silmarillion!

houseofhaleth:

Okay I’ve been thinking all day and like…of COURSE I want more female characters, more people of colour that aren’t two dimensional villains, more stories where x narrative doesn’t punish y character for z fault and yes hello some dialogue would be nice…

…and if whatever 5 things I picked were changed then we’d have something excellent! But what we had would not resemble the Silmarillion very much.

It’s massively flawed in many ways but I’d still be sad if it didn’t exist. We can still have those other (*cough* better) stories because that’s what fandom is for. Soooo…..here’s my list of utterly trivial things I’d change about the Silmarillion:

1. Okay no I’d still have more women like come on give me one or two more.

2. Instead of Rochallor, Fingolfin rides an actual lion

3. Finrod literally sparkles

4. We get one scene of Miriel weaving all the Noldor drama like “…he did WHAT”

5. Occasionally Haleth appears as a ghost when characters have got themselves into awkward situations. She doesn’t offer any sage advice, just laughs uproariously and leaves. She appears to Túrin on five separate occasions.