'Beneath the Moon and under star he wandered far from northern strands, bewildered on enchanted ways Beyond the days of mortal lands.' -J. R. R. Tolkien 🎨Theodor Kittelsen #BookWormSat
'People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.' -Ursula K. Le Guin 🎨Elenore Abbott #BookWormSat
He followed her, never once looking back. even when he heard... the boom of bronze wings, and Rukh's interrupted scream. "He ran," the unicorn said. "You should never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention." - Peter S. Beagle, "The Last Unicorn" #BookWormSat#BookChatWeekly
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“This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea.” ✍️C.S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia #BookWormSat
‘Alfred,’ said Irma. ‘Be quiet, please. There are some things which you do not understand and one of them is a woman’s mind.’ ~ Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast. #BookWormSat 🖼️ Mervyn Peake
"That's all nonsense," said Curdie. "I don't know what you mean." "Then if you don't know what I mean, what right have you to call it nonsense?" asked the princess, a little offended. -George MacDonald, 'The Princess and the Goblin' #BookWormSat 🎨: Jessie Willcox Smith
#BookWormSat "'We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. 'Don't ask me how. Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after-effects.' 'Precisely,' said a passing bush." Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic 🎨Redmindfox
‘There was a library and it is ashes. Let its long length assemble. Than its stone walls its paper walls are thicker; armoured with learning, with philosophy, with poetry that drifts or dances clamped though it is in midnight.’ ~ More Peake for #BookWormSat 🖼️ Charles W. Stewart, 1973.
‘Well, thief. I smell you. I hear your breath. I feel your air. Where are you? Come now. Don't be shy. Step into the light!.’ ~ Tolkien. It was Hobbit Day on the 22nd and so our theme for #BookWormSat, this week, is high fantasy. Join us in epic other worlds. 🖼️ Tolkien, 1937.
#BookWormSat "I have seen and heard great error in many English books, which unlearned men in their ignorance have esteemed as great wisdom." Ælfric of Eynsham - [Translation] Preface to Catholic Homilies
