#there is sth deeply unsettling to me in the idea of ‘there is a grand divine plan and whether you want to or not you Will play your part.’
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look as a heathen working with fallible gods I have a lot of Issues w/ spirituality in Arda and just the idea of omnipotence/infallibility of the divine in general and beauty as divinity and “Whether he erred or no, of this I am sure: he died well, achieving some good thing. His face was more beautiful even than in life.”
anyways contender for most holy Boromir moment:
#to me there is nothing quite as comforting as knowing the gods are just. dealing with their own shit#they fuck up. they are extremely fallible!! our apocalypse myth is brought about by Óðinn trying to prevent the end of the world!!!#even the gods cannot shirk fate#there is sth deeply unsettling to me in the idea of ‘there is a grand divine plan and whether you want to or not you Will play your part.’#especially the idea of dying well. of greater beauty in death. I hold too strongly to Havamal stanza 71 to be Okay with that.#The lame rides a horse | the handless is herdsman#The deaf in battle is bold;#The blind man is better | than one that is burned#No good can come of a corpse.#< there is no redemption in death. no value in it. it’s only death. every man has worth but the dead are just dead
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