Today's Challenge: The act of kindness or hospitability usually comes from a generous heart. Write a story or poem, or create a piece of art where your character displays this virtue.
Following straight on from
yesterday in the Máhanaxar, the Powers retire to debate:
The Gift of a Fruitful Heart
“Another?” Tulkas protests noisily. “
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Why would Tulkas complain about Eärendil? Presumably for turning up unannounced, as he had a right to sail West as the son of Idril.
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If your mother goes off and marries a man you needs must be counted as man unless the Valar give you the option to be otherwise - mortality or elfhood can, apparently, only be inherited through your father. Just as there is an insistence that Arwen, Elrohir and Elladan are Half-elven - when they have only 3/16 mortal blood - granted it is a little more mortal blood than their Maian blood but I don't expect anyone ever called Dior 'The Half-Mortal' or 'The Quarter Maian' either - just 'The Half Elven' - although he wasn't!
Poor Celebrian's half of her children's bloodline seems to count for nothing - and Galadriel might be one of the most powerful beings in Middle Earth, but she doesn't count when considering the bloodline of her only grand-children - they are just under 1/4 mortal after all - so much more important.
And so somehow I can easily believe that if Eärendil's father had been an elf he'd have had no problem at all ( ... )
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The reason I'm not sure whether we can say it's sexist is that, precisely because there never are any male Elves who marry Elven women, we don't know whether the Half-Elven thing would apply to their offspring in exactly the same way. (The fact that male Elves never do apparently marry Elven women, OTOH, may well be down to something fundamentally unequal in the way JRRT views the sexes, but is a slightly different issue, even though the latter is what prevents us having a clear answer about the former...)
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I loved this, of course :-)
- Erulisse (one L)
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