May. 23rd, 2021

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I have decided to write an extensive meta post about Legolas and Gimli and the parallels/contrasts between them and how they experience grief, the past, memory, the future - and the tragedy of their intertwined fates as it relates to those things. Instead of dashing off something quick and emotional, as I usually do when it comes to these things, I've decided to try writing it as an essay with like, actual quotes and stuff - so for a first step I went through the books and identified any quotes I could find that related to what I wanted to say and rambled about them as a way of taking notes.

And, well, my document is eight pages/almost 4k words long, I've encountered a whole set of trends, and I'm absolutely drowning in my feelings about them.

Some excerpts below the cut, in case you want to have feelings also:

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