Prof Dimitra Fimiさんのイラストまとめ

Today I finished an epic re-read (after many years!) of @TamoraPierce’s Song of the Lioness series. Gosh! I had forgotten how believable (and groundbreaking) Alanna of Trebond was/is!!!

Last few hours left - REGISTER TO VOTE! As I’ve been reminding especially my female students, women died and were tortured for this right not that long ago!
Art from the brilliant Suffragette: The Battle for Equality, by David Roberts.
Link to register: https://t.co/i5WnkNdLHc

Apply with me and @celticist for this exciting #PhD project:

A Cultural History of the Gaelic Giant: Origins, Transformations, Legacies

Details: https://t.co/Ih90SxQgbv

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Art by S. Reid + @henryhneff

3 more entries I commissioned for the @litencyc have been published:
👉 Peter S.Beagle bio + The Last Unicorn, by @In_Vico_Veritas
👉 Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, by @TaylorWDriggers
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... for Nimrodel flows into Silverlode, that Elves call Celebrant, + Celebrant into Anduin the Great, + Anduin flows into the Bay of Belfalas whence the Elves of Lórien set sail. But neither Nimrodel nor Amroth came ever back.”
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Art: Līga Kļaviņa

Amroth dived into the sea in a attempt to swim back to his beloved, and his fate is also unknown. But Legolas concludes:
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Art: Olga Kukhtenkova

Her lover Amroth waited for her in “havens grey” but a storm set the ship loose + on its way to Valinor. Of Nimrodel we only hear that she was never seen before, though there is a stream that bears her name.
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Art: @AlanLee11225760

I think it was the inspiration for the story of Nimrodel and Amroth in The #LordoftheRings: Legolas speaks of the Elven-maid Nimrodel, who got lost on her way to the west shores of Middle-earth.
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Art: Julian Bauer

...but he directed his water across the sea towards the west to reach her + mingle his waters with hers. This is, of course, a typical story of an amorous God pursuing an unwilling nymph, but was retold in more romantic terms in the 19th-c and...
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My favourite phrase from today’s Gaelic lesson:
“Tha mi a’ còcaireachd”. Definitely a case of “linguistic aesthetics” (so euphonic but also so much character!)
I also learned uisge-beatha (preferably Lagavulin, thank you very much! 🥃 😊)
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