i find it so fucking funny most of the member of the jl don’t DESERVE their rogues, these villains are usually trying to destroy the world or get what they want and they just have a particular grudge against these heroes who are willing to stop ‘em every time and then there’s arthur curry aka aquaman who literally killed the father of his main enemy like jesus fuck, dude.
tbh this makes it funnier because theyre all usually like… oh yeah i wont fall into your trap evil villain and be just as bad as you meanwhile. there’s aquaman.
bruce: the joker killed my son, robin… but i won’t kill him, since that’s not how justice must be done
arthur who literally killed black manta’s dad when he was trying to kill black manta for revenge : i mean 🤔 sounds like ure just a wussy, but water-ver.
The ships that carried Ilsë from the shores of Middle-earth, parting her from her mother, father, sister, brother, uncles, was pulled by swans. The ship that Ilsë, Fleet Admiral of Alqualondë, commands today is not a Swan-ship. Once she had sailed the most graceful of crafts, tending the rigging and rudder of a ship she had designed and built. Her hands had placed and known every plank and rope and canvas and jet insert on the swan-like prow. But her ship had been stolen from her over the dead bodies of her sailors, taken and then burned.
The ships Ilsë embarks on today are not Swan-ships and can never match them. No swans are carved on their prows; no swans fly before them pulling these ships back to Middle-earth. Still, Ilsë had requested each of her captains gather a fragrant bough from the trees of Tol Eressëa to hang on the prow. The trees came from the Bay of Balar, their seeds grown in the earth of Beleriand. They are a piece of Middle-earth retained in the Undying Lands and one of the only connections to the land of her birth. They are the trees of the family that Ilsë and her people abandoned, the reason she sails today.
I don’t like the telepathic guy subplot in Ethan of Athos (only parts of Ethan of Athos do I like anyways).
Add Cavilo to this list too; she wasn’t really impressive as a villain, only at all memorable not for her but because the ending gave Gregor and Miles some great moments, but her character herself? meh.
with the Hobbit (book only we ignore the films precious), it’s been so long since I read it, and it’s one of those whimsical tales with few characters to direct any substantive ire. For LoTR …Sharkey/Saruman and Bill Ferny. Grima (movie version is one of those performances that are just a delight to watch and jeer- book version not so much)
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