"Goblin Feet" is a poem written in 1915 by J. R. R. Tolkien for Edith Mary Bratt, his wife-to-be. It celebrates the diminutive type of elf that Tolkien soon came to dislike, and he regretted having pu
An accompanying illustration to the poem by Warwick Goble from The Book of Fairy Poetry (1920)
Fairy painting is a genre of painting and illustration featuring fairies and fairy tale settings, often with extreme attention to detail, seen as escapism for Victorians. The genre is most closely ass
Titania and Bottom. Oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1790
A portrait of a fairy, by Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1869). The title of the painting is Take the Fair Face of Woman, and Gently Suspending, With Butterflies, Flowers, and Jewels Attending, Thus Your Fairy is Made of Most Beautiful Things – from a verse by Charles Ede.
The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke. Oil on canvas by Richard Dadd 1855–1864.
The Captive Robin by John Anster Fitzgerald, c.1864