plinytheyounger:

you know i am stuck on some very specific things which is that 

a. is, there, like, a luthien analogue here?? IS IT CAPTAIN BOOMER. lose a *hand*, become a well adjusted member of society, extract a few drops of. precious sperm. from the seething, hellish mind of morgoth. m-marry the ship’s surgeon Hathaniel Nawthorne i guess. 

b. i was also like, is anyone andreth and in a SENSE – in a  – IN A SENSE??? – it’s – the person coming to – similar conclusions about the endless frustrating issue of our loss of agency, our boundedness, in the face of divine omnipotence —–

andreth handles that better. thank you. i have to leave this bar now

c. silmaril creation method IN moby dick is apparently the bitterest of intelligent teenager abandonments c.f. “

So, though in the clear air of day, suspended against a blue-veined neck, the pure-watered diamond drop will healthful glow; yet, when the cunning jeweller would show you the diamond in its most impressive lustre, he lays it against a gloomy ground, and then lights it up, not by the sun, but by some unnatural gases. Then come out those fiery effulgences, infernally superb; then the evil-blazing diamond, once the divinest symbol of the crystal skies, looks like some crown-jewel stolen from the King of Hell.”

d.  the key difference between the silmarillion and moby dick MAY be that there is a sublime, semiknowable, prelapsarian state from which we have come DOWN in the silmarillion, whereas the facets of…universe bearability….are multifarious, compromised and surprising in moby dick. sometimes you just look down at whales having sex, you know??? that’s as good as it gets???