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14. Saddest moment in The Silmarillion? Probably Fingon's death. Just moments before (for the reader anyway) he's so hopeful and then he ends up getting one of the more graphic deaths in the book. Like, I don't think anyone else's death is really described, so Fingon's death always really stands out to me.

(Actually, the other death that really stands out to me is Beleg's death. Not because it's his friend who he's trying to rescue who accidentally kills him. Oh no. It's because the first time I was reading the book I remember looking up from my page and saying to myself "I really like this Beleg guy" and then I looked back down, turned the page and straight away he died! T_T)

18. What is the hardest name or word for you to pronounce? Cuiviénen is the first thing that springs to mind. There's probably plenty more, but this one definitely is a big "Why so many vowels in one place Jirt? Why??". Though, I think I've gotten the hang of this one now, thanks to The Prancing Pony Podcast, but if I had never heard them say it, I'd still be completely lost!

23. Do you have pity for Melkor? Oh yes! And it's probably come through in some of the posts I make about him from time to time. I'll admit, I'm not a big "His daddy was so mean to him! He just wanted to sing his own song!" type person. I'm very much aware that Melkor's intentions were not pure. It wasn't really a case of him wanting to be an individual and not being allowed to. We're told that he changed what he was singing because he wanted to make himself more important. We're told he wanted to go to Arda and be it's King because he wanted people to serve him and call him lord. It's not really a case of a misunderstanding.

At the same time, I feel for him in that Eru is the one who made him so powerful and gave him some of the talents and knowledge of each of the others, yet at no point do we really see Eru directing him in how to use this or what this might mean. Also, seeing as he doesn't seem to be capable of making things from scratch like the other Valar, but instead can alter what's already there, I often think that that was his purpose, that he's there to bring in variation, diversify things, to build on what the others make. He also seems to have brought cycles to the world. The Valar were making things to stay the same all the time, which would be great for Elves, but everyone else would probably be bored out of their minds! He created rain, which anyone who has ever lived through a sudden lack of it will tell you, is very very important to life on Earth. Volcanos appear to be his 'fault', and while potentially deadly, they also give greatly fertile land, a variety of types of rocks/glass and they create more land as they go! (Volcanos are very cool and we respect them in this house).

Okay, I think I'm getting a bit rambley, but yeah, I think Melkor had a lot of potential to genuinely be a very important force for good, but Eru never seemed to properly instruct him, nor was his talent for altering ever understood for the usefulness it could have had (admittedly, he did use it to corrupt things out of spite which really wasn't helping his case....).

I'm also someone who gets really annoyed with Eru's whole "At the end of the world you'll all understand your position in the music better. Yeah, you'll all suffer horribly in the meantime due to your lack of understanding, but that's just something I personally I'm willing to sit through" thing...

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