Vampires, Silmarillion and some other things ❤️ potentially triggering contents so follow at your own risk&peril 🙏 i do like to complain about things i dislike a lot so be also warned about this
header: Vengeance is Sworn by Francesco Hayez | icon: Vampire by Edvard Munch
since i'm getting some new followers because of my Silmarillion related stuff, here some very quick guidelines !
Fëanor / Fëanorians fan, but not anti-Sindar. i firmly believe that i can be sold any character if you present them to me in a compelling way.
i dislike every form of bashing towards female characters that get too much hate, such as Elwing / Indis / Idril / Aredhel etc etc
18+ content, discussion of ships that people may dislike like Russingon, Silvergifting etc etc.
i'm very critical towards adaptations such as the Hobbit movies, Amazon's Rings of Power, War of the Rohirrim + upcoming Gollum movie + other Warner Bros movies, due to a mixture of ethical concerns (the use of Christopher Lee's voice to dub Saruman after his death, the shameless rip-off from a fanmovie for the Gollum solo, Amazon's use of Tolkien's stories to whitewash its exploitation of workers etc) and personal dislike. i don't believe in a 'fans of x DNI' mentality, but if you follow me keep this in mind.
i don't hate the peter jackson's trilogy of Lord of the Rings, but neither i am its biggest fan. meanwhile i am affectionated to it because i've fond memories from my childhood, i think that there's value in its criticism by Christopher Tolkien.
If you stalk my blog in the attempt to frame me as a troublemaker, fuck off.
Metas & fandom submissions under the cut
my 'Witches of Middle Earth' series
Feanor | Griffith webweaving
Maeglin | Mordred webweaving
Silm x Art series
Numenor Week submissions
Celedriel Week submission
about Feanor asking for Galadriel's hair
why Galadriel stayed in the Middle Earth
why i don't think that the Silmarillion has an 'unreliable narrator'
Mairon isn't Sauron "real name"
parallels between Frodo&Sam and Galadriel&Celeborn
i do sometimes post contents that can be triggering for some people. i do tag everything just in case, but again, keep this in mind.
if i dislike a ship/a character, my dislike isn't for you personally!
i don't write many metas, but if i'll do, i'll add them to this list.
[Artwork: Maglor cast the Silmaril into the sea, by Ted Nasmith]
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Many lgbt teenagers and young adults growing up on the internet today have socially conservative beliefs that they voice at all times that they got from their conservative parents which they’ve never challenged because they think the life experience of being gay or trans makes them politically progressive
This is why I hate it when people say something homophobic and then go “so you’re really accusing me, a whole ass lesbian, of being homophobic 🙄” like yeah
It was always going to be hard to adapt a story that ends with the gendered killing of a woman by her relative, a rival male claimant, after the end of GOT—notably Jon stabbing Dany before the Iron Throne because she “went mad”—was so poorly received. But it seems that the way out of this HOTD is trying to use is, “showing us that Rhaenyra being killed is justified”. The lesson they took was that Dany’s madness and cruelty weren’t believable, and so her stabbing was not seen as deserved, so people didn’t like it; in response they have written, or tried to write, Rhaenyra descending into a more believable cruelty and darkness. They have followed the “if they’d foreshadowed mad!Dany properly it would have worked!” criticisms*
You can think what you like but I don’t think it works. Where this falls apart is that what happened to Rhaenyra—beginning with being targeted in her own home by Alicent, and being usurped, which leads to the war and her death—was unjustified and driven by misogyny. I’m not interested in a story about how THIS woman, this time, DID deserve her fate, and we did legwork to show you why so you’ll agree. I would find it far more progressive (and more satisfying) to see a story about a woman being mistreated and then killed and the narrative framing it as horrifying, and gendered, rather than her being put down like a bad dog by someone who—in Ryan Condal’s own words!—is now “more suited to the throne”, since Rhaenyra has been “contorted” by power
*I don’t really think they even managed to do this properly. The characterisation this season has been terrible
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people would rightfully point out that GRRM's works are more than violence abuse grim nihilism bla bla bla bla, and then turn around and start saying that Egg is actually going to become an abusive monster or something like that because he's a Targaryen and of course they're all destined by birth to be like that, because God forbid we are a bit coherent in the logic of what we advocate
So I and my dear spouse were watching LOTR for the 4,783rd time, and when we get to Lorien and Galadriel and Celeborn, he abruptly turns to me and with zero prompting, very seriously, says.
"You know why she's never shown sitting in a throne? It's because her throne is Celeborn's face."
I damn near had to marry that man again on the spot.
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ugh we need more manipulative characters that aren’t evil. lie and cheat and steal for a good cause. control every narrative. use narcissism for justice. ruin all of your personal relationships for the good of the mission.
things i would love to communicate to the fandom at large, having dealt with misunderstandings about this play by people who have not seen it for a week:
rhaegar could have easily led a rebellion against his father after harrenhal, had he not caused a stir naming an unexpected queen of love and beauty. he was on the verge of political victory there. in fact, it so easily could have gone right.
rhaegar is a flop who makes terrible decisions. he has moments of sympathy and humanity but he still damns his family and the realm.
he then doubles down afterwards by refusing to face the consequences of his own actions and making his entire life about lyanna. this is another terrible decision.
this is, in fact, the point.
this is a cataclysmic tragedy where characters' own flaws lead to their downfall. it is not a romantic story where the love is worth it. (lol!)
the play is less concerned with infidelity than abandonment of responsibility. rhaegar could have taken a mistress in a discreet way as someone who had a political marriage - a permissible infidelity. he did not do that. in fact, the play is more concerned with the consequences of abandoning absolutely everything for a 'love' that will drive you to madness. what does madly in love actually mean?
this is not a morality play. characters are flawed and problematic. you're asked to sit with that and think about that. you're not asked to condone them, but consider why they made the decisions they made.
we skip everything from the end of harrenhal tourney to the execution of brandon and rickard stark. we cut out the love story. to me this indicates that act 1 is interested in setting up 'why does this happen' and act 2 is interested in exploring 'here are the terrible consequences of that choice'. no honeymoon period for anyone.
related: lyanna and rhaegar straight up do not have a good time in the tower of joy. they're grief-stricken and prophecy mad and miserable.
arguably lyanna and rhaegar do not have a healthy relationship full stop.
there's complexity to elia! she's an interesting character! perhaps not the character you expected, but give her a chance...
elia was full on in #cope mode by trying to politically scheme while she was literally in chains... our girl refused to give up. i truly think this was a messy coping mechanism and a denial of circumstances on some level, there was a desperation to it.
the letters were an attempt to persuade lyanna to persuade rhaegar to fight aerys so elia could get out of prison & become queen. the contents should not be taken at face value.
certain details are clearly just shorthands due to nature of a theatrical adaptation. the ravens weren't going directly to the ToJ, they were almost definitely going from Ashara to Arthur via Starfall.
i have issues with elia's characterisation. her disability is barely mentioned, her death is too abrupt, her schemes go nowhere. but i truly do not think her characterisation writes rhaegar off. she's shown as trying to desperately claw onto anything while backed in a corner.
elia is not an 'agent in her own demise', she was trying to desperately figure a way out of things when dealt a shitty hand, but was not successful. nothing she does seals her own fate, nothing she does invites the mountain to attack her.
lyanna arguably is an 'agent in her own demise' and she's guilt ridden all through act 2.
rhaella is not 'less sympathetic' than aerys. rhaella has been abused all her life; she is allowed her righteous fury and spite. this does not mean she is a perfect person, but it does mean we can still feel sympathy.
you are not supposed to take 'i will have a vengeful daughter who will wake dragons and rain fire on the kingdoms' at face value. it is an ironic statement. dany is the downfall of her own house because she champions the downtrodden and seeks to undermine slavery.
rhaella does not literally curse her daughter like a witch, she just proclaims this spiteful statement during an emotional moment.
similarly, any proclamations of jon snow being the 'promised prince' should not be taken at face value. in the azor ahai prophecy, azor ahai kills his own wife to make a magical sword. does that sound like a good person to you?
this play makes more sense when you view it as a tragedy first.
it's actually really good fun to watch.
did i mention the dragon puppet got stuck for 30 minutes in my viewing? it was hilarious.
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drew some of my fav silmarillion siblings! aredhel tying fingons ribbons into his hair for @creatingblackcharacters melanin beam challenge! i hope im not too late lol
