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nelayn replied to your post : Wha’cha Gonna Call It?
Oh, I /have/ read it. It is so adorably lovely it bears repetition, though ❤ Everyone wondering what gifts to send and Luthien’s nonchalance, though XD Imagining a fascinated uncle Finrod is hillarious. And Nomwen, oh my god XDD
Nómwen is a name that I’m very proud of (and possibly alone in appraisal of its simultaneous perfect and utter awfulness? IDK how its culmination as punchline works for everyone else…) The gift-giving was one of those writing as I went- the point about conception versus birth date celebration was the big thing, plus elaborating on Finrod’s (and then thus everyone else) support. And trying to show that some had a better grasp of appropriate gifts and more divide of cultural traditions. Scientist Philosopher People Watcher Finrod 🙂 Lúthien’s nonchalance = yes :D. It’s very in-character I feel for her (I’m marrying this human; I’m escaping via my hair to rescue my human from impossible torture palace; me and my human are going to do The Impossible TM and live happily ever after too)
I don’t think the sequel would be a tenth as popular (also it’s technically a canon character/OC fic sort of) but one day maybe…
You know heget, I have a super old short fic about cirdan reacting to the news, it’s a little different from this but the feeling of incredulous joy remains :’)
That sounds awesome and I’d love to read it 😀
vefanyar replied to your quote:But Morgoth thought that his triumph was…
Sorry not sorry, but the mention of the sails appearing… I could imagine that it would be equally glorious as the coming of the Rohirrim was in LotR, if not more so.
“Ships, ships, ships, in dark Belegaer’s streams they brightly shone. Great ships of the west swiftly sailing. Aman had come at last.”
Exactly! The Ride of the Rohirrim or Aragorn’s arrival at Pelagir with the ships can only be but the dimmest echo of the grandeur and overwhelming incredible unthinkable hope and relief that moment must have brought. Because the people at Balar are the last survivors, the fraction of people who had survived all the majority battles of Beleriand and many of them two Kin-slayings or destruction of their homelands. Some are mortals that have never known anything else. The supplies dwildled. So weary. No allies, no other safety. Long past hope, but perserving because they have nothing left but survival, and so many have released themselves to grief and the last hope of Mandos. Looking across the Bay of Balar to a shore that only holds monsters anymore. Seeing only the dark shadows on the horizon and how the land itself is twisting into something disgusting. Waiting for the day Morgoth sends his ships full of orcs to stamp them out, knowing it’s only time. And then that call they were all dreading, of sails on the horizon. But it’s coming with the sunset, and they turn in the direction they did not think to dare to look. And from the mist come the prows and sails of shining massive ships of a design none recognizes, ships brimming with a piercing light that reminds a few, the despairing survivors of Sirion, of that hallowed gem. A giant fleet that stretches beyond the horizon line, with white banners and at the prow or perhaps flying on ahead is a figure with piercing eyes and gleaming arms, a figure that only Fingolfin himself in his moment of glorious fate to ride to duel Morgoth had ever come close to emulating. It is Eönwë himself, the one who has no equal in battle, here to fight for them, for all of them, mortal and elves alike, and the army he brings is like that of the one that first vanished Morgoth long ago and there is no doubt that it shall be victorious again. Safety and salvation and the promise that their long siege is over, they can rest, no more courage and endurance is asked of them. With him are family they never thought they’d meet again. Not just the Noldor, but long-sundered people of the Third Tribe. The people who have been waiting on the Isle of Balar, the piece of Tol Eressea abandoned by kin who sailed west, but now come back. No longer Forsaken.
The Army of the Valar is here.
kareenvorbarra replied to your post:[[MOR] kazaera replied to your post : [[MO…
i stopped caring who the silmarils rightfully belong to years ago and it made my life so much easier lmao. also dior is hardly a problematic fave, he’s wonderful 😉
It was never a question to me, but then such a large part of fandom beating that drum to castigate Beren, Lúthien, Dior, Thingol, Elwing, the Valar… *ugh* shut up. Let’s ask the Silmarils who they want to belong to, hmm? Oh, they are fine with everyone above but burn the flesh of Morgoth, Maedhros, and Maglor? Debate answered, the jewels stay with who they want to be with. ;p
It feels slightly like I’m back two years ago when this upset me more, before I completely cut off the fandom elements I was trying to keep out.
First reading of the book I came out wanting more of and adoring Dior. So sad this isn’t a frequently common reaction. Alas Tolkien, would it have killed you to give us any more info about the first half-elven?
kazaera replied to your post : [[MOR] Let’s me honest, the more unpopular…
as it so happens my
Elwing plotbunny is attempting a justified Dior so if I manage to write it YOU MAY ENJOY THAT. and yeah I try to stick to my own corners of fandom myself!
When even defenses of Elwing make sure to state that Dior was in the wrong, and I’m left here thinking that under no circumstances should Dior -or Thingol- have handled the Silmaril over to them – if nothing else Thingol has a solid case that with Melian’s Girdle the Silmaril is safe from Morgoth taking it back, which, oh gods let me laugh hysterically, the idea that the Fëanorians would be able to keep the jewel out of Morgoth’s hands for more than a few years at the most is optimistic. Not to mention a Silmaril is the only object that comes close to balancing the incredible were-gild that the Fëanorians and other Noldor owe to the Teleri for the murders and the theft and destruction of the Swanships which were accounted by Thingol and Dior’s kin as equal to those three jewels. Then again, I also have zero interest in calling Beren and Lúthien out as unlawful thieves, which is a very common argument. Thingol and Dior don’t have the best claim to the Silmarils, imho, but only because the two people that I believe have a better claim are the Valar and Olwë.
And that is not an opinion championed by the BNFs in the Silm fandom.
I’d love to hear/read more about this Elwing plot bunny 😀
Looks like tumblr reset some custom themes to the default settings they had at installation (at least as colours and images and such go)? Mine’s gone all borked as well.
Yep. And I say posts about this affecting others- but hadn’t checked my blog for a week or so, staying only on my dash, so i have no idea how long this glitch has been.
If it doesn’t fix soon, I’ll redo my color scheme and header and fix the sidebar
Eh very few shows are perfect all the way through right, if it’s fun then it’s fun. And lol, I didn’t get to the Court of Owls bit, but I read the arc in the New 52 Batman – and Illuminati aside, I was enjoying the storyline, he was being an actual detective, there were multiple Robins giving input, the assassins had a cool design….and THEN “Thomas Wayne Jr” appeared and it kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. Shame because it was fun before that.
Yeah, the court of owls is a vague thing that only pops up at the very end and for a show with none of the Robins or most of the Batfamily, I’m surprised how much I like it. Because it’s a Bruce I like. (Ugh Thomas Wayne Jr. it was a stupid concept when they did it to Tony Stark too) Lucius Fox joins up as the only other sane man, so that’s also good.
I only saw half of season 1! Damn I never even considered that it might be possible to give a crap about the Riddler, until this show XD Alfred though, always pretty reliable ❤ I liked the atmosphere of the show, Gotham’s got a real feel to it.
Yeah, even when the plot (and characterization or lack/inconsistencies) were lacking or jumbled, the setting always felt like “Gotham” (even if that feeling was – NYC but not, the crazy comic book feel. That it has this weird mash of technology and time period costuming and cars and items really strongly helps). The Riddler does get better as it goes on – and put up everything to get to the second half of season 2 with Mr. Freeze and especially Hugo Strange the perfect mad scientist. Alfred has one or two moments where I was unhappy, but the delightful ‘i’m trying to protect and raise Bruce Wayne – and am ending up with Batman’. the young actors are great.
It takes a few episodes to hit its stride (and it’s not consistent quality). But for an AU Batman show I’m enjoying it more than the recent animated movies or some of the comic stuff.
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(Even if I’m sorry but I can’t take anything that uses the Court of Owls as credible villains but that has to do with my general lack of a suspension of disbelief for secret Illuminati council of rich old guys pulling the strings. Ancient Conspiracies equal *eyeroll*. Cavet: having a bunch of villains team up in evil conspiracies or secret government agencies type comic book villains I can do. Ancient mysteries and hidden villains, sure. It’s the combining of the two and getting into the conspiracy theory Illuminati/some group is secretly mastermind conveniently behind everything for a long time that I can’t swallow even in a silly narrative). Keep Owlman on Earth-3, please, and Thomas Wayne Jr is the sort of stupidity that should stay dead in the Silver Age.
Amused because we’re practically identical in Silm fandom but almost complete opposites outside it, like I never got into Avatar mostly because Zuko/Aang wasn’t a more popular pairing, and I’ll read Harry/Draco over Harry/Ginny any day. And hurt/comfort the sappier the better.
Yeah with the Hurt/comfort it’s a dynamic I really like, but idk, a fic labeled as such I wouldn’t click on. And yeah, the little bit of slash I do ship isn’t usually between the main characters, and if it’s between characters that are rivals, it has to be best friends hero/lancer now rivals but want to be friends again sort of …you know how I’m a glutton for the king & most loyal vassal (and queen). I’d ship Han/Luke if there was more for it, and Zuko/Aang isn’t terrible (I’d pick it over their canon pairings, tbh) but uuuugh do I vehemently dislike Draco/Harry (doesn’t help that I don’t particularly care for either character. Harry is main protagonist so I don’t dislike him, but could never care enough about him to care. And Draco *eyeroll*) The other example I could admit to is Naruto – zero interest in the main slash pairing of Naruto/Sasuke aka main character/his rival, but the mentor figure Kakashi and dead rival friend Obito I was shipping with all the angst (and only intensified when it was revealed the Big Bad sort of it’s complicated was said friend gone evil) to the point where you could almost call it my main ship. And aside from that, some minor m/m characters and the black hole that is Robin!cest in Batfandom, I ship het and mostly canon het at that.
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