08-17-2002, 02:39 AM | #21 |
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I don't believe that Eol and Feanor are comparable.
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08-17-2002, 02:48 AM | #22 |
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Why are they not comparable? I think they are very comparable. I think Faenor and Sam Gamgee are comparable. They're all essentially human, you know.
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Eol was not a villain. He meets none of the criteria. He acts from passion, and I fond it hard to call an unwillingness to trust the sons of Feanor or their kin a fatal flaw.
Sounds more like common sense to me
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08-17-2002, 02:50 AM | #24 |
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Blackheart, to quote yourself: "I could kill you out of love, but it doesn't matter one whit, does it?"
Eöl deliberatly tried to murder his son, doesn't that make him a criminal and thus, a villain?
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08-17-2002, 02:53 AM | #25 |
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No. Turgon ordered either death, or imprisonment, both for him and his son.
He chose death. He also chose for his son. Care to guess the elvish age of majority?
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08-17-2002, 03:06 AM | #26 |
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Oh I see. I guess I didn't really pick up on that part. Makes it all the more interesting. 'Course, it was not "imprisonment" to Maeglin. Indeed after a fashion Maeglin and Aredhel were imprisoned in Nan Elmoth.
Age of majority?
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08-17-2002, 03:08 AM | #27 |
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age of majority for humans (in modern society) 18
slowly being pushed up to 21. In other words, the age when an individual is considered an adult, and no longer the responsibility (or in the dark ages chattel) of their parents. Which brings it back to child custody. Obviously a cultural conflict, perhaps the telri were patriarchal.. oh wait so were the Noldor, so according to mideavial custom, the father would likely have had the final say about where the child would reside...
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Ah. Being more aquainted with Tolkien than with my own story, I know it only as "coming of age" Sad, isn't it?
I think Tolkien actually answered it for us, though. I could be wrong, but I think he mentions it in Laws and Customs Among the Eldar.
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08-17-2002, 03:43 AM | #30 |
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So how old was Maeglin when they went to Gondolin? I know my perspective on this issue really twists my views on it, because the way I see it, Eol was being overly possesive of Aredhel and Maeglin. Aredhel, and Maeglin, as I think he was old enough then, should have had their free will, etc. But if I were to look at it taking into consideration the culture and time, as I must do, then Eol's over-possesiveness of his wife and son (perhaps comparable to Feanor and his Silmarils?) seems a little less...horrible...to me. But not enough that I would be too forgiving of him, and I would say he is a villain, of sorts.
And, again from my perspective, seen through the clouded glass of our 'modern' society, I think that no one should be able to choose life or death for someone other than themselves. Of course, in Gondolin, then, the laws were different. Er.
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I'm sorry, but I just cannot place Eol even in the same boat as Feanor. Yes, I think he was misguided, but I think it's a bit of a leap to try and brand him as evil. He simply doesn't meet the criteria.
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Think if he had done his deeds to you. How would you feel?
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What? married me, gave me a son, then got mad becasue I ran off with the kids to my brother in-law's house where my Brother in-law wants to kill me before he'll let me leave?
Hell I can't say I blame the guy, but I'd have thrown the damned spear at Turgon, and chuckled when she dove in front of it.
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I'm sorry, but as far as I'm concerned, his were crimes of passion. Ill thought out, and definately not premeditated. The kinslaying on the other hand...
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This is when Aredhel has strayed into his woods and is lost... Quote:
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And BoP, some of Eol's actions were premeditated. And those that weren't, well, Feanor didn't exactly sit down and make plans to slay the Teleri and burn the ships. They were compulsive decisions.
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Ensnaring, and entrapping DOES NOT make someone evil.
EG, I don't get you. You think that Feanor isn't evil, but Eol is?! Sorry, but where's the reasoning in that?
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So he was the first guy to take advantage of a lost woman? The first guy to even lie to a woman, or cnchant or charm a woman?
Hell at least he married her, instead of kicking her out and giving her cab fare.
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vil·lain Pronunciation Key (vln)
n. A wicked or evil person; a scoundrel. A dramatic or fictional character who is typically at odds with the hero. (also vln, v-ln) Variant of villein. Something said to be the cause of particular trouble or an evil: poverty, the villain in the increase of crime. Obsolete. A peasant regarded as vile and brutish.
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As for Turgon, he obviously made an exception for his relatives at least once. The idea that it was only "the law" involved in his decision rings sort of hollow to me.
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