"Entmoot" by @larihuttunen. https://photography.huttu.net/pics/010849529-entmoot #fantasy #lotr #lordoftherings #ents #treeshepherds #limousin #france #blackandwhite #monochrome #tolkien #entmoot

If you haven’t guessed, I’m a big fan of J.R.R. #Tolkien and have been, ever since I read #lotr for the first time a loooong time ago (34 years to be exact). #fantasy #fanart #wallart #literature #photography

The #ents and Tom Bombadil are of course things that resonate well with Finns because of the #Kalevala connection.

If you are not familiar with #Kalevala, I highly recommend it and it has been translated into 61 languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kalevala_translations

Fun fact that #lotr has been translated into 38 or 38 languages counting in The Hobbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translations_of_The_Lord_of_the_Rings

It is also a known fact that #Tolkien drew a lot of inspiration from #Kalevala and the Finno-Ugric languages.

I specifically use the term Finno-Ugric or even Uralic, as I’ve been closely following the rise of the #Karelian activism put forth by @poromorko et alia.

Why I think this is relevant to the photograph that instigated this thread is that Finns are as guilty of #cultural #imperialism as are the French or Spanish for example. The location for this image is in the heartlands of the #Occitan people.