Aracaran

♥ Fingolfin is my babygirl and I talk about him a lot ♥ ✶ I love Tolkien, and I'll probably mostly post about silm meta, theories, analyses, etc. ✶ currently pretty inactive

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Ahm so, suddenly I was busy for a week, but at long last we have Fingolfin! He does not get a back profile because it came out looking weird ahah ✨

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Of Ice and Fire.

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Joining a new fandom and giving the shipping scene a quick check:

Oh, The Silmarillion fandom would kill these people XD

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I gotta highlight these tags ngl

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the only ship drama the silm fandom recognizes is the First Kinslaying

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Just some ramblings about the Valar

The Valar would be much more interesting and much less insufferable if Tolkien managed to keep his Christian perspective out of it.

He created a mythology similar to the pantheon of ancient mythologies where the gods have flaws, make mistakes and are wrong sometimes, but he treats them more like angels in Christianity, which is why it doesn't work. It's one or the other, you can't have both.

In the Silm, the Valar make mistakes, they're not perfect and they messed up a lot. But somehow the characters and the readers have to keep them free of any blame, they're suppose to assume all their decisions are good and right like angels.

I love the Valar as characters, but only because i purposely decide to acknowledge their flaws and mistakes instead of pretending they're just perfect in every ways like the silmarillion wants us to believe

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HIS SWORD

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Maitimo and Fingolfin. Post Angband times. Somebody help! I really need to stop shitposting sketches. October is full of important projects I need to draw, but instead i procrastinating with fanarts…  P.S. It is not a hole in Fingolfin’s body. It is just a belt color of bedsheets…

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Need more scars....

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I do think it’s strange that Maedhros of all people is a character that gets woobified so hard because the MOST compelling thing about him isn’t his heroism, it’s the fact that he was heroic and the BECAME A VILLAIN. I’m not even going to say became an anti hero because I don’t think that’s accurate, I mean he became a straight up villain. Destroying what was basically a refugee camp, attacking the army fighting against morgoth when half of his identity post thangorodrim was once based around fighting Morgoth. I’m not the first person to mention the irony of the fact that maedhros is the only person to ever escape Angband without being in thrall to Morgoth, and then years later his actions are absolutely aiding morgoths cause rather than the cause of the remaining Noldor.

And that is what sets this character apart. His downfall. Part of that downfall is his earlier heroism but what makes this character so well written in the first place is that the seeds of that downfall start early at Alqualonde. It’s tragic but it isn’t surprising.

I changing this character around so that somehow his later actions are excusable or against his will or that deep down he has actually been a hero this whole time is very strange because if that’s the case then how is he any different than fingon or turgon or thingol? In fact if that’s the case then he’s more boring than these characters because he’s not nearly as outwardly noble.

He becomes a villain and as the shadows of that villainy were apparent early on, the shadow of his heroism is still apparent later on as well and that’s the tragedy. He could have turned around at any point, he could have still saved himself. But he doesn’t and it’s horribly tragic and as a story, it’s absolutely brilliant character work.

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Fingon is the archetypical hero. He does great deeds of valor and daring, notably Maedhros’ rescue and rushing out to defeat Glaurung. He is not terribly afraid of consequences, which is wonderful when he is the only one he’s responsible for. His talent is forging ahead and inspiring everyone to follow him.

Fingolfin is the archetypical king. He is the one that holds his people together across the Helcaraxë and brokers peace with Maedhros after he’s rescued. He’s incredibly aware of every possible consequence, which is wonderful when he’s responsible for a whole kingdom. His talent is uniting everyone and inspiring them to move forward together.

When Fingolfin dies, he acts as the hero, not the king. He tries to borrow his son’s talent for incredibly inadvisable stunts, but it isn’t in his nature. He believes the Noldor are doomed, and thus dies in despair fighting Morgoth because he does not see another path forward, only defeat.

When Fingon dies, he acts as the king, not the hero. He tries to borrow his father’s talent for forging political unity, but it isn’t in his nature. The Nirnaeth’s forces are disunited from their conception to their defeat, and Fingon dies full of hope fighting Morgoth because he does not see any other path forward, only victory.

Fingolfin’s legacy was despair, though he left a lasting blow against Morgoth. Fingon’s legacy was hope, though he did not so much as touch Morgoth.

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groups of one dwarf，one elf and one man in the first age and the third age⭐

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