#Tolkien just ‘these two tear-inducing tales aren’t enough I need MORE’

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

Tolkien: I’ve written an epic eldritch star-crossed straight love story in Doriath and a tragic suicidal secret gay drama in hithlum but this whole Silmarils and limb loss thing is getting old

Tolkien: what if I write an epic tragic eldritch suicidal star-crossed secret gay AND straight love story drama in hithlum AND Doriath AND Nargothrond with dragons, dwarves, and incest instead?

his son: “my father saw the character of turin as central to the story”