#slithy toves

[peterjamesmaggs]

Sleepy toves huddled together after a long day of gyring and gimbling.

[intheheatherbright]

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

  Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves, 

   And the mome raths outgrabe. 

Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass And What Alice Found There, illustrated by Sir John Tenniel, coloured by Harry Theaker and Diz Wallis ( London: Macmillan, 2006 [1872] ).

[i3cnya]

HOLY SHIT

I FEEL LLIKE DRAWING SOMETHING

[iggymogo]

As this poem is to some extent connected with the lay of the Jabberwock, let me take this opportunity of answering a question that has often been asked me, how to pronounce “slithy toves.” The “i” in “slithy” is long, as in “writhe”; and “toves” is pronounced so as to rhyme with “groves.” Again, the first “o” in “borogoves” is pronounced like the “o” in “borrow.” I have heard people try to give it the sound of the “o” in “worry.” Such is Human Perversity.

Lewis Carroll, Preface, The Hunting Of the Snark

[emsevolution-blog]

These are one of my favorite creatures from the Alice in wonderland series. Not many people remember them as they are only mentioned once in "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" (1872). They are Toves and Lewis Carroll only talks about them in his poem "The Jabberwocky."

Here is the quote from the poem: "`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe."

This illustration is from the book.