as in painting.
(headsup TeaAtTrianon)
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Related item: Cor Blok and the Tolkien calender.
The new, official Tolkien Calendar for 2011 has just been published, and features fourteen paintings by the acclaimed Dutch artist, Cor Blok, all of which are inspired by The Lord of the Rings. Cor Blok met and corresponded with J.R.R. Tolkien in the 1960s, and Tolkien admired the artist’s work so much that he purchased two paintings, one of which, The Battle of the Hornburg, appears in the calendar.
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Chicken footed houses.
TYWKIWDBI blog writes:
Traditional raised Sami storehouse, displayed at Skansen, Stockholm. A similar structure, the izbushka, is mentioned in Russian children stories as a house with chicken feet.I haven't found any further information on this design. The izbushka is mentioned in a Wikipedia article on Baba Yaga:
one of the comments notes that this house inspired one of Mugorsky's pictures at an exhibition.
the pictures are discussed HERE, and include this picture
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The bottom image is Alexander Alexeief's drawing of Baba Yaga's hut, which I scanned from Russian Fairy Tales by Aleksandr Afanas'ev, originally published in 1945. Alexief's sketch is much more dynamic and less ornate than Hartmann's, and for this reason comes far more readily to my mind when I listen to the music.
FT Magazine has an article discussing the Book of Kells, including the punny nature of some of the illustrated letters.
A VIDEO about the book:
And yes, there is an app for the book...
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The book of Kells brings to mind the SciFi Classic "A Canticle for Liebowitz", about a post apocolyptic monastery keeping the books alive for the future.
I can't find the book on the net, but Internet archives has the 15 part radio program here.
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