#wild shit but just dropping 'oh yeah vardamir got the choice' before breezing on kind of eclipses them all | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

anghraine · 23 days

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First of all congrats on nearing the end of your PhD program!!! Woohoo!!!

Second of all, I’m muy late to the party here (been off tumblr for a bit) but WRT these tags ( https://www.tumblr.com/anghraine/749212904253947904/khazzman-tolkien-elendil-was-called-the ) what do you mean the pregnancies were strange lol how strange can they be…?

As for the first point: Thank you! I'm really looking forwards to being done, lol.

As for the second point: anon, I delight in your innocence. In fact, I delight to such an extent that I wrote a long and rambling explanation over on my Dreamwidth account. It's here.

An excerpt:

#anon replies #respuestas #nice things people say to me #legendarium blogging #legendarium fanwank #anghraine's meta #the nature of middle earth #jrr tolkien #elves #team dúnedain #númenórë #long post #míriel #nerdanel #fëanor #etc #total tangent but tolkien's wrangling with the maeglin timeline in terms of the developmental math is also very funny #and leads him to remark as a casual aside that part of the reason that idril was so put off by maeglin's attraction #apart from the incest and his personality and the other issues is just that he was significantly younger than her #not a literal child in elvish terms but still. kind of a kid as far as idril was concerned #also jrrt suggests that eöl was not avari/sindarin and 'dark elf' could be a pejorative term for /noldor/ who didn't finish the journey #like in this version the noldor don't see eöl as racially inferior but as another noldo who's just kind of a loser personally #wild shit but just dropping 'oh yeah vardamir got the choice' before breezing on kind of eclipses them all #the silmarillion

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