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tam-nonlinear:

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.

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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