In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.
In the Lord of the Rings fandom there’s a persistent debate whether balrogs, or Durin’s Bane specifically, have wings. The text in Fellowship is ambiguous whether what it is describing are literal wings or something else wing-like.
Here’s another one: Is there a “blind community?” This may sound odd since the very fact the question exists implies there is, since blind people have to get together and discuss it. So in some ways yes of course there is, but I’m inclined to say no, at least not in the sense that a lot of people define “community”.
Blindness does not respect class, creed, or culture, so you have blind people from all over the map ideologically speaking who all approach their blindness in different ways. That’s not getting into the difference between low- vs no-vision, or born blind vs blinded later in life, or blind people who are independent vs those that lack access to proper training. I’ve run into blind people who don’t like hanging out with other blind people IRL because the spectrum ranges from “can’t even pick yourself up when you trip without help” to “flies around the country alone with no problem.”
I think the question exists because we look at deaf people who unambiguously have cultures and languages unique to them when we don’t really have that.
Ope, as someone hard of hearing, I’m sorry y’all don’t have community. It makes sense why we make them so often and y’all don’t, but it’s sad to see you don’t have something similar