#the scarecrow of oz

[poppies-from-oz]

LAND OF OZ MASTERPOST

Now seems as good a time as any to remind everyone that all of the original fifteen Oz books are public domain and up for free online.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Ozma of Oz

Dorothy & The Wizard in Oz

The Road to Oz

The Emerald City of Oz

The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Little Wizard Stories of Oz

Tik-Tok of Oz

The Scarecrow of Oz

Rinkitink in Oz

The Lost Princess of Oz

The Tin Woodman of Oz

The Magic of Oz

Glinda of Oz

Happy reading! 

[andykilgore]

Tincrow Moodboard

W/ Flower Field Date themes. [Prompt based!]

[dannyboy-o7]

I needed to do it.

[eramdelas]

i was bored :0

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

WELCOMES YOU TO THE LAND OF OZ WITH THE HAPPIEST SMILE YOU'VE EVER SEEN.

PIC(S) INFO: Resolution at 1024x1462 (2x) -- Spotlight on the Scarecrow of Oz, ink and watercolors on board, original and a close-up version, from the American children's literature classic, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) by L. Frank Baum. Artwork by William Stout.

"When I was a boy I was tremendously interested in scarecrows. They always seemed to my childish imagination as just about to wave their arms, straighten up and stalk across the field on their long legs. I lived on a farm, you know. It was natural then that my first character in this animated life series was the scarecrow, on whom I have taken revenge for all the mystic feeling he once inspired."

-- LYMAN FRANK BAUM, a.k.a., L. Frank Baum (1856–1919), American author and creator of the "Land of Oz" books

Source: www.americanlegacyfinearts.com/artwork/scarecrow-of-oz.

[idkwhattocallmyselfwh]

[witchesoz]

The Wicked Witches of the West (6)

Now that the green elephant is out of the room, let's talk again about the original Wicked Witch of the West, before MGM changed our perception of her forever. Because not all of the Witches of the West are green, far from it!

And when you look at the earliest adaptations of the Wicked Witch, you will notice one recurring trend... The one of fusing the Witch of the West with Mombi, the evil sorceress from "The Marvelous Land of Oz", later retconned into being the former Wicked Witch of the North.

This is first the case in the 1910 silent movie "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", one of the earliest movie adaptations of Baum's book - while the antagonist of the movie is clearly the Wicked Witch of the West, her name in the story is... Momba. One letter away from Mombi. It is especially interesting to note that Baum was directly involved in the making of this movie, and so the name was not chosen randomly... Or it might have given Baum's famous tendency of not really giving a crap about continuity and preferring a booming, anarchic creativity over any strict and rigorous world-building. He likely named the antagonist "Momba" as a simple nod to his more famous Mombi character.

A later Oz adaptation with another direct input and participation by Baum enlightens us on the matter: 1914 "His Majesty, The Scarecrow of Oz", a movie where the antagonist is clearly designed after Denslow's illustrations of the Wicked Witch of the West, and yet is called "Old Mombi"... It is obvious that Baum wanted, to touch the movie-audience, a mix of the main witches of his two earlier works, creating this Mombi-Momba hybrid serving as a stock villain in early Oz movies.

Things get even more complicated when you look at the novel "The Scarecrow of Oz", that Baum wrote as an expansion of the short film, or rather as an inclusion of the story of "His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz" into the book-canon of his literary series. And in there a witch antagonist does appear, with an appearance described as being quite similar to the Wicked Witch of the West... but she is not her, nor is she Mombi, as she rather becomes a new witch, "Old Blinkie". After all, the Wicked Witch of the West was supposed to be dead in the book-continuity... even though it became a big rule later on that nobody could die in Oz... as I said, Baum literaly did not care for continuity beyond the first two books and even less so after his sixth one.

Beyond early Oz media, the confusion doesn't seem to have been maintained, as Mombi and the Wicked Witch became very distinctive character... Except for this one Polish animated show, a children series of 1988 called W krainie czarnoksiężnika Oza, and that adapts both "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and "The Marvelous Land of Oz" (plus pieces of other Oz books if I saw well?). I unfortunately don't know Polish, but the episodes are fully on Youtube, and from what I got the Wicked Witch of the East and West in Baum's novels were fused here as one same character, The Wicked Witch of the East, main antagonist of the "Wizard of Oz" arc, while Mombi from the "Land of Oz" arc was renamed the Wicked Witch of the West? And yet some of the scenes of Mombi in the Marvelous Land of Oz were given to the Polish Witch of the East which is in turn Baum's Witch of the West? It's a bit confusing X)

[quotes-from-oz]

At the time of which I write, Ozma's best friend and most constant companion was a little Kansas girl named Dorothy, a mortal who had come to the Land of Oz in a very curious manner and had been offered a home in Ozma's palace. Furthermore, Dorothy had been made a Princess of Oz, and was as much at home in the royal palace as was the gentle Ruler. She knew almost every part of the great country and almost all of its numerous inhabitants. Next to Ozma she was loved better than anyone in all Oz, for Dorothy was simple and sweet, seldom became angry and had such a friendly, chummy way that she made friends where-ever she wandered.

The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum

[scribledon]

MORE SCARECROW CAUSE I HAVE NO SELF CONTROL

[artz16]

The Rose and Morning Glory

I have officially drawn Pon and Princess Gloria, the Jinxland lovers from “The Scarecrow of Oz.” Between them, Pon was my favorite to draw, especially with the rose hair and creating an Oz garden background. There’s so many possibilities since it’s Oz and I wanted to make Gloria simple yet princess-y. And I chose the morning glory as her flower cuz…well, her name

[poppies-from-oz]

I love the way John R Neill draws The Wizard bc it’s pretty clear he doesn’t buy his whole “redemption” at all and pretty much always draws him in shifty evil bastard mode.

[andykilgore]

this has got to be in the top ten gayest things theyve ever done with each other

[dannyboy-o7]

Okay look, I like wicked and all, it’s good, but like… bro, who looked at the GODDAMN SCARECROW AND THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST AND SAID, “ah, make them kiss.” You’re just gonna dismiss all of the queer coding between the tin woodman and scarecrow, huh? Also, that’s just a really odd pairing. A witch and a scarecrow????? ‘Scuse me, what? That’s a man made of STRAW. Also, WHO DECIDED THAT TINMAN WAS BOQ, THE RICHEST MUNCHKIN IN OZ??? HIS WHOLE THING WAS THAT HE WAS BROKE AND NEEDED TO FIND MONEY TO MARRY THE OTHER MUNCHKIN GIRL. Then all of the cursed axe and body chopping, blah blah blah, BUT HIS WHOLE THING WAS THAT HE WAS BROKE AND THE ONE WAY HE COULD MAKE MONEY WAS THROUGH CHOPPING WOOD. I sound mad, but I’m not. It’s just funny to think about. “Ah yes, that’s the main couple, the wicked witch of the west and her boyfriend the scarecrow! And don’t forget scarecrows boyfriend, Tinman/Boq, who became Tinman by being too broke despite being the richest munchkin!”

Tincrow is real and I will stand by that for the rest of my life.

[eramdelas]

[totalchaosgremlin]

munchkin ashen real NOT FAKE

[idkwhattocallmyselfwh]

"Why are you so excited for wicked?"

Me: