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 Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:58 pm
And the barony my pack fights from is north woods, with a fenris style wolf eating the sun on a blue field. Least till wheeled lake gets finalized.
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:28 pm
i--m--r--t--l fenris and wolf... hmm reminds me of fenrir greyback 3nodding Yes, Fenrir (just like Cloud's bike) is a variant of Fenris. J.K. Rowling bases many things off of mythology and legends, not to say that she's not completely original, because she is. biggrin
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:34 pm
forever~crying~inside OMG I WAS RIGHT! i was like hmmm that sounds like loki's wolf son. didnt it say that he was HUGE. that he was so big that his upper jaw tounched the heavens and his lower one touched the earth. Awesome! Im glad you recognized the legend. Yes, he was said to be bound by the Gods but ultimately to grow so large he is too big for his bonds and devours Odin (the kind of Chief-God of the Norse pantheon) during Ragnarok. Like you said, he gets so big that his upper jaw touches the heavens and his lower jaw touches the earth when he gapes. That's pretty big! I wish I could get that big. But worry not, he won't keep growing, because he will be killed by Vidarr, Odin's son, as an act of vengeance. Which makes me sad. crying
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Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:36 pm
A vast majority of the things in her books are taken almost directly from mythology. If one has the right background in the occult, you find almost all of the creatures described bases, many with only minor changes of name or temperment. The major artifacts (philosphers stone, goblet of fire, invisibility cloaks and such were all taken straight from a variety of sources. The deathly hollows myth is an intresting one, but not entirely new. She rewrote the back story and changed one of the items, but I have a version of it in my possesion from 1999, date stamped)
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 12:57 am
J-E-O-C A vast majority of the things in her books are taken almost directly from mythology. If one has the right background in the occult, you find almost all of the creatures described bases, many with only minor changes of name or temperment. The major artifacts (philosphers stone, goblet of fire, invisibility cloaks and such were all taken straight from a variety of sources. The deathly hollows myth is an intresting one, but not entirely new. She rewrote the back story and changed one of the items, but I have a version of it in my possesion from 1999, date stamped) Yes, agreed. Why make new creatures when history and mythology have a veritable goldmine waiting in books already? That's very interesting that you have that book from 1999. Who would have thought.
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 1:00 pm
i beleive, acording to my book of legends and myths, that he shares a mother with Cerberus. and no chains, not even chains made by the gods, can hold him. am i correct?
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 4:07 pm
ShadowDaughterofRaven i beleive, acording to my book of legends and myths, that he shares a mother with Cerberus. and no chains, not even chains made by the gods, can hold him. am i correct? Cerberus is actually Greek, and while he and Fenris are both canine creatures in nature, Fenris is a Norse creature. Fenris' mother was the giantess Angrboda (probably why he's so big, ha!). Cerberus' mother was Echidna, known for being mother of all monsters in Greek mythology, which may aid in the confusion. Even though Fenris wasn't his brother, Cerberus still had some famous siblings, mainly the Chimera and the Hydra. I have no idea if their were chains strong enough to hold any of these creatures, so you're probably correct. biggrin
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 6:22 pm
*ish too lazy to read the posts*
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