He,he, adorei essa daí. A metáfora do playmobil fica muito boa. Morgoth contra Fingolfin, the action figure, bonequinho articulado !!!! Pior é que eu acho que that was precisely the point na cabeça de Tolkien.
Não é pra menos que Tolkien estudou tanto o conceito de Ofermod e a atitude desesperada ( falta de Estel de Fingolfin, carência de fé) o levou a um ato impulsivo e tresloucado de orgulho e desejo de vingança.
Ofermod is an essay by J.R.R. Tolkien originally published in 1953 along with his alliterative poem "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorthelm's Son" and another essay titled "The Death of Beorhtnoth". The essay explores the meanings of the Old English word ofermod, which appears in the original Old English fragment Maldon. The word is used to describe Beorhtnoth's state of mind at one point in the fragment--Tolkien took the word to mean that Beorhtnoth was a victim of overweening pride (a character flaw that would appear in several of Tolkien's later characters, Fëanor and Túrin being the best examples).
http://www.valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/papers/dreamlord/stages/ofermod.htm
A realeza élfica e o Ofermod na enciclopédia de Michael Drout
Bate direitinho com a noção de adaptar a luta do Cavaleiro Vermelho e de Arthur contra o gigante Orgoglio, que é justamente, Pride , Orgulho e o análogo do Demônio na obra de Spenser.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/sfq/sfq15.htm
All the need-to-know deets on Orgoglio from The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.
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Reparem como é similar: clava errando o alvo e abrindo um buraco no chão, rei guerreiro se esquivando de agressor com tamanho de gigante ogre... E, pra completar, Arthur que, nesse livro, é um tipo de ente sobrenatural feérico, quando vem salvar o Cavaleiro Vermelho preso nos calabouços de Orgoglio, faz a torre do Gigante tremer quando seu escudeiro faz soar o clarim que trouxe... Epa!!
Lembrando um combo de Fingolfin tocando sua trompa pra desafiar Morgoth com Lúthien Tinúviel enfrentando Sauron pra tirar Beren das masmorras de Tol-in-Gaurhoth, fazendo a torre dele tremer com seu canto...
E, pra piorar, ainda tem o detalhe do escudo do Arthur ser arrancado de sua mão depois dele ser pressionado até o chão e ser desvelado (o escudo) pela clava do Gigante( o que levou à sua derrota) logo depois, enquanto Fingolfin ( e Eowyn) tiveram seus escudos partidos e destroçados. O detalhe de Morgoth e do Senhor dos Nazgûl usarem a mesma arma também é significativo nesse trecho já que a maça é um tipo especial de clava acrescida de uma ponta pesada de formatos variados.
Agora olhem só o comentário sutil: Fingolfin perde enfrentando um inimigo superior por orgulho, dominado por ofermod, "intemperança", "excesso de espírito", Eowyn vence o Senhor dos Nazgûl com a providencial (literalmente!) ajuda de Meriadoc (
nota 1) enfrentando-o pra salvar a vida do seu tio e rei. Ou seja, pelos motivos contrários ao ofermod.
Olhem aí o texto do poema
adaptado em prosa em inglês num livro de 1916 do confronto do,então,
príncipe Arthur com Orgoglio, o Gigante do Orgulho. A semelhança com a luta entre Morgoth e Fingolfin salta às vistas até com certa identidade de palavras em algumas versões...
He marched with his squire to the castle walls, where he found the gates shut fast. There was no warder to guard them, nor to answer to the call of any who came.
Then the squire took a small bugle which hung at his side with twisted gold and gay tassels. Wonderful stories were told about that bugle; every one trembled with dread at its shrill sound. It could easily be heard three miles off, and whenever it was blown it echoed three times. No false enchantment or deceitful snare could stand before the terror of that blast. No gate was so strong, no lock so firm and fast, but at that piercing noise it flew open or burst.
This was the bugle which Prince Arthur's squire blew before the gate of Giant Pride. Then the whole castle quaked, and every door flew open. The Giant himself, dismayed at the sound, came rushing forth in haste from an inner bower, to see what was the reason of this sudden uproar, and to discover who had dared to brave his power. After him came Duessa, riding on her dragon with the seven heads; every head had a crown on it, and a fiery tongue of flame.
When Prince Arthur saw Giant Pride, he took his mighty shield and flew at him fiercely; the Giant lifted up his club to smite him, but the Prince leaped to one side, and the weapon, missing him, buried itself with such force in the ground, that the Giant could not quickly pull it out again. Then with his sharp sword Prince Arthur struck at the Giant, and wounded him severely
Comparemos com a passagem do Silmarillion
Thus he came alone to Angband's gates, and he sounded his horn, and smote once more upon the brazen doors, and challenged Morgoth to come forth to single combat. And Morgoth came.
That was the last time in those wars that he passed the doors of his stronghold, and it is said that he took not the challenge willingly; for though his might was greatest of all things in this world, alone of the Valar he knew fear. But he could not now deny the challenge before the face of his captains; for the rocks rang with the shrill music of Fingolfin's horn, and his voice came keen and clear down into the depths of Angband; and Fingolfin named Morgoth craven, and lord of slaves. Therefore Morgoth came, climbing slowly from his subterranean throne, and the rumour of his feet was like thunder underground. And he issued forth clad in black armour; and he stood before the King like a tower, iron-crowned, and his vast shield, sable on-blazoned, cast a shadow over him like a stormcloud. But Fingolfin gleamed beneath it as a star; for his mail was overlaid with silver, and his blue shield was set with crystals; and he drew his sword Ringil, that glittered like ice.
Then Morgoth hurled aloft Grond, the Hammer of the Underworld, and swung it down like a bolt of thunder. But Fingolfin sprang aside, and Grond rent a mighty pit in the earth, whence smoke and fire darted. Many times Morgoth essayed to smite him, and each time Fingolfin leaped away, as a 'lightning shoots from under a dark cloud; and he wounded Morgoth with seven wounds, and seven times Morgoth gave a cry of anguish, whereat the hosts of Angband fell upon their faces in dismay, and the cries echoed in the Northlands.
nota 1-Meriadoc "coincidentemente" é o nome de um ancestral legendário de Arthur, fundador do reino de Rohan na Bretanha.Conan Meriadoc era ancestral de Uther Pendragon, pai de Arthur pelo menos na versão de Geoffrey de Monmouth que deixa o assunto muito debatível ainda.
, esse merece, pena eu não poder fazer mais, por enquanto!
