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#and we see the haudth-en-nirnaeth and the blue and silver livery streaked and torn and piled in heaps
july-19th-club · 3 years
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once again sucker punched by the absolute scale of the silm and middle-earth stories in general. it’s never really implied that elves experience time *differently* than shorter-lived species, just that they experience a lot of it. a day doesn’t feel like a minute to them, it feels like a day. a year feels like a year. a hundred years feels like a hundred years and that’s why sometimes after you’ve seen thousands of the motherfuckers you start to fade away out of the sheer ‘for real? a day? what’s next? another one?’-ness of it all. there was me sitting around getting all emotional over maedhros and fingon when those dudes had just shy of five hundred years together after thanogordrim happens and they start to repair the feud. and fingon was only king for about seventy of them! the siege of angband itself was four hundred years long. shit. i cant even comprehend trying to make an adaptation out of this that would accurately get the concept of all this time across. you’d have to invent new kinds of montages. have an unseen but everpresent mandos doing the ‘galadriel in the first couple minutes of fellowship’ thing and quietly pronouncing dooms and reminding us of the passage of time throughout every episode, just so we didn’t forget and start thinking it was taking place over a course of a couple of months
#i actually like the idea of mandos pronouncing dooms as a sort of background narration for the story#lotr#especially in the faenor-centric parts#at first he’s just telling us relevant information#then he starts to have a bit more opinion on it#then it starts to really sound like a prophecy#in the episode that details the battle of unnumbered tears this sense is REALLY heavy#and i think it's just one long continuous scene and it's just battle sequence after battle sequence from group to group until the end#we get the scenes where the forces of maedhros and turgon scatter and 'last of all hurin stood alone'#and we see the haudth-en-nirnaeth and the blue and silver livery streaked and torn and piled in heaps#and THEN. the first proper scene in the halls of mandos where he's not just a firm but distant voice as we watch other things happen#and we realize now as we move silently through the halls closer and closer to him that he's been telling the doom TO someone the whole time#and it's fingon. he starts off looking like he's just come off the field. still in his regalia. braids fraying and bloody. ashen; stunned#but as the doom is told and he rests in the halls he begins to look more substantial. he trades his battle dress for simpler clothes#his hair regains it shine. as he listens to mandos' voice he begins to look more expressive#but he is also party to everything that happens to the sons of feanor and those they meet and slay as the age wears to a close#he spends the rest of the relevant portions of the show like patroclus just sort of......ghosting through the narrative where it pertains to#what he finds important#after maedhros is dead and most of the feanorian stuff is over we get the resolution to their personal arc#fingon died without fault and we learn that he's had the opportunity to move back to valinor for a while now#we learn he’s been putting off his opportunity to move back to valinor . wants to make sure he isn’t going to be doing it alone#this is a real worrier for maedhros who did some shit in his day and died of Don’t Touch That Rock#but i think ultimately of course they get to go back#q
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