This is all the confirmation anyone ever needed that I’m a total nerd 😂✨ Tell me, who’s your favourite fairy/elf in legend or fiction?

@Mythcrowned

2 жыл бұрын

My favourite elf in fiction is Maed(h)ros from the Silmarillion and he is so beloved for me on a level that I keep (closet) cosplaying him and constantly drawing this character. :D

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mythcrowned Maedhros is so cool! A less popular choice, one of my favourites is Fëanor😁

@Mythcrowned

2 жыл бұрын

@@ailenalma Ah I love Fëanor as well, I find him quite fascinating and peculiarly interesting. :D

@49mrbassman

2 жыл бұрын

When I was a lot younger I did like the character fafhrd in Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.

@godetonter4764

2 жыл бұрын

The story of Malekin has had so many variations

That Waterhouse printed bodice is outstanding 😎

I love how in depth you go into etymology and historical context! so many fantasy/mythology videos only talk about myths themselves and not as much about the context around them. For me that gave everything you said more weight.

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for appreciating that! I'll try to strike a balance between the two in my future videos- I think both approaches can be interesting!

Tolkien’s elves are my most FAVORITE interpretation of elves. Absolutely amazing beings

@poiwytlee

Ай бұрын

Edit: just got to the part of the video where she talks about this haha oops I enjoy how the differences between how the Elves organize to flee Middle-Earth and when the humans need to organize to flee. Even the "lowest" elves have a job in that situation, are employed and are brought along. All members of their society have a place and have value, and such they all have a role, even in such a chaotic and fearful time. But man doesn't embody what is, essentially a form of socialism, universal basic income, guaranteed Healthcare etc. Don't mean to turn thus political but, I personally see the Elves as examples of idealistic socialist societies. Though, they certainly can be quite stuck up and do indeed nearly leave Middle-Earth to ruin.

@c.antoniojohnson7114

22 күн бұрын

It would be the Noldor Elves who were the most prideful,Fëanor is the poster for a prideful Elf.

so happy you decided to make this channel honestly. there aren't enough KZreadrs out there with this kind of content and delivering with such good quality too!! I can't wait to witness your journey, and to learn from you

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you're here 😊

Great video, a very inspiring summery. Also, the impatient porteño scream at the end was really unexpected.

i’m can’t express how happy i am to have come across your channel. i’m a 21 mexican-american (born and raised in the states) traveling in ireland for the first time on a month long school trip and this was such a great window into the aspects of folklore that had such a big role in my decision to come here

@dgo333

11 ай бұрын

oh my gosh, i hope this doesn’t come across the wrong way but i was SHOCKED to see that you don’t have more subscribers - the quality of your content and even just your presentation as a person is really top tier, if you keep going trust me there’s definitely some astronomical growth in the channels future (not that numbers is what it’ll all about though, of course ⭐️ making content that fewer people truly connect to is much more valuable than making content that more people simply consume passively) still, i’ll make sure to do my part and share! 🩵 but like i said, im sure you won’t need my help in the end :)

I've never sat through a video about Elves and Fairies, I'm glad I sat through yours, very insightful!

I am just watching Peter Pan, and I played The Legend of Zelda yesterday. Both very fitting characters!

It's easy to say fairies aren't real until your tormented by one every night for 5 years of your childhood. People are still encountering them. When you understand that there is a multiverse and the possibility of there being 9, 12 or even infinite realities co existing parallel to our own mean that the chances of fairies being real far out weighs the the chances of them not existing. Not to mention the mountains of circumstantial evidence and the fact that cultures from all around the world have stories about them even before they started trading stories. Just because you have not experienced them, doesn't mean they aren't real, cause some of us have.

@c.antoniojohnson7114

22 күн бұрын

Also when jewelry,coins,and other shiny things come up missing....Fae are definitely real.

wow... that is totally a doctorate level explanation ... I am so impressed. Well done!!

Irish and European folklore is fascinating and interesting been interesting even as a kid growing up

I'm so happy I found your channel! This is exactly what I was looking for! I would love to see more videos exploring celtic mythology.

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

You made my day! I'm so glad you're here and will definitely talk more about Celtic myth 😊

Just found your channel this morning, love what you are doing. You know there are a lot of other cultures that also have stories of the faye, in the America's the native cultures (Indians) speak of a large variety of the little people and nature spirits. The Polynesian cultures have stories about the Min eh hune as well as a large variety of nature spirits. Stories I think you will find interesting. Keep

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you found the channel! I have been wondering if YT was showing this video in the homepage? And isn't it so fascinating how so many cultures relate and find it essential to talk about them? Thanks for sharing these :)

Apperently i shouldnt watch this at night. both the music for when the burial mounds reapeared, and the danger with tolkien fairy picture with the speech really scared me. Good video!! just scared me being alone at night with headphones

I am so happy to be checking this wonderfully informative video, as I love the fae and elves endlessly.

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I don't know anything about fae in Turkish lore but that sounds so very interesting 🖤 My favourite kind of literature is the sort that reworks old myths and stories into something new. And tbh, I'm somewhat scared of children 😂

@Mythcrowned

2 жыл бұрын

@@ailenalma 🤍 Yes, I do like that type of literature too, therefore I truly hope I can succeed in delivering cultural information while reworking it and creating an interesting plot. And ahah, I actually usually find children terrifying too in some manner. I struggle to communicate with them as they have a totally different view of the world and I am very afraid of being misunderstood, including being misunderstood by those children.

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mythcrowned you expressed my thoughts exactly haha

Only the second video I have watched but I am completely enthralled by your videos. They are delightly presented, highly informative, and intelligently researched. You are gifted :-) Thank you for an outstanding time while learning so much, so cool!

Dear Alma thank you for this very well done and explained video ! it was so interesting, can't wait to learn more about folktales.

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you dear 🖤 Again, I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

I enjoy your sense of humor esp the added text bits

What an extremely fascinating subject. I have also always loved folktales and only recently noticed these aesthetics so it is really interesting to find out your thoughts on this xx

Great video! I would love more info on the old folkloric roots of fairies! I recently read "Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries" by Heather Fawcett, which is a fantasy novel written as the research notes/journal of the fictional Emily Wilde, an expert on faeries in a world where they truly exist. I mention this because the protagonist starts off by discounting the dangerous side of faeries, but their darker side comes more and more to the front as the book goes on. The book is set in the early 1900s. Given the info you provided in your video, I think it might have been a deliberate choice on the author's part to start with the Victorian disenchanted and child-friendly view of the fairies, and then peel back the layers to the older, enchanted, dangerous version underneath. Anyway, you might enjoy the book, and I am loving your videos and eager to learn more about the folkloric and mythological roots of fairies!

@Case2_0

10 ай бұрын

In a world where they exist? You mean our world?

Tbh I wouldn’t compare elves to “queerness.” I’m a gay man and I don’t see it like that. I see it wayyy beyond our human concepts, including “gender nonconforming” since they aren’t human. We still try to make rules and labels for things when it’s not necessary 😅

@lisaellis2593

5 ай бұрын

Agreed.

@soulassassin0g

5 ай бұрын

Aren't gay folk considered faeries lol?

@livingmybestestlife

4 ай бұрын

Elves have gender, just like all of nature has gender. It's humans who want to be non- conforming. Nature is OK with being what it is.

@danielnielsen1977

3 ай бұрын

Humans just can't get over and past themselves when it comes to control. The ego is like a boomerang. You can cast it out, but without fail it will return and need to be cast out again & again.🔥

@hgriff14

2 ай бұрын

people insert themselves into history to make themselves feel more important. thats why people add lgbt stuff to ancient metaphysical beings.

These videos are wonderful, Alma. I only just realized you'd started them!

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm so glad you found them 😊

Incredible work. A great historical chronicling

@ailenalma

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, you wonderful human! I'm glad you enjoyed it ❤

I enjoyed your video. Love the Lady of Shallot corset!

Adorable and informative. Always a winning combination.

This is the first video of yours I've watched, but I already like it. I also love your voice

Thank you, would love to hear more about fairy lore and myth in general.

Beautifully done!! So pleased to have found your channel!! Jason in England x

Wonderfully informative video! Thank you.

Thanks for making such an educational but interesting video!!! V cool stuff :)

This is inspirational. Thank you for this video. I hope you stay well.

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I've been a little sidetracked by life but I'll be uploading a new fairies and elves video this week. I'm so glad it inspired you!

Such a great video please make more

I don’t know how I found this channel but I’m loving it also loving the ears 🌞

@ailenalma

Жыл бұрын

So glad you found it! I'm working on new videos to post soon too 😊

Yes please go indepth into the types of Fey

Excellent présentation ! I don't usually comment on these types of videos but you have thoroughly explained and developped some longing questions I had about Fairy Lore. Thanks. I may be late to your show, but I'm now following your channel. Stay cute :)

Fascinating approach to analyse the relation of the myth arround elves and society 🧚‍♀️

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! There's so much to debate haha

I very much enjoyed your content although the presentation felt sometimes choppy on the edit. You have a very pleasant tone and your accent is a lovely & exotic well enunciated variant. Very informative and thought provoking, while somewhat pedantic, but despite that, you have an innate charisma that feels magical enough to keep us engaged. Looking forward to more content, I’ll stay tuned! Kudos and best of luck as this project develops! …and you have a beautiful smile! Good to see it!

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

thanks for your feedback! My two main goals are being more confident in front of the camera so the editing will go smoother AND finding my style, which will hopefully be more relaxed. Hope you'll stay 😊🖤

I like it! Congratulations my dear!

Nice video! Fun and informative

Dang you went deep, interesting analysis

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Gotta do more like this, seems to be popular!

Thank you that was very informative and entertaining. I learned a lot.

@ailenalma

Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy you enjoyed it! I'll be releasing a new (hopefully fun!) video next week 😄

All of these assorted types of beings which have been labled and clissified as "mythology" and "fantasy" are in fact different types of "aliens" (non human) which have shared this realm with us all along. Likewise with "giants" and many other types of creatures.

Awesome vid, Very enjoyable!

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you like it! More analysis videos soon 😁

PLEASE MAKE A MERMAID VERSION OF THIS

I agree! I appreciate you taking the extra time. I appreciate you being a nerd, it is important. And personally, It's attractive to me.🔥 An Irish/Dane🌱

These stories are awesome and interesting.

This was a wonderful presentation. Thank you so much. Keep rockin

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so very much! I'll be uploading a new fairies and elves video this week, stay tuned! :)

@Flanavision

2 жыл бұрын

@@ailenalma right on! Make it awesome, i know ya will

Please make more videos! I am particularly interested in the huldufolk

Thank you so very much for this explained history 🤗😁☺️😁

great investigation.

I love you and your story 😊

Love your stories adding a little comedy to them ...so Sweet ...Fairy..🧚‍♂️ Princess. ❤

You are a beautiful KZread content creator your storylines are beautiful

so happy to have found your channel I was watching a lot from High Elven Wisdom and Love... and Elven Scholar ..there is not much out there i look forward to see your video Merry meet fae blessings 🙏

I also would love to hear your ideas about the stratification of masculine/feminine roles in the mythology surrounding the hidden people. Seems like you have some very compelling stuff you're alluding to...

Great presentation, great information

@ailenalma

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Craig!

Love this so much- 🌛🥀🕯️🥀🌜

Great video. Thank you.

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching! Feeling very grateful :)

What were the sources that you used in this video? I'm in a creative drive at the moment and so I've been looking into fairies and folklore that talks about them to help me in creating characters. One of the books that I'm reading that is a wealth of information and imagery is _Good_ _Faeries_ / _Bad_ _Faeries_ by Brian Froud who also wrote a book subtly titled _Faeries_ . He's an award-winning illustrator and author who was a concept designer for The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. If you browse through the pages of either books, you can immediately tell by the illustrations how alike they are. Also I had been looking away when you spoke the last bit of the outtakes and I thought you said something in Gaelic, but when I checked you put on that it was Spanish.

So Fairies sometimes appear on Fridays. TGIF I suppose. 😂 Lovely video. This has helped me with my own fantasy series. It’s about Druids and has heavy ties with the Fae folk.

I'm a seasonal fairy lover ever since I was a girl I loved Thumbelina and Tinkerbell I (want to work with Think) it's absolutely magical here I am in my 30s just itching to dwell in fairy world and being one with nature

Thank you! Where exactly in Tolkien is that quotation from Tolkien you read at the end of the video?

Should definitely include the bloopers after each video hahaha. Perhaps itstoo specific for a video, but i think a Galadriel analysis could be very interesting😁

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps one about the Queen of Fairy in general? And trust me, I will 😂

You have such a lovely voice🥰 hello from Canada 🇨🇦❤️

Thank you for sharing your knowledge about the legends... It's a lot of info for me to catch up..... Right now... But definitely will grab on to all of it Thank you so so much.... This was something I was waiting to find❤🙏 Alwyn = Elf+Wine(Friend) = a friendly elf🙂 Try to understand about Saturn.. in astrology.. N it reaching its home...Capricorn! Saturn is a significator of Tradition! You will know why there is a revival of the culture.. All over the world!

Flower fairies, pixies, and ‘little people’ do exist in earlier folklore but they where considered ‘low’ fae compared to the beautiful high, court fae

you are beautiful and I loved your videos very well researched I would love to know more about elves and fairies, I am from ecusdor and you gained a great fan

Adorable... will watch out for more

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

Yayyy! I'll be posting a new video tomorrow :)

Interesting video

I would love to meet a elf like you some day

Excellent love this video, I wish you were near us to give a talk to our pagan group.

Good day, Have you heard of fairies also called Albi ? I read this years ago but I cannot find the reference now? Or how does the word Albi fit in with Fairies. Thank you for your knowledge on this subject.

I enjoyed your video, well done! I noticed that there was an avoidance of reference to the sexual and attractiveness aspect of fairies and elves. Probably more evident in Victorian age and our present age including the beginning of the elvish enchantment which really gained momentum in the 1960's when Tolkien really gained popularity. It seems to me that there is today a distinct separation in presentation of fairies in particular. There are those that visualize them as child like and there are those that visualize them as beautiful female entities that are not only facially beautiful but have exceptionally attractive and slender, sensual female bodies and almost without exception long flowing hair. There are some notable exceptions for there also some that are female but exhibit some male characteristics (shorter hair, and a tomboyish look and actions as in fighting /battling). I am not sure what that may mean and if it is an outcome of the changes that are occurring in society. It does seem to me to worthy of investigation and exposure . Thank You for your work and sharing it with us.

Enjoyed.

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you did! I'll be uploading a new fairies and elves video very very soon🙂

It may sound silly but there is a big debate over if fairies wear footwear/ boots in the music community. Could you by any chance answer this question for me? We are actually having LIVE STREAM online debates.

Where did you find out all your info? I love fairy, elves, dragons, mermaids, etc. ❤🧚‍♀️🧜‍♀️

I I have many pictures of fairies of different types and sizes, some gnomes, trolls, an elf…

It reminds me of the 1st volume of a series of books I've read abt mythical creatures... Amos Daragon, the wearer of masks ith it would be in English

I really like Irish and European folklore

That's a hard one to answer 😅, but i think I'd choose Galadriel😌

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

Haha because Galadriel or because Cate Blanchett?

I think Gean Rottenberry used Eleves as prototype for Vulcans 🖖

Is there spiggan fairy and the other type elf and fairy race

Its funny that here I hear elf is just replaced with fairy, and that Alfr is wholly norse, But with the books I got its pretty clear that the Aos Sí are Celtic, which is where fairy comes from. Elf comes from Germanic origins and spread through Frisia to the north and britain (makes sense since you share a common language family) and only were a later addition to the Norse myths with the great migration. I'm just looking around to see if what I learned is still correct. Probably not. kinda sad you didn't mention anything about the germanic side though. Especially since Wayland being in Frisia was in Germania. Wayland, Weyland, is where we got the words Weiland (pasture), weide and gewijd from. British has names like Elvis, Alfred, Albion. Now I am wondering what Elf names the North use.

Παλαιὰ παροιμία ὅτι χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά ἐστιν. Excellent analysis! Greetings from Buenos Aires!

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I had a lot of fun making it 😊

@jonapacer

2 жыл бұрын

@@ailenalma Justo puse el comentario en inglés y escuché el "se pueden callar" del final del video. Jaja! Genial! Felices fiestas!

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonapacer 🤣 Igualmente! Justo recién publiqué un video sobre Navidad y Santa Claus 😊

Mab, toward the end of the Arthurian Age knew the Fae were to be relegated to the past, to forget and be forgotten....so she fought against this concept, even though it was a doomed fight....

ur so cool, id hang out in the library with u :)

Your dress is awesome

Just because the forest is cleared out and the ground paved .don't mean that everything that lived there is gone.you could be looking right at one but if you look with your mind and not your eyes you can't see it

¡Hola Alma! Me interesa mucho el tema de las hadas en general y me gustaría que me aconsejaras alguna lectura. ¡Saludos! Y gracias por tu vídeo 😊

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

Muchísimas gracias! Qué bueno que te interese :) Si me escribes por Instagram te envío algunos títulos!

@merwalkure1853

2 жыл бұрын

¿En serio? Voy a buscarte ahora mismo :D

@ailenalma

2 жыл бұрын

@@merwalkure1853 el link está en la descripción! ✨🖤

What about the "Little People" in Native Indian Legends?

Tolkien with his mythology is the equivalent of the all unifying theory so craved by scientists.

9:10 Wait hold up is Thomas the Rhymer just the meme question about Pinocchio? “Can he answer yes or no questions on the origin of life?” Where Pinocchio cannot tell a lie is he believes it to be true, Thomas the Rhymer could answer everything.

❤

Oh in Cinderella there was not a fairy godmother. Two doves who where at her moms graves gave her the dress. Walt Disney and his animators made the fairy god mother.

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The Lady of Shalot

And myself.

May I ask which country are you from young lady, you accent to me sounds scandinavian but you are well versed in English and other languages I am sure :)

🧚‍♀️🦄