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Aug. 18th, 2005 02:23 pmHere I am daring myself to have a sort of diary/notebook, a thing that I never had or wanted to have, even when I was a child. Odd that enforced physical immobility has changed that. I'm so used to live inside my own head, to tell myself stories, to ponder and analyse and remember all of it that to write some things down seems a pointless and useless task. On the other hand all I can do for now is eat, sleep, dispose of bodily wastes in horrifically complicated ways, read and type - only 4 fingers operational for now - so it's high time I tried something new.
Enough personal things, a bore to read and who cares? Let's talk about fictional characters, instead.
Tolkien's elves piss me off no end. Well, alright, Tolkien does rather, but the point is that I love his inventive creation of languages and his little 'show-off' subtext in the books, I love his pedantry and his real erudition; BUT I absolutely hate his hatred of all things that make human people real and interesting, also his total dismissal of females as equal partners to the males and his terror of bodies. Prolly part of his own problem with his chosen religion and his, at best confused, sexuality. So he creates this species (he calls it a race, Darwin seems to have passed him by) of, intrinsically, angels. Blegh. Angels with bodies, mind you, but not real bodies, oh no. Incorruptible bodies, no less. They seem to *have* reproduced somehow thousands of years before - sometimes hundreds, not that it makes a difference - maybe by fission, like amoebas because are there alf children around? Nah. Not even the happily married holy couple of Galadriel (yes, she's a white dryad in greek :p) and Celeborn have children around. What? Do they consummate once every thousand years? Never? Sex, anybody? Elves also do not seem to have *any* bodily fluid except tears. Or to produce waste. At all. And they are supposed to be ALL wise and noble and good - alright except those who chose to become devils and followers of Lucifer... ooops I mean Melkor or Morgoth or whatever. Is there no stupid elf? Well yes, but not in the author's intention clearly. They must be the most boring species in the multiverse, and I really love how my beloved Pterry has corrected Tolkien's very unscholarly take on the Sidhe with his own elves.
Right, minirant over, LJ launched, now to go and read some good fics.
Enough personal things, a bore to read and who cares? Let's talk about fictional characters, instead.
Tolkien's elves piss me off no end. Well, alright, Tolkien does rather, but the point is that I love his inventive creation of languages and his little 'show-off' subtext in the books, I love his pedantry and his real erudition; BUT I absolutely hate his hatred of all things that make human people real and interesting, also his total dismissal of females as equal partners to the males and his terror of bodies. Prolly part of his own problem with his chosen religion and his, at best confused, sexuality. So he creates this species (he calls it a race, Darwin seems to have passed him by) of, intrinsically, angels. Blegh. Angels with bodies, mind you, but not real bodies, oh no. Incorruptible bodies, no less. They seem to *have* reproduced somehow thousands of years before - sometimes hundreds, not that it makes a difference - maybe by fission, like amoebas because are there alf children around? Nah. Not even the happily married holy couple of Galadriel (yes, she's a white dryad in greek :p) and Celeborn have children around. What? Do they consummate once every thousand years? Never? Sex, anybody? Elves also do not seem to have *any* bodily fluid except tears. Or to produce waste. At all. And they are supposed to be ALL wise and noble and good - alright except those who chose to become devils and followers of Lucifer... ooops I mean Melkor or Morgoth or whatever. Is there no stupid elf? Well yes, but not in the author's intention clearly. They must be the most boring species in the multiverse, and I really love how my beloved Pterry has corrected Tolkien's very unscholarly take on the Sidhe with his own elves.
Right, minirant over, LJ launched, now to go and read some good fics.
