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Arctic Troll 3 by ~bridge-troll:iconbridge-troll:

Categories Traditional Art > Paintings > Fantasy

©2006-2009 ~bridge-troll
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In this case we decided to have this Troll represent the fear the Inuit have of starvation since it is so much a part of their history. It needs to be said that not all of the Inuit mythology is so dark and nasty.

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Mood: Love ~luve Nov 6, 2006, 7:17:31 PM
there's something very eerie about a troll like that wandering around in pretty arctic grass and flowers XD

beautiful as always!
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`wholba Nov 6, 2006, 11:20:19 PM
yes, looks like starvation itself!

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=rubbe Nov 7, 2006, 1:02:02 AM
awsome! bte do you tink that the neantherthal could be wwat they are discribing its not that long ago since they died out. troll=neantherthal?
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~wulfhaer Nov 7, 2006, 1:59:45 AM
Yeah, it looks very frightning!... But the Inuit, thats a tribe of eskimo's right ?
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~cilento Nov 7, 2006, 3:14:51 AM
Eskimo is actually an insult in the inuit language. Inuit are the people.

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~wulfhaer Nov 7, 2006, 4:47:43 AM
But where does the word eskimo come from then?

(And it wasn't my intention to insult the Inuit)...
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*ironhenry Nov 7, 2006, 5:24:52 AM
I like the pose and the setting makes the painting sing with reality.

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~cilento Nov 9, 2006, 12:45:05 AM
haha, don't worry, I didn't think it was.
So far as I know it was a word the inuit used to mean "eaters of raw meat." To use it to describe one of their own was an insult, but that was how they described the early arctic explorers (because that's what the explorers did when they were hungry...) and so the name stuck. It's like the word Kangaroo. It doesn't mean kangaroo at all, rather, "what is that?"

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