MagicWingsListen

"But even in my life I saw the leaching of spirit. A surfeit of honey cloys the tongue; a surfeit of wine addles the brain; so a surfeit of ease guts a man of strength. Light, warmth, food, water, were free to all men, and gained by a minimum of effort. So the people of Ampridatvir, released from toil, gave increasing attention to faddishness, perversity, and the occult."

[moviesludge]

[imperhius]

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

"And your own myths, old fellow, have they preceded you, or have you really been here before?" he asked. "I see that you have a twisty tongue that turns out some really winding myths."

"Thank you, for that is ever my intent. Myths are not merely things that were made in times past: myths are among the things that maintain the present in being. I wish most strongly that the present should be maintained: I often live in it."

– R. A. Lafferty, from “Boomer Flats,” Does Anyone Else Have Something Further to Add? Stories About Secret Places and Mean Men (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974)

[throatoftheworld]

Tarasque by Charles Lepec, 1874

[a-quiet-green-agreement]

…his uneasiness wore off, and in the fine weather he forgot his troubles for a while. The Shire had seldom seen so fair a summer, or so rich an autumn: the trees were laden with apples, honey was dripping in the combs, and the corn was tall and full.

– J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

[1five1two]

This Green Man artwork is an Art Nouveau ceramic newel post from the New Amsterdam Theatre in New York City.

[tarzandelajungla]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[horrorcitos]

West Country Folklore by Tav

[venustapolis]

The Dream City (Thomas Moran, 1919)

[worldsandemanations]

Elihu Vedder. ’ The Pleiades ’, ca. 1885.

[mamotretos]

theartofdyingtogether-deactivat

The Triumph of Death, Lorenzo Costa the Elder, 1490

[frostedmagnolias]

Dragonfly Comb

c. 1905

by Paul Frédéric Fallot

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

[apoemaday]

"Although the wind..."

by Izumi Shikibu tr. Jane Hirshfield

Although the wind blows terribly here, the moonlight also leaks between the rook planks of this ruined house.

[assiraphales]

frodo getting criticized for decades for not doing much / not being a hero compared to sam is fitting when you consider mental health and strength is often trivialized. frodo carried the most dangerous and insidious item in middle earth for YEARS. ancient beings (elves, gandalf, etc) were taunted and tempted by it. boromir was corrupted within weeks without even touching it. men and hobbits turned against their brethren for it. killed for it. and frodo, with a wound from a morgul knife, bore it’s weight when no one else could. had it been anyone else, middle earth would have fallen.

no, he couldn’t have done it without his samwise. but isn’t that a lesson in itself?

[7pleiades7]

A Woman Sitting on the Edge of a Bed, (Detail), (19th century) by an unknown artist of the Spanish School, oil on canvas, approximately 168.5 x 125 cm (66.3 x 49.2 in), Private Collection

[beardedmrbean]