Before #Tolkein wrote #TheLordOfTheRings there was ##TheWormOuroboros.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worm_Ouroboros

I've found a pretty good #Audiobook of it ( and Lord knows I'm a picky bastard when it comes to audiobook performers).

The beginning with #ThomasTheRhymer is good.

Now to stay awake for chapter 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJkbp4XuikQ

In the ballad of Thomas the Rhymer, Thomas encountered a woman so beautiful that he initially addressed her as the Queen of Heaven. However, she corrected him by identifying herself as the Queen of Elfland before taking Thomas away to her realm for seven years. #MythologyMonday

🎨: H. M. Brock

#Folklore #ThomasTheRhymer #Fairy #QueenOfElfland #Elfland #HMBrock #Scotland #ScottishFolklore

Hardown Hill, Dorset.

And see ye not that bonny road
That winds about the fernie brae?
That is the road to fair Elfland
Where thou and I this night maun gae.

#nature #countryside #dorset #ThomasTheRhymer