For this group animation project, we told the story of stress and the benefit of help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">English – Lyrical Essay<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the Narrative Unit in English, we were tasked with writing a lyrical essay about any topic of our choice. Lyrical essays are essays written in a more poetic style than a standard essay. This could be done by playing with poetic devices such as rhythm, rhymes, and alliteration, or through poetic structure. I chose to write about fairytales, because I like telling stories and I thought it would be cool to learn about a form of storytelling that I was less familiar with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Fairy-tales.\n\nFaerie<sup>1<\/sup> stories.\n\nAdventures into the fantastical,\ninto the winds of the Faerie.\n\nJ. R. R. Tolkein said that he could not put the wind into words,\nthat to do so would defy the very concept.<sup>2<\/sup>\n\nBut the wind blew through his words nonetheless.\n\nI agree that the wind of the Faerie,\nthe thing that most surely defines a Faerie story,\nis,\nin itself,\nindescribable.\n\nBut it is something that can be felt throughout the stories,\nblowing a magical bliss into the sails of adventure.\n\nThe air that blows through the Perilous Realm,\nthrough which the story leads,\nis as hard to see as air.\n\nAir cannot be seen,\nbut the things which it carries and blows,\nthe things that billow and flutter,\nthe birds that glide,\nthe ships that sail,\ncan show us.\n\nThat is to say,\nlooking through examples of Faerie stories,\nfinding a common element,\ncan lead us to an outline of the wind.\n\nIf we dive deep enough into Faerie,\nwe may even be able to feel it blow around us.\n\n<sup>1<\/sup>Faerie: used here and by Tolkien to mean the land of Faerie, the creatures within it, and its magic.\n<sup>2<\/sup>John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, \u201cOn Fairy Stories,\u201d in Essays Presented to Charles Williams (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1947), 38-89\n***\n\nOver the Garden Wall<sup>3<\/sup>\nfits all Tolkien\u2019s measures of a Faerie story<sup>4<\/sup>,\nexcept perhaps its age.\n\nIn it,\nwe see two brothers venture off into the woods,\nending up on an incredible journey that touches on the nature of man.\n\nThe story gives a feeling of slowness,\nof ease,\nbut an ease shrouded in mystery, \nsomething just out of reach.\n\nBut there is a necessity for patience,\nto let go of the quick-paced narrative arc,\na relaxing of pace,\nlulling the audience into a slow drift through the story.\n\nThe hint of something bigger,\nhidden behind shorter,\npeaceful adventures,\ngives an ease to the unraveling,\nlike gently pulling on a ribbon and watching the bow come undone.\n\n<sup>3<\/sup>Over the Garden Wall, created by Patrick McHale (2014; Cartoon Network, 2014), Streaming\n<sup>4<\/sup>Tolkien describes Faerie stories as being a story of human characters adventuring into the Perilous Realm. This is a vague summary, and there are many other qualifying and disqualifying factors, but the wind is one of the most emphasized by Tolkien, and one that is surely present here.\n***\n\nThe Golden Key<sup>5<\/sup>\nis said by Tolkien to be a Faerie story<sup>6<\/sup>,\nportraying the magical side of Faerie stories,\nalong with the mystical.\n\nIt tells the tale of Mossy and Tangle,\nwho went into the land of the Faerie,\nfound their way to adventure and to each other,\nsearched for one thing,\nthen another,\ngot split up,\nthen searched for each other,\nkept on looking,\nfound their way back together,\nand that for which they had been searching.\n\nThe story seems lost in itself,\nat first.\n\nMossy and Tangle are part of the seeming nonsense that piles on like an overgrowth until the reader has to just accept the absurdity,\nand wait for the knot to work itself out.\n\nOnly at the end does the path become clear,\ndo the events come together to mean something,\nthe rainbow,\nthe old man,\nthe older man,\nthe oldest man,\nthe land of shadows,\nthe aging of Mossy and Tangle.\n\nOnly then does the destination of the wind come into view.\n\n<sup>5<\/sup>George MacDonald, The Golden Key (London: Alexander Strahan & Co., 1868)\n<sup>6<\/sup>Tolkien, \u201cOn Fairy Stories\u201d\n***\n\nThe wind is not something to be rushed.\n\nIt blows as it blows,\nwith the stories.\n\nIt can fill our sails,\ncarry our wings,\nwe can find our own way,\nbut the wind will blow as it blows.\n\nIt can blow us somewhere new,\nsomewhere we can escape.\n\nIt is peaceful to see where it takes us,\nlet it take us,\nand see where it blows.\n\n\n\n<strong>Bibliography<\/strong>\n\nMacDonald, George. The Golden Key. London: Alexander Strahan & Co., 1868.\n\tThis is the story of Mossy, a boy who finds the Golden Key, and Tangle, the girl that follows him. Mossy finds the key at the foot of a rainbow which looks as though there are figures walking up it. Tangle gets lost after being driven from her house by fairies who do not like the unkemptness of her house. Mossy is named for the moss that would grow on him after reading on a mossy rock for long amounts of time. Tangle is thus called because of her unkempt hair. They are brought together, after being lost in the woods, by Grandmother and her flying bird fishes. Grandmother sends them on their way to find what the Key unlocks. They wander into a valley of shadows and begin to long to be where the shadows are cast from. As they emerge from the shadows, the shadows grow frightening. They emerge alone, and, by now, very old. To find each other, they decide to look for the land of shadows, for they know the other will try to go there, too. Tangle meets the Old Man of the Sea, who she sees as old. He sends her to the Old Man of the Earth, an older man, for he doesn\u2019t know the way to the place from which the shadows fall. Tangle meets the Old Man of the Earth and he seems young to her. He does not know how to get to the land from which the shadows fall, so sends her to the Old Man of the Fire, the oldest man. To Tangle, he looks like a child. He does know the way and sends her to follow a white snake that will guide her. Mossy, after leaving the valley of shadows, meets the Old Man of the Sea, but sees him as young. The Old Man of the Sea thus gives Mossy the ability to walk on water and points him to a rainbow. When Mossy gets there, there is a keyhole. Beyond the door that it opens is Tangle, who is no longer old. There is one more door that the key opens and the walk up the stairs beyond it and up the rainbow beyond the clouds. I read this source because it was mentioned in Tolkien\u2019s essay, but I kept it because of how it embodies the wind and how it all ties together in the end so that the symbolism behind it all becomes clear.\n\nMcHale, Patrick. Over the Garden Wall. 2014, Season 1, Episodes 1 \u2013 10, \u201cThe Old Grist Mill\u201d, \u201cHard times at the Huskin\u2019 Bee\u201d, \u201cSchooltown Follies\u201d, \u201cSongs of the Dark Lantern\u201d, \u201cMad Love\u201d, \u201cLullaby in Frogland\u201d, \u201cThe Ringing of the Bell\u201d, \u201cBabes in the Woods\u201d, \u201cInto the Unknown\u201d, \u201cThe Unknown\u201d. Aired November 3 to November 7, 2014.\n\tIn this story, two brothers get lost in the Unknown and have to find their way back. This is something that I watched not long before this assignment. When reading Tolkien\u2019s essay, this miniseries came to mind as a great example of a story with the wind blowing through the perilous realm. I also thought it would be interesting to consider fairy-tales from different eras and different media.\n\nTolkien, John Ronald Reuel. \u201cOn Fairy Stories.\u201d In Essays Presented to Charles William, 38-89. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1947.\n\tThis source describes what makes a fairy-tale, what their origins are, what their uses are. Tolkien's discussion of the wind of the Perilous Realm is particularly important in his descriptions. This source provided other sources, such as The Golden Key. It also served as a guide of measurement of a fairy-tale. This source was my main source of inspiration.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animation – Narrative Short Film For this group animation project, we told the story of stress and the benefit of help. 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