Strength Bestows Beauty by oshun

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Summary:

"Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony,
but it often bestows it; and in everything imposingly beautiful,
strength has much to do with the magic."  ~Herman Melville, Moby Dick

SWG March 2017 Strength and Beauty Challenge
B2MeM 2017 (blue path/artwork/secondary colors/Tolkien quote)
Fëanorian Week Tumblr 2017 - Day 1- Maedhros - > Adjusting/Coping, Beauty


Major Characters: Maedhros

Major Relationships:

Artwork Type: No artwork type listed

Genre: Nonfiction/Meta

Challenges: B2MeM 2017, Strength and Beauty

Rating: General

Warnings:

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Maitimo and Findekáno
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 551
Posted on 19 March 2017 Updated on 19 March 2017

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Table of Contents

Essay with artwork

Comments

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Nice essay. I especially liked this:

Sometimes I have a difficult time, when a familiar quotation is given as a prompt for a story or work of art. It can be difficult to separate the words out and look at them simply as beautiful language with dozens of possible meanings. This particular citation presented as inspiration involves Herman Melville’s ruminations about the beauty of the physical strength of the whale and how one cannot separate beauty and power.

Well said indeed.

I like where this quote took you and I like the artwork very much. 

Yoir subject here is dear to my heart. I have found it fascinating how much focus there is on Maedhros' appearance in the Silmarillion--his names, descriptions of him. It is multifaceted, as his beauty is physical but is also of the spirit--and he shows that cannot be overpowered, even in the depths of Angband or cliffs of Thangorodrim.