🔥 luthien

I’m not much into the fandom attempts to fanwank her falling in love with Beren at first sight thing into actually being some kind of reasonable realistic gradual process that came after getting to know him properly etc like normal people in the real world or whatever. I mean, not that I don’t like that stuff to be added to the weird fairy tale love thing! that part is great. but for me undermining the weird ‘unrealistic’ aspect of luthien’s behavior just kind of, ruins the whole point? I mean, generally speaking I’m always vaguely confused about how concerned people in fandom are about making things or characters “relatable” because I just don’t…understand…why everything needs to be relatable to be interesting or affecting or good. But Beren/Luthien is one of the strangest choices of them all. I mean, psychology I get, ish, because I am blinkered by it too. But why try to drop any of our societies’ real world expectations onto these characters, of all characters. Like, does it improve the story itself in any way….i dunno, just have 2 cents.