Welp, I did a little digging, and Tolkien Gateway reckons that the goblins under the Great Goblin were only a sub-section of the Orcs of the Misty Mountains.
Yes, we are going to see Yavanna! She will turn up 🙂 Quite soon, in fact!
I’ve written a bit about how I see her before, here! But here we go, I’m a little inspired now, and so have a wee flight of fancy:
She is my untamed goddess of moss and jungles and algae and scrubland. She loves the flytrap and the fennel, the grass and the deathcap mushroom alike. She fills the needles of her mammoth conifers with near-indigestible resin so that they cannot be eaten. She covers the cactus in thorns, covers the apple in flowers and fruit, and covers the spreading fig in tangling vines that will one day pull the giant to the ground. She cups the fern-leaves to house a tadpole, and fills the pitcher-plant in acid to kill its prey. She pours scents both sweet and stinking from her hands. She scatters the wheat that is grown and harvested – and then covers the resulting bread in fungus. Rot and renewal make up the rhythm of her steps – and they are slow and inexorable. She has the endless dry patience of the Resurrection plant, its heart curled tight, waiting for rain in the desert.
Her Ents stride in her wake, and their feet soak up the decay and rebirth of her passing.
Bees sing in her retinue, and beautiful flowers nod their poisonous heads as she goes.
🙂
(so, i may have recently re-watched ‘Life of Plants’, and it makes me think all over again that ‘HOLY HECK YAVANNA MUST BE FIERCE AS FUCK’)
I found a cool thing yesterday! I thought you might appreciate. (The puzzles are really intricate like holy crap.)
(It’s not official, though, BUT that means it’s not restricted to only the movie depictions, which means Silmarillion stuff as well.)
i’m at work, sadly (stupid education filter on my internet) or I would be flailing at you loudly and screaming and linking ALL THE THINGS.
There is subtext everyfuckingwhere. Unintentionally, as we know. BUT IT. IS. THERE.
Eowyn-Dernhelm – hello genderfluid character idea.
Frodo and Sam have some seriously eyebrow-raising dialogue. Also Frodo living with Sam and Rosie at Bag End post-war? (POLY QP HOBBITS AMIRITE, possibly QP ACE FRODO?? AAAAAH)
Legolas and Gimli have some SERIOUSLY SERIOUSLY EYEBROW-RAISING DIALOGUE AND SITUATIONS. (and a happily-ever-after ffs, sailing into the sunset oh my god tolkien, we get it) – like, to the point where Tolkien Scholars from as far back as the 70′s sighed and accepted a queer reading of these two, it is not subtle at alllll, THEY are not subtle at ALL
Faramir and his starry-eyed worship of Aragorn i stg
Bilbo the queer solitary confirmed bachelor in land full of gigantic nuclear families…
there’s lots. LOTS. I’m not even touching the Silm.
I’m sure if you go to Google Scholar and search for ‘character name +subtext’ SOMETHING WILL COME UP that you can use 🙂
I would love to read your paper. Seriously. I would LOVE that.
Aw Yiss 