each book is called a volume because they are supposed to be Emma's journals, chronicling her coming-of-age as she returns home to the quirky London neighborhood of St. Crispians and becomes reacquainted with all of its wonderful and weird denizens. It's set in the 1880's, so yes, it's a period drama of sorts. With a hint of magic and mystery and more than a little absurdity, at times.

More specifically, it's about the friendships she forms with several local dudes: A photographer (who basically lives in her house 😬), a duke, and the vicar. Hawkes is the vicar in question, and the main mystery of the series is very much "who actually is this Young Hawkes fellow?" 😂

[freenarnian]

Happened to me

[didanagy]

HENRY V (1989)

dir. kenneth branagh

[freenarnian]

“Their clothes were mended as well as their bruises, their tempers and their hopes.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

Oh to take a short rest in Rivendell.

[kocalls]

[pansyfemme]

WHIMSY IS NON-NEGOTIATABLE

[netherworldpost]

;)

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Thou wouldst not downloadeth a car

[freenarnian]

I also watched Henry V very young and it was deeply formative!! (I have never seen it as an adult)

Information incredibly dear (and somehow fitting) to me!! 💚

[dagordagorath]

I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.

[simena]

Helmer Osslund

[mademoiseli]

I think I've voiced this opinion here before, but there is a benefit unique to watching a filmed adaptation of a book before reading said book, and that is that rather than being disappointed with the source material, you are glad that you get to expand your knowledge of the story and characters. This also allows you to appreciate both the source and adaptation for what they are respectively.