this post by @theoppositeofprofound is very very good but look guys it’s literally a lock against oblivion…… of course the groups associated with Making things are gonna be concerned with making themselvesremembered and more specifically. fëanor’s whole thing is a lock against oblivion like. if your mother is the only person to die ever. you’re gonna be more than a bit Fucked Up about how to keep Other things from a similar Fate.
which is why the silmarils’ whole thing is to preserve the light of the trees (and if like me you think they also stop fading happening via that light then. to preserve People Too)… the silmarils are a lock against oblivion in a literal sense and also in that by making fëanor Famous they preserve his memory no matter what, and also they have part of his actual soul in them??? so that can’t exactly die. so yea breaking the silmarils would be the undoing of everything fëanor as a character stands for.
(tbh tengwar (-> writing) is also a way of Preserving language, and the holding onto the th over s is. exactly the same thought process)
but also like if a lock against oblivion is about victory over forgetting and Also Death then the fact that the oath says To The Everlasting Darkness Doom Us is… he’s dooming himself to the exact fate the lock against oblivion is made to Prevent and that is a very sad thing
anyway the final thing is that the reason the noldor “feel more human” (vague phrasing) as characters is the acknowledgement that Death Is Terrifying / attempts to overcome death/forgetting (-> via Building And Making Cool Things) / the fact that they’re all doomed anyway
“Lómion you are named, son of the twilight, but I love you best like this: aglow beneath a bright moon. In this light you do not hide, in this light you do not fear. In the sun, we are for all the world—for dread to stalk and Doom to haunt. But beneath the moon? We are for none but each other here.”
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Hello, Tumblr! As you become aware that property law is not boring, I feel obligated to share one of the greatest appellate opinions ever written - the “Ghostbusters case” - in which the parties are arguing over the purchase a haunted house and real appellate judges tried to see how many references they could make to ghosts in an actual court opinion.
And if you’re a lawyer or law student who somehow got through law school without encountering this (shame on your professors for that btw), or if you don’t mind reading case law in all its legalese glory, I shall provide a link to the actual opinion. https://casetext.com/case/stambovsky-v-ackley
