Friday, April 12, 2013

The My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic "Silmarillion" Theory


A Princess who can alter her appearance at will and a Changeling Queen...
A Princess who rebelled against her elder sister... not present when the Queen attacked the kingdom...
A Princess unaffected by the potent Elements and a Queen who would topple a god...

Hi, everyone! It's Jen and yes I'm still alive and blogging on here. I should really see to my DA account, but....
You guys are probably wondering about the meaning of the picture right?
I was watching a review on YouTube by BronyCurious and Anthony C where they covered the Season 2 Finale of MLP:FiM. A good review that totally wrecked my love over that episode, to be fair, but what REALLY BLEW MY MIND was what was said at the end of the video.
BronyCurious connected some dots together using J.R.R. Tolkien's unfinished work The Silmarillion as a base and likened Princess Luna of MLP to Melkor of the Valar.

  • Melkor rebelled against his brothers, the Valar, Luna did so too towards her sister Celestia.
  • Melkor was imprisoned for eons for his crime before repenting, Luna likewise.
  • However, Melkor was only feigning repentance and sought to steal the light of the world... What if... Princess Luna too...

In the season 2 finale, The Queen of the Changelings, a sentient race of insectoid-like ponies who can change their appearance  infiltrated the kingdom, disguised as a pony. When she finally revealed herself, her power was so great that she was able to defeat Princess Celestia, the immortal and powerful ruler of the Kingdom who could raise the sun. The queen was surprised at this development, curious enough, though she was expelled from the kingdom soon enough by our "mane" cast. Later that evening, Princess Luna, absent from most of the story's events, reappears...

It's an interesting theory, so I drew an image similar to the image in the video. Here is a link to the video here and the theory goes from 27:54 to the end of the video at 32 minutes. Check it out for yourself and come to your own conclusions, dang it! :)

Signed the girl who officially named her YouTube page as Catwithpencil,
Jen

2 comments:

  1. aww, don't let the negative parts of the review ruin the episode, sempai.
    after all, his long rant about cadence being a superfluous alicorn is mostly negated by the addition of alicorn twilight
    maybe twilight hadn't mentioned her brother to her friends because she really hadn't talked to him in a while
    having found new friends who were not her brother for the first time in her life was probably a little distracting
    and on his part, falling in love and subsequently under the control of an evil queen
    also, it's not like celestia can be defeated by just anything, only the power of LOVE, which is p. powerful
    so she's not God or Aslan
    this is actually more comforting because to me it seems like Celestia's alignment is more of a chaotic good than a lawful good, which is disturbing for a god
    granted, chrysalis' motives and method could have been better fleshed out, but her character design is still really cool
    and maybe that fight scene did not further the plot, but it was awesome
    er, sorry, i guess i just don't have anywhere else to nitpick
    but anyway, enjoy or don't enjoy the plotlines regardless of internet reviewers
    no matter how soothing and british their voices are

    also, on an unrelated note, i cannot find your youtube channel

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Ah. Both LaureledEeevees and Catwithpencil don't have any public videos so the channels can't be viewed by... the public. As soon as I get videos on there I'll be sure to let you know, sempai.

      Delete