so i just started reading the silmarillion and let me tell you, i was not expecting this much drama. the very first chapter is about ilúvatar and the creation of arda and it honestly just reads like a bunch of students arguing over who gets credit for the group project
“fuck off melkor you didn’t even help with the powerpoint”
melkor, honey, no offense but do you wanna maybe…calm down…..just a tad
just so we’re clear, i now fully intend to blame everything that goes even slightly wrong on melkor. train gets cancelled? melkor’s fault. late for class? melkor’s fault. stuck in a rainstorm with no coat on? no one knows where melkor is or what he’s doing, but it’s probably his fault somehow
update: am now halfway through the silmarillion, and everything is still mostly melkor’s fault, but occasionally he lets fëanor have a turn
The most truthful thing regarding the silmarillion I’ve ever read
‘It is a gift I bring you from the Lady of Rivendell’, answered Halbarad. ‘She wrought it in secret, and long was the making. But she also sends word to you: The days now are short. Either our hope cometh, or all hopes end. Therefore I send thee what I have made for thee. Fare well, Elfstone!’
The young Dwarf prince took work where he could find it, laboring in the villages of Men. But always he remembered the mountain smoke beneath the moon, the trees like torches blazing bright, for he had seen dragon-fire in the sky and a city turned to ash. And he never forgave… and he never forgot.
If you find yourself in times of trouble, ask yourself, ‘what would Gandalf do’, and remember, ‘beat a man unconscious with a big stick’ is a valid answer
When I find myself in times of trouble, Gandalf Greyhame comes to me, Wailing on those assholes, With a tree (with a tree)
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