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A Sense of History: Thálatta! Thálatta! While he never climbs the stairs of this Elf-tower, in Lothlórien Frodo Baggins descends a flight of steps to look into Galadriel’s Mirror, wherein he first sees the sea. This post examines the view.
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While he never climbs the stairs of this Elf-tower, in Lothlórien Frodo Baggins descends a flight of steps to look into Galadriel’s Mirror, wherein he first sees the sea. This post examines the view.
With Gildor Inglorion we finally climb the stairs of Elostirion and look on the view, and what we see appears to reveal a hidden thread in the story of Frodo Baggins. This post reads two annotated translations of two Elvish songs to step through a crossroads in the narrative to arrive at the tower on the margin of the story, wherein is a stone that is a window onto Valinor.
In a book as full of death as the Quenta Silmarillion, grief and mourning are surprisingly absent. The characters who receive grief and mourning—and those who don't—appear to do so due to narrative bias. Grief and mourning (or a lack of them) serve to draw attention toward and away from objectionable actions committed by characters.
Bilbo recounts, in verse, the attempt of Gandalf, Beorn, and him to cross the Forest River after the Battle of Five Armies. Written for the Hungarian Tolkien Society's 2024 Mailing Competition.
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Yes, Finrod at least had seen battles before and knew on some level it would come back to that eventually. Gildor and his friends were begotten during that peaceful period and have only seen skirmishes at most...real war (and real casualties) comes as quite a shock.
I enjoyed this so much (sad though it is). I've never read anything with Gildor as Finrod's son before - and I hadn't even thought about the effect this news would have on Nargothrond. It was good to have the light relief of Uncle Elu's vase! And I loved the detail about no parents being left utterly bereft.
I've been writing Gildor as Finrod's (adopted) son for a while now. (Any laughter you hear is those who know I started that in response to the Taboo challenge back in 2017 and still haven't finished it...)
Poor Finrod was belatedly trying to do what he can for his people, despite knowing what's waiting for them in the North.
This was very good, and the atmosphere of the fic was just perfect. There was dread and a feeling of inevitable doom, but perhaps also a glimpse of hope. The different experience of war in different generations of elves was something I hadn't thought before, but you're so right about it. I also liked how eating lembas could be used as a comfort in distress.
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