Tag: cw: rape

meme: arien? :)

1-3 things I enjoy about them

-SHE SCARES MELKOR INTO HIDING UNDERGROUND I LOVE

-I really like imagining her whenever the Silm or LOTR or the Hobbit mentions “the sun” or “sunlight” 🙂

-Okay even though I hate that version from the HoME where Melkor rapes her and shit I really like the backtalk she gives him

Something interesting about them based on tenuous circumstantial evidence

I mean, she must have wreaked quite a bit of havoc on the natural world when she rose right? Come on. The elves must’ve been freaking out too.

A question I have about them

How does she view humans, given they woke up to her, like the elves did with Varda? Does she have any strong opinions about them?

A random relevant line I like

Okay she had a different name (Urwendi) in the BOLT but…but….BUT!!!!!…:

“So it comes that ever now, as the Ship of the Moon leaves his haven in
the East and his gates of pearl, Ulmo draws the galleon of the Sun
before the Door of Night. Then speaks Urwendi the mystic word, and they
open outward before her, and a gust of darkness sweeps in but perishes
before her blazing light; and the galleon of the Sun goes out into the
limitless dark, and coming behind the world finds the East again.”

My preferred version, if there is more than one version of their story (or part of their story)

Not the Morgoth raping thing. I like to cherry pick the rest.

Favorite relationship(s)

Tilion ofc!

How would they react to Tom Bombadil

She probably knows all about him tbh, though he possibly knows even more about the earth than she does (he was there before her) which is, unsettling…

Optional: Something about them that I think people forget

Okay this is not something people ‘forget,’ but something that I JUST REALLY LIKE TO BRING TO PEOPLE’S ATTENTION BECAUSE I ENJOY TAKING IT SERIOUSLY:

The round Moon rolled behind the hill


As the Sun raised up her head.


She hardly believed her fiery eyes,


For though it was day, to her surprise


They all went back to bed!

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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
replied to your post:
                   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!