[ SECRET POST #1817 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1817 ⌋


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


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Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 165 secrets from Secret Submission Post #260.
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Comments

[dragonladyk.livejournal.com]

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But Arwen is badass and wonderful, and the only reason she was only a footnote in the books was because of Tolkein's Victorian philosophies. How can people be mad?

I'm have a little less faith in humanity now.

DragonLady

[followthemoth.livejournal.com]

Actually, Tolkien really wanted to put her in the book but he felt it would be too much of a random insert, as most of Arwen/Aragorn's relationship in occured WAY outside of the timeline of the story. It just wouldn't fit, it wasn't about 'Victorian values'. He put everything he couldn't fit in the book in the appendices.

On top of that, while he most of his characters are male, he was pretty liberal in terms of gender roles in Middl-earth. He wrote a quite a bit about Elvish culture, and aside from body parts, there was no difference in value/position between the sexs, female elves could do anything male elves could do. In his other works, like The Silmarillion, Tolkien has a lot more female characters; Luthien, Nienor, Aredhel, Idril, and Morwen, to name a few. Another interesting fact, of all the Valar (the greatest of the spirits who created the world) the most sacred Vala to the Elves is Varda, a 'female' Vala.

Oh my, I'm sorry for the length, I can ramble about Tolkien for hours.

And for the record I love Arwen too. <3