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my elf roommate: *smoking a caterpillar*
me: Are you fucking kidding me Larius I told you to do that outside, now it's gonna smell like ass in here all day
my elf roommate: *puffs a perfect ring of smoke* What Is A Day In A Life That Lasts Centuries?
me: not everybody lives as long as you dude. put that thing away
my elf roommate: That Is Not What Thy Mother Said
me: hilarious
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Another bunch of Greek mythology ( ﾉ ﾟｰﾟ)ﾉ Never knew that the ancient Hydra was just a many-headed snake; it looks so very silly. Gorgon design's based on the ancient terracottas, of course.
Rest of the originals will be for sale in June ✨
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Have I ever shown you guys these weird late 80s Soviet Lord Of The Rings illustrations?
They were made by Sergei Iukhimov, who’s virtually unknown otherwise.
Holy fuck this is absolutely perfect
Some more reasonably sized ones here:
although i’m not able to find specifically when these illustrations were made, they were in a 1993 russian translation of LotR. it should be noted that there were no official translations in russian until after the collapse of the ussr, but samizdat translations were very common (and as i understand still are)
iukhimov was ukrainian by the way, possibly from odesa though there’s very little info on him i can find in english. his now-dead website exists on the internet archive but text only sadly. someone on the tolkien collector site i’ll link below at one point compiled a bunch of his illustrations on weibo though that link seems to be defunct now unfortunately
Thank you Zionius. Some astonishing ones there that i havent seen. If you want me to send you pictures of the silmarillion and hobbit illust
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Project MUSE - When Philology Becomes Ideology: The Russian Perspective of J.R.R. Tolkien
These look weird because they are repeatedly and actively playing with exactly the early medieval images Tolkien was playing with. A few are more modern storybook, but at least one is FANTASTIC riff on the Bayeux tapestry. Another two are lifted directly from early medieval paleography (handwriting) right out of a textbook on Insular incipits (how an opening phrase or title of a manuscript was written). Another im pretty sure borrows from the Book of Kells; that’s definitely a specific image, I know that image. And Tolkien knew it too.
The figures look like, say, the illustrations in Old English Genesis A. There might be a little Eastern Orthodox icon style creeping in, or it might just be that that style has a lot in common with early medieval British and Irish manuscript illustration (ca. 600-1100 AD). These are great, and an extremely clever nod to the texts Tolkien was drawing from, and even the literal manuscripts in which he was imagining his work (or at minimum Bilbo’s work, in-universe) to be written:
As Tolkien says, “Further information will also be found in the selection from the Red Book of Westmarch that has already been published, under the title of The Hobbit.” (The Fellowship of the Ring, “Prologue: Concerning Hobbits”). Or, perhaps, in the Red Book of Hergest (Welsh, Llyfr Coch Hergest) — another Red Book of the West (or Wales, that is). Obviously The Hobbit does not actually show up in one of the most important medieval Welsh manuscripts (currently housed at Oxford), but from the very first page of lotr, Tolkien was playing with an incredibly specific manuscript history!
And this guy, Sergei Iukhimov, apparently clocked that shit on day one. And got a lil weird with it. Respect.
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i completed a quest
YTA
knowing how it tends to go with male authors and their wives it was probably marge who wrote the odyssey
need a lesbian who's ev— (remembers i don't believe in evil) — need a lesbian whose material conditions incentivize her to be mean to me
dude honestly shout out to my guards i told them to seize this guy and before i could even finish my sentence they soze him. My goats
Car problems are great bc I can finally get that disgusting $600 that I hated out of my bank account
things to say after fucking up egregiously
pack it up boys we've made a social blunder
let's run that again
one more time normal style
I'm going to become a statistic
further proof god is out to get me
it's because I tore my acl senior year
I couldn't do it for religious reasons
my ex took my talent in the divorce
good thing nobody saw that (said directly to someone who definitely saw it)
even funnier today than it was a decade ago
getting increasingly confused trying to have sex with my point and click wife but she just keeps saying “you cant use that here”
i have the ancient sarcophagus and the cuckoo clock. what the fuck else do i need man
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