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kareenvorbarra · 2 years ago

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it's been so long since i've seen a silmarillion post that filled me with genuine stomach-churning rage that i kind of thought i was above such things now, but i just saw another one, so apparently not!!!!!

people really are out here trotting out the same old "these characters were justified in sacking towns and murdering civilians and setting fire to refugee camps and destroying the greatest works of entire cultures because someone stole their personal treasure" arguments and dressing them up in social justice rhetoric because they want to feel morally superior about their favorite characters even when those characters are instigating and carrying out mass-murders

at a certain point it's like. is it just poor reading comprehension? is it an unwillingness to admit that you like characters who do Bad Things? maybe it's both, i don't know

#fandom musings #'actually the sindar are worse than the noldor!' *meryl streep voice* groundbreaking #i do not like thingol very much but people love to paint him as PURE EVIL and it's maddening!!!!#he's just a dude! he's kind of an asshole but his flaws are very mild compared to (for example) feanor's!#it's a lot of stale tired bullshit but the new spin this post added was #'the theft of the silmarils is theft/appropriation of noldorin culture'#which is one of the most laughably disingenuous reads i have ever seen #as if the NOLDOR as a group care about who has the silmarils!#as if they think of the silmarils as a cultural treasure the way the teleri think of the swan-ships!#(discussion of the swan-ships was conspicuously absent from the post ofc)#you think turgon gives a shit about the silmarils???#or any of finarfin's children?#finrod values his promise to a dead mortal more than he respects his cousins' claim to the silmarils #the noldor are not a fucking cultural monolith and many of them HATE the sons of feanor!

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