A Weekend's Worth of Drabbles

[dawn_felagund]

My usual Monday drabble series, penned this time from the comfort of my desk at home. (Yay, mental health days!)

Comments

[tarion_anarore]

No, it's not worth it. :(

Well written! (Since I can't exactly say "lovely!" given the subject!)

[dawn_felagund]

No, it's not worth it. :(

Wholly agreed! But hindsight is 20/20 ;)

Well written! (Since I can't exactly say "lovely!" given the subject!)

LOL! True! But thank you :)

[tarion_anarore]

You're welcome!

But hindsight is 20/20

True. Although some of those things in the distant past are growing kind of blurry...;)

[dawn_felagund]

LOL! What if things in the *recent* past have become blurry? ;D

[fanged_geranium]

Very nicely done, and delightfully angsty. I think Tolkien rather left out the angst in relation to the Feanorians - and they deseve their fair share. No-one ever suffered more pain than Melian, Luthien's grief was the worst ever, but Feanorians in the Silm aren't allowed to get upset or grieve at all (except Feanor himself, and he doesn't count because he was deranged).

[dawn_felagund]

Good point. I'd never really thought of it that way before, but you're right. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why people tend to characterize them as heartless and cruel: because we never see differently. But I have always believed that Elves born in Valinor cannot possibly be so evil, and that the Feanorians must have felt immense regret and grief as the years passed and their Oath weighed heavily upon them.

Of course, to revert to my usual historical song and dance, it is unlikely that the "author" of the section of The Silmarillion that occured in Middle-earth would have wanted to express that the Feanorians were capable of grief and regret, if he even had a chance to witness it for himself. I doubt it would have been a popular move at the time, in Gondolin, to speak of how regretful and haunted the Sons of Feanor were by the consequences of their Oath.

[fanged_geranium]

I have always believed that Elves born in Valinor cannot possibly be so evil, and that the Feanorians must have felt immense regret and grief as the years passed and their Oath weighed heavily upon them.

At least some of them, anyway. Perhaps not the three C's - but even they weren't really evil. If it hadn't been for the oath Celegorm and Curufin would have been good for Nargothrond when Finrod went off on his quest.

I doubt it would have been a popular move at the time, in Gondolin, to speak of how regretful and haunted the Sons of Feanor were by the consequences of their Oath.

Possibly high treason! How about a Silmarillion translated from the Red Book of Himling?

[dawn_felagund]

Perhaps not the three C's

I have trouble seeing even the three C's as not suffering some. While I doubt they showed as much suffering as M&M, I have no doubt that they felt regret for what was done. This is only my inclination, of course, nothing more