anghraine: a shot of galadriel from amazon's rings of power with her head wrapped and a star attached to her shoulder (galadriel [ice])
I managed to integrate a lot of tangents into last night's infodump on Númenórean pregnancy because it turned up so many interesting sort-of related things, but there were STILL MORE details that I couldn't work in but was delighted in various ways by. A list:

1. Tolkien struggled to make the Maeglin story work with the developmental scheme he was trying to mathematically pin down for Elves, given that Maeglin's history requires him to be born much later than most of the other Elves of his generation. Tolkien concluded that Maeglin had to be an adult, but that he would have been very young in Elvish terms, and this is part of the reason Idril was so unsettled by his interest in her. He wasn't a literal child but he was kind of a kid from Idril's POV.

2. SPEAKING of Maeglin's history, another idea Tolkien came up with to deal with the Maeglin problem was the idea that Maeglin actually isn't that much younger, but instead, Aredhel was either persuaded or trapped by Eöl before ever reaching Aman! In this case, the "Dark Elf" descriptor for Eöl would have no racial subtext whatsoever—Eöl would not be Avari or Sindarin at all, but another Noldo who refused to finish the journey to Valinor and thus never saw the light of the Two Trees. The implication of Noldorin Exiles calling him "Dark Elf" is less "Sinda" and more "loser."

3. Tolkien makes a couple of errors in trying to figure out the math. Some of those mistakes are the math, or at least numerical (Arwen's birth year gave him a lot of trouble, more on this further down), but he also does things like mixing up Elenwë and Anairë at one point. IDK, there's so much hagiography in Tolkien discourse that it's kind of endearing to see him making ordinary writerly mistakes.

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anghraine: a shot of françois arnaud's face as cesare borgia (cesare (the borgias))
For context, there was a delightful Tumblr thread in which an anon said to the user tariqah:

Thots on the Pope

tariqah responded:

So the pope has thots now

fussybees added:

They're called cardinals I think


alice-exe then said:

crawling all over him like weevils

Then iphiesque superimposed this thread onto publicity shots of Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), Giulia Farnese, Vanozza, and Cesare and Lucrezia in Showtime's The Borgias and said:

good evening borgias fandom

I reblogged it and added:

#SUMMONED LIKE THE KRAKEN #best fandom ever tbh
anghraine: shmi in tpm; text: full of grace (shmi [gratia plena])
I got a follower who I thought might be a bot, but I checked their blog out of morbid curiosity and their most recent post was about how stupid “Mary, Did You Know?” is, so they’re good by me.

Tagged: #IT'S SO STUPID #my mother has it on her playlist so i hear it everyyyyy year and i'm trying not to dampen her spirits or whatnot #while internally like ... how could mary not know??? did she just forget????????
anghraine: vader extending his lightsaber; text: and now for the airing of grievances! (Default)
This post only makes sense in context, so:

Firstly, DaftLimmy on Twitter said:

People should be born Cancelled. And you've got to spend your whole life trying to Walk It Back.

Roo Honeychild, still on Twitter, responded:

it's called Catholicism

Hozier (yes, that Hozier) left a like on that response.

angelsaxis on Tumblr posted the screenshot of all three, and captioned it:

Today on Hozier liked

My friend ameliarating, who is Jewish, said:

#sounds like all of christianity? but I don't know enough to know #christian friends #is this just catholicism?

I responded:

Not all Christian sects subscribe to the doctrine, though more than just Catholics do. It is really strongly associated w/ Catholicism, however.

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anghraine: vader extending his lightsaber; text: and now for the airing of grievances! (cèsar [il principe])
Shout-out to my man Erasmus for his take on Giuliano della Rovere/Pope Julius II, c. 1517:

But when nations and their rulers have been carrying on riotous raids and counter-raids for years on end, what happens then to the papal authority, once second only to that of Christ himself? It might be exercised even here, if the popes were not held in the grip of the same passions. Let the pope call for war, he is obeyed at once; when he calls for peace, why isn’t he obeyed the same way? If the princes were so eager for peace, why did they obey Julius in his belligerent outbursts yet pay hardly any attention to Leo when he spoke out for peace? If the pope’s authority is sacred, it ought to be particularly so whenever he urges the same things as Christ originally proposed. The princes who listened to Julius when he called for that awful war but then couldn’t hear Leo when he called for Christian concord were practically admitting that, while using the church as a smoke-screen, they were really serving their own appetites.

anghraine: shmi in tpm; text: full of grace (shmi [gratia plena])
but I have to share the Tumblr call-out of the day:

The Virgin Mary is problematic

(I was [mostly] raised Mormon, I know all the theological reasons that a large chunk of Christianity considers veneration of Mary to be legitimately appalling. But going on anon at Tumblr all "she has flaws tho" and "ugh @ fans who won't admit that she's got problems" and "it's so important, guys, she's a sinner and it's actually super problematic" about Mary? I am weirdly charmed.)

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