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Character of the Month: Eönwë This month's biography focuses on Eönwë, who started with a variety of identities but settled into the role of Manwë's herald, exemplifying the values of strong leadership and justice.
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This is my new poetical attempt to add my own interpretation to Tolkien's Cosmology as to Eru's Creation and the Valar's minds and behind-the-scene providence reasons and mechanisms.. I often review Eä as part of our own world, just in another dimension, this is why I have always seriously…
The last of the Elven ships are sailing and Maglor’s feet are restless. In the surreal version of reality his mind supplies there are ghosts to wrestle and hard truths to confront. In Tol Eressëa, Nerdanel swallows her own hurts in order to care for her son.
Across the history of the "Silmarillion," Eönwë's role settles on a character who leads without taking upon himself the power to mete out justice and who acts with equanimity across some of the most harrowing conflicts in the early legendarium.
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There are few details in the texts about Marach, but he is noteworthy for his allegiances and his descendants, who would become pivotal to the history of Middle-earth and the eventual defeat of Morgoth and Sauron.
Thirteen years before the War of the Ring, an orcling — more intelligent and more curious than most — is born in Mordor. His curiosity will lead him to both incredible discoveries and perilous situations, all of which will shape him into a leader unlike any Mordor has ever known. But to become…
“Oh.” Frodo’s voice was soft, almost more sigh than sound. “Sam, look.”
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I think maybe Luthien, Beren and the Silmaril are all mainly symbols to him--they stand for something else rather than themselves. But Huan and he were real to each other. Perhaps that is rather too solemn a thought for such a short piece, though...
I find it rather terribly tragic than funny (as I told you before) and I think that losing Huan was a huge blow -- the greatest one of those sad news Celegorm received. You conveyed his feelings very well. Greatly done!
Poor Celegorm. I was amused by this, in a "aw, he loves his dog so" way combined with a "this is morbidly delightful" way. And I think the current title works well.
Awww Poor poor Turko! To me it reads that he has resigned to the fact that he lost his dog to someone else, but even in the end she did not live up to his high standards of dog care?
More or less! After all, she is the daughter of a Maia and she bested Morgoth, but when Huan has to fight his greatest enemy, she is not even around... I suppose she had her reasons, but I guess Turko feels she could have tried harder.
This really breaks my heart, as the relationship between Huan and Celegorm is one of the purest int he Silmarillion, in my opinion - I was rather pissed when Huan without warning suddenly betrayed my dearest Tyelcormo.
I think too that after everything that happened, this is the hardest blow for Celegorm yet - by defeating him and Curufin Lúthien showed that she had the strenght to care for Huan, that she somehow deserved his loyalty, so to say, and that in his eyes she's failed in her single most important task.
It is really a very hard blow for Celegorm, I think. And I do think (on some level, at least) Luthien had gained his respect and so he had expected her to protect Huan as much as Huan tried to protect her.
You could argue that Huan didn't really leave Celegorm quite without warning, though. At any rate, he went back to him, the first time.
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