The tradition portraying monsters in art continued – some powerful examples include Apollo and Python by J.M.W Turner, The Colossus by Francisco de Goya and the myriad of beings in The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. There were Amazons, satyrs, mermaids, Manticores – all portrayed in medieval art and literature. For example, in medieval times travellers’ tales spoke of dog-headed men and creatures with neither neck nor head, but with a face set into the middle of their chests. Monsters filled unexplored lands – as humans looked at blank spaces on their maps, of the lands beyond their borders, their imaginations created a fantastical menagerie. They can manifest our deepest fears –or our deepest wishes who has not longed to see a fiery dragon racing across the sky? In many mythologies monsters symbolised functions and aspects of humanity or the natural world. I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?’ Nevertheless, he sets out - going through hard adventure and dread fear and frightful pain to Rivendell, and once there, voluntarily takes on the further horrific task.ġ940's Week (3) Action (22) Advent (9) Adventure (52) Adventure of Reading Challenge (2) Along the Brandywine (40) Ancients (5) Anne of Green Gables (1) Announcements (36) Art (6) Autumn (3) Baby (3) BBC (1) Beauty & The Beast Week (2) Birthday (1) Blog Design (9) Blog Party (113) Blogathon (26) Book Release (2) Book Review (17) Books (61) British (1) Camping (1) Characters (78) Charlotte Mason (2) Chesterton (4) Christ's kingdom (5) Christmas (22) Church calendar (5) Cinderella Week (15) Classics (90) Covenant (6) Creation (12) Creative play (2) Culture (6) Dance (3) Deep myth and faerie (2) Detectives (1) Dress Parade (1) Dying and Living (42) Education (4) Emma Week (17) Engagement (2) Epic Story (2) Fairy tale (15) Faithfulness of God (28) Fashion (10) Films (36) Flower Fairies (1) Friends (34) Game (18) Gift giving (2) Give-away (18) Giveaway (3) Good cheer (1) Good Food (2) Goodness of God (33) Grace (22) Grace of God (15) Guest posts (14) Hilarity (1) History (13) Home (1) Home education (3) Hospitality (1) Inklings (10) Interviews (1) Jane Austen (47) Jane Austen Week (12) Joy (35) L.M.Monsters appear in the stories of every culture on Earth – we have been plagued by werewolves, centaurs, trolls, ogres, sea monsters and many more. When he realizes what must be done about the Ring he says, ‘I do really wish to destroy it! …Or, well, to have it destroyed. ![]() Do you mean to say that you, and the Elves, have let him live on after all those horrible deeds? Now at any rate he is as bad as an Orc, and just an enemy. ![]() ‘No, and I don’t want to,’ said Frodo, ‘I can’t understand you. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need.’ …‘I am sorry,’ said Frodo, ‘But I am frightened and I do not feel any pity for Gollum.’ ‘You have not seen him,’ Gandalf broke in. ‘What an abominable notion!’ And farther still, ‘What am I to do? What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’ ‘Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. ![]() ‘Gollum? Do you mean that this is the very Gollum-creature that Bilbo met? How loathsome!’ ‘I think it is a sad story,’ said the wizard, ‘and it might have happened to others, even to some hobbits that I have known.’ ‘I can’t believe that Gollum was connected with hobbits, however distantly,’ said Frodo with some heat. At this point, if we’re picturing the Frodo we know from later, his first reaction may be a bit startling. A bit farther on, Gollum’s name enters the conversation.
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