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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-11-17 07:30 pm

[ SECRET POST #2876 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2876 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[The Boxtrolls]


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[One Piece]


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[Hockey RPF, Patrick Kane]


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[The Silmarillion]


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[Meghan Trainor: All About That Bass]


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[Radiant Historia]


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[Twin Peaks]


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[Meghan Trainor]


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[Taylor Swift]



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[Star Wars]













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(Anonymous) 2014-11-18 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately the Silmarillion fandom is very very guilty of this. All the ladies are sooooo amazing and important and if you don't care about them you're awful.
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[personal profile] philstar22 2014-11-18 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I think a lot of it has to do with how few women there are in Tolkien and how even fewer of them are actually important characters. When people love the world but really want awesome women, sometimes people imagine characters as more important than they are. It doesn't bother me except when it becomes the "if you don't care about them you're awful" thing. Otherwise people can like who they like and I don't see the problem.

(Anonymous) 2014-11-18 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
There's definitely not very much to go on with Tolkien women. Eowyn was the only one with a proper storyline in LotR. Even Galadriel was much mistier on the page than she was in the movies.

It's human nature to extrapolate in a way that suits your own tastes. Thus, Tolkien women become wonderful and perfect.

(Anonymous) 2014-11-18 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I just don't undertstand why you would get into a canon only to focus on something that is so minuscule in that canon that you have to make everything up about it yourself. If you want awesome female characters, maybe the Silmarillion isn't the fandom for you. Just like Generation Kill or The Pacific is probably not the fandom for you. And if you just want to write OCs, then just admit that you want to write OCs instead of grabbing a barely existent minor character and going on about how important they are.
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[personal profile] philstar22 2014-11-18 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not one of the people. I just don't understand why you care. They aren't getting in the way of your enjoyment of what you like. Bashing people for not liking those characters is a different thing, but I don't see a problem with people liking what they like in peace.