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ALSO IM CONTINUING MY LC REWATCH BUT IM TAKING NOTES AND ITS SO FUN (it takes me over half an hour to watch an episode cos i keep pausing and rewinding. but im having fun :D) i feel like im catching a lot more
#ness lc tag#corner.txt#i also feel like my slow processing makes my first time watching things kinda....not overwhelming but im not able to catch a lot#the first time round...cos im focused on just keeping up w plot developments#my notes are mostly quotes and incoherent commentary#character notes too tho#will hopefully be helpful for me to refer to for fic writing
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âI want to go HoMEâ
âno actually thatâs not possible. Iâm truckin away on my last final but Iâm so weary. this is my âbreakâ: analyzing tolkienâs dumb noodle notes.â
The first thing I found while trying to skip the entire third book was some of CS Lewisâ commentary on the lay of leithian. I canât actually tell which it is? It sounds basically like Chrisâ commentary except kind of incoherent and with really bad spelling. Maybe itâs some kind of fancy words I donât know. What is âGesteâ? Anyway it looks like he actually edited the lay and helped rewrite parts of it! Thatâs pretty cool. It was also being commented on by people named Peabody and Pumpernickel, so I guess, like, all Tolkienâs friends were actually brownies.
At one point he edited a perfectly nice passage into
But wildly Beren gazed around. Emptied the tall trees stood. The ground Lay empty. A lonely moon looked grey Upon the untrodden forest may.
Which doesnât scan and is difficult both to say and comprehend. He wanted to get rid of âthe conceit with the moon.â Tolkien wrote on top of Lewisâ comment:Â âNot so!! The moon was dizzy and twisted because of the tears in Berenâs eyes.â IÂ think itâs great imagery, Mr Rolkien. I also find his double exclamation points endearing because I use enough exclamation points for 8 people (haha).
The next book after this is âThe Shaping of Middle Earth.â Iâm mostly interested in the first Silmarillion map and whatever the Ambarkanta is, but it also looks like Tolkien was... translating the silm into Old English?? I got to check that out.
I ended up landing halfway through a story about a kid named Alboin who I THINK is learning Beleriandic (is that an actual language people spoke in Beleriand,) and Eressean (???) in his dreams? Sometimes he dreams poems about elves in Old English. Heâs also trying to learn Every Other Language. Methinks itâs just Tolkien.
It was curious how often the remembered snatches harped on the theme of a 'straight road'. What was atalante? It seemed to mean ruin or downfall, but also to be a name.
Nevertheless, Iâm gay for this kind of thing.
Alboin has a son, who also starts having The Dreams. One of the many Elendils says that they should come to Numenor, because Alboin dreams only in words and his son dreams only in images. Very poetic and cute. So they go to Numenor (itâs really unclear how) and we get a lot of fun little politics stuff from the era when Sauron was living there. Alboinâs son, who is now named Herendil, is super afraid that someone will hear his dad talking shit about Sauron and theyâll both go to the dungeons. And thereâs this sweet bit,
Atarinya tye-melane, my father, I love thee: the words sounded strange, but sweet: they smote Elendil's heart. 'A yonya inye tye-mela: and I too, my son, I love thee,' he said, feeling each syllable strange but vivid as he spoke it.
I think someone quoted this in a fanfiction I read. Nerd.
Thereâs some very intriguing stuff in the notes for further unwritten chapters. One just says âEnglish story of the man who got onto the Straight Road.â WHAT IS THE STRAIGHT ROAD.
... when I googled it, the very first result was the Tolkien Gateway. Google, stop arranging my marriages. I want to date around a little. Anyway the Straight Road is a road that only existed after Arda was made round; it is truly straight, and tangent to the planetâs surface at one point, we can only assume. Uh... it goes to Aman, though? You have to sail it. This is confusing. The Straight Road also appears in an unrelated short story called Smith of Wootton Major, and leads to the land of Faery.
Also I guess I completely missed both the things I was looking for in this book because the pages of the pdf donât match up with the actual book pages. Oh well I guess it was fate. The Ambarkanta, despite its awesome name, turns out to be something I donât care about. Nice!
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