I have opinions on the Tar-Miriel as Witch-king (mostly, ew. Way to miss the point of the Ringwraiths, his character, her character, everything) even without caring overmuch about the characters. And besides how wrong everything is characterization and motive and timeline-wise, plus the undercurrent of “yay positive thing because two women as antagonists!” with what feels like that slide into ‘pro-King’s-Men’ attitudes….

Look, if you want a female Ringwraith, it could be doable. Picking Tar-Miriel just because of name recognition, however, nope.

Sauron seduced his wraiths by promising this Faustian deal of rings of power without mentioning the price tag. This happens around S.A. 1600, post-reign of Tar-Telperiën, the Second Ruling Queen. We know several older daughters of the kings abdicated their rights so that younger brothers took the throne instead. The King’s Men anti-Valar and clinging to life in unhealthy obsessions starts becoming strongly noticeable four hundred years after Sauron starts his Ring War, but he doesn’t have to be handing out rings to all nine at the same time or have settled on the same nine. Sauron could have easily offered a ring to an exiled or passed-over daughter or sister of the King, one would should have had the throne and desires power her gender has been denied to her, someone who hasn’t lived for years under Sauron’s mass murdering society and was raised and adhers as Faithful and in long years as opposition to him.

But not the Witch-king, because way to lessen the point of Eowyn’s I am no Man. grump grump

kareenvorbarra:

there’s a word for someone who, while trying to retrieve his own stolen property, stole the greatest treasures of an ENTIRE PEOPLE and then destroyed said treasures when he was done using them

that word is “hypocrite”

I like to understand where people are coming from, but as a human being who cares about other people it’s really hard to sympathize in anything but the smallest way with them. Like… Great, you made a vow, and it’s driving you to do horrible things, and you KEEP DOING THEM instead of– I dunno, jumping in a volcano BEFORE you commit more massacres??? Anyway. ><

When Morgoth himself, in the text straight up, says that the Fëanorians have only ever aided his evil dominion of Middle-earth – yeah, that’s your sign they aren’t doing things right. ~~(to put it mildly)~~

I can have pity for the Fëanorians, but it’s a very slim and ugly pity born of the scorn and disgust, that they weren’t always the wretched monsters deluded that they weren’t as god-awful as they truly are. But if there is any “Pengolodh bias” in the text, it is that Maeglin is accounted the worst of elves for submitting to Morgoth and helping him to destroy one elven city, whereas the Fëanorians without the completely understandable excuse of coming face-to-face with mindfuck Valar-powers Morgoth still sacked and/or destroyed three elven cities and also attacked and killed guards appointed by Eönwë, that Celegorm and Curufin were advocating for the slaughter of an entire people, that Fëanor consigned his sons to death knowing that’s what that Oath was (and fuck that Oath), oh and by the way Fëanor is a controlling paranoia egomaniac (and the only funny thing about Trump is the quotes from everyone else describing him the same way I’d describe Fëanor – there was a clip from Jindel I think where I had to do a spit-take and laughed for a long time) and the speech in Tirion reminds me so much of something so fucking fascist I care barely read it…

gifs by mahidevrans.

If I could pick one thing I’ve inspired or created for this fandom, it’d be a tight race between several graphic series and minor group fangirling, but honestly this ranks in second or third place.