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lasaraleen · 18 hours
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You’re shitting me.
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lasaraleen · 23 hours
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right now on earth there’s a kindly old stray tomcat who just got adopted and he’s receiving enough food to fill his belly for the first time in his entire life and he’s so so so happy and he doesn’t even know that it’s going to be like this forever :)
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lasaraleen · 2 days
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The Chronicles of Narnia Spring Aesthetic
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lasaraleen · 3 days
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Norman Rockwell, Boy Reading Adventure Story
1923, oil on canvas
Collection of George Lucas
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lasaraleen · 5 days
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The lotr girlies have accepted me as one of their own
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lasaraleen · 6 days
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King Edmund the Just art prints ⚔️🌿
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lasaraleen · 6 days
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Exactly! Even when it’s preying on noble intentions, it corrupts. He did want to rescue his people, his doubt made sense. And he was corrupted to want power for himself.
I love how entirely guilty Boromir feels after trying to get the ring from Frodo. The way he calls out to him after realizing what he’s done, the way he falls to the ground and cries. He was more than this moment, and he bravely defended his little friends, making them seem important to the cause and keeping them alive. I love him. He’s imperfect, but noble. He was more than that moment. He was all the moments before, and the moments after.
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lasaraleen · 7 days
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The fact that Tolkien realized he’d created inconsistency for LotR with the first published version of The Hobbit and then retconned it with the in universe explanation of “Bilbo is a liar,” is never going to stop being both equal parts brilliant and funny.
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lasaraleen · 8 days
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Prince Caspian ⚔️
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lasaraleen · 9 days
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I love how entirely guilty Boromir feels after trying to get the ring from Frodo. The way he calls out to him after realizing what he’s done, the way he falls to the ground and cries. He was more than this moment, and he bravely defended his little friends, making them seem important to the cause and keeping them alive. I love him. He’s imperfect, but noble. He was more than that moment. He was all the moments before, and the moments after.
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lasaraleen · 9 days
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I don't know if you're answering questions, but I just finished watching LWW and I NEED to know. How do you thinks the Pevensies got their titles in the books cuz I cannot come up with nothing
I am indeed answering asks *in theory*, but I barely get any 😂
Now, this is just getting into person headcanons, I have fairly specific and fairly board ideas about it.
The Magnificent
Peter’s title came first, I think. It started among the soldiers in the battle between the Narnians and Jadis’ forces. He had barely trained, he was young, he stood his ground and fought regardless.
Later, he showed his skill as a High King, in many ways. He was a great leader, a kind ruler, a strong soldier, even though he didn’t love the blade. And even though he wouldn’t think so, when they met him, everyone knew, he was Magnificent.
The Gentle
Susan was first thought of as gentle by the mice who untied Aslan on the stone table. Despite her fear of mice, she didn’t hurt them. It was soon after Aslan gifted the mice with their role as Talking Beasts, they spread the tale, and the small Beasts knew she would be fair and kind to them. She avoided the battle all that she could, she worried for her family, she cared for the small.
Perhaps she had a bit of a temper, but those near her knew she was Gentle.
The Just
Edmund never felt worthy of this title even years later. He knew how it was to be controlled by evil, to be under the influence of someone with more poor, to be a betrayer. When those who broke the law, when those who had been hurt, when those who were apologetic came before the throne, his siblings trusted his judgement. He was first called this when a young supporter of the White Witch was brought before them. He only helped him find his way again.
Despite it all, he was Just.
The Valiant
Lucy’s title caught on later than Peter’s, and was mainly spread by things that Susan said. There was no question of the young queen’s bravery, as Aslan himself said that if she was any braver, she would be a lioness. She was the most beloved, and everyone knew her heart was true.
Lucy, as brave as a lioness, was Valiant from the day she stepped into Narnia
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lasaraleen · 13 days
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"But I do not offer you my pity. For you are a lady high and valiant and have yourself won renown that shall not be forgotten; and you are a lady beautiful, I deem, beyond even the words of the Elven-tongue to tell. And I love you. Once I pitied your sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, were you the blissful Queen of Gondor, still I would love you. Éowyn, do you not love me?’"
There's an interpretation in the fandom that Eowyn's decision to go to war, her desire to fight for her people, her qualities that might stereotypically be described as "masculine", were a fault in her, a result of her depression and her general misguided thinking, and Faramir's love "cured" her of that, and in being cured she became appropriately "feminine" once more. Some people think approvingly of the message in this reading, others disapprovingly, but I don't think that message is there at all, when you read this quote.
Look at the reasons Faramir gives for loving Eowyn. "you are a lady high and valiant and have yourself won renown that shall not be forgotten"
He loves her for her valour. And far from Eowyn's desire for renown being something he has to school her out of, the fact she achieved it is something he celebrates for her.
Faramir recognises Eowyn was depressed, he recognises her sorrow and how that drove her to desire death, but he doesn't see her as some misguided, deluded woman who needed reminding of her proper place in life.
Their romance isn't based on Eowyn being some broken thing in need of fixing, for Faramir would love her just as much even if she was perfectly content. Before all else, he respects her. Just the way she is. He respects her courage. He respects her so-called "masculine" attributes, and celebrates them.
Eowyn's valour, her courage, her victory in battle, were all to be celebrated. The people who tried to force into something more "acceptably" feminine were proven wrong, doubly so because when she had her great victory, she did so proudly proclaiming her sex, the very thing the people around used to confine her. Eowyn wasn't wrong for behaving against her womanly nature, those who sought to confine her were wrong for thinking fighting for your people in battle and being a woman are inherently at odds.
The only thing Eowyn was wrong about, the only thing she needed to be corrected on was her belief that her life had no value outside of losing it in battle. Eowyn didn't need to change, she needed to understand her own self-worth.
And yes, Eowyn goes from basing her identity from being a warrior to that of a healer, but the world around her is changing from a world at war to a world at peace. And it's a world at peace because of the crucial contribution she made in battle.
"And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her"
Eowyn's happy ending doesn't come from her changing who she is, just her understanding of who she is. She's still Eowyn. Still a "Lady high and valiant", still ready to fight for her people if war came again, but now she's Eowyn who values herself, and her life, and life in general.
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lasaraleen · 14 days
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This was supposed to just be a rough sketch, but then I started getting really invested in it.
I hadn't initially intended to include so many picture book characters, but the nostalgia was overwhelming. Does anyone remember the animated short films produced by Weston Woods? My local library used to have a bunch of them on the Scholastic VHS tapes from the late 90s. (I know some shorts were released on the Children's Circle VHS tapes back in the 80s (🎶 Come on along! Come on along! Join the caravan!), and some were packaged in Sammy's Story Shop in 2008.)
Characters:
Max, from Where the Wild Things Are, written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Peter, from The Snowy Day, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
Brother Bear and Sister Bear, from The Berenstain Bears series, written and illustrated by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Pooh and Piglet, from the Winnie-the-Pooh books, by A. A. Milne, illustrated by E. H. Shepard
Owen, from Owen, written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes.
Mouse, from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, by Laura Joffe Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond
Louis, from The Trumpet of the Swan, by E. B. White
Mr. Toad, from The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame, based on the illustrations by E. H. Shepard
Mr. Tumnus, from The Chronicles of Narnia series, by C. S. Lewis
Pippi and Mr. Nilsson, from the Pippi Longstocking books, by Astrid Lindgren
Willy Wonka, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl, based on the illustrations by Quentin Blake
Matilda, from Matilda, by Roald Dahl, based on the illustrations by Quentin Blake (with an homage to the Mara Wilson movie)
Peter Pan and Tinker Bell, from Peter Pan, by J. M. Barrie
Merlin and Archimedes, from The Sword in the Stone, by T. H. White, based on the illustrations by Dennis Nolan
Pinocchio, from Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, based on the illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti
Alice, White Rabbit, and Cheshire Cat, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by John Tenniel
Rupert Bear, from the Rupert stories, created by Mary Tourtel and continued by Alfred Bestall, John Harrold, Stuart Trotter, and others.
Arthur Read, from the Arthur series, written and illustrated by Marc Brown
Tin Woodman and Scarecrow, from the Land of Oz series, by L. Frank Baum, based on the illustrations by W. W. Denslow and John R. Neill
The Cat in the Hat, from The Cat in the Hat, written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss
a frog on a flying lily pad, from Tuesday, written and illustrated by David Wiesner
Charlotte, from Charlotte's Web, by E. B. White
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lasaraleen · 15 days
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lasaraleen · 15 days
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The Lord of the Mash! Part 2
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lasaraleen · 16 days
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[ . . . ] above her brow her head was covered with a cap of silver lace netted with small gems, glittering white; but her soft grey raiment had no ornament save a girdle of leaves wrought in silver.
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lasaraleen · 17 days
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ppl are always writing characters doing dumb shit like roasting a fresh-caught rabbit over an open flame instead of making a stew with that thing. great now you’re letting all the fat drip down into the fire as it cooks, wasting calories and flavor as well as causing the flame to flare up = inconsistent heat source,… when you could be maximizing the nutritional value of small game by making a soup or stew. Come on
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