Glad those Dunedain finally got to behaving for you, though I believe they were right when they said you would kill several of them, regardless.
It's not my fault they live in a marginalized society committed to struggle with an oppressive force!
I adore how female-dominated the action is, with a command hierarchy that's probably more complex than that of the men on the Road.
Given the combination of the Ancalimë precedent, the importance of Aranarth claiming Gondor through Fíriel, and the general exodus of sword-bearing males to go guard other places and fight Sauron's forces outside the Angle, the Angle itself comes up as a surprisingly strong candidate for a female-centered society, or a society that heavily involves its female population in the work of resistance and rule. It's not women's lib, but of necessity and within the confines of a certain tradition that recognizes at least some role for female leadership, the Dúnedain could have some pretty kick-ass women doing the actually very difficult work of building and maintaining a functioning society, and of defending it when unnatural winters, orcs, or wolves come rolling through. Organization by household and street, with the senior woman in every house and on every street being the person responsible for things like control of the food sources, medicine, keeping everyone under her roof in line and ready to move when the call comes seems rational to me.
This probably won't surprise you, but my favorite part might be the episode with Eiris; Dunedain are Dunedain, and women's justice is meted out as swiftly and as exactingly as the men's.
I'm glad you liked that part. I knew it was going to be an episode, but I struggled with how to handle it, since the death penalty and I are not friends. I did want it to be clear that this is not a situation anyone feels particularly good about, and that Eiris's execution is not an act undertaken without qualm or misgiving, or that goes uncontested. Who doesn't understand Eiris, after all?
If I'm feeling inspired and can swing it, I'd like to see Eiris earlier, so that we have a sense of her before this episode - she certainly deserves to be a fuller character than I made her!
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It's not my fault they live in a marginalized society committed to struggle with an oppressive force!
I adore how female-dominated the action is, with a command hierarchy that's probably more complex than that of the men on the Road.
Given the combination of the Ancalimë precedent, the importance of Aranarth claiming Gondor through Fíriel, and the general exodus of sword-bearing males to go guard other places and fight Sauron's forces outside the Angle, the Angle itself comes up as a surprisingly strong candidate for a female-centered society, or a society that heavily involves its female population in the work of resistance and rule. It's not women's lib, but of necessity and within the confines of a certain tradition that recognizes at least some role for female leadership, the Dúnedain could have some pretty kick-ass women doing the actually very difficult work of building and maintaining a functioning society, and of defending it when unnatural winters, orcs, or wolves come rolling through. Organization by household and street, with the senior woman in every house and on every street being the person responsible for things like control of the food sources, medicine, keeping everyone under her roof in line and ready to move when the call comes seems rational to me.
This probably won't surprise you, but my favorite part might be the episode with Eiris; Dunedain are Dunedain, and women's justice is meted out as swiftly and as exactingly as the men's.
I'm glad you liked that part. I knew it was going to be an episode, but I struggled with how to handle it, since the death penalty and I are not friends. I did want it to be clear that this is not a situation anyone feels particularly good about, and that Eiris's execution is not an act undertaken without qualm or misgiving, or that goes uncontested. Who doesn't understand Eiris, after all?
If I'm feeling inspired and can swing it, I'd like to see Eiris earlier, so that we have a sense of her before this episode - she certainly deserves to be a fuller character than I made her!