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I moved blogs!
Hey guys I just wanted to let you know that I moved blogs!
Peregrintook was a sideblog before, but it’s my main-blog now.
So - if you liked my gifs and ramblings, come follow me again OVER HERE on my now main blog? <3
I moved blogs!
Hey guys I just wanted to let you know that I moved blogs!
Peregrintook was a sideblog before, but it’s my main-blog now.
So - if you liked my gifs and ramblings, come follow me again OVER HERE on my now main blog? <3
I moved blogs!
Hey guys I just wanted to let you know that I moved blogs!
Peregrintook was a sideblog before, but it’s my main-blog now.
So - if you liked my gifs and ramblings, come follow me again OVER HERE on my now main blog? <3
moving blogs!
Hey folks, if you read this, you’re following my old LotR side-blog!
However, I wanted to make my LotR blog my main blog for various reasons, so please go follow me over at @peregrintook <3
Goodnight to people who identified with frodo a little too much as a child, straight girls who like legolas, bagginshield enthusiasts, lesbians who are in love with eowyn, gollum kinnies, trans fellas who think dwarves are just kind of neat, melkor apologists, anyone who tried and failed reading the silmarillion, sexy b*ches who stan gandalf, people who cope by daydreaming that they're a hobbit in the shire, and bi folks who wanna date both aragorn and arwen
tell me why orlando bloom put a pic on his insta story of legolas in front of a pride flag 😭
this one
he said what he said
Black wings against a pale morning; there is no more light, not in this sun.
“Simbelmynë . Ever has it grown on the tombs of my forebears. Now it shall cover the grave of my son. Alas, that these evil days should be mine. The young perish and the old linger. That I should live to see that last days of my house.. No parent should have to bury their child.”
Sometimes Fingolfin puts on a silly hat and says "I'm going to be Fungolfin today"
so. mightve watched the trilogy more times than id care to admit.
TolkienWeek 2021:Week 2 Day 2 (Most Heartbreaking Scene)
ELF WEEK | Day four: Elven Realm
LOTHLÓRIEN „Behold! You are come to Cerin Amroth,“ said Haldir. „For this is the heart of the ancient realm as it was long ago, and here is the mound of Amroth, where in happier days his high house was built. Here ever bloom the winter flowers in the unfading grass: the yellow elanor , and the pale niphredil. Here we will stay awhile , and come to the city of the Galadhrim at dusk.“
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So characterization of Maglor as ‘the nice guy’ or ‘the good Fëanorian’ is really, really common
and recently I saw it presented to a mostly non-Silmarillion audience as an authoritative characterization and now I am seething
Maglor personally killed Ulfang’s sons when they betrayed his cause
Maglor held the most dangerous and exposed territory save Dorthonion
Maglor participated at Losgar and in all three Kinslayings
there are literally no instances of Maglor holding back when his siblings went to war
if anything he did far more evil than Celegorm, Curufin and Caranthir
(who skipped the ‘sacking a refugee camp’ part because they were dead)
regret doesn’t erase that
there’s something really messed up about acting like mass violence doesn’t make you less of a good guy if you’re sufficiently sorry about it
and the main justifications for it seem to be that Maglor was musical, which is sensitive and pacifist (and, let’s be honest here, often coded feminine)
which is a total misreading of the role of music in Tolkien’s world and of Maglor specifically
nb: I love Maglor
I’m sympathetic to the sacrifices he and his brothers made during the war
I understand what drove them even in their lowest points
but he’s not a paragon
he’s not the nice one
he went to war reluctantly, he looked back on it regretfully
but he went to war
tell the dead they were killed by the ‘token good teammate’, by the ‘nice son of Fëanor’, by ‘the sensitive one’
actually don’t
don’t.
really.
The thing is, the THING is, the sons of Fëanor were really complicated characters.
The OATH was very complicated. Did it make them do what they did? Did they THINK it made them do those things or did they use it as a justification?
I can understand that people would like to imagine the Oath made them do those things and that Maglor being “the gentlest” somehow snowballed into him being the sole nice guy of the group is also understandable.
However, the word “repent” was used most often in connection to MAEDHROS! If you read the Silmarillion Maedhros was actually the only one who fully expected they were gonna pick up the rest of their people and the only one who stood aside when the ships were destroyed. Not Maglor. Maedhros!
Maedhros was probably the one who had the most common sense in that family. Hell, he was probably the sanest person in the room when all eight were together.
Maedhros was the one who abdicated in favour of Fingolfin to assure they didn’t start warring amongst each other and took his brothers - ALL OF HIS BROTHERS - away to prevent open hostilities. Maedhros was the one who promoted unity among the Noldor and it was outright stated that he alone was on good terms with the Houses of Fingolfin and Finarfin. It was also Maedhros who went out to look for the twins after Doriath.
None of the Fëanorians is a textbook good guy and depending on whether you see the Oath as a shackle or an excuse, they can be outright bad guys.
But just because Maglor liked music and raised Elros and Elrond (after abducting them, mind you) and regretted his actions doesn’t make him suddenly the nicest in his family. He still participated.
That honour should, by all rights, be reserved for Maedhros who wasn’t the best person either. But at least he tried. In fact, Maedhros’s character and actions make me believe the Oath was more than just an excuse and really something they could never escape, that made them do those things. I never got that feeling from Maglor or the others, as much as I love them.
Op mentioned Maglor being a musician and people misunderstanding what that means in Tolkiens works.
To make it easy: Arda, the world, was sung into existence the whole world and happenings of the world are all musik.
Finrod almost defeated Sauron through Song, they battled with Song of Power.
Luthien brought down a whole fortress with her singing.
If anything being a musician makes Maglor more “dangerous” because Musik is literally Arda’s equivalent for Magic.
it’s just hard not to think about the fact that in 1915, JRR Tolkien went to war not with but certainly in the same army and many of the same battles as his 3 best school friends, all nicely upper class young men who had never known much loss, and only he and one other came back alive - and a couple decades later, he wrote a book in which 3 nicely upper class young men (and one very excellent gardener) who have never known much loss go to war together, or at least they start out together, and they all come home alive. (Though one cannot bear it, and does not stay.)
What more it wasn’t just losing his friends, he was a commanding officer of a battalion of working class men. All farmers and miners from the same area of Lancashire. He felt affinity for them, but wasn’t allowed to socialize between the ranks due to military protocol and he hated it.
"The most improper job of any man ... is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity."
I don’t think it was even 6 months later that he contracted trench fever and was sent home.
His entire command was wiped out in one charge shortly after, the majority of a whole countryside’s youths slaughtered while he survived. Youths who were brave and steadfast, but thought of as lesser than their superior officers while still being the ones carrying the actual battle. Youths who deserved fellowship, respect, and above all to go home and dance with their own Rosie.
“My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflection of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognised as so far superior to myself”.
TRIES NOT TO CRY
There is a reason Frodo, who represents the English gentry, in the end falls and is caught by Samwise, who represents the common man.
But there is a soldier in Lord of the Rings who does not come back, and I don’t mean Boromir.
I mean the being who was a common hobbit, but who became corrupted by darkness and poison, who’s face is described in ways reminiscent of a gas mask.
The soldier who doesn’t come home, who is poisoned by gas and stress and insanity.
Is Gollum.
The Lord of the Rings repeatedly stresses the horrors of war. Eowyn's entire arc is about the truth of warfare versus the way it's glorified. She starts out glorifying war and combat and soldiers, even when her own brother is telling her war sucks and is terrible. And then in the end, she sees first hand what war does to people.
Aragorn's entire arc isn't to be the steadfast hero saving the day, it's to hold the line in terror and horror and blood while the overlooked folk are the people who save the world. And then, what makes him a king, is not his skill in battle, but his healing hands.
Which then ties into both Eowyn and Faramir's arcs. Eowyn goes into healing not because she's a weak and meek woman, but because war is horrible and saving lives is better than taking them. Aragorn is glorified within the text for his healing, and so is Eowyn.
Also, tying into the common man thing, in the movies it's Faramir but in the books it's SAMWISE who questions what brings a man so far from home to fight in a war and if he is really so different.
LOTR is anti-war propaganda.
"LOTR is anti-war propaganda"
All good war stories are
“What are we holding onto?”
“That there’s some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for”
I LOVE LORD OF THE RINGS SO MUCH HOLS YFUCK!!!!!!!! SAM’S SPEECH!!!!!!!!!!! THE SMILE ON LEGOLAS’ FACE WHEN HE SAYS ‘HOW ABOUT SIDE BY SIDE WITH A FRIEND’! !!!!!!!!! THE WAY MINAS TIRITH LOOKED SHINING WHITE NEXT TO MORDOR’S SHADOW!!!!!!! FRODO’S UNBELIEVABLE BRAVERY!!!!! ! !!!!!! BILBO SAYING THAT HE THINKS HE’S QUITE READY FOR ANOTHER ADVENTURE !!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! !!!! ARAGORN TELLING THE HOBBITS THEY BOW FOR NO ONE AND GANDALF LIGHTING FIREWORKS HOL FUC K!!!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!! I LVOE LORD OF THE RINGS
