10-06-2006, 08:26 PM | #1 |
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A Warrior Expected
Why do you look so surprised?
I have come to help you You sent for me, my friends That , I assure, is true I am the warrior you were expecting The creature believes he'll live By my sword he'll meet his death The day is short, the night is long I'll fight as long as I have breath I am the warrior you were expecting The creature's dead, here is his head You knew he could not be killed by man These locks do not deceive you This creature was killed by a woman I am the warrior you were not expecting
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10-07-2006, 04:33 AM | #2 |
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Indeed, an unexpected twist. Interestingly done.
Inspired somewhat by Éowyn, if I'm not mistaken?
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10-07-2006, 11:38 AM | #3 |
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Sounds like her doesn't it? You're the first to make that connection.
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10-09-2006, 02:41 PM | #4 |
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Indeed it does sound alot like Éowyn i really guest noticed.
That was also really..........deep..
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Still, very nice poem. You could imagine it being part of a larger saga, sung by bard with a lyre in some smoky bar, with all the old men nodding as they remember this long-time gone female warrior who became famous after an unexpected victory against a monster.
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Or became famous after the unexpected fact that the warrior was female
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I don't think it's dark. But everyone has different tolerance levels for darkness. My grandma thinks that Peter Jackson's LoTR is really, really dark. I don't.
I thought of Eowyn immediately as soon as I'd read the last stanza. You really do like writing the warrior maiden . You've written the warrior maiden a lot, both here and on Atharon. I've written the warrior maiden too some; it is very fun to do. There is something about the imagery of the beautiful and the deadly united in a female warrior that just captures the imagination.
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Anyway, it's accepted in political science that men are the more aggressive gender. That isn't necessarily a constant for all cases, but it is the general truth. They have found that men tend to be more aggressive and women more nurturing. So when women are portrayed as the warrior and men as the people who need to be defended, it's incorrect according to modern political science data. Not only are we genetically engineered in our brains to be the more aggressive gender, but we are physically genetically equipped to fulfill that role. Men tend to be physically larger and more muscular than women, for in the early times of our race (before the invention of guns), we needed those abilities to fulfill the role genetically imprinted on our minds and personalities. So when women are portrayed as the supers and men as the wimps who need to be protected, one of the important functions of the male gender is being undercut. Men tend to be more achievement oriented than women, whereas women tend to be far more socially adept than men are. Women also tend to be more nurturing, and men more aggressive. Men and women are genetically designed to be different but complementary to one another. These generalizations are not going to apply to every person, but they do apply to the vast majority from each gender. That definitely isn't an insult to either gender- we've been designed in different but equally valuable ways. Your gender has strengths that ours lacks, and ours has strengths that your gender lacks. It works both ways because we're designed to complement one another. What our society should do is recognize the differences that exist between the two genders and realize how beautiful the symmetry is. Men and women were made to be united and bring together their different skills to make a more complete whole. It's really cool how that works, from a sociological perspective. I find it very, very lovely. Quote:
I write super-cool maiden warriors into my books as well. I love the idea of the beautiful and deadly female warrior, and I'm working on the personality of my most recent one pretty carefully to make her maximum coolness . There is an even stronger male figure I've developed too. He has a load of personality weaknesses that my maiden figure lacks, but then she lacks certain personality qualities that the man possesses. The two complement one another. I think that the symmetry of the male and female human genders, how they can unify and work together, is wonderful and beautiful.
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I look forward to hearing whether or not you get any of those new short stories successfully published, too . When are you planning to attempt that publishing?
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