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Illustration
No.10
“Trolls” |
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Despite
being a planned forest, Fernworthy is dark and mysterious,
the trees and ground covered in a luxurious layer of moss.
Brian Froud’s art makes a lot more sense once you've
seen this area, because it’s easy to make out fairy
faces in the stones. We passed these mounds on the way
to Fernworthy stone ring, and they reminded me immensely
of Sean Äaberg’s drawings of forest trolls with
their long noses jutting out from underneath shaggy manes
of lichen. Perhaps these unlucky fellows were napping
outdoors when the Ministry of Forestry came by and cut
the canopy away, petrifying them with sunlight.
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