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Would Tom and Goldberry in LotR count as happy desire? Or are they too domesticated for their actions together to have any sexual implication?
There is a certain dark playfulness to their relationship in the original poems. (There's certainly sexual animosity in Tom's source (well, one of his sources), the Kalevala.)
Must go peruse my BoLT tonight, where the elves are rather different from LotR's elves and owe more to the style of, say, Rossetti's "Goblin Town".
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I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.
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