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crocordile replied to your post:
                   top 5 most tempting ragequit tolkien moments                

   Okay real talk tho, while it is absurd that we get 6363836 kings and
none of them get to be described as as uninterested in ruling as
Vanimelde was… i legit dig her being that way lmao    

Yeah I do like the variety! (in my headcanon, Vanimelde was a huge patron of the arts but was crap at ruling and knew it so she didn’t bother.) I would have no problem with it at all if we got, a few more queens (and preferably at least one super-evil one!!!! Why no horrible powerful Numenorean queens?) and/or another uninterested king, but hahaha once again a demonstration of how easy it would be to fix things if we could just do away with this stupid tiny-pools-of-female-characters thing.

thelioninmybed
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                   top 5 most tempting ragequit tolkien moments                  

wanna forcefeed Pengolodh/Tolkien their own
manuscript over ‘not wholly unwilling’, uuuuuuugh

YUPPPPPP
though also I wouldn’t have liked her acknowledgedly being raped (esp as a
narrative choice) either, again in large part because just too few
female exiles to go around. Like probably my favorite/as little canon
path divergence as possible choice while keeping all the Eol and Maeglin
stuff intact would be Terrible Decision Making 101 while Aredhel has
adventures among the nandor or something, but Tolkien would never have
written that lol.

crocordile replied to your post:                   Top 5 Tolkien songs                

   Do you like Treebeard and Quickbeam’s songs ? I think they’re lovely :’)    

I really love them!!!! (though unfortunately none of them quite made the top 5 cut), and how different they are from lots of Tolkien’s other songs. My favorite is “In the Willow Meads of Tasarinan” like, god I remember especially when I was a kid reading that song over and over and being so incredibly wowed by this sense of such huge expanses of a significant solid world with place names and specific environmental details but without explanation of the full story and therefore full of endless possibility just beyond the veil of the narration (which was my favorite thing about Tolkien!), where I didn’t recognize what was being talked about, but I could sort of put my finger on the general idea and feeling, of old places with their own full stories lost, to time and perhaps other phenomena. And then when I re-read LOTR after reading the Silm being like eeeeeeeeeee!! I recognize those places!