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Category Archives: fantasy
Get the Hnakkr!
I’m rereading Snorri’s Edda and Tacitus’ Historiae in tandem, and it’s an interesting experience. With Snorri, this involves a lot of adventures in the dictionary, as the vocabulary of Old Icelandic is definitely less familiar to me than the vocabulary … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Myth & Legend, sff, words
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Latin, Old Norse, Snorri, The Daulaires
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Forever Blowing Bubbles
Frank Kelly Freas, “The Piper”–a WEIRD TALES cover in 1950 and 1990. (See Deuce Richardson’s writeup at the DMR Books site.)
Posted in art, fantasy, fantasy art, Myth & Legend
Tagged Frank Kelly Freas
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“Look Up, Not Down!”
Κύκλοψ: βλέπετ᾽ ἄνω καὶ μὴ κάτω. Χορός: ἰδού: πρὸς αὐτὸν τὸν Δί᾽ ἀνακεκύφαμεντά τ᾽ ἄστρα, καὶ τὸν Ὠρίωνα δέρκομαι. —Euripides, Cyclops Cyclops: Look up, not down. Chorus: I am looking up! I’m looking ‘way up!
Posted in ancient art, art, fantasy, fantasy art, Myth & Legend
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In Moria, in Khazad-dûm…
The Bridge of Khazad-dûm from Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings movie. If only the film had been as great as its background art.
Posted in art, fantasy, fantasy art
Tagged Lord of the Rings
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Looking Forward
Gearing up to teach one of my favorite courses, “Medieval Legends”.
Morlock in Time and Space
Just in time for Christmas (and the Solstice), Tales from the Magician’s Skull No. 9 arrived. It contains a Morlock story I’m especially proud of–“Three Festivals”. Among other things, it’s an homage to the great Rahsaan Roland Kirk, whose “Three … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Morlock, sword-and-sorcery
Tagged TalesFromTheMagiciansSkull
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Good for the Gander?
Apparently the gands that appear in Gandalf and in Jǫrmungandr (the name of the world-girdling serpent in Norse myth) are really the same root. Cleasby and Vigfusson say “the exact sense of this word is somewhat dubious; it is mostly … Continue reading
Posted in art, books, fantasy, fantasy art, language, Myth & Legend, words
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