#glorfindel like. pops up having not done anything except presumably be born in valinor and follow turgon places and be sexy
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can you believe it took me until now to learn that angmar is in the far north of middle-earth. like well north of rivendell. i swear i really did read the appendices as a kid but clearly i did not retain from them a damn thing
#barely grasped the relative positions of rohan and gondor really. what are you going to do. i was busy memorizing songs#i'm not actually incredibly clear on what happened to it later. did the witch king try to like. reestablish the kingdom? between stabbing#frodo and running horse raids?#are there still off-brand rohirrim up there being blond and hearty?#extremely unclear to me. presumably somebody's there. doing something.#box opener#rbox#only moderately related but glorfindel is so funny to me i'm afraid#most of the other truly extra special mary sues have some kind of like. origins. extensive lineage from some also-special house founder#glorfindel like. pops up having not done anything except presumably be born in valinor and follow turgon places and be sexy#dies very sexily and dramatically of a balrog#gets to GO BACK TO MIDDLE EARTH. ALONE OF ALL ELVES#and then spends a bunch of time being so hot and special that even the nazgul are terrified of him. beats the witch-king in fights#is judged 'too beautiful and special to go with the fellowship in case his mary sue aura alerts the guards'#and then presumably just. fucks off again over the ocean.#why did tolkien put this guy in here. what was he for#peter jackson was so right to give arwen all his lines i can't even tell you.
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