*thinking*
Jul. 22nd, 2005 12:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
I remember a while back, I did a lot of reading on Tam Lin. All the variations in the story, I read a lot about it. And I read one possibly-related story...
It was listed with Tam Lin ballads, but it was really closer to Childe Rolland, except there is no happy ending. We have a girl and her brother, and one day the brother walks the wrong way around a church and disappears. So, of course, the girl goes after him, and eventually catches up with the faeries who had taken him. The faerie queen thinks this is all a joke, of course, so she tells the sister that she can have her brother back, so long as she can take him away from them. And, of course, as the girl holds her brother, he begins to change. And she holds him as he changes into a bear, and she holds him as he changes into a snake, but when he's transformed into living fire, she screams and lets go, and so is consumed by the flame. And as she's burning, the faerie queen laughs, and tells her that she should have "had more faith", and then she could have saved them both.
It's been stuck in my head this past week, that and the Erlkonig. I always liked the tragic endings better, even as a kid. You're given so much fluff, even if you have loving parents, that sad endings seem like the only solid land in a world of stories. But I usually wasn't thinking on them so much. *shrugs* Maybe it's the weather.
It was listed with Tam Lin ballads, but it was really closer to Childe Rolland, except there is no happy ending. We have a girl and her brother, and one day the brother walks the wrong way around a church and disappears. So, of course, the girl goes after him, and eventually catches up with the faeries who had taken him. The faerie queen thinks this is all a joke, of course, so she tells the sister that she can have her brother back, so long as she can take him away from them. And, of course, as the girl holds her brother, he begins to change. And she holds him as he changes into a bear, and she holds him as he changes into a snake, but when he's transformed into living fire, she screams and lets go, and so is consumed by the flame. And as she's burning, the faerie queen laughs, and tells her that she should have "had more faith", and then she could have saved them both.
It's been stuck in my head this past week, that and the Erlkonig. I always liked the tragic endings better, even as a kid. You're given so much fluff, even if you have loving parents, that sad endings seem like the only solid land in a world of stories. But I usually wasn't thinking on them so much. *shrugs* Maybe it's the weather.
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Date: 2005-07-22 04:49 am (UTC)Heh. I also, long ago and far away, wrote a Snape/Ron fic loosely based on Tam Lin...
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Date: 2005-07-22 04:52 am (UTC)Plus, seeing it written allows me to compare and contrast different versions.
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Date: 2005-07-22 05:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-22 05:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-22 05:14 am (UTC)And here it is. (http://www.tam-lin.org/)
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Date: 2005-07-22 05:02 am (UTC)I wrote a version, a gadzillion years ago. If you're really dying to see it pop me an email at mistletoesquest (at) gmail.com and I'll try and dig up the lyrics for ya.
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Date: 2005-07-22 05:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-22 04:49 am (UTC)Heh. I also, long ago and far away, wrote a Snape/Ron fic loosely based on Tam Lin...
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Date: 2005-07-22 04:52 am (UTC)Plus, seeing it written allows me to compare and contrast different versions.
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Date: 2005-07-22 05:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-22 05:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-22 05:14 am (UTC)And here it is. (http://www.tam-lin.org/)
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Date: 2005-07-22 05:02 am (UTC)I wrote a version, a gadzillion years ago. If you're really dying to see it pop me an email at mistletoesquest (at) gmail.com and I'll try and dig up the lyrics for ya.
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Date: 2005-07-22 05:03 am (UTC)