#nothing says ‘i respect my dead sister’ like IMMEDIATELY doing smth she asked you Not To Do upon her death | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

shinraelectricpowercom · 1 year ago

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I don’t even think it’s textually supported that Aredhel would have been happy with Turgon executing Eöl. If anything, the textual evidence we do have is that “Aredhel and Idril moved [Turgon] to mercy”, which is presumably to say they convinced Turgon not to decide to execute Eöl BEFORE Aredhel died, which means that at that point, even after he tried to kill their son, Aredhel still doesn’t want Eöl dead. (Or at least doesn’t want him executed.)

And then she dies, and Turgon immediately executes Eöl.

#mine #silm #nothing says ‘i respect my dead sister’ like IMMEDIATELY doing smth she asked you Not To Do upon her death #i would not say i’m a turgon fan but i am a turgon Enjoyer if only in the sense that i think he’s a lot more morally crunchy #than tolkien tends to present him as. like i Do think this elf messed up in a lot of ways & i Like that abt him #but it’s hard to find takes in this fandom that lean into that without leaning into ‘and he was Just Evil’ bc that’s not it either #he was traumatized! he did his Best with that but his best was only really okay. and i like that

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