07-16-2021, 07:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-16-2021, 07:45 PM by RiverNotch.)
Grey Havens
We were robbed
by our time
of our last kiss.
Why does the sea
go on, unceasing?
Why do waves lap
at seashell-crusted pillars
rising out of sand?
Why does the sun
set into water?
Don't have kissed me
on my forehead
when my lips
were dried by salt
of tears. Turn back time
to when love was
broader than the ocean,
swifter than the wind,
and more constant than heaven.
Turn back time
to before the Ring
and the Straight Road.
(wrote this on June after a LOTR rewatch -- it was a fanedit that better kept to the books -- and found the final moments somewhat frustrating? like, it's frustrating that modern western audiences, at least of the time, were presumed to be turned off by any such gestures of gayness, even when such a gesture would have been the most appropriate for the relationship the films presented. like, even if a mouth-to-mouth kiss isn't strictly a romantic thing, which it wasn't, the fact that sam and frodo went through all of that -- the fact that they became equals, with sam rescuing frodo and even becoming a ringbearer himself -- and the fact that the world is old-fashioned enough to have such a rigid class system as what defined sam and frodo's relationship at first yet modern enough to be so "not-gays" when it comes to a darn kiss -- ugh!)
We were robbed
by our time
of our last kiss.
Why does the sea
go on, unceasing?
Why do waves lap
at seashell-crusted pillars
rising out of sand?
Why does the sun
set into water?
Don't have kissed me
on my forehead
when my lips
were dried by salt
of tears. Turn back time
to when love was
broader than the ocean,
swifter than the wind,
and more constant than heaven.
Turn back time
to before the Ring
and the Straight Road.
(wrote this on June after a LOTR rewatch -- it was a fanedit that better kept to the books -- and found the final moments somewhat frustrating? like, it's frustrating that modern western audiences, at least of the time, were presumed to be turned off by any such gestures of gayness, even when such a gesture would have been the most appropriate for the relationship the films presented. like, even if a mouth-to-mouth kiss isn't strictly a romantic thing, which it wasn't, the fact that sam and frodo went through all of that -- the fact that they became equals, with sam rescuing frodo and even becoming a ringbearer himself -- and the fact that the world is old-fashioned enough to have such a rigid class system as what defined sam and frodo's relationship at first yet modern enough to be so "not-gays" when it comes to a darn kiss -- ugh!)