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The reason none of us are normal about the Silmarillion after reading it is because it’s about so many things. Even disregarding the Histories and the Unfinished Tales, the Silmarillion is about doom and brutal defeats and generational curses and fatal flaws and the breaking of cycles. It’s about flawed gods and family feuds and love that defies fate and the inevitable loss of all things beautiful. It’s about looking back thousands of years at the men and women of myth and legend. It’s about the wrenching tragedies and the glimmers of hope, it’s Feanor putting the first torch to the swan ships and Turin falling on his own sword, Fingolfin despondent summoning Morgoth to come out and face him and Beren and Luthien stealing a silmaril from his crown, Elwing saved against all odds and hope and Earendil climbing to the peak of the gods to plead for mercy - and winning it. And it’s also about getting naked and death battling a werewolf with your teeth.

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All of these are great but consider: the time he thought Frodo just *walked off* a *spear thrust* without even being injured, and proceeded to assume that Hobbits Are Just Like That, and goes "if I had known, I would have spoken softer in the inn at Bree!"

Aragorn, remembering how he was standing there antagonizing a roomful of hobbits who his sword would have done *absolutely nothing to*:

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@tolkienofcolourweek day three | men | andreth saelind

Andreth was a woman of the House of Beor, the sister of Bregor father of Barahir (whose son was Beren One-hand the renowned). She was wise in thought, and learned in the lore of Men and their histories; for which reason the Eldar called her Saelind, ‘Wise-heart.’

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THE LORD OF THE RINGS
THE RETURN OF THE KING | 2003
Dir | Peter Jackson