#oliphant

[artifacts-archive]

Oliphant

Italy, Fatimid dynasty, 11-12th century

About 30 specimens of these carved ivory horns have survived, though exclusively in collections located outside the Islamic world. The horns are believed to have been made for European patrons, but are attributed to Fatimid craftsmen working in the artistic centres of the Norman kingdom of southern Italy and Sicily. The horns also show close parallels in style and iconography to the ivory caskets made in Sicily and southern Italy during the same period. The ivory used for these objects was most probably imported from North Africa. The term oliphant occurs for the first time in the French poem of 'Chanson de Roland' (probably written 1075–1100). The poem describes the horn that Roland, commander of the Frankish king, used when he called Charlemagne (747–814) to come to Roncesvalles to help him against the advancing Muslims. Above all, ivory horns were symbols of honour and were used by dignitaries as signal horns. Ivory horns decorated with representations of animals were possibly used for hunting, though it is not known in what way.

#artifact #Islamic #Italy #oliphant #Fatimid dynasty

[theworldsoftolkein]

Assurance From Faramir - by Breath Art2004

"But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo."

#the lord of the rings #the two towers #gollum #faramir #haradrim #oliphant #the forbidden pool #middle earth #tolkien #tolkien legendarium #frodo & sam #frodo baggins

[animentality]

"what is an oliphant?"

- me as a kid

"oh it's an elephant with an abnormal amount of tusks."

- me ten minutes later

#lotr #oliphant

[jonathanx]

Oliphant series. With @sweetchaosphotos #joncalderasphotography #oliphant #lgbt #lgbtq🌈 #ohiomodel #bdsmart #fetishart #leather https://www.instagram.com/p/Co4v8OFO1tn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#joncalderasphotography #oliphant #lgbt #lgbtq🌈 #ohiomodel #bdsmart #fetishart #leather

[steamedtangerine]

I never, never, NEVER thought in a million years that I’d ever find a need to dust off these old chestnuts.

For those of you unaware, the son of the infamous dictator of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, has been elected President, and the unchecked corruption of online and broadcast media is to blame.

While I do not agree with Oliphant on everything he illustrates (hints can be found above), he did not candy-coat in his accuracy that Marcos was a bloody, greedy dictator who had support from the U.S. These five political cartoons (I chose to leave out the ones where Oliphant portrays Marcos in caricature as a minuscule monkey) from 1985-1986 represent a breakdown of the Marcos’ activities from their despotism, their assassination of Benigno Aquino, to their losing the election, to seeking asylum in the U.S., to what the mainstream world best recalls-thousands of hoarded pairs of shoes.

#toons #atrocity #top tier #idiocracy #oliphant

[carbombrenee]

Kites and the Oliphant Fen May 2022

#photo365 #kites #oliphant #lake huron #ontario #fens #fog #atmospheric #canon photography #fishing islands #victoria weekend #bruce peninsula

[goodwomanbadlady]

You ever say "Fuck if I know" really fast and it sounds like a fictional creature? Like an Oliphant and a FuckifIknow walk into Mordor kinda thing?

Idk. It makes me smile.

#Oliphant #fuck if i know #fictional creature #wonder what that would look like?

[munindramisra]

Atma Upanishad, part of Upanishad 5, book releasing shortly, eBook available. For link details view

#hinduism #munindra #english #rhyme #sanatan #dharma #books #munindramisra #upanishad #welham #oliphant

[tenth-sentence]

Sam drew a deep breath.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" - J.R.R. Tolkien

#book quote #lotr #lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #ttt #the two towers #samwise gamgee #hobbits #deep breath #oliphaunt #oliphant #ithilien

[xyg9fje9j]

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#twinlike #piscinal #snubbishness #pentagram #disorder #glunch #Crippen #crumbed #aplomb #anemography #Oliphant #nonquantitatively #quickest #atrocities #stunsail #shirtlessness #beneficium #hieracite #swacking #plashers

[theworldsoftolkein]

#tolkien legendarium #the lord of the rings #tolkien #jrr tolkien #plennor fields #the battle of the plennor fields #oliphant

[ainu-blog-official]

On the oliphaunts

I've been thinking. Who the hell made those things? I'm certain Eru wouldn't break his holy-ass laws so why make those things? I'm almost a hundred percent certain their bone mass is not big enough to sustain their speed or their weight, so either they have to be way slower or way smaller. But they aren't! What the fuck.

Curunir

#curunir #saruman #lord of the rings #lotr #ainur #elephant is better #oliphant #??? #oliphaunt??? #how do you spell #these #little #shits

[jonathanx]

Oliphant series. With @_madalynn____ #joncalderasphotography #indianamodel #indianamodels #oliphantbackdrops #oliphant #portraitphotography #portrait https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDeQmbOCQV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#joncalderasphotography #indianamodel #indianamodels #oliphantbackdrops #oliphant #portraitphotography #portrait

[soracities]

I wasn’t supposed to live like this. No one was supposed to live like this. The problem was that I simply didn’t know how to make it right...no one had ever shown me the right way to live a life, and although I’d tried my best over the years, I simply didn’t know how to make things better. I could not solve the puzzle of me.

Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

#q #lit #quotes #literature #gail honeyman #eleanor oliphant is completely fine #reading #sing me down into the dark #fragments of selfhood #contemporary lit #m #x

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Heyy, I love ur content and can I request a Web weaving of being alone or loneliness? Thankyou <3

i hope you're doing well <33

Alice Oseman Radio Silence / The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) dir. Stephen Chbosky / Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine / Susan Sontag As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 / The Double (2013) dir. Richard Ayoade / Heather Havrilesky Ask Polly: Help, I'm The Loneliest Person In The World! / Taylor Steele Shocker / Amy Dunne

#on loneliness #on growing up #on sadness #web weave #web weaving #poetry compilation #poetry parallels #alice oseman #radio silence #the perks of being a wallflower #stephen chbosky #gail honeyman #eleanor oliphant is completely fine #susan sontag #as consciousness is harnessed to flesh #the double #richard ayoade #heather havrilesky #ask polly #taylor steele #shocker #amy dunne #poem #spilled poetry #spilled thoughts #writing #spilled ink #dark academia #dark academia poetry #dark academia quote

[fadedday]

Photography by Diana Jean Oliphant

#Diana Jean Oliphant #artistic nude #art nude #photographic nude #nude in nature