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Э.Колесникова / A painting by E. Kolesnikova

Mar. 5th, 2017 at 3:01 PM

Originally posted by

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Tags: nature, painting, spring

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duathir.livejournal.com

Mar. 5th, 2017 08:12 pm (UTC)

Very lovely; thank you.

med_cat

Mar. 5th, 2017 08:21 pm (UTC)

Pleased you liked it :)

A very Russian painting, this one ;)

duathir.livejournal.com

Mar. 6th, 2017 05:52 pm (UTC)

Is it? I had thought of New England, which has similar birch forests.

med_cat

Mar. 6th, 2017 10:03 pm (UTC)

Yes, new England does; hence Frost's poem about swinging the birches, etc.

It is just that birch is something of a national symbol, for Russia; there are traditional crafts made out of birch bark, too--have you seen those?

duathir.livejournal.com

Mar. 7th, 2017 05:53 am (UTC)

I have seen a few, but did not know their significance. I have read that many well-preserved birch bark manuscripts from the medieval period were found in Novgorod.

med_cat

Mar. 7th, 2017 12:08 pm (UTC)

:)

Yes, quite right, birch bark was used for writing as well.

lindahoyland.livejournal.com

Mar. 5th, 2017 08:29 pm (UTC)

So beautiful reminds me of Aragorn meeting Arwen and some local woods.

med_cat

Mar. 5th, 2017 08:31 pm (UTC)

elenbarathi.livejournal.com

Mar. 8th, 2017 01:59 am (UTC)

Look at what I just found! A Sindarin translation of the Ballad of Beren and Luthien that rhymes and scans! I set this poem to music back in my 20's; now I'll be able to sing it in Elvish too! Woohoo!

http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/lang/tranS/translationS/TinuvielTrans.htm

med_cat

Mar. 8th, 2017 10:56 pm (UTC)

Ah, very nice :) You must make a recording of both :)

elenbarathi.livejournal.com

Mar. 9th, 2017 02:29 am (UTC)

Thanks! Some time I will, but I don't currently know how - my tech support grew up and moved to California, and all the tech in our household is so obsolete that it's a wonder it still works at all. The person who was going to make Youtube videos of us still hasn't done anything with what he recorded last year, so I don't expect anything will come of that.

med_cat

Mar. 9th, 2017 09:21 pm (UTC)

Ah, I see.

Well, sometime, hopefully--maybe when your "tech support" comes for a visit...;)

lindahoyland.livejournal.com

Mar. 9th, 2017 06:11 am (UTC)

That's great you found it.

elenbarathi.livejournal.com

Mar. 6th, 2017 06:53 pm (UTC)

I was thinking that it looks like the woods of Beleriand where Lúthien (https://www.google.com/search?q=luthien&rlz=1C1EODB_enUS546US546&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiP_6rSw8LSAhVV82MKHX45AagQ_AUICCgB&biw=1024&bih=643#imgrc=I4HKR7JY_mik9M:) was dancing in Spring when she met Beren.

med_cat

Mar. 6th, 2017 10:01 pm (UTC)

:))

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