Eregyrn Falls

Elin Manon aka Elin Manon Cooper (Welsh, b. South Wales, based Falmouth, Cornwall, England) - Untitled, Mixed Media

The Wittebane brothers

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Elk Necklace and Earring Set 

Andrea Wilbur-Sigo

New comic: A Guide to Bird Photography.

modern AU where the three Pines bros start an advice podcast together………

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I just realized another facet to the Ford/Icarus connection.

Besides being “wings melt because lol hubris” guy, Icarus is the son of Daedalus.

Let’s review the myth of Daedalus.

Daedalus was a skilled craftsman and inventor, renowned through all the land. One day, the king of Crete, Minos, called upon Daedalus’ skill. Minos was very powerful, but he needed Daedalus’ help to build an incredible invention, the labyrinth. So Daedalus dutifully took up the task, and before long he had created a sprawling maze so intricate that it was nearly impossible to find your way within it, even for Daedalus himself.

While the myths don’t go into detail on this point, doubtlessly Daedalus had some kind of reward in mind. He was doing a great undertaking for a great and powerful king, surely that would pay off in the end, right?

Well… not quite.

Because King Minos had his secrets. One of those secrets, the minotaur, was being concealed within the labyrinth that Daedalus had just put all that effort into creating. And he couldn’t let word about that get out, could he?

So once the labyrinth was finished, Minos had Daedalus (and his young son Icarus) locked away in a tall tower within the maze, never to return to the outside world.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Here begins the “Icarus” myth: Daedalus builds wax wings for himself and his son, so that they could fly out of the maze to freedom in another land. He warns Icarus not to fly too high, lest the sun melt the wings (and not to fly too low, lest the sea foam weigh down the wax). Icarus, of course, doesn’t listen, flying too close to the sun only to plummet into the ocean below. Daedalus stays the course and makes it out alive, but only after his son has paid the ultimate price.

So who is Ford in this myth?

Ford could indeed be Icarus, ignoring the advice of others and common sense in his determination to go ever farther, ever higher, a pursuit that leads to his downfall.

But I could also see Ford as Daedalus, the brilliant but naive inventor who meets a powerful being and gladly works for them without asking too many questions, only to find upon his work’s completion that his trust was horribly misplaced, ending up trapped for long years within his own invention, and finally escaping this prison but at a grave cost.