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Beautiful video -but fairies / elves / Fées did not have pointed ears before some Tolkien and Dungeons & Dragons illustrators went 'free wheeling' (perhaps taking inspiration from Disney's treason of Peter Pan, or from Mr Spock?)...

As for the insect wings they date from the Victorian Tinkerbell-...

@FragileDarkness665: "don't feed the trolls!" Please don't insult those poor Scandinavian trolls!

Btw I commented to the Garmarna version (and other interpretations) of 'Herr Mannelig' on YTube that 'troll' in some cases may actually meant pagan / witch.

@psychoVivi a pretty woman is always pretty and an ugly one (sorry for the political 'uncorrectness', but they also exist) is always ugly: dress changes nothing, except when concealing unpleasant parts.

You should have know the late "60 - early"70, the great era of the mini-skirt!

'Dressing like...

@TheRapper99999 : never saw an ancient statue? Never heard of the Venus of Milo? Or are you fanatically gay?

Now, abide to Project Darwin, do something good for the hereditary baggage of Humankind: kill yourself before you reproduce.

@coolboysoldier1 : a very wicked sense of humor, or a raving fanatic? Unfortunately, more probably a raving fanatic.

Too bad there was no lunatic asylum in Jerusalem, some 2000 years ago!

Did not watched the series, because I hated how characters of the 'real' Arthurian cycle are 'betrayed': the 'historicized' King Arthur movie was not such an embarrassment,'playing in a different league'. And I hate the Disneyesque bias making the 'heroes' so pure they lack any psychological dept...

I hate the way all characters of the 'true' Arthurian Cycle are betrayed in the series. The 'historicized' King Arthur movie is far less of an embarrassment, being 'in another league'.

Then from the little I saw Morgause is the most interesting character.

But *why* have villains to be more intere...

Did not watch the full series, but Morgause is the most interesting character and Emilia Fox a great actress.

I hate the way most characters of the 'authentic' Arthurian cycle were 'betrayed'. All in all the 'historicized' King Arthur movie is far less an embarrassment.

OK, Emilia Fox playing Morgause - thanks Wiki + Google 8D

OK, Emilia Fox playing Morgause - thanks Wiki + Google 8D

@DarknessdeathVampire ' *Mother*: I'm unbiased here, but... 'emotionally unstable' because she does not follow blindly your own religious prejudices?

@0OoJoshuaoO0 While those fanatical monotheists have to intrude?

You Bible is just another jumble of old mythologies: you are not different, you are not 'better', you have no right to attack other people with your raving quotes.

What the Bible says has no more 'reality' or weight than what the Ka...

@SilentNight700: ..."When did ‘disbelief’ cause God or Satan not to exist?"

When did 'belief' cause God to exist?????????

"Personal beliefs have no effect on what’s real": indeed. Your belief in God does not make Him real. God in an ad hoc hypothesis *you* have to cling to -a convenient fiction.

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@acousticdrivers To hijack a thread of comments for an unsolicited preach is a specially aggressive form of spam.

For the atheist I am, all 'believers' are retarded adults still believing in Santa Claus, but some are pleasant and other insufferable. Aggressive crack junkies instead of gentle smok...

@FollyOfArsinoe I basically agree; but the 'modern, post-Tolkien vision' of Elves is very different from the traditional (and thus, somehow, more 'authentic') one. So different that it would be better to have a different name.

@jarbear

Opinions are like assholes: everyone got his own.

'Easier' to enjoy than traditional interpretations, but only pseudo-elitist snobs can find it contemptible.

Like it!

I totally lack the skills & hardware to do it, but I feel 'Frontline' by Pillar (search Ytube) would be a great soundtrack for a compilation of the best scenes of Cara and Kahlan fighting as a team.

There are dozens of Cara and Kahlan fan videos but very few concentrate on their 'warr...

One of the best scenes of the series indeed! I totally lack the skills & hardware to do it, but I feel 'Frontline' by Pillar (search Ytube) would be a great soundtrack for a compilation of the best scenes of Cara and Kahlan fighting as a team.

There are dozens of Cara and Kahlan fan videos but v...

Like it!

I totally lack the skills & hardware to do it, but I feel 'Frontline' by Pillar (search Ytube) would be a great soundtrack for a compilation of the best scenes of Cara and Kahlan fighting as a team.

There are dozens of Cara and Kahlan fan videos but very few concentrate on their 'warrio...

Don't know about the TV show, but 'historically' (!!!) Merlin, son of a demon and a nun, was centuries old (but no more than 5: no nuns before Christianity!).

Yet, if as some commentators suggest, Morgan the Fay was a magical creature from Avalon before being mistaken for Arthur's half daughter, ...

A suggestion [absent from the first, and probably older, verses] that she was a woman cursed to look as a troll; a cursed lifted by love, re. Sleeping Beauty, Beauty & the Beast, the Prince Charming turned into a frog... For me 'smells' of a later addition: the 1st verse clearly presents her as a...

Beautiful! Glad most your Hadas (Fées in French) while largely equivalent to the Elves further North, don't have those silly pointed ears invented by some illustrators of Tolkien and Dungeons & Dragons (taking inspiration from Disney's treason of Peter Pan, or from Mr Spock?). I've reservations a...

Beautiful song and a nice collection of images. I've reservations about the pointed ears (a modern invention of some illustrators of Tolkien and Dungeons & Dragons, perhaps taking inspiration from Disney's treason of peter Pan, or from Mr Spock?); also the insect wings are quite recent (the Victo...

*Beautiful* indeed -but Elves did NOt have pointed ears before some Tolkien and Dungeons & Dragons illustrators went 'free wheeling', perhaps taking inspiration from Disney's treason of Peter Pan, or from Mr. Spock!

*Evil* Morgana? A later alteration from later more Christianized inserts (the Lancelot - Grail sub-cycle), while Merlin was put 'off the loop'. : in the oldest parts of the Arthurian Cycle Morgan the Fay is a 'good' character with extraordinary healing powers. Nonetheless, since the end of the e...

Boorman already used epic O Fortuna in Excalibur. Originally Morgan the Fay is a 'good' character with extraordinary healing powers. She got an evil part and repute in later, more Christianized inserts (the Lancelot - Grail sub-cycle), while Merlin was put 'off the loop'. Nonetheless, since the e...

As it is, the song is incoherent: the last verses (and the not sung following ones) suggest she is a woman cursed to appear as a troll; denied by the 1st verse 'a troll with a lying tongue'. Smells of a later addition (to 'restore' some sense to the story) when old meanings were no longer underst...

An old song from Southern France Ai vist lo lop, lo rainard, la lebre In Extremo did a lively 'modern' interpretation

The translation is recent, I suppose? A very pleasant version, in any case.

@baraqijal15

Search YouTube for Herr Mannelig Garmarna (I see it on the right->): English translation on screen.

Very good version along the 'In Extremo' line.

The most 'authentic' interpretation is by Garmarna.

The Haggard one, in a very different style, is also very pleasant.