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huinarecan we please observe the Ace 1965 covers and how, among other things, a My Little Pony has evidently mated with a bat?
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Also, you know, I really actually quite like this one. Except that it doesn't make sense. But that's okay.
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Also, you know, I really actually quite like this one. Except that it doesn't make sense. But that's okay.
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Date: 2013-01-11 11:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-11 11:40 pm (UTC)And I assume that giant hooded chap is Sauron going "aaaugh I've got an infestation of...of...what even are these?!"
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Date: 2013-01-11 11:54 pm (UTC)Now..the others...are...very artistic interpretations? Not half as mad as this Polish Silmarillion cover though. I've tried to understand the damn thing for years but...nothing.
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Date: 2013-01-11 11:59 pm (UTC)Re: Polish Silm.
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Date: 2013-01-12 12:09 am (UTC)Moreover, the world is cruel, and so the brown birdlike metal hook/latch/door-holder thingie, representing the fusion of nature and artifice waits to pierce the shell of genius, and unleash it upon the world, to what effect, no one knows, but the shadow looming in the background forebodes Bad Things. And then the people - their pointy form is actually suggestive of a keyhole, and their coloration combines with that to suggest that they are just trouble waiting to be unlocked behind their abstract and naive gazes! Madness! Madness lies within!
I got it! I totally got this cover art! Legomullet --> painful. Plant-head people --> disturbing. My Batshit Pony --> significantly less terrifying than required. But abstract bird-egg art? I go this!
(Yes, I think I am going insane. I blame class prep.)
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Date: 2013-01-12 12:18 am (UTC)The hopeless looking people on the next page are the 7. If you look at their faces, they are actually just flat with eyes on them. They don't have beaks! Those are fake things they hold up to their face. I think this represents them trying to emulate Feanor and their trying to find and take back the Silmarils.
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Date: 2013-01-12 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-12 12:55 am (UTC)Cause it's either that reasonably comprehensible and believable explanation, or else they went into the kitchen of some artist on acid and were like "Make us a Silmarillion cover."
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Date: 2013-01-12 05:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-13 12:29 am (UTC)<3 <3 <3
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My Batshit Pony, My Batshit Pony, what will today’s atrocity be?
My Batshit Pony, My Batshit Pony, will there be haunting sights to see?
Will we not slay them? Pursue and flay them? Letting the Ring’s power be our guide.
My Batshit Pony, My Batshit Pony, you’ll strike fear right by my side…You’ll strike fear right by my side…
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<3 <3 <3
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Date: 2013-01-13 01:45 am (UTC)That deserves its own post!
(fortunately I set my tea down before reading)
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Date: 2013-01-13 01:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-13 02:10 am (UTC)working onstarting my Bechdel Test Challenge story).no subject
Date: 2013-01-13 02:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-13 02:23 am (UTC)[ETA} Hey, what about your Conscience, William Lovelace? Oh there he is, in your icon, looking disdainfully upon the pair of us.
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Date: 2013-01-13 02:48 am (UTC)manappropriated semblance of some dude who's probably rolling in his centuries-old grave is no help at all. He just gives that disapproving stare and does nothing to help out around here.Jiminy Lovelace: Now that's unfair. I do exactly what I'm supposed to do. You lack follow-through, you wretch..
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Date: 2013-01-13 12:35 am (UTC)Thank you.
Or, should I say, you're welcome.
Yeah, I'm a lyrical genius.
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Date: 2013-01-12 12:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-12 04:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-12 12:42 am (UTC)This is probably just me, but for the Return of the King cover I saw the giant, pointy rock tower rising up in front of (what is presumably) Sauron, and immediately thought...
*runs away*
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Date: 2013-01-12 12:52 am (UTC)And all those little plant people or gull aliens or whatever are like OH SHIT GUYS SAURON IS GOING TO COVER ALL THE LANDS WITH HIS--
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Date: 2013-01-12 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-12 02:08 am (UTC)I love that "doesn't make sense" cover for purely sentimental reasons. That was the edition (pictured in 1L's post below) that my brother brought home from college in 1968. I immediately grabbed the paperbacks and didn't emerge from my room for a few days.
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Date: 2013-01-13 12:20 am (UTC)Cool! I think they're really nice covers whether they make sense or no, which is much more than I can say about Gandalf the Gold, My Batshit Pony, and Cyclopean!Priapic!Sauron above.
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Date: 2013-01-12 01:47 am (UTC)The ones that you showed seem to have a thing with outstretched arms and odd rock formations :-) I hadn't seen these before and they are quite odd - especially the dark Pegasus for the Nazgul.
Here's the full set of three in the series I first owned around 1967 or so...(I also had the full poster on my wall).
- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 2013-01-13 12:24 am (UTC)Couldn't resist icon-izing a detail of the Tower Towers one myself.
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Date: 2013-01-13 01:27 am (UTC)The poster was indeed of all of them seamlessly joined. Here's a fairly decent photo of what it looked like...
- Erulisse (one L)
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Date: 2013-01-13 01:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-13 01:37 am (UTC)- Erulisse (one L)