[ 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

[(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.