[ SECRET POST #3095 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3095 ⌋

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

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[Poets of the Fall]


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[The Authority/Stormwatch/Midnighter]


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[Anthony Bourdain/Parts Unknown]


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Comments

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Celeborn was always something of a non-entity to me, both in the books at the movies. Elrond was a favourite of mine, especially considering I liked his family history. Galadriel... is one I got tired of how perfect she is portrayed. I want faulty characters and she doesn't have enough faults. As it is, my favourite Elves remain the ever-faulty Fëanorions.

I like Valinor fics, especially if they portray Valinor as not being a totally perfect place. Oh, no doubt it's a lot more peaceful than the rest of Arda, but it's still a living realm that is bound to have some really interesting politics between all the various groups, and especially issues about the standing of the Ñoldor after the rebellion/exile, and everything that happened in Middle Earth.

[philstar22]

I love all the Finweans. I like her in spite of her lack of faults, though I agree she'd be even better if she did have faults. I just love the whole range of the family. And I love all the angst she must have being the only family member left and considering what happened to most of them, particularly her brother. And I like the idea of her being the clearly more powerful person in the relationship and yet choosing to stay in Middle Earth because of her love of Celeborn. So I find her story interesting even if I wish she had more flaws.

Maedhros and Celebrimbor are definitely my favorite elves, though, and I love that they are very faulty. But I also love Finrod who doesn't have that many faults himself.

I think the only Finwean I don't like is Feanor himself. It is just that forcing the second oath on his sons knowing that they couldn't win just crosses the line from faulty but interesting to major douche who I can no longer sympathize with.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree about Galadriel and being tired of how she's portrayed. She actually does have flaws but no one remembers them (and woe be you if you bring them up because you will get jumped on).

I actually have several characters I like who have few flaws but Galadriel is more of a Mary Sue than I can handle. My issue with her started with how Tolkien tried to bend over backwards to make her special and not a kinslayer. In the initial narrative, she was clearly a kinslayer and that's actually pretty interesting.

I also agree about wanting to see Valinor being more complicated. I've written that into fics because I just can't believe that the elves are going to forget about the kinslaying. I think there are deep wounds that are going to need a lot of healing. But, I admit, I do occasionally like to write a super fluffy fic where everyone's happy in Valinor. After reading CoH, sometimes I just need that. :)

[(Anonymous)]

I always thought that Tolkien attempting to excuse Galadriel from Kinslaying was because she was a woman.

And she does have flaws but they are flaws for a women- remember how she's 'manly' for wanting a realm of her own to rule? (silm).

Her treatment is definitely influenced by the social mores of the time Tolkien wrote her.

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DA

No, you're pretty right about gender being a factor in why he wrote that. Many people have weird hangups about letting women be flawed characters.