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[siliquasquama]

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My fandoms: Steven Universe, Silmarillion, Adventure Zone Balance Arc

What kind of content I post: fiction, edited photography, music

Access/commenting policies: open access, I may have a couple privated posts but I'm here to make my stuff public

Anything else?: I feel like I'm going to let this place slip my mind like I let tumblr slip my mind, if you want me to post stuff more often than I do please ask, because I work best when i have someone to work for

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[bushwah]

*peers evilly around a tree*

did someone say... Silmarillion?

(I'm mostly in the Sauron fandom -- shipfic, character analysis, etc -- with detours including Aulë, Elwing, and Oath ethics. I really really like the Ainulindalë but it feels like there's not much to say about it. What kind of stuff do you like from it? It's a massive tome, and different people get wildly different things out of it.)

[siliquasquama]

Well, I didn't say i LIKED the Silmarillion...Its prose and structure reads way too much like the Bible to be an ejoyable experience. But I'm interested in it because of the way it puts LOTR in perspective. When you read The Lord Of The Rings, it's a great story, lots of lore with scant details, heroic battles, etc, and then the Silmarillion fills in those details, and you begin to see the shape of Middle Earth, and what sort of themes Tolkien was going for. The Silmarils are similar to the Palantir and the Rings in the way that all these magic items come to bad ends, and it's almost like they bring misfortune upon their users -- not because the items are cursed, not even implied to be cursed -- it's the arrogance and greed and weakness of the people handling them that brings their users to ruin. Denethor's a good example -- the Palantir are the least dangerous of these things, but he still came to ruin because he let himself be deceived into despair by what he saw through the stone. It wasn't the stone's fault, it was his fault. it was a hot stove that he touched with bare hands.

Specific to the Silmarillion, I like the concept of the world being created through music. I thought that was a nice touch. It reminds me of that scene in "The Magician's Nephew" where Aslan sings the world into being.

[bushwah]

"Its prose and structure reads way too much like the Bible to be an ejoyable experience" big mood. I read the Prologue to Fellowship, you know, the one that went on and on about hobbit sartorial customs, and didn't read the rest of the LotR series for years afterward, and I did the exact same thing with Genesis. -_-

The Silm does that, it fills in a bunch of high-level history type stuff. And then fans take the mood of LotR (or sometimes not even that) and dally at a particular half-line from page 242 for 500000 words. Silm fandom is badass.

The theme of powerful objects being dangerous to greedy people really does just keep happening over and fucking over again. Some people can't learn!