GLORFINDEL'S GRAVE

[clodia_metelli]

Comments

[engarian]

I have always loved this passage (through the tears, of course). Very nice.

- Erulisse (one L)

[clodia_metelli]

I think it's a very significant passage for a lot of people. Thank you!

[clodia_metelli]

Thanks! XD I liked the effect of the sepia too, it takes some of the glare off the petals, but I also like the colours of the original version; I always associate Glorfindel with green and gold.

[ellynn_ithilwen]

Beautiful picture and quote. Well done, dear. :)

[clodia_metelli]

Thanks so much! You make such beautiful banners, it's lovely to hear that from you. Illustrating Tolkien is drawing me back to Tolkien fic, which is no bad thing...

[malkhos]

Then how did Glorfindel stand against the black riders at the ford outside Rivendel if he was already dead? Oh, wait, that was Arwen! Right. That's the ticket!

[clodia_metelli]

It is a disputed issue. The most common answer is that Glorfindel was resurrected and returned to Middle-Earth by the Valar at some point for, uh, reasons not entirely clear. The second most common answer is that there was a someone else called Glorfindel by the time of the war with the Witch-King of Angmar. (In other words, Tolkien made a continuity error, cobbled together various explanations and now there's a canon fissure.)

Or you can just substitute in Arwen. But then people complain...

[malkhos]

Or maybe its a lot of rambling in old notebooks that don't have to be analyzed for consistency.

I know all too well that all the rambling notes and drafts for my own novel can't be reconciled into a single consistent chronology--but that's because they're notes and drafts and not the final version.

[clodia_metelli]

Well, that is pretty much what I meant by 'continuity error', yes. There are quite a lot of them, thanks to C. Tolkien's sterling efforts re: HoME and so on.

[anna_wing]

The sepia somehow gives a much greater impression of sunlight than the full-colour version.

I like the continuity errors in Tolkien, they make it more like real history.

[clodia_metelli]

Yes, it does. Possibly because you have to compensate when imagining the colours.

The continuity errors do at least leave lots of space to play and speculate. I do enough of that sort of thing in RL, though, so I generally prefer to leave it to other people.