Most Tragic Moment? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Nogrod · 11-30-2006, 07:19 AM

I think the fate of the elves should be considered too. Especially the waning and sorrow or Galadriel hit me quite hard, at least when I was younger (nowadays I think I see her in a bit more wider perspective and as a more complex character not to jump out from among the others). They had to give up their land and their love; all they had built and cared for, all which they had sacrificed to defend during the millenia... To pass away before a new and less enchanted time.

That I find tragic. The inevitable wheel of time crushing the old ways, the coming of the era of men and the machine...

Or is it more like anguishing, heart-breaking, sorrowing, romanticising even rather than tragic?

A most tragic individual fate: Turin Turambar (as someone already noted), surely.

11-30-2006, 07:19 AM	#11
Nogrod Flame of the Ainulindalë Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Wearing rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves in a field behaving as the wind behaves Posts: 9,308	I think the fate of the elves should be considered too. Especially the waning and sorrow or Galadriel hit me quite hard, at least when I was younger (nowadays I think I see her in a bit more wider perspective and as a more complex character not to jump out from among the others). They had to give up their land and their love; all they had built and cared for, all which they had sacrificed to defend during the millenia... To pass away before a new and less enchanted time. That I find tragic. The inevitable wheel of time crushing the old ways, the coming of the era of men and the machine... Or is it more like anguishing, heart-breaking, sorrowing, romanticising even rather than tragic? A most tragic individual fate: Turin Turambar (as someone already noted), surely. __________________ Upon the hearth the fire is red Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet...