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erynion
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Dec 20 2013, 9:42am
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Who was the statue at the entrance to Mirkwood?
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Melian, as a tribute to the memory of Doriath? Luthien, the same? Though I doubt Luthien, she's too tied to Elrond's family, and I always had the idea that Thranduil doesn't much like Elrond (Noldor and all.)
One of the Valar? Yavanna perhaps? But Silvan Elves don't have that strong a connection to the Valar because they never met them, so... :/
Or Thranduil's wife? I always thought she was dead so it would make sense to have her statue there as a memorial... and it would show Thranduil's broken spirit to see that statue graffitied and overgrown.
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Rowan Greene
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Dec 20 2013, 11:12am
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I wondered the same thing. Loved the entrance/"doorway"...
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Retro315
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Dec 20 2013, 12:32pm
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The Elves of Mirkwood are typically of the Sylvan variety, and within the film context, Tauriel mentions that her folk love starlight the best, so that points to Varda/Elbereth Gilthoniel.
But what the Elven Road actually is ... is a protected path through a corrupted forest. And if that doesn't scream Yavanna, I don't know what does.
Now I'm interested in just how religious/spiritual Sylvan Elves actually are. I suppose having Sindarin leaders they'd have been exposed to Calaquendi and intimate knowledge of the Valar, they'd pick up on a lot of it. And a lot of it would be intuitive, or passed down from days when the Valar walked Middle-earth more often, and definitely down through Doriath.
But you think of Legolas's dialogue in Lord of the Rings (novel) and realize that he just doesn't name-drop his patron spirits anywhere near as often as more cultured Elves do. And while we hear a ton of Quenya, Leggy rarely speaks it, rarely speaks Sindarin, mostly just speaks Westron.
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erynion
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Dec 20 2013, 1:36pm
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I did consider the Sindarin leaders...
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And everything they might have passed on to the Silvan Elves (i or y? Never sure..) I suppose that's why they accepted them as their leaders to begin with, because they had more knowledge and wisdom to share.
How about it's one of those "famous person AS holy person" things, so "The Queen of Mirkwood as Yavanna"? That happens sometimes... where the function of an artwork is that of a sacred thing, but the face is recognizable as a wordly person, usually royalty. :3 I like that now.
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Otaku-sempai
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Dec 20 2013, 8:04pm
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The statue could have represented Thranduil's queen (Legolas' mother).
'There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
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