dwimordene_2011

altariel
16 Mar 2023, 07:35
Valour Without Renown – by Dwimordene
This is great, Dwim. Will you post at AO3?
dwimordene_2011
15 Mar 2023, 22:58
Valour Without Renown – by Dwimordene
Thanks, Himring. Yeah, they're not going to be the subject of heroic ballads, most likely, but they did the job they set out to do and won the allies they needed to make that possible.
hhimring
15 Mar 2023, 22:54
Valour Without Renown – by Dwimordene
Those are great, your women of Ithilien! They may not have gained the kind of renown Eowyn was thinking of, but perhaps the kind of respect that does not make into the larger histories and songs.…
dwimordene_2011
26 Aug 2018, 15:32
The High Ground
Yeah, that's exactly my thought. Tolkien just never gives us the politics of the women in his universe, and without a good sense for the economics of why two feudal or semi-feudal, fairly isolated…
hhimring
26 Aug 2018, 08:52
The High Ground
Very coherently motivated and very compellingly told! An impressive Celebrian.

In feudalistic societies, a lot of what looks on the surface as pleasure jaunts or family visits is at least partly…