#hrossa

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Hrossa 🤝 Eridians > we found a human and he's kind of weird and a little stupid sometimes but fascinating, we love him even though he's not that good at singing, and our kids think he's great

[dianeramic]

Fanart from the book "Out of the Silent Planet" by C.S. Lewis. I really liked one of the aliens represented in the book, and drew a portrait of one species called the hrossa.

[tolkienmatters]

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.

Hyoi explaining how the Hrossa understand love to Ransom. Chapter 12, Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis.

[ethanjhake]

Here are some drawings from about a year ago! the ones on the top are pictures of how I imagined the hrossa from C. S. Lewis’s “Out of the Silent Planet”. They should probably be a little longer and thinner, but what is done is done. I personally like the one on the right with the paddle best. :)

The last picture is of how I imagined the sorns, or their heads anyway, maybe someday I’ll draw their bodies.

I have not, however, drawn the pfifltriggi. I tried a couple times, but they all turned out looking wrong. 

[they-ate-tables]

I miss him :(

[bethmorrell]

Hross

My dad's favorite book is Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis and he asked if I could paint his favorite creature from it - the Hrossa. Here's the description:

The hrossa (singular hross) resemble bipedal otters or seals, and are somewhat taller and thinner than humans. Ransom finds them beautiful: "covered, face and all, with thick black animal hair, and whiskered like a cat ... glossy coat, liquid eye, sweet breath and whitest teeth" (p. 59, Chap. 9). They live in the low river valleys (handramit in the speech of the eldila) and specialize in farming, fishing, and performing arts such as dancing and poetry. They are especially gifted in making poetry; yet they refuse to write it down as they believe that books ruin words and poems. Their technical level is low, and they wear only pocketed loincloths. The boats that they build are similar to our canoes. They add an initial /h/ sound to their words. Their sense of humor is "extravagant and fantastic" (Chap. 18).

It was just a couple hour painting tonight, but was fun!

[literarybex]

"...Ransom found that a kind of boat was moored. Man-like, when he saw the artifact he felt more certain of the [hrossa's] rationality."

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis

I love this.  It's when he sees that the hrossa construct boats that he believes them to be rational.  It's so ridiculous and supports the idea that Ransom is just as ethnocentric/xenophobic as the next guy.  Which he might be worse for all we know.  We meet Ransom after this journey occurs -- who knows what he was like beforehand!

[literarybex]

"..and the young of the species... were delightful. You could forget all about the rationality of hrossa in dealing with them. Too young to trouble him with the baffling enigma of reason in an inhuman form, they solaced his loneliness.... the cubs, on their part, felt the liveliest interest in the hairless goblin which had appeared among them."

Ransom on the hrossa young in Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis