#Tristan and Isolde

[lionofchaeronea]

Tristan and Iseult meet at the fountain, while King Mark, above, spies on them. Detail from an ivory casket panel, made by an unknown artist in Paris in the 1340s. Now in the Louvre.

[princessfantaghiro]

#this is not their death together [not yet] but why I feel so incredibly sad about???😭💔

#Galadriel and her Shadow

to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die

from John Keats’s love letter to Fanny Brawne Tristan and Isolt (Death), Rogelio de Egusquiza The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet, Frederick Leighton Death of Francesca de Rimini and Paolo Malatesta, Alexandre Cabanel

[weepingwidar]

Amy Beager (British, 1988) - Love Won't Save Us All (Tristan and Isolde) (2024)

[lightthereis]

Illustration by Franz Stassen for Wagner’s ‘Tristan & Isolde’, 1900

[joemerl]

Any Arthurian knight after a fight with his girlfriend:

[nocnitsa]

Tristan Fighting with a Dragon (Illustration in 'The Roman by Tristan and Iseult'), illustrated by Robert Engels, ed. of Art, Paris

[didanagy]

TRISTAN + ISOLDE (2006)

dir. kevin reynolds

[dipolos]

Victor Ambrus | Tristan and Iseult

[from-a-spiders-web]

Tristan and Isolde (1912) by Rogelio de Egusquiza 

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

Holmes and Watson / Tristan and Isolde

BBC Radio 4's Sherlock Holmes, The Devil's Foot (radio drama transcript) /// Granada's The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Red Circle /// Metafictional Monday: Tristan und Isolde, @teaformrholmes /// Brayton Polka, LIEBESTOD: On Love and Death in Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde", p. 246 /// The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Vincent Starrett /// BBC Radio 4's Sherlock Holmes, The Devil's Foot (radio drama transcript)

[calisverse]

𝐒𝐎𝐏𝐇𝐈𝐀 𝐌𝐘𝐋𝐄𝐒 as 𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐃𝐄

Tristan & Isolde 2006 (film)

[metamorphesque]

Tristan and Isolde (Life), Rogelio de Egusquiza

[zegalba]

Yoshitaka Amano: Tristan and Isolde (1980)

[otps-in-plastic]

Spellbound Lover Barbie vs. Romeo and Juliet Farewell by E. Fortescue-Brickdale 

This Barbie is meant to be Iseult from the medieval romance Tristan and Iseult. Why Mattel chose to use an image of Juliet instead of one of the many artistic depictions of Iseult I have no idea.

[dearabsolutelynoone]

Watch Their Love Stories to Make Your Heart Ache For Better or Worst ⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆

A Room with a View (1985) dir. James Ivory

Quote: “Women like looking at a view. Men don't.”

Wuthering Heights (1992) dir. Peter Kosminsky

Quote: “I cannot live without my life. I cannot live without my soul.”

First Knight (1995) dir. Jerry Zucker

Quote: “Your will chooses me. Your heart chooses him.”

Tristan & Isolde (2006) dir. Kevin Reynolds

Quote: “I don't know if life is greater than death. But love was more than either.”

Ondine (2009) dir. Neil Jordan

Quote: “I know something's going to happen, something wonderful. Or terrible. It's just the kind of girl she is. It's just the kind of person she is.”

Bright Star (2009) dir. Jane Campion

Quote: “I never knew before, what such a love as you have made me feel was. I did not believe in it.”

Belle (2013) dir. Anna Asante

Quote: “I pray he would marry you without a penny to your name, for that is a man who would truly treasure you.”

Dracula Untold (2014) dir. Gary Shore

Quote: “Why think separately of this life than the next, when one is born from the last? Time is always too short for those who need it, but for those who love, it lasts forever.”

Mary Shelley (2017) dir. Haifaa al-Mansour

Quote: “My choices made me who I am and I regret nothing.”

Ophelia (2018) dir. Claire McCarthy

Quote: “I have seen more of heaven and hell than most people dream of. But I was always a willful girl, and followed my heart, and spoke my mind. And it is high time I should tell you my story myself.”

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