#how maeglin gets tossed from gondolin's walls the same way eol did? poetic. celegorm picking a fight with the son of the woman he

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love how the narrative flat-out has zero sympathy for celegorm and maeglin after their attempted assault of luthien and idril respectively. they deserve only humiliation and death after committing such a repulsive violation of these women's autonomy, and that's what they were given. why it works so well is that they're both well-written characters with ample space for fleshed-out emotions, motivations, and thoughts; neither of them are simple caricatures of rapists whose sole purpose is to be icky and disgusting. they've both been through loss, trauma, grief, and pain. yet the narrative asserts that none of that matters. the moment they stooped so low, they became undeserving of understanding or mercy, and it was a good riddance that they died the way they did