LOL the tree scene annoyed me for this reason. I love a good weird tree but also. What was that for. What did that achieve except as one of those annoying Star Wars style Real Nerds Will Get ThisTM moments.
I do not understand the Hollywood obsession with both turning everything into hero journey quests (a mode Tolkien was NOT writing in) and also shoving in as many references to the original as possible regardless of whether it makes sense or not. It invariably produces bad writing like this.
The first thing anyone knows about me before I even open my mouth is that I'm some kind of four and joyless socialist like. What! What does he think he's achieving!
Zero rizz but 200 facts and stats about how the government is corrupt in its management of forests/other natural resources and seething contempt for the COPs which has made me a hit with dense and nerdy old men for the most part. Who does he think is going to believe this. Just incredible delusions.
Learned today that my boss has extended his homophobic smear campaign against an ex colleague to me as well, but in his specifically delightfully transphobic way and I wonder what he aims to get from this bc everyone who knows me irl in his circle knows me as an intense nerd
My kingdom for analysis of LaCE as diagetic text that says sth re. Elven self-conceptualisation v. actual reality in execution esp re selfhood of upper class women! Or digs into the bioessentialist complementarianism in LaCE even if LaCE concedes that women and men may fulfill other roles as well.
"Actually it is you who are the real misogynist for saying this" is one of my least fave lines of argument, esp. bc these are incredibly rich texts for critique - hell even if yr comparing across drafts & timelines. Instead here we are at "maybe complementarianism is egalitarian actually"
LaCE is contradicted so so much by canon goings on if you do a close read. I have a feeling I need to bring out Google Scholar for this but man. Man!!! I feel like in topsy-turvy town when I read some of the meta/essays on the subject (moreso when I go into the comments & gawk at the defensiveness)
Genuinely STRIKING to me that for A LOT of women in the Silm, agency is about divorce/estrangement, choosing the terms of their deaths or marrying a Man (2/3 in the case of Luthien!) Elf women are suffering out here!!
The shit that Feanor says to Nerdanel in the Shibboleth is outright sexist. His sons kidnap a woman and try to forcibly marry her and an entire kingdom is like yeah w/e about it. Please. I'm dying. I need essays that engage w the actual textual stuff v going gender is fine bc LaCE said so :)