#the steadfast tin soldier hans christian andersen

[marysmirages]

The Steadfast Tin Soldier (2023)

[furiouskettle]

Да, любимая, да... Нет, любимая, нет.

[stingrayextraordinaire]

Fairytale Moodboards // The Steadfast Tin Soldier

She too was steadfast. That touched the soldier so deeply that he would have cried tin tears, only soldiers never cry. He looked at her, and she looked at him, and never a word was said.

[arinewman7]

The Tin Soldier and the Ballerina aka The Steadfast Tin Soldier

Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales

IIlustration by Kay Nielsen, 1924

[reinekefoxart]

“and it was burned as black as a coal….” - The Steadfast Tin Soldier - Christian Andersen

[queenofglassbeliever]

Cecelia Núñez Turner, born in Avalor, was the daughter of Chancellor Naomi Turner and General Gabriel Núñez. Naomi traveled to other kingdoms as an ambassador for Avalor and Cecelia often went with her. While in Eudora's kingdom in the Magical Forest, Cecelia meets Stephen Lévêque.* Stephen was a soldier in Eudora's army. He lost his leg in the war and now wears a prosthetic. For his heroism he was granted title, land, and a manor home. Stephen and Cecelia fell in love and married in Avalor. They settled down in the manor as Viscount and Viscountess. Cecelia and Stephen had a daughter, Ella Lévêque Núñez. When Ella was a little girl, Stephen perished saving someone's life in a fire.

*Stephen Lévêque is an OC. He's an allusion to the tin soldier from The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Anderson and the Piano Concerto No. 2 segment from Fantasia 2000.

[lunaefall]

‘That’s the wife for me!’ he thought; ‘but she is so grand, and lives in a castle, whilst I have only a box with four-and-twenty others. This is no place for her! But I must make her acquaintance.’ Then he stretched himself out behind a snuff-box that lay on the table; from thence he could watch the dainty little lady, who continued to stand on one leg without losing her balance.

All at once one of the little boys took up the Tin-soldier, and threw him into the stove, giving no reasons; but doubtless the little black imp in the snuff-box was at the bottom of this too.

Then the Tin-soldier melted down into a little lump, and when next morning the maid was taking out the ashes, she found him in the shape of a heart. There was nothing left of the little Dancer but her gilt rose, burnt as black as a cinder.

(All text taken from The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen)

[atalantethewaldfee]

Fairytales

I kind of noticed a big misunderstanding of German fairytales.

There are two kinds of fairytales.

The folk fairytale:

This are your classic fairytales, born from a thousand years of oral history. Most of the Brother Grimm's fairytales are folk fairytales. Folk fairytales end well for the Heros and terrible for the villains (example: snow white- the evil queen is forced to dance in hot iron shoes till she dies, in snow whites Wedding)

It plays in an unknown land and in an unknown time. (starting phrase of fairytales in German : For langer, langer Zeit, in einem weiteren entfernten Land [A long, long time ago, in a far away land]) and features stereotypical characters like 'big bad wolf' and 'beatiful princess'.

It often uses magical numbers like...

7 (seven dwarves behind seven mountains, 7 ravens, seven flys killed' at once, seven Kids(?)/ little goats)

3 (three taskes, three ways to kill Snow White, three Balls in 'Aschenputtel' (German Cinderella))(examples for this are a little hard to explain in few words because they're so specific)

13 (thirteen fairies in sleeping beauty)

These stories are often uses to explain morals or rules of survival. (Don't abuse your Kids/ step Kids, don't just Run into the woods, don't let strangers into the House)

The Art fairytale:

This fairytales was written by an author and is Not meant to explain a rule or bring hope.

Most of these are very tragic. The little Mermaid (from Hans Christian Andersen) would be a good example.

Others would be 'The Steadfast Tin Soldier'(also from Hans Christian Andersen) or the 'girl with the matches' (ALSO from Hans Christian Andersen)(goodnes he wrote a lot of these, this poor man's mental health really was bad)(Spoiler: the solider and the girl die)

Hans Christian Andersen wrote 156 Art fairytales. Remember: they all endet badly! I think the guy set in Stone what an Art fairytales is?!? I did Not know that? I Just wanted to teach about fairytales, I did NOT want to learn about this man's tragic live.

Like this are two books, full of fairytales (mostly Art fairytales) from the guy.

TWO books.

And the title reads ' Die schönsten Haus- und Weihnachtsmärchen' (The Most beautiful home and Christmas fairytales)

Beautiful fairytales my ass. The guy kust did therapy but as written stories. I mean, he wrote Snow Queen, which kind of ends well? But that doesn't really make it better.

So before I end this, to mull over Hans mental health:

Fairytales are not the only type of German folk Story. They are a very specific Type, that follows specific rules. Other types follows other rules.

Not every German folk Story ist a fairytale. And other very old Stories can end badly, but then it's not a fairytale. Not a folk one at least. But maybe it's danish and actually from this depressed Gay Poet that seems to have written all the Art fairytales of my childhood. Further more, there are many folk fairytales that do not come from Germany, but those also follow These rules more or less. (There are also a lot of different versions of the same fairytale all over Europe)

[shallowstories]

The tin soldier's passive acceptance of whatever happens to him, while exemplifying pietistic ideals of self-denial, also contributes to his doom.

Were he to speak and act, the soldier might gain both life and love. Restrained, however, by inhibition and convention, he finds only tragedy and death.

[richo1915]

[petaltexturedskies]

She was a little paper doll, a ballerina in fluffy tulle and ribbons.

Hans Christian Andersen, The Steadfast Tin Soldier

[fictionadventurer]

Details:

1940s Hans Christian Andersen shorts: Intended as animated segments within a live-action film about the author's life, these would have adapted The Little Mermaid, The Fir Tree, Through the Picture Frame, The Emperor's Nightingale, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier. (Yes, I know we got adaptations of several of these, but I still want to share the concept art for old versions).

Gremlins: A film they worked on a lot during WWII but couldn't crack the story (or find money to make it)

Don Quixote: They tried to adapt the story in various ways in the '40s, '50s, and '00s, which is too long to get into here, but it led to some interesting concept art.

Chanticleer: A story about an arrogant rooster who thought his crow made the sun rise, and used this to rule over the other farmyard animals. Reynard the Fox was a villain who tried to take advantage of the discontent in the farm animals to take over as their leader (with plans to eat them), which leads to Chanticleer saving them and learning humility. Work started on it in the 1940s, and it was so close to being made in the 1960s, but they decided to go with The Sword in the Stone instead. Some of the animators loved it, though, and some of the character concepts were later adapted into Robin Hood.

Catfish Bend: I haven't found much about the story beyond "talking animals in the South", but the concept art intrigues me. It would have been released in 1981, but after it was shelved, some of the concepts went on to inspire The Rescuers.

Mistress Masham's Repose: An adaptation of T.H. White's novel, pitched in the late 1980s

Fraidy Cat: 2009 film about a pampered housecat named Oscar who is falsely accused of kidnapping another pet and has to team up with a cockatoo and try to find the real culprit to clear his name. Shelved because they figured kids and general audiences wouldn't understand the Hitchcock references (which seems like a terrible reason, but alas).

King of the Elves: Announced in 2009, it was a 3D animated film scheduled for 2012, before being shelved in 2016. Adapted from a Philip K. Dick story, it was about an ordinary man who saves some elves from a troll and (apparently reluctantly) gets declared their king.

Gigantic: A retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk set during the Spanish exploration, it involves Jack meeting an 11-year-old female giant who treats him like a doll, and eventually fighting much larger Storm Giants. Would have had songs written by the team from Frozen and was set to be released in 2018, then moved to 2020 before being cancelled because apparently they couldn't figure out the story.

[nobodys-saviour]

QUESTION 🙋🏻‍♀️

if caleb is brought back to l&ds as a love interest, what do you theorise his myth cards to be???

"joke" answer: alluring secret ~black vow~

Serious answer: with the fallen angel imagery i get from QC i wouldn't be surprised if XYZ's is somewhat of forbidden apple adam and eve thing

if we follow the hans christian andersen theory: it's the steadfast tin soldier

My actual wish answer though and i think a handful of people already knows this, is arthurian mythos.

anyone can tell you by now that the so-called isle of avalon, arthur's supposed resting place, means isle of apples. and with the myths' more or less consistent story telling of MC being the unwitting antagonist (her whole existence can make or break something: a person, a kingdom, a planet; plus she's even The Witch character in some of them!) and some stories of arthur and morgana le fey being siblings, while in others they are not, it would nicely parallel the thing with XYZ and MC! in addition to that, arthur being dead and prophesied to come back?? hello???

[neviayue]

the steadfast tin soldier and ballerina line illustration and animation, commissioned in 2024

A commission from a long time friend of mine to celebrate her wedding. I drew this aligned with the invitation design theme and colour she made, which is Hans Christian Andersen's The Steadfast Tin Soldier. Happy wedding, Ratna & Bharadwaj!

[queenofglassbeliever]

Cecelia was an orphan who loved ballet. She traveled from village performing in the streets as a dancer. The money given by kind strangers was only enough to scrap by. Yet, Cecelia did not despair. And she took many opportunities to show kindness to others. Whether that be giving her last piece bread to a hungry stranger. Or giving the shawl on her shoulders to a cold beggar.

Seeing Cecelia's good heart and good deeds, the fairies sent to her a fairy godmother. With a wave of her magic wand, stars rained down from the sky as gold coins. Cecelia gathered the coins and using her new wealth, she bought a manor home north of the bayou. She staffed the house with the strangers she had helped in the past. Living comfortably, she kept pursuing her dream of being a ballerina. Cecelia performed for the gentry and the nobility. While dancing for the royal newly weds, Queen Eudora and Prince James, Cecelia catches the eye of a soldier with a prosthetic leg made with a tin alloy.

Cecelia is an allusion to the orphan girl from the Grimm Brother's fairy tale "The Star Money" and to the Ballerina from "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" by Hans Christian Andersen.