Met DrummerWench at the Tolkien Exhibit at the Morgan Library

[heartofoshun]

That tapestry behind the fireplace is called The Triumph of Avarice. So overwhelmingly appropriate--lest we should forget this is the palace and private museum of the Morgans, pre-eminent among the robber barons and capitalists of America's Gilded Age (inadvertent? or conscious choice of the tapestry?). The entire thing is a temple to greed!

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[_profiterole_]

Thank you for this post! It was very interesting.

[heartofoshun]

Thank you for reading it! It was a wonderful day and an unforgettable experience.

[just_jenni]

It looks like a fabulous exhibition! Too bad you had to experience pain from your knee as well as the other stuff. I wish we 'oldies' didn't have to suffer the requisite pain for being the ages we are.

I would love to visit there sometime. We'll have to see.

[heartofoshun]

It would be great if you could!

[elfscribe5]

Oh, I really would have loved to have a chance to see these exhibits. How wonderful you were able to meet up with DrummerWench to do so. Thank you for sharing photos and description and allowing me a vicarious thrill. I'm sorry about all the stairs doing in your knee and feet. Hope you were able to soak in the tub afterwards.
And no, I didn't know elves were ambidextrous, but yes, it makes sense.
Cheers!

[heartofoshun]

Yes! It would have been fun to have had you there. Maybe next time something exciting happens in NYC.

[angelica_ramses]

*green with envy* These exhibitions never make it here so reading your visit gave me vicarious pleasure. Thank you for the detailed descriptions.

Buenos Aires has its share of these turn of the century palaces built by the top architects with the best European furnishings for the families who had made incalculable fortunes with grain and beef. There was so much surplus capital that public buildings were built at the same level so there is the Teatro Colon and the central post office (now an exhibition center) and the main building for the law courts and the foreign office and quite a few others that have somehow survived to this day. WWI put an end to the party and it's been downhill from then on :(

ambidextrous elves! Who knew? That's why Maedhros became deadlier with his left hand than he had been with his righ hand! Maybe the fics where he has awful handwriting should consider this! ;)

[heartofoshun]

Oh, yes! I know those kinds of palaces well from Mexico City also. I lived in the neighborhood where at the end of the 19th century those who made money on railroads and mining build their city residences in a lavish imitation of Parisian architecture of the Belle Époque. When I lived there the wealthy had fled because of massive destruction by the big earthquake (to honest, the neighborhood was already in decline by then).

I only saw a small part of the entire Morgan museum, because I was fascinated by the private library and study furnished with famous Renaissance paintings and other priceless objects.

The Tolkien exhibit was beautifully done, especially given the nature of the collection--so many small works of art and examples of calligraphy, etc. I really do congratulate Oxford and Morgan museum for their collaborative effort to get it right. I'm lucky being in NYC--people and things often end up making an appearance here. (Do wonder at times if it is worth my rent!)

[_profiterole_]

Happy Birthday!

[heartofoshun]

Thanks!!!