Thor

Yes, you guessed it, I saw the Marvel comic book movie Thor yesterday. I liked it, even if it was directed by (ugh) Kenneth Branagh (don't blame me, blame the three Branagh films I was forced to watch in my final year of high school including four hours of Hamlet (oddly enough Hamlet is still my favourite Shakespeare play)).

 A Marvel Comic Book illustration of Thor.

Thor by Johannes Gehrts.

Thor by Arthur Rackham.

And now for some pictures of other well known mythological figures found in the comics and the film.

Odin and Sons from the 12th century.

The Punishment of Loki by Louis Huard.

Frigga Spinning the Clouds by John Charles Dollman.

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Camelot

So I’ve finally watched the two premiere episodes of Camelot.

I’m not really sure what I thought of it. I found Morgan’s voice annoying, and she’s always been my favourite character, so I was trying so hard to like her. The second episode did more for me than the first in terms of her character and I liked the reinvention of the sword in the stone and Merlin’s little quip to the sceptic, ‘Piss off’.  But unfortunately it also introduced Guinevere. Now I know it had to, it’s Guinevere after all but as much as I’ve always loved Morgan, I’ve always hated Guinevere. She’s a troublemaker and not in the good way like Morgan, but in the annoying, selfish, petulant, wilfully naïve way that I find infuriating.

But enough about the show, which regardless of my doubts I will return to next week, let’s move on to the pictures.

For this post I decided to take inspiration from the title of Starz new show and look for pictures of the famous castle that is Camelot. How clever I thought I was, little did I know…

I managed to find very few pictures  of the castle at large, and god it was difficult. If anyone knows of any awesome Camelot pics I beg you, where, where did you find them?

Anyway here's what I managed to scrape together.

The First Knight (Jerry Zucker, 1995).

Illustration of Camelot by Gustave Doré from Lord Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of a King (1868).

BBC Merlin (Julian Jones, Julian Murphy, Johnny Capps, Jake Michie, 2008-?)

Arthur and Lancelot by Howard David Johnson (http://www.howarddavidjohnson.com/).

So that's that, and that is Camelot.


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Picture of the Week

Pandora and her oh so fateful box by Arthur Rackham.

So many Greek myths involve people looking at what and where they shouldn’t (the forbidden what a wonderful theme); Orpheus looked back and lost his wife forever to the underworld, Actaeon takes a peek at the virgin goddess Artemis/Diana and is promptly slain (quite gruesomely I might add), Narcissus’s vanity has unpleasant consequences and nobody wants to take a look at Medusa.

 To finish us off for today a quote from the genius that is Terry Pratchett:



‘I think it’s very romantic. Only when you leave, it’s very important not to look back.’

                “Why not?”

                She shrugged. ‘I don’t know. Perhaps the view isn’t very good.’

The Light Fantastic, 123

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Illustrators Galore!

Some beautiful images by various artists from the Golden Age of Illustration;

‘Waltraute Confronts Brunhilde’ by Arthur Rackham (1867 - 1939)

Illustration 11 of Edgar Allan Poe’s Raven by Paul Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883)

Scheherazadè from The Arabian Nights by Edmund Dulac (1181 – 1953)

Illustration from The Goose Girl by Walter Crane (1845 – 1915)

‘She Held Tight to the White Bear’ from East of the Sun West of the Moon by Kay Nielson (1886 – 1957)

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