#Gondolin liveblogs legends

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ICONIC, OORYL. DRAG HIM.

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hey I’ll continue posting my lotr liveblogs soon but I ALSO just started reading children of hurin and I’m dying

So I open this book and the first thing I see. “It is undeniable that there are a very great many readers of The Lord of the Rings for whom the legends of the Elder Days (as previously published in varying forms in The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth) are altogether unknown,” oh, oh honey, ahahahahahaha.

Hey stop mentioning other things I need to read (eg bolt). Stop, stop, I ALREADY HAVE A PROBLEM-

THERES A BIGGER FALL OF GONDOLIN,?

And yet I STILL cannot care one bit about beren and luthien. Sorry.

Ah yes, a forward AND an introduction. Classic

Time UNIMAGINABLY REMOTE... ohhh boy do I have bad news for u........ pls.... I’m the girl who’s used to thinking about 4.5billion years of /irl/ earth.... the first age is nothing...

Oh right Thingol’s gonna be in this book hhhhhhh ugh

WOO onto the book proper!

Ok gloredhel sounds SO SINDARIN... omg does house of hador speak sindarin.... ;-; FEELINGS.

Wait. WIAT. Waaaaaaait. TURIN AND TUOR ARE COUSINS. I. Um. How did I not knOW-

Also hurin short

Morgen was sOMEWHAT STERN OF MOOD AND PROUD. Mhmm. JUST SOMEWHAT.

Aaaaa Men ;-;. As w Rohan in rotk, I love these Men sooooo much more when I don’t feel pressured to identify as actually OF their kind

“There Turgon the King received them well, when he learned of their kin; for Hador was an Elf-friend, and Ulmo, moreover, had counselled Turgon to deal kindly with the sons of that House, from whom help should come to him at need.” Ulmo u are trying but Tuor still gets denied. Also how’d I lowkey forget these two saw Gondolin.

Maeglin stahp.

TURIN INHERITED MORWEN’S GOTH GENE

“when he returned his quick speech, full of strange words and jests and half-meanings, bewildered Túrin and made him uneasy.” This just in Turin is autistic and hurin is allistic I don’t make the rules,

“‘Fair as an Elf-child is Lalaith,’ said Húrin to Morwen; ‘but briefer, alas! And so fairer, maybe, or dearer.’” Kill m e,

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The entire passage with Turin finding out Lalaith is dead is just. MORWEN. Morwen have u ever chilled even Once.

“‘Because Urwen is dead, and laughter is stilled in this house,’ she answered. ‘But you live, son of Morwen; and so does the Enemy who has done this to us.’”

MORWEN CALLS HIM SON OF MORWEN. Does she have drama in her veins instead f blood

“Húrin mourned openly, and he took up his harp and would make a song of lamentation; but he could not, and he broke his harp, and going out he lifted up his hand towards the North, crying: ‘Marrer of Middle-earth, would that I might see you face to face, and mar you as my lord Fingolfin did!’”

In which we find that Morwen did not take ALL the Extra in this book, there is plenty left to share. Also wait he served Fingolfin but right before he died???

Ok just everything abt the Men - who being mortal have more to lose - fighting for the elves gives me feelings

You can just FEEL the intense Second Kindred-ness on every page

THEN TURIN ASKED TO HIM, WHAT IS FATE.

I just. This family could actually compete with the Kholins on Extra-ness and THAT IS SAYING SOMETHING.

One chapter in and there’s already Mortality Discourse and I’m screaming aloud omfg

“From wounds /and griefs/ that would slay Men they may be healed;” This is. Relevant. The holding of joy closer than sorrow, to temper it....

Just. Hit home that this is like... the freakin... third, fourth generation of Edain? They so young.....

“My father is not afraid, and I will not be; or at least, as my mother, I will be afraid and not show it.’” CHECK OUT THIS BURN ON MORWEN FOLKS

AND HE WISHES HE WAS ONE OF THE ELDAR AND /FOR THAT REASON/ WANTS TO MEET THEM. Out of. Wishing. And jealousy. DRAGS HANDS DOWN OVER FACE. Reading this book is not a quiet affair.

“‘They are a fair folk and wonderful, and they have a power over the hearts of Men. And yet I think sometimes that it might have been better if we had never met them, but had walked in lowlier ways. For already they are ancient in knowledge; and they are proud and enduring. In their light we are dimmed, or we burn with too quick a flame, and the weight of our doom lies the heavier on us.’”

LIES DOWN, D I E S.

“in the year that cannot be forgotten.” Oh look the narrator is super extra too

MORWEN IS SUCH A. Such a force to be reckoned with tbh.

Wait is that THAT sword. Already???

Oh it’s not but there is foreshadowing.

An elf: is mentioned

Me: MY CHILD

Aaaa it’s so cool to see Fingon and everyone told in full prose ;-;

YEAAAA TURGON!

Wait this is quenya. Hasn’t Thingol already outlawed quenya or

I can barely read the word Angband without thinking. Angbang.

Aaaaa that classic. Bring out prisoners and mess w them mood.

BY THE TREACHERY OF MEN THE FIELD WAS LOST. /This/ is what that lyric is referencing? I think.

Ow Fingon sure dies graphically.

A NEW STAR SHALL ARISE this is definitely where these lyrics come from.

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I’ve only had the Wraiths for less than a week, but if anything were to happen to them etc etc

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--- Aron Allston, X-Wing: Wraith Squadron

This passage is making me FEEL THINGS. I can’t even articulate how much this hits me. I have been both sides of the argument. I too would love to turn my guns on my friends’ anxiety and self-loathing, to just destroy the things that make them miserable.

I also tend to dwell on my (real or perceived) mistakes for far too long. In the last few years I’ve tried to improve my self-talk, to cut down on outright insults, but the instinct is still there. “If I don’t punish myself, how will I ever improve?"

So... I don’t have a deep analysis. Just. This is so good.

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I've known this was going to happen since seeing the Wookiepedia entry for Mirax Terrik-Horn literal years ago, but I'm still so damn happy!

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currently reading a book with a sentient humanoid horse with multiple personalities, and how's your monday going?

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OORYL, BABY, YOU'RE AMAZING, I LOVE YOU and I love your friendship with Corran ("Ooryl wanted you to be the first to hear"!!), you guys are ADORABLE, I'm making cooing sounds at my e-reader, I'm fucking ridiculous, but I'm just so fond of these guys. Ooryl was super badass in the battle against the Lusankya and he deserves all the pronouns! "They have returned to Gand to tell Ooryl's, ah, my story." awwww, yes!

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welcome back to my absolute pool noodle of a ship! Elscol and Iella deserve that holiday together and they'll have it if I have to write it myself

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here we go! I'm about to meet the Wraiths! (well... canon-meet, since I've read my share of fic with them)

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there's an astromech called Chunky! and one called Squeaky! oh no so cute

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Wedge having traumatic Vader flashbacks :(

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Han Solo: romantic icon of the Rebellion, literally relationship goals

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AHA

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YES! I love Gavin’s X-Wing’s paint job. Everyone else has serious stuff to honour their home planet or family or whatnot, and then this baby goes all PIMP MY RIDE on his X-Wing. In our universe he’d have a pickup truck with flames painted on the side.

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Idk, I just really like Weedge being there for Mirax and offering comfort. I’m just a sucker for good canon h/c, you know? And badass characters being emotionally available.

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corran horn is a good boy who has done nothing wrong in his life, ever, unless you ask iella wessiri who has a list of all the “wrong” things that corran has done, ordered chronologically and alphabetically, including: “ate the last space french fry”

she does, and she now has a shared space-gdoc with mirax for all his mistakes

[from the bacta war]

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Remember that time Corran was brainwashed and had forgotten literally everything about his own life EXCEPT FOR TYCHO? And how badass Tycho was.