B2MeM09: Day Twenty-Four

[dawn_felagund]

Day Twenty-Four

Choose your favorite line or quotation from a non-Tolkien source. It can be a book, movie, poem--anything you can think of! Write down that quote. Now create a story, poem, or work of art that relates to it somehow, either the quote itself or the meaning that you take from it.

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Comments

[independence1776]

Here's mine: http://indy1776.livejournal.com/11321.html

[dawn_felagund]

What a great quote! And what a great drabble inspired by it. I am nodding heartily with you on both points: on the importance of Feanor's charisma and gift for language, and on the point that the Noldor, having lost all that they knew to be truth, were primed to respond to him the way that they did. I've argued this point with people because I think it's one of the most important aspects of their story.

On the broader point of language, per our meta-ish conversation the other day, words always amaze me for the power they have over us. It truly is as Hawthorne says: You see these little black otherwise-meaningless symbols and think they can't do much harm ... but they forge friendships, start wars, and allow people born continents or centuries apart to understand one another. Which is why I can't put too much value on seeing a person as I do speaking with her. :)

And, somehow, I think Elrond would have remember Maglor's lesson. :)

[independence1776]

I actually found it on Hislowke's Sindarin dictionary, which makes it even more ironic.

*blinks* What is there to argue about it?

That's another wonderful point-- there have been so much words have done, so what's the difference if they crosses an ocean taking weeks to get there back in the Age of Sail or seconds via the Internet?

I think Elrond learned a lot from Maglor, both on what to do and what not to do.