Kind of weird that elven battle technology stopped with the sword/shield/bow/spear when:
a) they had the greatest inventor ever
b) they had a massive opponent that they wanted to kill
c) it would have been awesome to see Fingolfin shoot Morgoth in the head when he was dodging his hammer
My assumption is that Tolkien originally had elves invent much more advanced weaponry before realizing that if Turin existed at the same time as a bomb, everyone in the Silmarillion would have died, so he needed to undo that.
Been reading a lot of G/B fics lately, but I gotta say my favs are “Bashir goes to Post-Canon Cardassia to help out and Finally Gets a Clue about Garak”.
Sea monsters are simultaneously the best and worst cryptids because one the one hand, the ocean is deep enough and unexplored enough that something could conceivably be down there, but on the other hand, the ocean is deep enough and unexplored enough that something could conceivably be down there
So you know how in the Return of the King, Aragorn has his whole “Let the lord of the black land come forth” thing? I just realized that it sounds kind of like Fingolfin’s challenge to Morgoth in the Dagor Bragollach. How would Aragorn have known about that? Fingolfin’s challenge was heard even in the depths of Angband, so it makes sense that the Feanorians *cough Kidnap Dads* also present would have heard him as well. Evidently previously mentioned Kidnap Dads would have told the story to Elrond and Elros. Elrond raised Estel/Aragorn and you see my logic from here. Maybe this was on purpose to 1. be like fuck you we’re not going down without a fight which was basically Fingolfin’s motivation to challenge Morgoth anyway or 2. purposely remind Sauron of that and how the elves still resisted (and eventually kicked Morgoth’s ass) and how he wasn’t going to win either.
