I love this one. This was posted recently, but without the fabulous illustration! Loki looks beautiful, but wasn't Tor originally supposed to have red hair?
@annoyingnerd I saw some old paintings where Loki is depicted as black haired, but I don't know. I read the Elder and Younger Eddas but I don't remember if they ever described his hair color. Not that it matters since he changed shape at every single opportunity he got (like when he became a mare and got banged by a horse and then gave birth to an eight legged horse, Sleipnir…)
Also @cactuscake, yeah Thor was a redhead but are you sure he was tiny and round? I thought he was always described as very strong and manly and always waging war with the Jotun and so on… though the fact that his carriage was drawn by goats does make him seem like a silly character.
Hmm now that you point it out I'm not so sure. But you can be really manly and short, you have to remember that when Thor was worshipped being round was a direct sign of wealth and power. As the greatest warrior of all time he was indeed very powerful ans respected.
http://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/the-aesir-gods-and-goddesses/thor/ There's this awesome website that contains everything about Norse mythology, and Thor is just described as "brawny" here. Of course, you can be manly and short or manly and tall, it really doesn't matter, I was just more surprised with the "round" part.
There are multiple depictions of Thor and I guess that the Marvel version was inspired by the 1872 painting Thor's Fight with the Giants by Mårten Eskil Winge. But in most other depictions Thor looks a lot more like Tormund Giantsbane than "pretty boy" Chris Hemsworth.
Also @cactuscake, yeah Thor was a redhead but are you sure he was tiny and round? I thought he was always described as very strong and manly and always waging war with the Jotun and so on… though the fact that his carriage was drawn by goats does make him seem like a silly character.
There are multiple depictions of Thor and I guess that the Marvel version was inspired by the 1872 painting Thor's Fight with the Giants by Mårten Eskil Winge. But in most other depictions Thor looks a lot more like Tormund Giantsbane than "pretty boy" Chris Hemsworth.
it is bc he is the prettiest xD