Ok so the last person to try to pick apart this flaming trainwreck of a post was suicide baited so let’s see how I go.
No. Just. No. This is literally the least charitable reading of a character that I have ever seen. You cherry picked one specific version and then did some olympic level mental gymnastics to justify this “woke” “feminist” take.
This is the passage dealing with this from the shibboleth. Notice how it talks about how great finwe’s grief is? Yeah i noticed that that was missing from this take. Sure looks like a dude who is super upset about this whole thing to me.
Not only that, but the passage above clearly shows how bullshit your line about him repeatedly making advances on Miriel’s body is. In that, he’s not insisting that Miriel return, because she has said that she does not want to. He’s just asking if he is supposed to remain alone forever.
Which brings us to the crux of this whole matter. People who go through spousal death (which this is, it’s an unprecedented situation in-universe, but Miriel stating that she probably will never want to return is about as close as an elf gets to true permanent death) have the right to move on. The fact that your post completely shoves onto Finwe the valar’s decision that if he marries Indis, Miriel will never be able to return, is honestly like you’re just looking for someone to blame. This is another thing that is deeply fucked up btw, telling someone that they can either be alone probably forever, in a world where literally everyone else is paired off and playing happy families if you go by LaCE, or he can move on but his wife is definitely gone forever is. that’s some real fucked up shit ngl.
What gets me the most about this whole thing is your insistence that ten years for elves is “nothing”. Unless you can point me to where it literally says that elves just live differently in time and ten years is actually ten minutes, ten years is still ten years no matter how old you are. A week seems less long to me now than it did when i was young, but it’s still a week. When it comes to Maedhros’ torture, do you say that ~thirty years is nothing to an elf? Of course not, a year in pain is still a year in pain no matter how many you have. The same applies to grief.
I also find deeply troubling some of the implications in this post where you repeatedly tie Finwë “whining about being unable to get laid” to “the tragedy of the Noldor is basically built on the fact that a man felt entitled to a woman’s body despite her continued and consistent refusal of his advances.” I am certain that it was not your intent to call Finwe a marital rapist but it sure makes it sound like it.
Also, I cannot believe you have literally blamed Finwe for everything that happened in the silm like… melkor doesn’t exist? Or that other characters, who have their own agency and own mistakes, also exist?
What really gets me the most about this post is, I don’t care if you like Finwe or not. That’s fine. But this post just raises so many questions if you are this desperate to make him into a villain. Why does anyone have to be the villain of this tale? Surely the big tragedy of the Noldor is because it’s actually so easy to see it happening in real life. People who make poor choices but in the end are really just trying their best.
I don’t even like Finwe/Indis, and I personally think he should have waited for Miriel, and that is how upset this post has made me - I am arguing against my own natural inclinations here because this is such an awful take on grief and moving on. It can be argued that the real analogy for Miriel would be that she’s in a coma, but since Miriel has made her wishes known that she does not want to return, with only a very very vague “maybe” in future, I am considering her dead.
Miriel has a right to happiness, of course she does, but crucially this is Finwe respecting her wishes. It is Miriel who does not want to return. Finwe’s son is growing up and ten years may not be a lot to an elf as you have said, but it is a lot with a growing child. This is speculation verging into headcanon territory but I feel if you are allowed to so blatantly character assassinate Finwe, I am allowed to speculate that perhaps Finwe wanted a mother for Feanor. Plenty of single dads irl do.
Tl;Dr this is one of the worst posts I’ve ever seen and I’ve been angry about this for the last three days and anyone who has uncritically reblogged this post without questioning it needs to take a hard look at themselves and question how they would respond to someone irl who had waited for years after their spouse died (with a young son) and wanted to remarry. Because if it’s like this, then I worry for you.
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