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Challenge #4: In your own space, create some goals.
There are times when goals are appropriate and good for me, and there are times when I end up using goals as a stick to beat myself with. This time, right now, feels more like it would end up in the second category. It is not a good time to make goals.
My only real goals in fandom are to enjoy myself and create things I love and am proud of.
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Challenge #5: In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love.
There are so many parts of The Silmarillion that I love beyond words, but Fëanor's speeches genuinely make my heart beat faster every time I read them. There's just so much passion and eloquence; they are a masterclass in beautiful writing and speech that wins over hearts. My favourite is this one:
But Fëanor laughed, and spoke not to the herald, but to the Noldor, saying: 'So! Then will this valiant people send forth the heir of their King alone into banishment with his sons only, and return to their bondage? But if any will come with me, I say to them: Is sorrow foreboded to you? But in Aman we have seen it. In Aman we have come through bliss to woe. The other now we will try: through sorrow to find joy; or freedom, at the least.'
Then turning to the herald he cried: 'Say this to Manwë Súlimo, High King of Arda: if Fëanor cannot overthrow Morgoth, at least he delays not to assail him, and sits not idle in grief. And it may be that Eru has set in me a fire greater than thou knowest. Such hurt at the least will I do to the Foe of the Valar that even the mighty in the Ring of Doom shall wonder to hear it. Yea, in the end they shall follow me. Farewell!'
In that hour the voice of Fëanor grew so great and so potent that even the herald of the Valar bowed before him as one full-answered, and departed; and the Noldor were over-ruled.
God! The rhetorical pathos-based techniques in this: that a valiant people would not return into bondage, that Aman is not the promised paradise but a land where they have "come through bliss to woe," the whole concept of "through sorrow to find joy," calling out the Valar for sitting "idle in grief," all the ways in which he uses 'I' and 'we' and "thou" and "they." No wonder they followed him, I would have too.
There are times when goals are appropriate and good for me, and there are times when I end up using goals as a stick to beat myself with. This time, right now, feels more like it would end up in the second category. It is not a good time to make goals.
My only real goals in fandom are to enjoy myself and create things I love and am proud of.
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Challenge #5: In your own space, promote a canon/talk about a part of canon that you love.
There are so many parts of The Silmarillion that I love beyond words, but Fëanor's speeches genuinely make my heart beat faster every time I read them. There's just so much passion and eloquence; they are a masterclass in beautiful writing and speech that wins over hearts. My favourite is this one:
But Fëanor laughed, and spoke not to the herald, but to the Noldor, saying: 'So! Then will this valiant people send forth the heir of their King alone into banishment with his sons only, and return to their bondage? But if any will come with me, I say to them: Is sorrow foreboded to you? But in Aman we have seen it. In Aman we have come through bliss to woe. The other now we will try: through sorrow to find joy; or freedom, at the least.'
Then turning to the herald he cried: 'Say this to Manwë Súlimo, High King of Arda: if Fëanor cannot overthrow Morgoth, at least he delays not to assail him, and sits not idle in grief. And it may be that Eru has set in me a fire greater than thou knowest. Such hurt at the least will I do to the Foe of the Valar that even the mighty in the Ring of Doom shall wonder to hear it. Yea, in the end they shall follow me. Farewell!'
In that hour the voice of Fëanor grew so great and so potent that even the herald of the Valar bowed before him as one full-answered, and departed; and the Noldor were over-ruled.
God! The rhetorical pathos-based techniques in this: that a valiant people would not return into bondage, that Aman is not the promised paradise but a land where they have "come through bliss to woe," the whole concept of "through sorrow to find joy," calling out the Valar for sitting "idle in grief," all the ways in which he uses 'I' and 'we' and "thou" and "they." No wonder they followed him, I would have too.