What mortal could rescue Tam Lin from that shadow life but Janet who loved him? She told him she would save him isf she could, and Tam Li described how the mortal must challenge the power of the Fairy Queen. Then he faded into the sun-speckled forest.

From Time-Life Books’s Fairies and Elves, part of The Enchanted World Series, 1984. Illustration by Jill Karla Schwarz

Confession: This is the first place I encountered the story of Tam Lin, and where I fell in love with it. I will freely admit it was largely because of the beautiful illustrations, particularly the last one.

The bare-chested, disheveled Tam Lin resting under Janet’s mantle just caught my attention. I was ten, maybe eleven years old at the time. Thirty years later, seventeen years of running a website, forty four versions of the ballad, more than a dozen related stories, a couple of citations in articles and theses, pages of analysis, maps, well over a hundred books, plays, articles… and here’s the images that kicked that off for me. Enjoy.

monthofloveart:

Erica Leveque

Tam Lin, for the Month of Love, metamorphoses

“Then I’ll appear in your arms
Like the wolf that neer woud tame;
Ye’ll had me fast, lat me not go,
Case we neer meet again.”

FIRE & HEMLOCK by Diana Wynne Jones

One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother’s house. Polly’s just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening adventures she embarked on with Tom Lynn after that. And then she did something terrible, and everything changed.

But what did she do? Why can’t she remember? Polly must uncover the secret, or her true love — and perhaps Polly herself — will be lost.

Check out this book on Goodreads: Fire and Hemlock https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367158.Fire_and_Hemlock
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Modern day adaption of the folktale Tam Lin by the author of How’s Moving Castle.

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celialowenthal:

If that I be with child, father,
‘Twill prove a wondrous birth,
For well I swear I’m not with bairn
To any man on earth.

[…] The steed that my true love rides on
Is lighter than the wind,
With silver he is shod before,
With burning gold behind.

Panel from the TAM LIN zine I’ll have at MOCCA!

Tam Lin

Scottish folktale revolving around the rescue of the once human fairy knight Tam Lin by his true love from the Queen of the Fairies. Reylo vibes…

The article features a really good list of book adaptations.

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Tam Lin

PRINCE LINDWORM – Norwegian folktale

Read also @kittypeas ’ meta comparing this wonderfully romantic folktale to Rey and Kylo: https://www.worldoftales.com/European_folktales/Norwegian_folktale_3.html

PRINCE LINDWORM – Norwegian folktale

The Force Awakens and fairytales: part two. Prince Lindworm.

kittypeas:

This is the
second and (probably) last part or my essay “The Force Awakens and Fairytales”.
This time I wanted to describe the Norwegian folktale about Prince Lindworm
(which can you read HERE) which, in my opinion, is the most accurate summary of
Kylo/Ben & Rey relationship. First, I will discuss a theoretical framework
and concepts that I will need to conduct proper analysis of the parallels between
TFA and “Prince Lindworm”. But don’t get discouraged! Throughout this essay I will
continuously get back to the movie.

Weiterlesen

Wonderful meta about this very romantic folktale and the characters and themes of the sequel trilogy. Next to this all the Beauty and the Beast comparisons seem almost shallow.