Right?? Like, I understand the pragmatic concerns over getting the vast audience for PJâs version onboard, but completely subordinating all creativity to the precedents set by a different interpretation is weird artistic advice under the best of circumstances. And lbr, the moviesâ handling of NĂșmenorâs legacy/Gondor hardly counts as the best of circumstances.
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
â Live Streamingâ Interactive Chatâ Private Showsâ HD Qualityâ Free Actions
Free to watch âą No registration required âą HD streaming
Okay so for a Tolkien character MĂriel and for other fandom I'm vaguely aware you used to write frev things, i THINK. So uhhh Marat. I am so sorry. Yes I chose Marat because his name starts with M also.
okay let's do both starting with miriel
How I feel about this character
I like her! there's a lot of little details about her that are great, and for however much I might mourn that her narrative story is cut so short, there's something I find very interesting in the fact that you can make a very solid argument for post-natal depression as part of her story. she's a pretty harrowing look into matters of mental illness in elves and in valinor as well, as well as one of those mother characters in the legendarium that imo inherit something from Tolkien's own mother (and his mother's death, as well). cool, 10/10, I dig her.
All the people I ship romantically with this character
I'm gonna be big boring and say Finwe (and I do actually ship it), but also Indis if you spin it right, and Finwe/Indis/Miriel? the poly three-way is something I would like to read, or even write, but it's hard to do it in a way that I find satisfactory, primarily because some of the pivotal metaphysical conflicts of the laws and customs are centered around them and solving those is harder than simply working through interpersonal relationships. a challenge for another time.
My non-romantic OTP for this character
Vaire and Nienna are up there, then if we are counting the obvious familial relationships also Feanor, and the platonic Indis relationship is also interesting.
My unpopular opinion about this character
I'm not sure I have any opinion that can be considered unpopular? I don't think there's any discourse around her that would warrant the definition. I have some strictly in-universe thoughts that I would like to loudly share with people of Arda who seem beyond incapable of letting this woman choose and keep the names she wants and her personhood seemingly co-opted for this and then that; and that's like, beyond the Therinde/Serinde thing, though of course it's related, but I'm referring to the FĂriel name primarily, which? "the one who died"? come tf on guys. but like I said, that's a bone to pick with the elves, not really an opinion per se.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.
okay, hear this. she returns to life after Finwe's death, but before the kinslaying at Alqualonde, and leaves Vaire's halls. a story I want to read.
and now Marat under the cut
How I feel about this character
okay I should specify that I never wrote FRev, only read a lot about it, gobbled down other media, and read historical accounts, so it's a little hard to talk about how I feel about Marat as a character while restraining myself from like, tryna distinguish between the historical Marat, the reception of Marat in later literature, and the hmmm propaganda of Marat in his favour or against him. thorny issue. so I'll pick one thing: it's fascinating how the sanctification of Marat specifically happened through the visuals of Jacques Louis-David, whose knowledge of historical sources is ample and evident if you know where to look. I'm talking specifically about the position of his arm in the very famous painting. google any deposition of Christ and you'll see the exact same arm position, sooo how's that for religious symbolism in a secular icon
All the people I ship romantically with this character
uhhh probably Simonne Evrard, his wife. I've seen and read some plays where there's some wild writing of sexual tension via blade-penetration with Charlotte Corday (notable the Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, no that's not a ship name it's how the play is shortened) but like, I enjoy it solely for how unhinged it is.
My non-romantic OTP for this character
France
My unpopular opinion about this character
the leopard print of his lapels is incredibly fashionable actually. also, he's not always as extreme as some detractors painted him if you go and read his actual positions and their development.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon
heh, good enough health to keep going coulda been cool.
thanks! I wanted to talk about weird things today!
nosferatu: what do you fear most?
had my eowyn moment with this question last friday where i was explaining all the things i wasn't afraid of, even failure, because you can try again, and the priest asked: 'what /are/ you afraid of?' with that exact aragorn tone of voice.
and i was like 'being alone forever'
and she was like 'you just told me you know how fortunate you are to have such good friends, what do you mean by being alone?'
but they all live in different countries. and i am very aware that i have good friends! and i'm lucky there! but they all live in different countries. and i've lived alone for over four years now, and i hate it. and i'm terrified of the idea of coming home to no one forever. and waiting for hours just to be able to talk to someone for a few little texts back and forth. and talking on the phone with someone a couple times a month. and having to make plans for every single thing alone. i've done everything alone. all i've ever really wanted is a family. what if i never get it?
the babadook: have you ever felt like you were being watched?
yes! and i've spotted many animals trying to figure out just what exactly it was that was watching me >:)
other times it's like i felt i was being watched and i was like hmm i wonder what that's about but i do live in a "haunted" house built above an underground lake. makes me really wonder about low frequencies causing fears/feelings of being watched because i lived in a "haunted" house with that whole and then i heard footsteps and moving and something touched me deal but i really don't believe in ghosts all that much
and other times i still feel that i'm being watched and i'm talking to the person watching me who doesn't really "exist' and sharing information and getting information that i should! not! know! and drs are like hmm here's some anti-pychotics but that didn't stop it so idk what's up with that but it does make me wonder about alternate dimensions! and such~
many thoughts on this, not many clear answers.
but i have met many cute animals because i was looking for what was watching me! :)
12.You can save one kingdom from destruction, which do you choose?
Iâm tempted to say Doriath solely out of my attachment to Nimloth, and because I feel like in the cases of Gondolin and Nargothrond they might have a) been unsavable because of doom, or b) not needed to be saved from destruction if their kings had just made better decisions, whereas Doriathâs fate had maybe more to do with the oath of FĂ«anor than the doom of the Noldor, and feels less inevitable? And Dior didnât deserve to die for Thingolâs mistakes? (Perhaps the way to save Doriath is actually to Deal With Thingol earlier and prevent all the Silmaril-related fallout...) Possibly the answer is really if you didnât have monarchies run by particularly hardheaded and/or doomed kings, maybe you wouldnât invite so much destruction. Or maybe if you didnât have monarchies....
21. Would you have followed Fëanor from Valinor to Middle-earth?
That is complicated... I mean it would depend on my relation to him and the Noldor, obviously (although actually, concept of a Teleri elf following him for revenge or something? interesting). As an anarchist, to my mind some of FĂ«anorâs points and desires to leave can be filed under âjustified rebellionâ - so I would have sympathized, at least. Not with the elf supremacist bit about not wanting to be replaced by Men, though. If that was the dominant sentiment, then I would not go; if the vibe was more rebellion against a suspect and illegitimate authority, I would go. Or honestly, I might have been closer to the Finarfin contingent of initially being down for rebellion but not for kinslaying and doom - although if Iâd decided to leave, I would probably be in the camp of unwilling to go back and sue for pardon, and thus would probably go forward with regrets
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
â Live Streamingâ Interactive Chatâ Private Showsâ HD Qualityâ Free Actions
Free to watch âą No registration required âą HD streaming
Doriath. But, like, with the guest-elves / with the laiquendi in ossiriand. Or just screw kingdoms and hang with the nandor East of the mountains for a while. The kingdoms just had...so many problems. đ
25. You get to have a conversation with J.R.R. Tolkien. What would you want to talk about?
I am way too brain dead for this question. đ Itâs so high stakes, haha. Off the top of my head, I would ask him about his development of elven cultures, and the things that didnât make it into the books, particularly re: Sindarin and silvan cultures. I would talk to him also about Pengolodh and Aelfwine and potential narrative or historical bias and his perspective and motivations there. (And on a less Silmy note, I would obviously ask for all information in his brain about legolas & Gimli, simply because of who I am as a person, at a base genetic level.)
@galadhremmin said: hope you feel better soon and đđ at the book
I do feel way better today, thank gods, and as for the book, I went through the first essay and I feel like it taught me more about real life astronomy, the cosmic microwave background, and the heat death of the universe than about the music of the spheres itself, but... it was pretty nice. some cool historical framing re: Tolkienâs own life and beliefs, some extremely unwanted Narnia reminders ( @fatalism-and-villainy itâs been a long time since I read any Narnia whatsoever but this essay reminded me how the Song of Aslan, when attacked by figures of evil like Jadis, the attack just sort of bounces off him? which bores me. and it also irritates me for how uncomplicated it makes things in this worldâs theology, and anyway I just donât like it), and the three themes of the Music likened to the phases of the universe aka light/radiation, matter, and âdark energyâ.
the second essay started out strong with some Wagnerian comparison, Music of the Ainur vs the prelude to Der Ring des Nibelungen (Das Rheingold), and the next sections are titled âFrom Melkor to Schoenbergâ and âFrom Mandos to Schenkerâ, so looking forward to that. it also means now I have Wagner blasted on repeat.
Thank you! I do like the idea of them getting alongâjust in a more complicated way than itâs sometimes envisioned. They have NĂșmenor angst! They have different perspectives on past and present Gondor! But theyâre also both kind and compassionate and I think would always be eager for new information.Â
I was also vaguely imagining/headcanoning ... like, if part of the difference is that Faramir only halfway knows how to handle his abilities and some are involuntary, Elrond could even help him a little before he goes. Maybe. So it could end up in a nice place, too.