01-29-2003, 09:12 PM | #101 |
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But what would happen if Nienor had the baby? I think she realised she had no choice but to kill herself (however awful that is).
I like the story, I think it's sad and beautiful (like the rest of the stories in the Sil). I wish Turin would have gone back to Menegroth and talked to Thingol.
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01-30-2003, 12:51 AM | #102 | |
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Eeewww. That's my final word.
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As we all love (the more or less) or sister/brother, I believe it is possible to fall in love with your brother/sister. I mean, you have many things in common, believe in the same things ... then you could easily fall in love with him/her. but if you already know that this is a relative of you, your brain stops you from falling in love.
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Actually no. There is a thing called a kinship taboo, which is a psychological sex taboo. Basically, if you are raised in close confines with someone of your own age-group, between the ages of newly born, to around 7 years of age, then the taboo kicks in. Biology's way of ensuring that humans don't in-breed too much. Of course, that didn't stop me from believing that I had to marry my brother when I was younger. Ew!
Edit: Whoopsie, just noticed the rest of your post.
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01-31-2003, 01:37 AM | #108 |
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LOL!
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I seem to recall the pharoh would sometimes marry his daughter or granddaughter as well.
Imagine how inbred they must have been.
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The Thutmosids were especially driven to in-breeding. Check out their early family trees sometime.
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01-31-2003, 04:20 AM | #111 |
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Yuk.
Then your children get serious illnesses from having children with your brother/sister. Yuk. Fortunately Nienor killed herself. Her child would be very weak and ill. Yuk. What do you think that she would have a boy or a girl?
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03-15-2003, 03:53 PM | #112 |
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It`s a hard question, but I`m agree, becouse what they felt was love at anyways.
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Real Love. Maybe, but against the rules of nature.
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I don't think it's that big of a deal that they were siblings. They "ewww" reflex is imbedded in our brains, so that if they had recognized each other no doubt they would have shuddered at the very thought of marriage, etc. But since they were strange to one another it doesn't really make that much of a difference. I doubt their child would have been deformed or had other serious biological problems from one incident of incest.
Túrin would have been better with Finduilas though. I'm actually writing a fanfic about Túrin and Nienor's love ... and then I'm going to write one about their kid ... LOL .... I feel sorry for the baby, at any rate. She didn't have to kill it too! Why didn't she wait until it was born and then kill herself? Damn selfishness, if you ask me. Poor thing.
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whenever i read the turin thing it makes me all sad, and yet sick at the same time nienor niniel was havig here brothers child!bleugh.......damn glaurung the dragon!!
also i dont imagine tuor or turin with a beard-very unalike for cousins dont u fink?
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Unbelieveable. Marrying your cousin just to keep the money. I wouldn't want to marry my cousins.
But if I knew them not ....? I wonder if Turin and Nienor didn't look the same.
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