In the latest episode of the Into the Greenwood podcast, I spoke with Suzanne Golden about the new Maid Marian sculpture in Nottingham. What version of this legendary character means the most to you?

Is the Uprising poster a response to the Death of Robin Hood poster? What's going on here??? 🤔 And why is Hollywood so stringently averse to the notion that anyone in the middle ages wore anything other than brown or grey?

Episode 75 of the Into the Greenwood is available wherever you get your podcasts! 🎙️ It includes my discussion with Suzanne Golden of the Backlit art gallery about the 'Our Marian' exhibit opening today and the new permanent Maid Marian sculpture being unveiled in Nottingham today! 💚

Mail call!!! 📚

On the next episode of the Into the Greenwood podcast, we'll be discussing the similarities, and differences, between Robin Hood and the outlaws of the high seas! 🏹☠️ What's your favorite pirate movie? (Mine happens to share some lead actors with my favorite Robin Hood film. 😉)

To the fashionable outlaw out there who was the first to purchase one of these stylish statements from my teepublic shop, you have my gratitude. 💚

Give me a minor Star Trek character that you'd have loved to see get more development.

Some film makers will intentionally utilize anachronistic elements in their period piece films to spotlight certain themes or elements of the story they want to communicate to audiences. Sometimes this gets embraced by film-goers, sometimes not. Do you have any favorite examples of this?

Have you ever been surprised by a son that you hadn't known existed? Check what century you are living in. You might be a Star Trek character.

Unfortunately, the gravitas of the moment is diminished by Harry G. Theaker's illustration of the Sheriff choosing that moment to try out his Dr. Evil impression.

I have read a LOT of Robin Hood stories, including several especially bleak and brutal takes, but nothing has ever gone as *hard* as this moment from E.C. Vivian's book from 1927 when the Sheriff of Nottingham is forced to write his own name on one of Robin's arrows.

Show pitch... Two brothers, one that's cool and kinda irreverent and one that's a bit more of a geek, who travel around investigating strange phenomena and bonding over their unconventional upbringings. But instead of an Impala, they have a starship...

Happy 100th birthday to the comedy legend Mel Brooks!!! Earlier this year Into the Greenwood released an episode where we reviewed BOTH of the Mel Brooks helmed Robin Hood parodies. The perennial GenX/Millennial fave, 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights' and the massively obscure 'When Things Were Rotten'!

C. Oof. Tough call. I really love Oliver Barrett's work, but I have a soft spot for N.C. Wyeth and own a print of that particular work. This piece by Wyeth is what I uses as my computer desktop.

A. All over. The artists, like Oliver Barrett, who are still active have websites. I think that print is for sale. There's a whole set of Robin Hood themed art that he did for the game Unmatched, which is where I encountered it. That's not even my favorite piece from that set.

With each "Splitting Arrows" episode of Into the Greenwood, we rank the Robin Hood from that film or show and add them to our list of the best (and worst) of all the Robin Hoods! 🏹 We got a proper bottom-shooter with our most recent episode! 😬

Happy International Fairy Day!🧚‍♂️ While there is no connection to fairies in any of the extant medieval Robin Hood tales, I contend that he often served a similar function for medieval audiences. Holding court deep within the forest, rewarding honest travelers, punishing the deceitful & greedy, etc.

Due to the release of the new film, I'm seeing a LOT of articles along the lines of "Here's the 10 Robin Hood films you should see!" Each and every one of these I've come across has left off these three absolute bangers!

This month sees the release of the film about Robin Hood as an older man facing both his death and an accumulation of tales about his life that aren't reflective of reality. This year is also the 50th anniversary of another film that broached those themes, albeit in a MUCH different manner!

The curse of the completionist strikes again! I've forced @erroneousbosch.bsky.social to watch many an obscure Robin Hood film already, but as we make our way through the mid '90s in the Splitting Arrows series, I couldn't NOT force this ultra low budget effort upon him!

As another dude, I concur with this sentiment. Men don't especially represent a threat, or even degree of harassment for me, but we tend to suck SO MUCH that I'd be tempted to pick the bear too.

I finally got around to reading (and watching) Project Hail Mary. I loved both the book and movie so much that I treated myself to a 3D printed Rocky from Etsy.

We've no true reckoning of whether outlaws ever held court beneath its boughs, but for centuries it has inspired tales and served to bring many a merry folk to gather in its shade.

I've gotten to visit the tree in Sherwood Forest a few times, where it has continued to serve as a meeting place for nature lovers and attendees of events like the Robin Hood Festival.

The grandness of the tree, it's age, and it's location in Nottinghamshire have all contributed to the Major Oak becoming associated with Robin Hood and has come to be treated as the "trystell-tree" spoken of in legend. Photo credit: Nilfanion Wikimedia

For the last several centuries, the tree in Sherwood Forest that had gained a reputation for being just such a tree was the Major Oak. The tree is named for Major Hyman Rooke who included the tree in a record of distinctive trees in the midlands around 1790.

"And welcome be thou, gentle knight, Under my trystell-tree." - A Gest of Robyn Hode In medieval tales, Robin Hood made use of a "trystell" (or "trysting") tree. That would be a tree of significant size and/or distinctive appearance that could be used as a meeting place.