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  • gildadriel@feddit.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 month ago

    absolutely understandable, i was an incredible picky eater as a child, now I’m very much the opposite

    I first encountered Tolkien when I was 19 or 20, I was visiting a friend and on the table he had this thick af book. as I’ve always been an avid reader I was thrilled to see a book that could last me at least one week, I’ve asked what it was about. “wizards, elves and wars” i never put down faster anything in my life 😂 there’s a time for everything I guess, because, oh gosh! i was so wrong!!

    yes, Fëanor is so far from the elf-perfection, definitely not the wisest and fairest of all beings. but also his father seems like the only elf who had 2 spouses, probably they were a bit over the top

    we had, a few years ago, a massive shitstorm amongst the fandom because of the new translation. it’s proper crap honestly, I don’t want to talk shit on someone who’s way more talent than me (otherwise I’d be the new translator!) but…no, it’s awful. the last name of the translator could be translated as exertion, we all joke saying Exertion made reading Tolkien an exertion.

    I don’t think i have a favourite, but I truly love elrond, he lost basically everyone, his life is so fricking tragic and yet he keeps going, such a strong soul. I also like Rosie (in fact I have a pot called rosie, despite her little presence) because, not knowing, she gave so much strength to Sam, only existing.

    gosh i wrote so much, apologise! I bet op is hating us, receiving all these notifications for stuff absolutely unrelated to her post ahah 🙈 #SorryNotSorry

  • gildadriel@feddit.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 month ago

    I can totally see them inventing some shitty romance just for the sake of it! seeing the creation would be divine (literally and metaphorically) but I think it would be harder than picturing ungoliath.

    also I have big love for yavanna and nienna, probably because I feel closer to them

    if they really need a tragic hero, Tolkien already wrote the children of hurin, no need to twist melkor, but I’m 100% sure they would do exactly what you fear for

    but at the end of the day what I’d love more would be a proper silmarillion, not that sort of Frankenstein Tolkien son made. no intent to shit on it, I’m more than grateful to him for his inestimable work, yet he admitted he cut a lot, especially female characters, I would have loved a the lord of the rings-long silmarillion

  • gildadriel@feddit.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 month ago

    the same disappointment i had for the hunt for gollum… i mean ok, everything Tolkien is great and the more, the better, yet…there are soooo many things to show! elrond and elros childhood covers a lot of interesting time as well

    but rings of power gave me a bit of anxiety because now I don’t trust anyone honouring the professor’s world, it’s just a grab money and it saddens me (the hunt for gollum! I’m talking to you! please don’t be rubbish please!!)

  • gildadriel@feddit.orgtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 month ago

    I totally agree with you! probably I see it through a “modern” point of view and I don’t believe in blind submission and in punishment but more on education and forgiveness. I see elves from the first age more as children and the valar like care giver, they really failed him and didn’t protect from their peer morgoth (who has no room for redemption, education and forgiveness)

    we will never know how melkor would have reacted (for sure not nicely) yet I’d rather leave melkor to act destructive instead of abandoning in despair and pain a child of Eru