![]() ![]() Bilbo took Frodo to live with him in his home at Bag End and made him his heir. An only child, Frodo stayed in Brandy Hall until his 99-year-old "uncle" Bilbo, his father's second cousin, adopted him in TA 2989. In TA 2980, when Frodo was only 12 years old, his parents drowned in a boating accident on the Brandywine River. They would often steal mushrooms from Farmer Maggot's farm Bamfurlong. Frodo was known as something of a rascal, befriending Meriadoc (Merry) Brandybuck and Peregrin (Pippin) Took and causing trouble wherever they went. Much of Frodo's youth was spent at Brandy Hall in Buckland, the ancestral home of the Brandybuck family, including his mother ( Primula Brandybuck). 5.1 Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings.1.2 Coming of age & flight from the Shire.It’s not only incredibly demeaning as an argument, it’s also straight out false and misleading. And that’s not happening any time soon, alas.īy the way, the British argument that Greeks wouldn’t know how to care for the antiquities……. The only way to get anything out of the British Museum and back to its rightful place would be to completely replace the entire board of the museum with new people who think completely differently. And they actively promote the idea that their predecessors had a perfect right to loot the cultural heritage of the world, and that the museum has a perfect right to keep it forever. They have set policies about what can and can’t be removed from the collection, and according to those policies nothing of any historical or monetary value can be given away or sold. The board of governors of the British Museum is made up of old posh English people who genuinely believe that the Empire was awesome and England has a perfect right to everything in the British Museum. It’s not up to the curators at the British Museum they don’t get any say in this. There’s no chance that the British Museum will return any of this in the next generation. It is a giant middle finger at the British Museum, disguised as helpful information. The Acropolis Museum displays each one of these sets with space for the stolen pieces, along with a picture of what the stolen piece looks like and where it is. Friezes from the roof of the Parthenon are another example. The column/statue in the OP’s image is one of these. For example, there are a lot of pieces where Elgin took, say, the nicest (or easiest to remove) one of a set. Every single piece of the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum has an empty spot on display waiting for the piece to be returned to Greece. It’s probably one of the best archaeological museums in the world it definitely is the best collection of ancient Greek artifacts in the world, both for the size of the collection and the way it’s displayed. It is huge, it is gorgeous, the collection of objects is amazing and the educational bits (“this is what it is and why it matters”) are really well done. The British Museum has had a number of excuses over the years, one of the biggies of the late 20th Century being “we couldn’t possibly give them back because Athens doesn’t have a nice enough museum to display them” and ignoring Greece’s response of “we will BUILD a museum just for them if you will just give us our damn stuff back!“įinally, Greece said “fuck you” and built a museum at the bottom of the Acropolis called the Acropolis museum. Greece has been asking for those statues and sculptures to be returned since they won independence in 1832. (The Acropolis is the hill in Athens, Greece which has some of the most amazing Greek ruins anywhere, the most famous of which is the Parthenon.) Elgin had (or at least claims to have had) permission from the Ottoman Empire to take stuff home with him, but a) this is one empire asking another empire if they can loot stuff from the other empire’s subjugated people, so, not exactly any moral high ground there Elgin, and b) he took a lot more stuff than the Ottomans said he could have. butherlipsarenotmoving’s tags read: the acropolis museum is the most passive aggressive museum i’ve ever been to and i love itįor those of you who don’t know museum drama, one of the largest and most famous parts of the British Museum’s collection is the so-called Elgin Marbles, which were looted from the Acropolis by Lord Elgin in the 18th Century. Feeblekazoo’s tags read: the degree to which the Acropolis museum is designed to shame the British Museum is spectactular. Image in savvysergeant’s reblog: screencap of tags from two people. This picture is shot from above and is labelled Athens. The bottom image is from the Acropolis Museum in Athens, showing the other five matching column/statues, with a space for the missing statue pointedly left open. The statue is a column shaped like a woman. The first image shows a statue originally from the Acropolis in Athens, now in the British Museum. [image description: two pictures, one above the other. ![]()
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