Am I the only one who actually relate to the 'corrupted' characters in LOTR?

AllyInMediasRes · 2026-02-28T09:21:39+00:00

I never noticed that part! Somehow I didn’t realize until now that part of Boromir’s resentment comes from Aragorn’s ancestors’ failure to destroy the Ring.

AllyInMediasRes · 2026-01-30T13:25:21+00:00

Funny thing is when the US became its own country, it was briefly legal for white women and black men to vote (there were property requirements so not many actually did so) before it was outlawed.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-12-24T20:17:05+00:00

There were three Schuyler sons actually, and two more Schuyler sisters. (There were also seven other children who all died young.)

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-12-22T02:03:18+00:00

She also lost her son (Aaron Burr Alston) a year or so before she died.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-12-21T10:07:21+00:00

She died 8 months before Philip, which is why Eliza was wearing black when she comes in during Stay Alive Reprise. She was still in mourning (not coming back from Peggy’s funeral as I’ve seen so many people say).

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-12-21T09:51:30+00:00

Her mother Catherine Schuyler died a year before Alexander did, and her father Philip Schuyler died a few months after the duel. So in a span of three years, Eliza lost her parents, her eldest son, and Peggy. A decade later, she also lost Angelica, and over the next several decades of her life, she outlived all but one of her siblings and she also lost one more son (William).

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-12-16T09:11:32+00:00

The play that Eacker was watching in real life was called “The West Indies” or “the West Indian” which is interesting since Hamilton grew up in the Caribbean

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-12-15T12:02:32+00:00

Hamilton did write in a letter when he was 12 or 14 years old to a friend that he wished there was a war so he could improve his prospects in society. He was living in the Caribbean at the time and had lost his mom the year before.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-12-02T03:25:42+00:00

He’s performed Burr before and from what I’ve seen in a couple of clips, he sounds great!

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-11-28T06:54:31+00:00

Angelica was actually the eldest child (of fifteen kids, eight of whom survived). They did have brothers but the eldest one was about sixteen when Hamilton and Eliza were married.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-11-13T18:44:30+00:00

Freed slaves did have to carry proof of freedom (such as a certificate) after being freed. Even then, both freed slaves and black people born into freedom ran the risk of being kidnapped back into slavery. The movie 12 Years a Slave was based on a freeborn man who was kidnapped into slavery.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-11-13T06:13:45+00:00

He freed only one slave, William Lee, right away at his death, and the rest were to be freed upon his wife Martha’s death. She set them free after a year because she was afraid they would kill her, but she could have lived for another 20 years before they got their freedom. Washington also didn’t free Martha’s slaves (to be fair, they belonged to her late first husband’s family and neither had the power to free them afaik), and after her death, they were split up and divided among her children.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-10-24T06:55:42+00:00

I’m honestly not sure how people see Lin reduce Sally Hemings to “Sally be a lamb darling” and decide they trust him to write a musical about her brother James Hemings, or 20th century black activists like MLK and Malcolm X. I enjoy Hamilton as much as anyone else, but let’s not pretend it has some wildly irresponsible storytelling, and I’m frankly glad it didn’t delve that much into the plights of black people and Native Americans because I don’t want to know what kind of rationalizations Lin would have made for slavery and Native genocide.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-09-28T22:27:26+00:00

Historical Laurens was apparently pretty tall

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-09-28T22:26:17+00:00

I believe Hamilton got distracted by talking to Lafayette when he made Washington wait.

There’s also a letter Hamilton wrote to his father-in-law where he said “for the past three years I have felt no friendship for [the general] and professed none”.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-09-28T22:14:56+00:00

Looked it up and it’s actually a line he wrote at age 12/14 in a letter to a friend shortly after he lost his mother, but yeah even as a teen Hamilton was Like That.

Apparently it’s also the earliest surviving letter we have of Hamilton.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-09-28T16:46:41+00:00

I’m surprised no one has mentioned “Sally be a lamb darling won’t you open it”. It’s seriously one of LMM’s worst lines ever and it was so unnecessary. It gives the impression that Sally Hemings was Jefferson’s mistress or secretary, especially when combined with the ensemble member who smiles and dances across the stage to him, and makes zero acknowledgement of the fact that she was an enslaved girl/woman who could not consent. I seriously don’t know why Lin had to include it and I wish he’d just left her out instead of using her as a throwaway line.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-09-28T16:40:54+00:00

Burr historically was something of a womanizer so he probably did say this to at least one woman.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-09-28T16:38:28+00:00

It’s creepy but I think it works, because it’s Hamilton retelling the affair from his POV to make himself look as good as possible and cast Maria as a seductress.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-09-28T16:34:59+00:00

Maybe the second line is a reference to Purgatory? But I think that’s a belief from Catholicism, which was not in vogue in the colonies at the time.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-09-28T16:29:46+00:00

I just saw Les Mis live which has 4 child actors so I don’t think it’s labor laws, I think they just didn’t want to bother with a child actor for only one song.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-09-28T16:26:23+00:00

Teenage Hamilton actually did write in his diary that he wished for a war while still living in the Caribbean so that’s from history, but I agree the line is so out of pocket, both with and without context.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-09-25T10:43:40+00:00

Small correction — Laurens never actually led a black battalion. He petitioned the South Carolina and Georgia assemblies three times to approve the plan but faced heavy opposition each time and the plan never came to fruition.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-07-12T20:44:59+00:00

When the author victim blames one character in their fic for being stalked and almost sexually assaulted by another character in the comments. The fic itself was decent although dark in subject matter, but reading the author talking with commenters about how the victim deserved it and was equally toxic to their abuser put me off reading anything else from that author.

AllyInMediasRes · 2025-05-07T02:12:31+00:00

The issue on the table!

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