Demanda(s)

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

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J.R.R. Tolkien.

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Alan Lee, Olwen (ilustração para o Mabinogion)

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«Then said she unto him, "I declare to thee, that it is thy destiny not to be suited with a wife until thou obtain Olwen, the daughter of Yspaddaden Penkawr." And the youth blushed, and the love of the maiden diffused itself through all his frame, although he had never seen her. And his father inquired of him, "What has come over thee, my son, and what aileth thee?" "My stepmother has declared to me that I shall never have a wife until I obtain Olwen, the daughter of Yspaddaden Penkawr." "That will be easy for thee," answered his father. "Arthur is thy cousin. Go, therefore, unto Arthur, to cut thy hair, and ask this of him as a boon.»

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link: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Mabinogion/Kilhwch_and_Olwen

A Porta

St. Edward's Church, Stow-on-the-Wold (Pinterest)

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A PORTA

Eu sou feita de madeira

Madeira, matéria morta

Mas não há coisa no mundo

Mais viva do que uma porta.

Eu abro devagarinho

Pra passar o menininho

Eu abro bem com cuidado

Pra passar o namorado

Eu abro bem prazenteira

Pra passar a cozinheira

Eu abro de supetão

Pra passar o capitão.

Só não abro pra essa gente

Que diz (a mim bem me importa...)

Que se uma pessoa é burra

É burra como uma porta.

Eu sou muito inteligente!

Eu fecho a frente da casa

Fecho a frente do quartel

Fecho tudo nesse mundo

Só vivo aberta no céu!

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Vinicius de Moraes.

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Pinterest

... Feiticeiros

Merlin

Merlin a recitar o seu poema numa ilustração do séc. XIII para Merlin de Robert de Boron

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«According to ancient Celtic texts, Merlin (the wise and wily magician of King Arthur's court) went mad after the disastrous Battle of Arderydd and fled into the forest, where he lived like the wild boars and the wolves, eating roots and berries, sleeping in the rain. In the Welsh Black Book of Carmarthen, Merlin says: "Ten years and two score have I been moving along through twenty bouts of madness with wild ones in the wild...only lack keeps me company now." Through his period of shamanic madness, Merlin learned the speech of animals and the secrets of wood and stone. By the time he emerged from the forest, he'd come fully into his magical powers.»

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http://windling.typepad.com/blog/2014/11/in-praise-of-uncertainty.html

Cf. também https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin

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Gandalf

Alan Lee, Gandalf e Frodo

"He wore a tall pointed grey hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf. He had a long white beard and bushy eyebrows that stuck out beyond the brim of his hat."

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J. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Gandalf

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Dumbledore

Dumbledore's Chocolate Frog Card

«A man appeared on the corner the cat had been watching, appeared so suddenly and silently you’d have thought he’d just popped out of the ground. The cat’s tail twitched and its eyes narrowed. Nothing like this man had ever been seen on Privet Drive. He was tall, thin, and very old, judging by the silver of his hair and beard, which were both long enough to tuck into his belt. He was wearing long robes, a purple cloak that swept the ground, and high-heeled, buckled boots. His blue eyes were light, bright, and sparkling behind half-moon spectacles and his nose was very long and crooked, as though it had been broken at least twice. This man’s name was Albus Dumbledore.»

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J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the the Sorcerer's Stone.

Cf. também http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Albus_Dumbledore

Em dia de Lua Cheia

Wayne Anderson

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'(...) Night will be on us soon. How beautiful the stars are, and the Moon!' 

'They do cheer the heart, don't they? ' said Sam looking up. 'Elvish they are. somehow. And the Moon's growing. We haven't seen him for a night or two in this cloudy weather. He's beginning to give quite a light.'

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J. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers (1954).

Lendas, mitos e imaginários

Arthur Rackham, Sangreal (1917)

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“After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.”

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J.R.R. Tolkien, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

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Desde há muitos anos que sou apaixonada pela Lenda do Rei Artur e pela demanda do Graal. Acho que li e vi quase tudo que alcancei sobre o tema - que ainda me fascina. Sou uma admiradora de Sir Galahad, que, entre os Cavaleiros da Távola Redonda, é o meu preferido - e é aquele que conseguiu chegar ao fim da demanda.

George Frederic Watts, Sir Galahad

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Mas, nessa lenda, há outra personagem que me fascina: o Mago Merlin.

(link)

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Que, na minha mente, se relaciona quase automaticamente aos meus outros dois feiticeiros preferidos, de histórias bem mais recentes: Gandalf e Dumbledore. 

John Howe, Gandalf

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Elizabeth P, Dumbledore 

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Contudo, hoje de manhã, pensava que esses três personagens têm no meu imaginário uma ligação quase directa a outros dois da minha infância e juventude, de que também gosto muito: o Maestro de Era uma Vez o Homem e o Druida Panoramix.

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Mundos de aventuras

(Latreia Designs in Etsy)

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'Yes, that's so,' said Sam. `And we shouldn't be here at all, if we'd known more about it before we started. But I suppose it's often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: adventures, as I used to call them. I used to think that they were things the wonderful folk of the stories went out and looked for, because they wanted them, because they were exciting and life was a bit dull, a kind of a sport, as you might say. But that's not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have been just landed in them, usually – their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on – and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end. You know, coming home, and finding things all right, though not quite the same – like old Mr Bilbo. But those aren't always the best tales to hear, though they may be the best tales to get landed in! I wonder what sort of a tale we've fallen into?'

`I wonder,' said Frodo. 'But I don't know. And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to.'

'No, sir, of course not. Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. But that's a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it – and the Silmaril went on and came to Eärendil. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We've got – you've got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you! Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. Don't the great tales never end? '

'No, they never end as tales,' said Frodo. `But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later – or sooner.'

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J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings, The Two Towers (1954)

(os "negritos" são meus)

Hobbit...

(link)

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«If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.»

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J. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: or, There and Back Again (1937)

... E salgueiros

Travessa (Museu dos Biscainhos)

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«“Look at this,” said Ron, pulling a long thin box out of a bag and opening it. “Brand-new wand. Fourteen inches, willow, containing one unicorn tail-hair. (...)»

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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999).

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(link)

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Propriedades mágicas do salgueiro: creatividade, fertilidade, inspiração, amor, protecção, cura. Árvore da imortalidade. (link)

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Willow (filme de 1988)

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«This time she came upon a large flower-bed, with a border of daisies, and a willow-tree growing in the middle.»

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Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871)

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John Singer Sargent, Two Women Asleep in a Punt under the Willows (1887, Museu Gulbenkian, Lisboa)

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«In one of the gardens grew an elder-tree, and in the other an old willow, under which the children were very fond of playing.»

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Hans Christian Andersen, Under the willow-tree (1853)

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Claude Monet, Water Lilies and Weeping Willow Branches (1916-1919)

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«The Whomping Willow was a very violent tree that stood alone in the middle of the grounds.

“And?” he said, dreading the answer.

“Well, you know the Whomping Willow,” said Ron. “It — it doesn’t like being hit.”»

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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999).

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Vincent Van Gogh, Public Park with Weeping Willow - The Poet s Garden (1888, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago)
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«'The trees and the Ents,' said Treebeard. 'I do not understand all that goes on myself, so I cannot explain it to you. Some of us are still true Ents, and lively enough in our fashion, but many are growing sleepy, going tree-ish, as you might say. Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake. Some are quite wide awake, and a few are, well, ah, well getting Entish. That is going on all the time. 'When that happens to a tree, you find that some have bad hearts. Nothing to do with their wood: I do not mean that. Why, I knew some good old willows down the Entwash, gone long ago, alas! They were quite hollow, indeed they were falling all to pieces, but as quiet and sweet-spoken as a young leaf. (...)»

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J. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers (1954).

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Camille Corot, Willows and Farmhouses at Saint Catherine les Arras (1871, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland)

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"I am a willow of the wilderness,

Loving the wind that bent me."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Noite e Dia

Burne-Jones, Night (1870)

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«In the morning counsels are best, and night changes many thoughts.»

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J R R Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings, The Return of the King (1955).

Para o dia de hoje

«Do not meddle in the at Fairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.»

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings, The Two Towers (1954)

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Paul Klee, Witch scene (1921)

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«It is most unlikely. But - here comes the big "but" - not impossible.»

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Roald Dahl, The Witches.

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Vento(s) de Outono

Paul Klee, Diana in the Autumn Wind (1921)

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‘It’s an ill wind as blows nobody no good, as I always say. And All’s well as ends Better!’

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J R R Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings, The Return of the King (1955).

Ajudar

Eugene de Blaas, A Helping Hand (1884)

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«Yet twice blessed is help unlooked for.»

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J R R Tolkien, The Lord Of The Rings, The Return of the King (1955).

Acreditar...

In The Dutchess (8/7/2014)

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'Yet dawn is ever the hope of men,' said Aragorn.

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J R R Tolkien, Lord of the Rings The Two Towers (1954)

Ravens vs. Crows / Corvos vs. ...?

Sergey Solomko, Conversation

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No livro The Hobbit: or, There and Back Again (1937) de J. R. Tolkien, a certa altura pode ler-se:

“I only wish he was a raven!” said Balin.

“I thought you did not like them! You seemed very shy of them, when we came this way before.”

“Those were crows! And nasty suspicious-looking creatures at that, and rude as well. You must have heard the ugly names they were calling after us. But the ravens are different. There used to be great friendship between them and the people of Thror; and they often brought us secret news, and were rewarded with such bright things as they coveted to hide in their dwellings. “They live many a year, and their memories are long, and they hand on their wisdom to their children. I knew many among the ravens of the rocks when I was a dwarf-lad. This very height was once named Ravenhill, because there was a wise and famous pair, old Care and his wife, that lived here above the guard-chamber. But I don’t suppose that any of that ancient breed linger here now.”

Num site da internet há um artigo intitulado Crow vs. Raven, que refere a diferença das duas espécies e onde se diz que o "raven" pode viver cerca de 30 anos. Em português não encontrei tradução para o "raven" para além de "corvo comum". Fiquei com curiosidade sobre qual seria.

Aprender

George Clausen, A Schoolgirl (1889)

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«But I should like to know» - Pippin began.

«Mercy!» cried Gandalf. «If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?»

«The names of all the stars, and of all living things, and the whole history of Middle-earth and Over-heaven and of the Sundering Seas» laughed Pippin. «Of course! What less? But I am not in a hurry tonight.»

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J R R Tolkien, Lord of the Rings The Two Towers (1954)

Sobre tesouros

(link)

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«And here also is your brooch, Pippin», said Aragorn. «I have kept it safe, for it is a very precious thing.»

«I know», said Pippin. «It was a wrench to let it go; but what else could I do?»

«Nothing else», answered Aragorn. «One who cannot cast away a treasure at need is in fetters. You did rightly.»

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J. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers (1954).

Espelhos mágicos I

Alan Lee, Galadriel

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With water from the stream Galadriel filled the basin to the brim, and breathed on it, and when the water was still again she spoke. «Here is the Mirror of Galadriel», she said. «I have brought you here so that you may look in it, if you will.»

The air was very still, and the dell was dark, and the Elf-lady beside him was tall and pale. «What shall we look for, and what shall we see?» asked Frodo, filled with awe.

«Many things I can command the Mirror to reveal», she answered, «and to some I can show what they desire to see. But the Mirror will also show things unbidden, and those are often stranger and more profitable than things which we wish to behold. What you will see, if you leave the Mirror free to work, I cannot tell. For it shows things that were, and things that are, things that yet may be. But which it is that he sees, even the wisest cannot always tell. Do you wish to look?»

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J. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954).

As terras dos Elfos

(link)

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Ao reler O Senhor dos Anéis, de Tolkien, no volume da Irmandade do Anel, (re)descobri esta frase que muito me agradou:  «Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there»:

'To the end of the journey – in the end,' said Gandalf. 'We cannot look too far ahead. Let us be glad that the first stage is safely over. I think we will rest here, not only today but tonight as well. There is a wholesome air about Hollin. Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.'

'That is true,' said Legolas. `But the Elves of this land were of a race strange to us of the silvan folk, and the trees and the grass do not now remember them: Only I hear the stones lament them: deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone. They are gone. They sought the Havens long ago.'

E eu fiquei a pensar que se há terra em Portugal onde eu acreditaria que teriam existido elfos, onde as árvores e as pedras ainda cantassem a sua presença, seria na serra de Sintra. Conhecem outros?

Caminhos I

Camille Corot, A Rising Path (c.1845)

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«Home is behind, the world ahead

And there are many paths to tread

Through shadow, to the edge of night

Until the stars are all alight

Mist and shadow

Cloud and shade

Alll shall Fade

All shall fade»

(Link)

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Caminhos

(Link)

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«The Road goes ever on and on

Down from the door where it began.

Now far ahead the Road has gone,

And I must follow, if I can,

Pursuing it with eager feet,

Until it joins some larger way

Where many paths and errands meet.

And whither then? I cannot say.»

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J.R.R. Tolkien.

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