The Ytterbium Eastercon Convention 2019 Easter Sunday 21st April 2019 Moomins
@arthurchappell (44998)
Preston, England
April 26, 2019 3:26pm CST
This panel on the Moomins was presented by Ali Baker, Linnea Angelmark, Jukka Halme and Fran Dowd
One of my favourite presentations of the whole convention. I mainly know of The Moomins from the TV cartoons. They are hippo shaped trolls in the Finnish books of Tove Jansson. The stories sometimes take on a dark edge with the cute looking trolls lost in woodland, swamps, attacked by serpents, facing extinction by comets and floods, etc.
There is a song by Bjork called The Moomins And The Comet Chase which I only learned of through the talk here. This is the song on Youtube. It features in a movie I have yet to see.
In Finland there is a Moomin theme park and lots of Moomin related merchandise.
Boxes of little Moomin chocolates and licorice pieces were shared with everyone in the audience. A real delight both as a nostalgia trip and for the lovely sharing that accompanied the presentation.
Arthur Chappell
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@Torunn (8607)
• Norway
27 Apr 19
I love Moomins! I think most people in Northern Europe will have grown up reading the books, at least I hope also todays children read the books. I've never seen any of the TV shows. I've read some of the cartoons, but they were a bit strange when I was used to the books.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
27 Apr 19
@Torunn they did need longer stories to tell such complex ideas than a few panels in a comic trip could convey
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@Torunn (8607)
• Norway
27 Apr 19
@arthurchappell You're right, there's really quite a lot of things going on in the stories.
I saw an exhibition with paintings by Tove Jansson in Helsinki once. It was great, she painted moomins of course but also lot of other stuff.
@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
30 Apr 19
@Torunn that would be a lovely exhhibition
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@LindaOHio (181321)
• United States
26 Apr 19
I've never heard of any of this; and it's all really different. Thanks for sharing!
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