Well... It is no worse than some LotR fanfiction I have read. A sure method to make a perfect hero: just kill little boy's daddy before the boy develops any Oedipal tensions. Kill the mom before she interferes with the dating, too.
There is a horrible orphaned goody-goody girl in Russian classics, Netochka Nezvanova, by Dostoevsky. Very similar middle-class imagery, tears and trembles. Plus revolting tender female friendship moments as written by an old man, dirty and perverse for all I know. He probably didn't mean it to be sexual, that was just the fashion of the girl's friendship of that period, but all this crying one's heart out on another's shoulder, both in nightshirts, is a bit sick.
Aragorn, btw, is not like that. First, he blunders and tarries enough to bring dire consequences upon himself and others, and, second, LotR is more of an action than of a character study. Aragorn acts in a way that moves the plot, and there is very little introspection. Faramir gives in (am I saying what I mean? The right idiom escapes me) to Denethor, and Aragorn gives in to Elrond in very similar way. He had better luck with an authority, but it's not his fault. And there is nothing lesbian about him...
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Re: twice self-conscious
Date: 2007-07-19 10:02 am (UTC)There is a horrible orphaned goody-goody girl in Russian classics, Netochka Nezvanova, by Dostoevsky. Very similar middle-class imagery, tears and trembles. Plus revolting tender female friendship moments as written by an old man, dirty and perverse for all I know. He probably didn't mean it to be sexual, that was just the fashion of the girl's friendship of that period, but all this crying one's heart out on another's shoulder, both in nightshirts, is a bit sick.
Aragorn, btw, is not like that. First, he blunders and tarries enough to bring dire consequences upon himself and others, and, second, LotR is more of an action than of a character study. Aragorn acts in a way that moves the plot, and there is very little introspection. Faramir gives in (am I saying what I mean? The right idiom escapes me) to Denethor, and Aragorn gives in to Elrond in very similar way. He had better luck with an authority, but it's not his fault.
And there is nothing lesbian about him...