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Since the YouTube link is not working here (“video is not available”); here’s a link to the same…

secretmellowart:

The Lady of Shalott is an 1842 Arthurian poem about a lady who is cursed to remain confined within an isolated tower, weaving on her loom. She is forbidden to look out her window, and is only able to see the world through the shadows that appear in her magic mirror. One day, however, she turns away from her work. This poem was also turned into a song by Loreena McKennit.

Since the YouTube link is not working here (“video is not available”); here’s a link to the same song on Spotify.

I knew that song, but had never taken the trouble to listen to the lyrics, or look them up.

Thank you for bringing the poem to my attention (and with such gorgeous illustrations, too!)

ach-sss-no: ach-sss-no:

automatuck9:

Of course Tom Bombadil is the one that was there all along and makes perfect sense and of course he’s in the story what??? no!!!! ARAGORN is the weird random addition, OBVIOUSLY!!!!

This is important to me though because there’s this very specific and very loud branch of writing advice that just hates worldbuilding, conlangs, etc. And they all have to deal with Tolkien, because he did all of the self-indulgent pedantic worldbuilding and conlangs in his books, and tons of people loved it and it made a hojillion dollars.

So the advice can’t just be ‘I don’t like conlangs so don’t use them’. They have to say 'I know Tolkien did it and was incredibly successful, which would seem to go against the idea that this thing I don’t like is bad……… but Tolkien was a massive supergenius and what he did is utterly unattainable for anyone else ever!!!’

And here’s Tolkien himself saying, essentially, 'yah I was just writing the nerdy story I wanted to write and it turned out to be LOTR. had no idea what I was doing at the time. Treebeard just Kool-Aid-manned his way in here when I wasn’t looking, I don’t know.’

So do what you want. Maybe it will work

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