TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!!!!!

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― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 23:05 (twenty-four years ago)

ok these were illustrations for the HOBBIT by Tove Jannson, but i had to remove the direct links to the pics (which makes some of the replies a bit meaningless now). Anyway I got a nice email back from the site owner so go look at his treasuretrove:

Hello Mark,

since my pages out there are on a free server, there's nothing special about them except for the advertisement banners and commercial popups. According to your description of your problem, I think you linked the images directly into your (or the board's) pages - this is exactly what the hoster doesn't like, because in this case no one would see the ads which feed him. Therefore direct image linking has been made technically impossible. This hasn't been caused by me - I'm just using that free web hosting service. So if you want to link my picture collection (what is all right with me, of course), you have to link the HTML pages*, but not the images directly, that's the whole mystery ;-)

Best regards
Christian

*) Inside the pages, I have set an anchor called "#content" you can append to the page address(es) when linking - this will make browsers jump below the upper advertisement.

PS. Just some days ago, I succeeded in finding an old finnish copy of "Alice in Wonderland" with Tove's illustrations. It hasn't arrived yet - I'm very curious about it. Do you know if TJ made drawings for the second volume of "Alice" too?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 23:24 (twenty-four years ago)

is that last one supposed to be gollum?!?!?!!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 21 August 2002 23:34 (twenty-four years ago)

some nazgul please....

and one of merry and pippin with the ents.

(i feel responsible for the recent glut of tolkein threads...)

― mike (ro)bott, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 23:59 (twenty-four years ago)

I claim some of that credit, Mike. ;-)

I've seen that Gollum picture before, I think. Truly surreal. It's like Barney with his snout shot off.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 22 August 2002 00:02 (twenty-four years ago)

or the rat creatures from "bone"...

bilbo wears that nightcap well.

― mike (ro)bott, Thursday, 22 August 2002 00:12 (twenty-four years ago)

― dumb donald = gollum (bnw), Thursday, 22 August 2002 01:24 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.batonrougecycling.com/images/cos11.jpg

― doh! (bnw), Thursday, 22 August 2002 01:25 (twenty-four years ago)

they are very moominesque.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 22 August 2002 03:12 (twenty-four years ago)

oh they have gone this morning!! :( did we overload the moominhobbit server?)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 22 August 2002 07:50 (twenty-four years ago)

I dunno Mark, but the website they are from sure does have alot of rules and regulations!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 22 August 2002 08:04 (twenty-four years ago)

yes i cannot see the pretty pictures! (some of them haf disappeared from the alice thread also). where do you get all these lovely pictures mark?

― katie (katie), Thursday, 22 August 2002 08:07 (twenty-four years ago)

Katie, right click on the pictures and select properties and you will be given the website address for the pictures.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 22 August 2002 08:09 (twenty-four years ago)

(but, I don't think that's what you meant! opps sorry!)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 22 August 2002 08:10 (twenty-four years ago)

they were from here

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 22 August 2002 08:12 (twenty-four years ago)

the only ones that are gone are the three i linked!! oh NO!! :(

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 22 August 2002 08:13 (twenty-four years ago)

my thread title was ONLY TOO KORREKT!!

― prescient spice (mark s), Thursday, 22 August 2002 08:24 (twenty-four years ago)

i am still sad abt this: i think i will email the web-page owner and plead prettily

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 22 August 2002 12:26 (twenty-four years ago)

katie i get these pictures by using google-image and knowing the names of some of the artists!! (i found wanda gág by image-googling "rapunzel", for example...)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 26 August 2002 08:05 (twenty-four years ago)

the pictures are all back!! hurrah!!

(but please don't link directly to them or an evil goblinbot will switch them back off)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 26 August 2002 10:47 (twenty-four years ago)

These are gorgeous and weird and they seem sort of mesmerising. Thanks.

― Andrew Thames, Monday, 26 August 2002 11:45 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

I just found the Tove illustrations for Alice are online here. Lovely.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Saturday, 21 February 2004 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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