The wolfhound's links

[wellinghall]

"And, he says, J.R.R. Tolkien may have modeled the domed hobbit houses in the Shire after a sunken ice house in Birmingham’s Moseley Park in Britain."

The Fantastical Creatures of the Rutland Psalter

Gamers may already know of this site, but I only found it yesterday. It enabled me to confirm my vague memories of "Paths of the Lil", in the first issue of White Dwarf I saw, #16.

Can one get more steampunk-ish?

The mystery of the mayor's chain and its missing gold links

Secrets of medieval Europe's large-scale publishing industry revealed

For Hobbits everywhere

This is shiny

Why Climate Scientists Are So Intrigued By the Brutal Sea Voyages of the 19th Century

Was it for walrus?

Comments

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it be more steampunkish if the blimp was powered by steam? I mean that's just humanpunk. Or perhaps if the power is supplied by someone who enjoys the music of The Ramones, punkpunk.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Someone needs to make a steam engine that both provides motive power for a dirigible and plays the Ramones on an organ.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Now there is a real task for someone to get their teeth into!

Sheila is a steam punk rocker...


I was fascinated by a number of the links - thank you.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I am glad you enjoyed them.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this gorgeously sparkling round-up of links! I really liked the idea of the pedal-power blimp. Yes, very steam-punk - scenes of bright young things heading by blimp to Wimbledon for an alt 1890s afternoon of tennis, say. :)
Loved the marginalia of the Rutland Psalter, too, and also the glimpse of lovely late-nineteenth-century high aesthetics and privilege which let William Morris call for it on his death-bed -(so much more admirable than calling fora veal pie)!
and all the rest, all the way down to walrus ivory. Wonderful! (I like old ivory very much, myself, and have gone to the extent of writing one museum-piece into a story because I liked it so much.)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I am very pleased you liked them; and your idea of an alt 1890s Wimbledon is just right!

I used to work at Belvoir Castle, family home of the Dukes of Rutland, who used to own both the Rutland Psalter and the Rutland Salver. I never saw them, though