"Can't let go"
Added 2022-10-23 07:56:44 +0000 UTCSome heartbreak to start off your Sunday. Orym and Will.
I'm sure I've said this here before, but this reminded me again - in a class on Edgar Alan Poe during my English literature studies, I came across this sentence his Philosophy of Composition: "The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world." And I realised why I loved the Silmarillion so much - it's probably difficult to find a work of literature with more deaths of beautiful men!
Of course, for Tolkien it would have been the death of Lúthien that was the heart of his poetic achievements, but I was confident enough even in 1995 to decide my female gaze as a reader mattered.
Drawn for samuraiko's vignette "Just one more kiss".
Comments
Ooh, thank you so much for appealing to the female gaze. So few artists are willing to do so. My eyes and brain offer you their sincere compliments. :)
Wendy Anderson
2022-10-25 02:14:22 +0000 UTCBeautifully depicted tragedy <3 Poor Orym. He's my favourite - like you, I'm especially drawn to something in Liam's characters. And I 100% agree on the female gaze as a reader mattering, in the case of deaths of beautiful men as well as all other cases!
elesianne
2022-10-23 18:50:35 +0000 UTC
