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Lyta_Underhill · 05-14-2004, 11:11 PM

Some of you have noted that Fingon's death was cool or awesome, but for me, that point was the very place where I physically turned my head from the pages of the Silmarillion and said, "I can't look! It's too horrible!" It had a sort of "hammer of tragedy" hopeless feel about it that Fingolfin's heroic one-man stand did not, at least in my opinion. It was the death of Fingon that really characterized "unnumbered tears" for me.

Cheers for the morbid thread!
Lyta

P.S. As for awesome, can you beat the tooth and claw clash between Finrod and the werewolf?

05-14-2004, 11:11 PM	#39
Lyta_Underhill Haunted Halfling Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: an uncounted length of steps--floating between air molecules Posts: 841	Some of you have noted that Fingon's death was cool or awesome, but for me, that point was the very place where I physically turned my head from the pages of the Silmarillion and said, "I can't look! It's too horrible!" It had a sort of "hammer of tragedy" hopeless feel about it that Fingolfin's heroic one-man stand did not, at least in my opinion. It was the death of Fingon that really characterized "unnumbered tears" for me. Cheers for the morbid thread! Lyta P.S. As for awesome, can you beat the tooth and claw clash between Finrod and the werewolf? __________________ “…she laid herself to rest upon Cerin Amroth; and there is her green grave, until the world is changed, and all the days of her life are utterly forgotten by men that come after, and elanor and niphredil bloom no more east of the Sea.”