#It makes perfect sense now to withhold the silmaril or even to kidnap Luthien when one thinks of the panic; the confusion
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The refugees in Sirion hearing the grind of metal and angry shouts and thinking it’s happening again.
#There is plenty of acknowledgement of Mae’s trauma after angband but not enough recognition for literally everyone else’s#After day or bragollach ‘war never wholly ceased in beleriand’#These people lived in fear.#Anyone who fought#had encountered or been close to an orc raid#Anyone who had lost family#these people also wake screaming; these people also have problems#The people in Doriath and Gondolin were protected but in hithlum and dorthonion#And even after the sudden flame in the guarded plain#There was war. I don’t know what it’s like to live in wartime#but the hunger for one#the cold#and the fear of starting a fire in case of being seen; when I bid my friend farewell do I know I will see them again?#Many of us in the fandom don’t understand how jirt’s underlying understanding of wartime and wartime perspective moves the plot line#It makes perfect sense now to withhold the silmaril or even to kidnap Luthien when one thinks of the panic; the confusion#And I’d like to headcanon a sort of Great Depression maybe in valinor after the darkening and flight of the noldor#I don’t know; we don’t give the situations enough thought when we explore this. There wasn’t peace.#Anyway#tag essay#Alexis rants (in the tags this time)#Sirion#third kinslaying#silm headcanons#silm hc#silmarillion#silm#the silmarillion#the silm fandom#the silm#silm fandom
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