Tag: ‘marry death maybe’

i realize some people are probably gonna laugh at me for being this late to the party, but while i know that the reason luthien is dancing among hemlock when beren first saw her is because edith was dancing among hemlock in the memory that inspired tolkien, i’m weirded out that it took me this long to notice the symbolism of the famously deadly poisonous hemlock, specifically

garden-ghoul: oh wow beren enchanted luthien right back
garden-ghoul: how equitable!
gurguliare: human empowerment
garden-ghoul: beren is the Empowered Woman trope but, Empowered Human
garden-ghoul: just in everything he does. it’s kind of charming.
garden-ghoul: it only reinforces my impression that beren should be a confused and bitey girl who gets overexcited about the idea of killing things because it’s all she really knows how to do
[…]
garden-ghoul:
I think they are making too big a deal of how bad dying is
like. the fate of being mortal
garden-ghoul: sometimes I just want to take a fictional character, or sometimes an entire race by the shoulders and say, listen my friend. death is good
gurguliare: but yeah. the thing i LIKE about the lay is it talks a lot of shit about death but is also kind of like
“marry death maybe”
gurguliare: “death is a bitey confused girl”