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"The Battle of Sơn Tinh and Thủy Tinh" is a Vietnamese myth behind monsoon flooding; a fight between Mountain God and Lord of Waters to win the hand of a princess, ending in perpetual grudge of the water lord.

A tale for #FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash theme of weather. 1/4

🧵On 4 February 1937, The Oxford Magazine published Tolkien's poem, "The Dragon's Visit". Love the hilarious opening of a dragon lazily sleeping under the cherry tree...in the garden of an Englishman named Mr. Higgins, in Tolkien's era. 1/8

🎨: Dragon by #Tolkien, 1927.
#OTD

In Vietnamese creation myth, Âu Cơ was a kind-hearted snow fairy who lived in a snow-capped mountain. She married Lạc Long Quân, the "Dragon Lord of Lạc", and bore 100 children, who later became the ancestors of Vietnamese people. 1/3

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash #fairies

On 18 January 1934, The Oxford Magazine published #Tolkien's poem, titled Looney. He revised it with title The Sea-Bell (Frodos Dreme) with darker tone and themes like dream, mortality and alienation; starting with a shell that emits the sound of seas. 1/8

🎨: Ulmo (Anna Kulisz)

In Batak star lore of North Sumatra, Orion constellation is called Hala Na Godang; a dragon so big its head reaches the sky and its tail the earth, and the stars of Orion's Belt represent its three giant eggs. 1/3

#FairyTaleTuesday #FairyTaleFlash #dragon
📷: Rogelio B. Andreo

On 6 January 1914, #Tolkien began working on "The Book of Ishness", a sketchbook capturing abstract ideas through art. Early Silmarillion artworks inside were gloomy "Eeriness" and "The Shores of Faery"; the citadel of Elven city Kôr.

Image from "Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth".

"I suppose after this year you will not be hanging your stocking anymore. I shall have to say goodbye. We always keep the names of our old friends and their letters."

#Tolkien's last Father Christmas letter, 25 December 1943, written when his youngest was 14 and WW2 was raging.

The letters were delivered by postal workers (who Tolkien had persuaded to help) or "magically arrived" on the fireplace. They were compiled and published posthumously in 1976, and became a special work that showed Tolkien's affinity for storytelling and love for family. 8/8

Father Christmas' last letter came as Tolkien's youngest hit teenage year, with a melancholic tone: "I suppose after this year you will not be hanging your stocking any more. I shall have to say goodbye.... We always keep the names of our old friends and their letters..." 7/8

"I have written the first chapter of a new story about Hobbits – ‘A long expected party’. A merry Christmas."

The closing line of #Tolkien's letter to C. A. Furth (19 December 1937), indicating that he had started to write what would later become The Lord of the Rings. 1/2