[ SECRET POST #4459 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4459 ⌋

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

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[Dan Bern, WTNV, I Only Listen To the Mountain Goats, the Mountain Goats]



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[The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel]


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[Director James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy franchise]











Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 08 secrets from Secret Submission Post #638.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It's a bit depressing in the sense that it ends with magic leaving middle-earth.

[philstar22]

Yup, I guess people are defining depressing differently than I do. to me, that's sad but not depressing. But I guess people are using the two synonymously?

[(Anonymous)]

DA - I'm with you. Yeah, sad and hard things happen. But they accomplish their goal and make Middle Earth a place where people can live peacefully. That's not depressing to me. At the worst, it's bittersweet and realistic and almost kind of...beautiful...that not all of them are able to fully appreciate and recover from the events, but even then, they don't regret their involvement.

[(Anonymous)]

this is an excellent point. I recently re-read and it was really painfully clear that aside from Gandalf, no one uses magic. Ever. Aragorn at best has a couple of "I sense something" moments and maybe has a strong will to wrestle the palatir from Sauron but he's not really magical. Galadriel at best made a pool of water into a mirror but nothing else magical is ever shown. The close of the Third Age is just the final period on a paragraph of waning that began thousands of years earlier, magic and elves were already more or less gone from Middle-Earth by that time. the ringbearers were just lingering because Sauron.

dunno how the movies made it out to be because I noped out of that shit halfway through Fellowship.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't find that depressing because I didn't get the sense that the non-Elven characters derived much benefit from that magic in their daily lives and they were going to go on living their lives as before, just without Sauron and a war to worry about. I also can't really empathize with a world losing magic when I've never lived in a world that was magical in that way, and I still get along okay in my non-magic world.