#mablung: she's bluffing right

[outofangband]

Morwen threatening to swim across the Sirion if Mablung doesn’t help her is just amazing. This is a middle aged woman severely impacted by years of starvation and malnutrition who probably has not swam in calm waters since she was about twelve if that so the idea that she knows how to swim at all is dubious and also she totally would do this, it’s not an empty threat. 

I love Morwen’s stoic, cool detachment from the horrors around her and I also love her reckless disregard for her own safety and sometimes the safety of others if she sets her mind to something. 

also this paragraph a few pages later is mindbending 

one of the elf riders striving with his horse in the fog saw suddenly the lady Morwen passing near, a gray wraith upon a mad steed but she vanished in the mist crying Niënor and they saw her no more 

I have some other posts about this scene namely here so I won’t ramble about it now but just...