With all the weird retro LotR stuff going around lately,

[huinare]

can 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.

Comments

[dwimordene-2011.livejournal.com]

No, no, I can see it! Look, the egg symbolizes the fertility of genius, awaiting its entry onto the world! But the smooth roundness and neutral off-white of it symbolize the ambivalence of genius, its non-allegiance with anything but itself.

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.)

[shadowbrides.livejournal.com]

Hah! My insane interpretation was the the bird with egg was Feanor, crouching protectively over his one egg, his one true creation, his "children" in a way - the Silmarils.

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.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

My best shot was going to be Elwing as a seagull, but I now see my error. This. Definitely.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

You've sold me on the bit about the egg.

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."

[wheelrider.livejournal.com]

My Batshit Pony! *spews tea*

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Well, I would've left well enough alone, but your poor tea accidentally activated my parody reflex somehow. Of the original theme song I grew up with, of course. (And I fail at left-aligning images to text. Oh well)



<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

[wheelrider.livejournal.com]

HOLY SH&T!!! Brilliant! I totally remember that theme song and this goes so well.

That deserves its own post!


(fortunately I set my tea down before reading)

[huinare.livejournal.com]

If I were to make it its own post, I'd have to go to the trouble of putting the text onto the picture itself all fancy-like...because I'm a perfectionist. And, I'm also lazy. These two qualities are like oil and water. I need a My Batshit Pony to whip me into shape.

[wheelrider.livejournal.com]

Heh, I hear you on the perfectionist/lazy double-edged sword... if you can't do it right, don't do anything at all (but continue to eat cookies and read things on the internet as I am instead of working on starting my Bechdel Test Challenge story).

[huinare.livejournal.com]

Wait, did I write this comment, cause it sounds like I wrote this comment.

[wheelrider.livejournal.com]

:)
[ETA} Hey, what about your Conscience, William Lovelace? Oh there he is, in your icon, looking disdainfully upon the pair of us.

[huinare.livejournal.com]

I swear the man appropriated 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..

[huinare.livejournal.com]

So I thought you should know that the My Batshit Pony theme song is now written in my above comment to WR.

Thank you.
Or, should I say, you're welcome.

Yeah, I'm a lyrical genius.