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Poetry, Anglo-Saxon & Old Norse Literature/ Just a simple Hill Dweller Music: Leander (Black Metal/Dungeon Synth)
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Leander is now on Spotify.
Bandcamp might be out of the way for some, so Spotify link below:
I appreciate everybody who has supported "On the Hall Hill..."
Saga/poetry posting will resume.
#music
#blackmetal
#Metal
#appalachia
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On Pre-Jackson Tolkien / Middle Earth Aesthetica
This will not be an exhaustive art post,
but rather, a meditation on how pre-Jackson LOTR aesthetics help maintain the mystery of Middle Earth for me as I grow older.
Let us seek lost lands:🧵
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I understand the criticisms and complaints about staunch American privacy and property oversight, but the fact is, the Euro model can't work here.
Yes, the boomer property miser phenomenon is real, but rural land owners face many practical issues concerning trespassing.
Many Americans are baffled by "Right to Roam."
It's a very different approach to the bundle of rights associated with landownership.
In the green countries you can basically walk around anywhere other than someone's yard.
Farms and woods are "owned" but not "private."
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'Probably actual Vikings'
Prog vitriol over this film shows that modern vikang media has convinced large amounts of people that medieval Norseman had longship diversity quotas and HR depts run by legions of sassy shield maidens.
The Northman is a long-needed course correction
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JUST IN - Putin: "Anglo-Saxons" blew up the Nord Stream pipelines.
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I can't speak for most of the country, but in Appalachia, trespassing is a constant issue for the landowner/farmer. The people who want to roam your land are not generally friendly hikers or Walt Whitman-esque travelers.
They are literal crackhead degenerates who rob you blind.
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@SameeraKhan
Take the L. It's alright. Go get some more lip injections and feel better about yourself.
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Old English word of the day
byrðenstrang - to be skilled at carrying burdens.
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I have seen barns stripped of their boards (American chestnut), cattle shot in the head, and property vandalized just out of sheer cruelty.
My Papaw and I got into an actual gunfight with thieves who were trying to steal a hay mower in broad daylight when I was teenager.
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As long as I have been alive, I have seen my grandfather and many neighbors contend with trespassing, destruction of property and livestock, and theft; in almost all cases, these offenses were perpetrated by locals and people from the neighboring state.
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This is not 19th century America. You are not Walt fucking Whitman or Ralph Emerson strolling through a breezy, friendly landscape sampling the local apples. The land, while still beautiful, is haunted by cursed and treacherous people. It's been this way for decades.
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As I wandered and worked the land, I always carried a gun, not so much for animals, but for men. Encounters with the gibbering crackhead trespasser, illegal hunter, or shady duo of gaunt wiggers with ill intent was inevitable.
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All that said, we have people we KNOW and have vetted who can hunt and wander as they please. These are people we've worked with, or have taken the time to get to know us; people we have broken bread with. These bonds matter.
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...Somehow, they were caught near the TN/N.C. state line. The police brought them back to the farm, where they returned the items. They had even taken rocks. They were from Ohio and had children with them. Papaw didn't press charges. We changed all the gate locks the next day.
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R.I.P Bernard Hill.
His portrayal of Theoden, King of Rohan is one of the greatest performances of all time.
His speeches and countenance in LOTR never fail to inspire. In my mind, Hill's performance is the most worthy of it's literary counterpart beyond all other roles/actors.
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People are directionally correct with their caution and mistrust, even if they over-do it. Naivete and openness to strangers (and corrupted kinfolk) is quite literally punished with destruction, loss, and potential death.
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Out of towners also sometimes think they can plunder the landscape for its artifacts. When I was a young boy, we had a family pull up to our after-church picnic and ask if they could ride around the farm and see the view. Papaw even showed them where the gate key was, so they...
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This is different than the boomer who fires artillery at kids for fishing his pond broad daylight.
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...could leave when they wished. We discovered soon afterwards that they had plundered one of the old houses on the property, and they stole a plow and a mill stone, amongst other things. Papaw called the police and gave them a description of their truck and the items...
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As I began to seek more books and material, I began to encounter Ted Nasmith, Allan Lee, and John Howe. I have always associated Lee and Howe with the films, but I remember particularly seeing a lot of Nasmith on older material:
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From my own experience, I began reading the books as a boy in 1998. My Dad had learned of the coming trilogy, and challenged me to read the books with him. My elementary school had a single set of the trilogy, pictured below:
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But there was something about LOTR, and that McBride art, that kindled a resonance in me.
I began to see Middle Earth in the hills and woods of Appalachia, where I grew up. From a young age, I have wandered the woods, gullies, and ruined farmsteads on my family's property.
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While the films communicate all those apsects to a degree, the realism obfuscates many of the imaginative elements of the early art. The muscularity of Mcbride and the bright tones of Nasmith coalesced something closer to Middle Earth as I first knew it.
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There is little that has gone unsaid about the Jackson films; the art direction for the LOTR trilogy altered the tectonics of the fantasy landscape for the foreseeable future.
But what existed before the monolithic trilogy, and how did we experience those landscapes?
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"Explain 1066. Who was the rightful king? Was it Harold Godwinson, Harald Siggurdsson, or William of Normandy?
"You know the god Oðinn, known also as Wotan, perhaps Woden, yes? We must reflect on his role as progenitor of the line of kings in England. No, this is not purely
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AVOID HONEY
It is not intended for humans.
Bees make honey to store food for themselves to last the winter.
It’s sourced from flowers and as a result contains plant toxins like grayanotoxins and pyrrolizidine alkaloids.
It’s also 40% Fructose, the most damaging sugar.
AVOID.
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These books were not my only introduction to the aesthetics of Tolkien and Middle Earth. I had an older cousin growing up who had a beaten copy of MERP lying around. He never played it, but I read it cover to cover, overlaying my mind with Angus Mcbride's illustrations.
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The older material entranced me because I felt it closer to what I had first conceptualized as a child; a mysterious Middle-Earth, that while still sylvan and beautiful, was rife with mist-laden secrets, melancholy, and dark enchantment.
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The march to King's Mountain was just as impressive as the fighting; John Sevier's Overmountain Men assembled at the Watauga River in Sycamore Shoals, TN and rucked it 330-odd miles to King's Mountain, SC. Short 🧵
Today is the 242rd anniversary of the Battle of King's Mountain, South Carolina. Here a group of men, predominantly Scots-Irish, but inclusive of English, Scottish, African, and German Americans encircled the Loyalist force encamped there and promptly annihilated it.
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@Paracelsus1092
Plato rising briefly from the throes of death to the sound of a foreign girl's lackluster flute playing.
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But the aesthetica need not be limited to visual media. Early music discoveries also informed the way I continued to imagine Middle Earth. In my teens, I discovered Black Metal and found myself listening to Burzum, Summoning, Celtic Frost, etc.
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I received The newest full volume edition of LOTR for Christmas; A kingly gift! I own several copies (mostly used) and this is looking to be my pristine reading copy from now on. Let me say a bit on it.
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What pre-jackson aesthetics do you enjoy? Favorite art, or music? Maybe some have tales of MERP or other such games. Post below and thank you.
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Before FoTR dropped in 2001, I already had visited Rivendell, Weathertop, and the woods of Lorien; I walked amongst them each day I spent on the farm.
By the time the movie arrived, I had already spent countless hours in Middle Earth.
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I already possessed an affinity for Fantasy. I grew up watching Xena and Hercules (when at cousin's house) and movies such as Willow, Dragonheart, The Neverending Story, etc.
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Grettis Saga XIII: Thorstein Drommund's Journey to Byzantium, Vengeance and Varangians, A Saga's End
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Several words exist for 'Helmet' in Old English.
Parsing the etymology reveals the prevalence of masks or faceguards associated with the object of a helmet.
Let's explore:
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I expected more black metal, but instead found synthesizers and atmospheric drone. I couldn't fully comprehend Kirkwood at first, but overtime, I realized I was hearing someone else's Middle Earth.
Kirkwood paints a shadowy Middle Earth, riven with mist and enchantment.
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I loved the films, but I remember feeling a sense that there were two Middle Earths; The Jackson ME, and the ME of the farm and my mind.
That sense has driven me to reach back in various stages of my life and try to recapture some of that initial vision.
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The 'lost/dark' Middle Earth exists now as the amalgamated works and minds of artists, writers, and regular people who internalized Tolkien before the advent of the film property.
There is no returning there, now; save in memory or lost roads.
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"The Whole World becomes a Wilderness"
- An analysis of "The Wanderer" and the Elegiac Mood in Old English poetry -
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This edition was published by Ballantine Books in 1989. The art demonstrates the realism and darker tones found in much of the mass produced art that arises from the 1980's.
Please see this excellent curation of LOTR editions by my friend
@ShirePropaganda
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Harald Sigurdsson, King of Norway and Denmark
When we last left Harald, he had fled Svein Ulfsson's treachery and met Magnus to sue for peace. Magnus bestows his uncle many gifts, of which the greatest is joint rule of Denmark and Norway.
Let us see what comes of Harald's rule.
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Let us remember the infamous and ancient feud of the Roman and Celtic churches over the date of Easter.
In the newly Christianized Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, kings and holy men found themselves caught between the dating customs of two powerful churches.
Things got ugly...
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@cambUP_History
Hollow name change. Anglo-Saxon England is the right and proper term. It was appropriate before, and it will continue to be appropriate despite CUP's selling out.
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Harald Hardrada - The last viking king of the North
In this final thread of the Hardrada series begun by
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One of the most profound musical discoveries I made amidst this period was Jim Kirkwood. I summoned him from obscure channels on dial up internet to hear albums such as "King of the Golden Hall", Middle Earth", and "Ancient Fields". You can see why his albums drew me in:
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I find myself returning more and more to the 'lost' Middle Earth, which still sings to me when I wander or work the farm.
I will always love the Jackson films, but Middle Earth was forever changed by them. There are 'two' Middle Earths, each with their own essence and meanings
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A scene from the extended ver. Of Fellowship of the Ring that I often think about is when Aragorn sings "The Song of Beren and Luthien" to himself in the marshlands. Frodo awakens and inquires about the woman in the song. Aragorn stirs and replies "she died".
This is powerful
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Cormac McCarthy has died at 89 years old. He leaves behind a great body of work, unparalleled in terms of contemporary American fiction.
There were few men of letters of his like before in the literary landscape of this country, and fewer all the more now that he has passed.
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Average Appalachian backyard at night.
Going to write a series of books about the Opossum wizard battling deep forest horrors.
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On "The Fortunes of Men"
This oft-neglected poem from the Exeter book has much to tell us about Anglo Saxon attitudes towards life, death, work, and fate.
It still has much to teach us.🧵
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A short thread on honey bee swarms and hive management:
Little beekeeping 🧵
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Grettis Saga XIV: Cruel Days, Treacherous Friends, and a Man called Hallmund
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The Death Song of the Venerable Bede
Bede of Jarrow died on Thursday/May 26th, 735. He left behind mournful followers, a life of pious learning and devotion, and a monumental body of work that forever changed the standard of Western learning.
He also left behind a little poem🧵
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Me when someone claims that "The Scouring of the Shire" is "extra" and "not important" to The Lord of the Rings
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@Empty_America
And different parts of the country have different circumstances with crime, culture, etc.
In a perfect world, I'd support the roaming thing.
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Kirkwood also made albums inspired by Michael Moorcock's Elric, as well as Norse paganism. He often drew or designed his own artwork, and for years, only existed on cassette.
Originally an outspoken heathen, Kirkwood eventually converted to Christianity and became a monk.
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"Sometimes you make me feel
Like I'm living at the edge of the world
Like I'm living at the edge of the world
It's just the way I smile, you said..."
#DarkMAGA
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In some essence, I coalesced many of these bands into a single soundscape that formed the ambience for the 'lost' or 'dark' Middle Earth in my mind. This Middle Earth, now began to have music all it's own, much like the Jackson Middle Earth and it's inimitable score.
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The bugman never fails to overthink practical advice; especially when it comes to matters of land and labor, he cannot see beyond his own nose. This response to
@ploughmansfolly
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Grettis Saga XII: Brothers, Sorcery, and The Last Stand
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I had never associated metal with LOTR prior to this group of discoveries, at least not in any conglomerate way. As I devoured lyrics, band biographies, album art/liner notes, I began to resonate with the atmospheric, melancholic approach to Middle Earth.
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Been thinking more about the differences between the films and novels of Lord of the Rings. Recently, Jackson's Helm's Deep has lost some luster in my mind. For whatever the differences, I always found the battle well-shot and exciting. But now it has dulled for me. Lemme explain
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"What exactly led to your murder of Euronymous?"
"Why did I 'murder' Euronymous? Was it actually a murder, as you say, or rather, self-defense?
Let's find out!"
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A translation of the first 18 lines of the Anglo-Saxon "Exodus"
The opening sequence is structurally and contextually similar to the Scyld Scefing prologue of Beowulf;
Moses is a law-giver, warrior, and folk leader, fated to raise a mighty people from his deeds.
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"The whole world becomes a Wilderness"
A shotgun Analysis with Reflection
by way of "The Wanderer", an Anglo-Saxon Elegy
A thread
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As a teen, my grandfather and I got into a shootout with two county line meth tweakers who were trying to steal farm equipment.
They shot first, and we advanced in the truck, returning fire with .22 pistols. He told me "try not to hit em, but don't worry too much if you do"
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Big things are happening in the bee hive
-SMOL 🧵-
Drone eviction has begun.
The hive has recognized that Autumn is here. The time of abundance is over and consolidation begins.
As brooding slows, the drones, now with no purpose, are forcibly evicted by the female workers.
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Þæs ofereode,
þisses swa mæg...
"That was overcome,
so might this be...
So goes the famous refrain of "Deor", an Anglo-Saxon scop's lament concerning his demotion to a younger, finer poet.
What can this poem show us? Very much indeed🧵
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King of the Golden Hall:
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Happy Mother's Day
Eternal hails to the hard working moms out there.
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"Wulf" is a great enigma of Old English literature.
This poem is famous for it's female speaker and as a tale of love, exile, and loss.
But what story does it really tell?
What is the nature of the world that produced it?
Let us read "Wulf"
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I have a buddy who teaches highschool in my area that asked me to read some Beowulf for his class.
I put together a presentation, with some AS history, poetics, read the fight with Grendel aloud in OE.
These are the 'thank you cards' I got in the mail yesterday from the class.
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@Tim_Burgess
@_HenryBolton
You look like a wanna-be Thurston Moore and are a total powderpuff goofball of a man.
Much easier to explain "That's the king" to the aliens rather than the multi-layered social pathologies of why you are, and look like, a goofball
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@IainFletcher8
I mean, the OP's thread addresses Euro roaming rights laws in juxtaposition to American private property laws. There is a long conversation about why America can or cannot adopt said roaming laws.
I am American and this is about America. Settle down, man.
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@Wurmhoudt
People like that are driven to madness when confronted with the slightest bit of historical realism.
For them, history is something on which to project themselves and jerk off to. They can't and won't conceive of time or place that doesn't reflect their perspectives.
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I heard from Wulfstan that when Ælfgar saw his lord overcome by enemies, he held aloft his ancient sword and sang this verse before leaping into the press:
"You know I'm born to lose
and gamblin's for fools
but that's the way I like it baby
I don't wanna live forever"
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In which a transexual foreigner attempts to malign a good ol' country girl who is both spiritually and physically superior to him in every way.
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The gestalt psychic scream of Gen X and MilLeNiALs as they spiritually transform into boomers within the Warp is largely responsible for the mass psychosis around Ukraine.
Midwits and soccer moms morphing into bloodmad beasts, the hypocrisy, the irrationality,
The Chaos...
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With
#TwistersMovie
releasing this weekend, I thought it would be fun to reflect on Twister (1996) and why it's one of my favorite movies. Thirty years on, it looks great, sounds great, and it's fun.
🌪️🧵🌪️
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Good morning.
Spent a long needed weekend on the farm.
The Blue Ridge Mountains are sheathed in their winter smoke and wreathed with fog in the distance.
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A translation of the Old English from the Anglo-Saxon "Exodus", one of several books of the Bible translated from Latin into Old English.
Much like "Dream of the Rood", the OE Exodus is suffused with the war-like language and imagery that is a hallmark of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
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