tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post5546266426012479661..comments2023-05-08T06:54:19.564-07:00Comments on Null Epistolary: Hic sunt raptoresBelfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-17751209032974083642010-08-20T07:25:01.496-07:002010-08-20T07:25:01.496-07:00+JMJ+
No, not cozy. But certainly dramatic and fu...+JMJ+<br /><br />No, not cozy. But certainly dramatic and full of passion!Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-64887879514256983632010-08-18T22:17:31.114-07:002010-08-18T22:17:31.114-07:00oh, where it says "heath", read "he...oh, where it says "heath", read "hearth". A roaring fire on the heath would be quite a different thing; not <i>cozy</i> at all...Belfry Bathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-67529049212869206772010-08-08T22:13:11.196-07:002010-08-08T22:13:11.196-07:00+JMJ+
Oh, a graphic novel! Thanks for letting us ...+JMJ+<br /><br />Oh, a graphic novel! Thanks for letting us know, Sully. Is it only available in Dutch, though?Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-26932702617772017412010-08-08T05:41:07.824-07:002010-08-08T05:41:07.824-07:00O Enbrethiliel, don't fret, I just like writin...O Enbrethiliel, don't fret, I just like writing stories about complaining. Must be my inner Arther Dent...Belfry Bathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-82457734958785221212010-08-08T02:56:19.773-07:002010-08-08T02:56:19.773-07:00Great post!
I've always loved Badger's hou...Great post!<br />I've always loved Badger's house. There's a graphic novel series made from Wind in the willows and the illustrator Michel Plessix captures the cozyness from Badger's house perfectly in my opinion.<br />http://www.lambiek.net/artists/p/plessix/plessix_ventdanslessaules.jpg<br />Not the clearesr picture, but the best i could find onlineSullivan McPighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15133432350331782496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-60637483018038729182010-08-08T00:24:49.572-07:002010-08-08T00:24:49.572-07:00+JMJ+
Oh, poor Bat! I seem to run you ragged with...+JMJ+<br /><br />Oh, poor Bat! I seem to run you ragged without even trying! =P <br /><br />If I had to choose between Tom Bombadill's house and Mr. Badger's (<i>since I'm still in smackdown mode and all</i>), I think I'd pick the Badger's. Its welcoming hearth fire just <i>seems</i> warmer because Mole and Ratty stumble upon it in the dead of winter. I always found the whole Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-4258672880084201652010-08-07T21:01:45.506-07:002010-08-07T21:01:45.506-07:00Well, you see, Tom Bombadil's House has been s...Well, you see, Tom Bombadil's House has been stuck in my mind almost since the word "house" appeared outside a Locus Focus Pocus... er... Post... and between lassitude and the shifting themes I've kept putting it off. Today the parallel element clicked, and I just ran with "compare/contrast". (C/C was very big in the IB litterature sequence, and it has rather Belfry Bathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-23042479548266258122010-08-07T19:24:00.840-07:002010-08-07T19:24:00.840-07:00I was wondering if someone was going to cover one ...I was wondering if someone was going to cover one of the underground settings in The Lord of the Rings. Then I'm reading your post here, and I'm thinking you're going to work your way there, then you do something completely different: The Wind in the Willows. And it's remarkable how simliar those two passages are - yet quite different of course. I haven't read The Wind in the Paul Stilwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04446241126728692642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-2737862874522364802010-08-07T14:35:34.317-07:002010-08-07T14:35:34.317-07:00While writing this, I was reminded of an essay arg...While writing this, I was reminded of an essay arguing that Tolkien was at various points trying to nine-up Shakespeare's story <i>Macbeth</i> --- that he thought the mythic hints there were juicy and ripe for story telling, but seemed to think that Will had, so to speak, done a George Lucas and made a drab tale of it (I don't know, it seemed a thriller to me). And so there's the Belfry Bathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com