#allalpha

I don’t have the musical education to explain why it sucks, it just does...half of its unsingable! It’s melodies are meandering and pointless and challenging to the layperson...everything’s wordy and ponderous! The lyrics are just- here’s a random song:

Now while the day in trailing splendor gives way to glories of the night,

thanksgiving to thy name we render, O God of darkness and of light.

Each day from thee we have our being, in all this wondrous order set;

thine omnipresence blinds our seeing, and in thy gifts we thee forget.

By the time you reach the end of a phrase you’ve forgotten the beginning of it! It means nothing! Every time I go in and people act like they sincerely want to sing 3 or 4 songs out of this wretched book over the course of a single hour I feel like I’m being gaslighted!

I will give a pass to anything simple, sweet, and clear of purpose- think Enter Rejoice and Come In, My Life Flows On, ‘Tis the Gift to be Simple, This Little Light of Mine, Spirit of Life, Come Sing a Song With Me...anything where the congregation gets to think to themselves “oh good, I know this” rather than “time to struggle through whatever the hell this is”. You can HEAR the energy change when they pick something people genuinely like, and it’s so rare! It should not be rare! Why are we sitting through interminable nonsense every week!!!

idk about loki specifically but i love dirty talk that’s like backhanded compliments/simultaneously both praise and insults at the same time? or phrased as compliments but in a way that the other person would take issue with

“Of whom dost thou say that our king, Tarkalion, is descended?”

“From Earendel the mariner, son of Tuor the mighty who was lost in these seas.”

“Why then may not the king do as Earendel from whom he is come? They say that he should follow him, and complete his work.”

“What dost thou think that they mean? Whither should he go, and fulfil what work?”

“Thou knowest. Did not Earendel voyage to the uttermost West, and set foot in that land that is forbidden to us? He doth not die, or so songs say.”

“What callest thou Death? He did not return. He forsook all whom he loved, ere he stepped on that shore. He saved his kindred by losing them.”

“Were the Gods wroth with him?”

“Who knoweth? For he came not back. But he did not dare that deed to serve Melko, but to defeat him; to free men from Melko, not from the Lords; to win us the earth, not the land of the Lords. And the Lords heard his prayer and arose against Melko. And the earth is ours.”

“They say now that the tale was altered by the Eresseans, who are slaves of the Lords: that in truth Earendel was an adventurer, and showed us the way, and that the Lords took him captive for that reason; and his work is perforce unfinished. Therefore the son of Earendel, our king, should complete it. They wish to do what has been long left undone.”

“What is that?”

“Thou knowest: to set foot in the far West, and not withdraw it. To conquer new realms for our race, and ease the pressure of this peopled island, where every road is trodden hard, and every tree and grass-blade counted. To be free, and masters of the world. To escape the shadow of sameness, and of ending. We would make our king Lord of the West: Nuaran Numenoren. Death comes here slow and seldom; yet it cometh. The land is only a cage gilded to look like Paradise.”

“Yea, so I have heard others say.”

…and then it continues on about their personal relationship and desires wrt the politics of the time and such.

oooh, i'd be interested to hear more about fingon/finrod

yeah like that person didn’t seem to realize that desexualization affects AUTISTIC ASEXUAL PEOPLE too? like… stereotypes hurt people who come the closest to conforming to them

:(( i’m sorry

I think everyone probably knows all my unpopular Silm opinions (and, because of the way fandom social dynamics work, none of my unpopular opinions are particularly  unpopular within my circle of friends). My pro-King’s Men, pro-Feanorian, somewhat irrationally anti-Finrod biases are the obvious cases. My most genuinely unpopular opinions might be that I genuinely like Ar-Pharazôn as a character, and that Celebrimbor in the second age isn’t a naif - he’s older than Feanor was when he died, and should be written like it.