The BINGO Number for March 23 Is N32--CLOSED

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[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

I so want to read that essay! I always wondered about why an elf would bring a harp with him on a rescue mission, I mean dude, wth?

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Me too! That question just never gets old. It's such a weird thing to do. Adorably quirky, in a way, but seriously... wth!

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

LOL Or a Maedhros who is hurting glaring at Fingon and saying: a harp? That's all you got to play tunes for me as I hang here? This card could work so great with the TV tropes prompt )63 "I call her Vera". Would he have named his harp I wonder now?

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Knowing these Elves, he probably did. Now, WHAT name... that's the question! XD

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

Lol!

This was actually the question/note number 10 on the list that I made while reading Silm for the second time ages ago. ("Who the hell carries a harp to Angband?!! What did Fingon think; that he would bore Morgoth to death with his singing and playing on harp and then go and save Maedhros?!") I mean, huh???

But seriously, why would anyone in the right mind carry a harp to the most dangerous place in Middle-earth? It would make perfect sense, if Fingon would know he'd need it to find Maedhros, but he didn't. I want an explanation!

I came up with a theory, but... well, we'll just have to see how that's going to work out. :/

[dawn_felagund]

I've never thought the bringing of the harp to be a fact, something that actually happened (although it's always fun to see the different ways that writers handle that detail! :D) but something that was added later, as the story was told, because it sounds a lot more poetic than, "Fingon wandered around the rocks hollering." :D

I imagine the chore alone of keeping it tuned out in the elements like that!

[havamahal.livejournal.com]

Well, he had to busy himself with something to keep his mind of the fact that he was going somewhere, where he would most likely die. ;)

Maybe it was something that was added later, but it's there and that's what I have to work with. ;) I want to disect that mission of his and see what was going on in his head. It would be interesting to do a myth vs. truth essay (we can get rid of... hmm... the harp, Thorondor and 30 years of hanging on Thangorodrim?), but that should probably wait for some other time.