This Is My Favorite Ever Description Of Tolkien.

Have I ever shown you guys these weird late 80s Soviet Lord Of The Rings illustrations?

They were made by Sergei Iukhimov, who’s virtually unknown otherwise.

INKtober 2024-Fight 👊💀

GOLDEN BAT vs. FRANKENSTEIN!!

The ultimate old-school monster throw-down!! The evil Dr. Nazo revives the legendary Frankenstein Monster; giving him the promise of the reanimation of his beloved bride, if in return, he serves Nazo as his minion and destroy the scientist’s sworn enemy: Golden Bat!! Can the legendary super-mummy defeat Frankenstein and save the wayward monster and his bride from becoming pawns in Dr. Nazo’s devious schemes!?…

(I know I’m not the first to have thought of this but, this is my version!)

Do you have any Fun Facts today? Maybe something literary?

You know what? I think I can manage that. Everyone knows about the friendship between C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. But there's another guy who gets skipped out on, and was super-influential on Lewis.

Today You Learned about Roger Lancelyn Green!

Our boy Robert here was an undergraduate at Oxford when he met Jack Lewis, who was his teacher. After graduating and becoming an Oxford scholar in his own right, he remained very good friends with Lewis and a member of the Inklings. He actually traveled with Lewis and his wife, Joy, on vacation to Greece, shortly before Joy's death in 1960.

If you read histories of the Inklings, you may notice that Tolkien didn't seem to like drafts of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe that much. Well, Lewis's friend Lancelyn Green did, and encouraged him to keep working and eventually publish it.

[Wikipedia also says he came up with the title 'Chronicles of Narnia', but there's no citation on that sentence, so take it with a grain of salt.]

Roger has his own literary career, too. He wrote several books for children, retelling myths and folklore, from Greek myths, to Norse myths, to Arthurian stories. And these books are all still widely available! He's also the author of several literary biographies of people like Andrew Lang (compiler of fairy tale books), Lewis Carroll (author of Alice in Wonderland), J.M. Barrie (author of Peter Pan), and of course, C.S. Lewis himself.

It's actually pretty cool that we have a biography of C.S. Lewis by a guy who was close friends with him, I think!

Also, he was the father of literature scholar Richard Lancelyn Green, but that guy, I think, deserves his own Fun Fact for another time.

So, uh... I tried making a trope page for my Golden Bat fanfic to help get the word out, but said tropes page sucks, so if anyone would like me out I'd be very grateful:

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The Secret Of The Golden Bat - TV Tropes

"The Secret of the Golden Bat" is a fanfic based on the Japanese cult classic kamishibai character Golden Bat, who tends to be rather obscur

On this day, 12 June 2009, cleaning workers at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London working for the subcontractor ISS were called to an emergency “staff meeting,” which was actually an ambush by immigration officers. The cleaners, mostly members of public sector union UNISON, had been organising for some time for better pay and conditions, and had recently successfully achieved union recognition and the London living wage. At the bogus meeting, 40 UK Border Agency officials detained the workers, then handcuffed and took away nine of them, including one worker who was six months pregnant. Workers believe the raid was in retaliation for their organising activity. Some of the workers, like Rosa Perez from Nicaragua, were deported without even being given the required 72 hours notice. One union member was flown to Colombia just 48 hours after her arrest, in the same clothes, with just £0.75 in her pocket and dumped in Bogotá, hundreds of miles from her home town. Another of the workers reportedly suffered a heart attack during the ordeal and was denied medical attention – and not even given water. Despite the deportations, the other workers kept up their fight and after various strikes and occupations by students, in 2017 they achieved their goal of being taken back in-house to be employed directly by the university. For this and hundreds of other stories, get hold of our book, Working Class History: Everyday Acts of Resistance & Rebellion: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/working-class-history-everyday-acts-resistance-rebellion-book https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=642784657894753&set=a.602588028581083&type=3

what if i told you there was one user on the russian social network/ video sharing website odnoklassniki/oднокла́ссники that has uploaded nearly every movie ever from 1896 to the current day, mostly with subtitles. and including that has uploaded every criterion collection film in full hd with subtitles. for free. all hail ok.ru user fleurinna guta

they keep their films in unlisted folders so you cant just see them all on their profile unfortunately but ill provide links. also don't ask me why this user separates their films in this way, i don't know and frankly it confuses me too.

EUROPEAN FILMS (sometimes includes west asian films?)

JAPANESE FILMS

CLASSIC FILMS (aka american and British films)

"MISC FILMS" (aka films from everywhere that isn't the usa, europe, japan. sometimes films from the GDR are in here which is confusing again because communist germany was still part of europe)

this is a much better alternative to stuff like 123movies or bflix because there are no hot singles in your area or games that you wont last 5 minutes playing. hope u enjoy and let us all praise and embrace user fleurinna guta

Update (3)Help Us survive the winter cill 🥶😥

‏Among the rubble in Gaza, a little boy sat on the muddy ground as wind and rain blasted him in the face from a gaping hole of his family’s tent. The shrapnel from the recent bombing has punctured the tent in multiple places, and the heavy rain pours in, flooding their shelter and destroying their meagre belongings.

‏The boy does not remember what being dry, or warm, feels like. He shivers as the icy wind tears through the tent once more. Cold has sunk its teeth deep into his bones.

‏He has no coat, no blanket. When their house was bombed, they had left all their belongings behind, thinking only of escape and surviving the night.

‏When his mother left before the sun even rose to search for basic necessities, the boy asked her for two things: food, and a coat. Now, after 10 hours, his mother returns. There is not enough money to buy both food and winter clothes. Last night, the boy’s sister could not sleep because her stomach hurt too much from hunger. The mother chose to buy food.

‏She only managed to buy a few small pieces of bread with the money she has, not enough for one person each. She tells her children to eat the bread slowly, to make it last as long as possible. There is not enough money, so this is all they can eat for the day.

‏They sleep, rain dripping on their trembling bodies.

‏When morning comes, the boy does not wake. The cold has rooted inside his bones and has claimed him forever. His father kisses his son for the last time and his mother wails, her grief louder than even the howling wind.

‏If the little boy asks you to donate some money to save his life, would you do it? You, who are wrapped in warm clothes, who have a blanket to sleep under, a roof to shelter yourself from the rain. You, who have 3 meals a day, who can make or buy hot tea whenever you want to, who can go to bed with a full stomach. Children in Gaza are now freezing to death, deaths that might have been prevented if they had had warm clothes, a shelter, blankets, and food. As you hesitate on whether you should donate to a family in Gaza pleading for help, there are families bidding their farewells to their young children who have died of the cold.

‏Your support can mean life or death. If we are here asking for help, it means we are still alive. We need your support now. Please do not wait until we are dead.

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DeviantArt has never really been a parade of good advice for growing artists, but some particular “words of wisdom” are way more bothersome than others.

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