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chaos-of-the-abyss · 1 month ago

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#silm#yeah#that's kind of what makes them so appealing tho#if they surrendered to fate they would merely die#instead they resist it - the paralysing despair of it#and so go on to do great things#by virtue of choosing actively to do something#that's what - if at all anything does - gives them the air of the eldritch to the elves i think#'why don't you just lie down and succumb' -> avg noldor awful attitude at least till it reaches elrond and elros.

i think the thing that we as a fandom tend to miss about the line of luthien is that they're all fundamentally little guys. they're not awesome eldritch demi-gods who wow everyone with their power and beauty and spin ancient untouchable magics around themselves. their arcs are about being denied agency, taken away, kidnapped, barely and painfully surviving against greater enemies, scraping out a place in a dangerous and often unkind world. they're the underdogs and they're painfully aware of it

#YES THIS this this this #i mean. i do picture luthien and dior (the only ones who in my mind inherited any sizable portion of for lack of a better word 'eldritch'#traits from melian; after that the bloodline is too far removed from her) as being able to tap into power that an elf couldn't have if #they're pushed hard enough. but this isn't something they can purposely access and even when they do it's not some sort of overwhelming #invincible mode where they can pulverize anything in their path. they have to wield it as best as they can and that best can't be anything #but haphazard and fueled by adrenaline and crazed determination and desperation. because they don't understand it #BUT i think the principal thing that makes them so strange to the elves; who by nature place such value in the predetermined; is that they #refuse to simply go quiet into the night. like even if they cannot win and know they cannot win (see dior and elwing) they WILL raise hell #as they go. it's defiance against the world! against circumstance and likelihood and what other people say they can do and 'fate'#in other words i think like. their human side -- since it's humans who are given the gift of free will and independence from the preordaine #confines of the music -- is what makes them narratively significant #dior #elwing #elrond peredhel #elros tar minyatur #tolkien meta #tolkien

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