Prof Dimitra Fimiさんのイラストまとめ

@Prof_Nick_Groom I think it’s more mundane than that: Bird Children is the sequel to her Flower Children (1910), then later she did Mother Earth’s children (1914), i.e. fruit and vegetable children...

Don’t ask why, but have just discovered Elizabeth Gordon’s Bird Children (1912), and, goodness gracious, what the heck? Are those weird are are those weird???!!! 🐦 👶

and he also compiled #Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist (1970, then revised later), and edited the iconic fanzine/journal Orcrist, which he had recently revived. /2
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My 7yo is learning all about the Vikings at school and he loved the idea of a squirrel running up and down the World Tree. I’ve now taught him “Yggdrasil” and “Ratatoskr” and we’re having fun looking for relevant illustrations. Here are a few! 🌳 🐿 #medievaltwitter

Ok, inspired by @mrjamesmayhew here are some more illustrations by Eric Winter from the ladybird Snow-White. They bring back very vivid memories, but looking at them now, some of them are rather disturbing... (Just like the tale, I guess...)
#BookIllustrationOfTheDay #fairytales

This week's teaching so far: Ursula K Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea + Dianna Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle. Excellent discussions on race, gender, power, language, agency, transformations, intertextuality, and, yes, there was singing in #Welsh too! #Cymraeg
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A far more developed version of this argument can be found in my chapter “‘Wildman of the Woods’: Inscribing tragedy on the landscape of Middle-earth in The childrenof Húrin” in this book, edited by Helen Conrad-O'Briain and @Gerard_K_Hynes
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For today’s @FolkloreThurs: how the classical myth of the nymph Arethusa and the #river-God Alpheus inspired the Elvish love story of Nimrodel and Amroth in The #LordoftheRings: https://t.co/q7xUwVXGzN
(Statue in Ortygia, Sicily; art by LiigaKlavina)
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I had forgotten this quotation! 😂 Dr Seuss’s creatures “have two family characteristics; slightly batty, oval eyes and a smile you might find on the Mona Lisa after her first martini.” (Karla Kuskin, @nytimes, 1979)
#ChildrensBooks #childrensfantasy @UofGFantasy #illustration

More Yellow Submarine fan art by my 7yo!