#how celebrimbor calling him annatar might have made him more inclined towards being more helpful than otherwise

[cobaltjellyfish]

Thinking about names and kennings and song, and how having a being as powerful as a valar, never mind multiple, declare feanor/feanor's creation as marred, and how that declaration made him so through his own self-worth issues that existed mostly because of that declaration, compared to Grima naming Theoden as old and weak and how that made him so. How naming Melkor Morgoth removed any pretence of greatness, and how Sauron takes Mairon's shapeshifting and seductive power away from him.

idk i just think it's neat

#tolkien #silmarillion #lotr #naming and its consequences in silm and lotr are so interesting to me #the mairon/annatar/sauron thing especially #how celebrimbor calling him annatar might have made him more inclined towards being more helpful than otherwise #and how grima and his words manage to bring theoden and his kingdom to the brink of collapse #because he named him so #its so cool