We all know how Frodo would
have trusted Boromir "but for the warning of his heart." But did you
know that the elf-king Elrond was against sending Merry and Pippen along as
members of the Fellowship, owing to the warnings of HIS heart? It's true... and
Gandalf essentially told him HIS heart, the great elf-king's heart, spoke
falsely, arguing for their inclusion with the weak argument that since you
can't send a battalion into Mordor for it being sure to be noticed, you
shouldn't think of military might at all when forming the Fellowship, and
instead count on already established friendship. Yeah, 'cause it is SO apparent
that not having another elf who can shoot down dragons or another human warrior
who can take down dozens of orcs before going down, is but nothing if you've
got a bit more of the accustomed and the familiar within your party -- 'cause who are kidding? friendship is born out of nothing again and again through their journeys.
Patrick McEvoy-Halston November 28 at 10:36 AM Why does Severian make almost no effort to develop sustained empathy for Jolenta -- no interest in her roots, what made her who she was -- even as she features so much in the first part of the narrative? Her fate at the end is one sustained gross happenstance after another... Severian has repeated sex with her while she lay half drugged, an act he argues later he imagines she wanted -- even as he admits it could appear to some, bald "rape" -- but which certainly followed his discussion of her as someone whom he could hate so much it invited his desire to destroy her; Severian abandons her to Dr. Talus, who had threatened to kill her if she insisted on clinging to him; Baldanders robs her of her money; she's sucked at by blood bats, and, finally, left at death revealed discombobulated of all beauty... a hunk of junk, like that the Saltus citizens keep heaped away from their village for it ruining their preferred sense ...
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