daughterofdragons

german/palestinian, 18, silm (sometimes i will post my own drawings here) sideblock: @littlecatmairon

[that-angry-noldo]

how silm characters react to being faced with a horror beyond comprehension:

- fëanor: comprehends it out of spite. goes mad. possibly becomes an incomprehensible horror himself

- fingolfin: comprehends the horror. walks with the knowledge of horror for a century or so, quietly going mad. the day he snaps the land is aflame and he's riding to challenge the devil to duel

- finarfin: refuses to comprehend the horror out of spite. walks away from the horror. returns a century later to give the horror a beating, still refusing to comprehend it

- finrod: is so interested in the cultural background of the horror he forgets to comprehend it. possibly spends a year just chatting it up

- beren: comprehends the horror, walks away forever changed by the knowledge which he can't quite remember but which will forever haunt him, never speaks of it.

- luthien: uno reverse. the horror comprehends her

- eönwë: outhorrors the horror like some sort of an eldritch creature show off. comprehends it and is not impressed.

[asinoeiv]

My Maglor and my Elrond always get compared so I decided to draw an actual comparison instead of working on things that actually needed to be done.

[solume]

I adore the elves of Tolkien, because you read The Hobbit and you think oh, they're a little weird and fey-like. Then you read The Lord of the Rings and you're like they're very alien, but Thranduil just seems to be Like That™. Galadriel, Celeborn and Elrond are pretty chill actually. Yeah Glorfindel is like the strongest fighter ever and Cirdan's a little off-putting but they're most likely outliers. Legolas forgets he is surrounded by non-elves half the time and trolls the rest of the time, but otherwise he is not weirder than Aragorn.

And then you get to the Silmarillion. And you encounter the Noldor.

Fëanor "spirit so strong his body cremated itself" and Maedhros "got amputated for reasons™ being suspended on one of the highest moutains and probably tortured by Evil Incarnate but got over it in a week". Fingolfin "calling Morgoth to a 1v1 seem like a reasonable solution" and Fingon "climbed Melkor's highest mountain right after having survived the most hostile, icy, treacherous cliffs in existence while singing, to rescue his estranged situationship". Finrod "teeth count as a plausible weapon against a werewolf" Felagund and Galadriel "just in it for the possible crown and this very pretty Sindar I just met".

And that's not even touching Elwë "will marry a goddess at the first opportunity" Singollo or Luthien "sang so well the notoriously inflexible keeper of souls & Judge of the Valar let her and her man have another chance at life". Or whatever Ëarendil was on.

Reading about the elves of Tolkien when your first encounter with them is the Third Age brings the slow realisation that they are not wise and good and all-knowing. The most batshit crazy ones are just already in Mandos or Valinor (except Glorfindel, he cannot be Contained). They are actually the most chaotic people in the lengendarium and are trying very hard to leave behing a dignified image, and it's the funniest thing ever.

[insidethehalloftheflame-eyedking]

So I was thinking about Maeglin, as you do, and there was something I was curious about. So I took out my handy dandy Silmarillion to look it up.

This is what's Turgon said to Eöl:

"[Here] I am King; and whether you will it or will it not, my doom is law. This choice only is given to you: to abide here, or to die here; and so also for your son."

And I have things to say about this.

Is this not considered kinslaying, oh noble and just Turgon, he who is better than his cousins the Fëanárions because he didn't draw blood at Alqualondë? Or do the Thindar/Avari (we're never really told WHAT Eöl is) not count as kin?

Was this a new rule established only after Areðel disappeared, or had it always been a thing and Areðel was just special as his sister?

"And so also for your son"?!?!?! Turgon, you realize that's your nephew, right? Maybe you don't care about Eöl, but Maeglin is your blood family. And Areðel, THAT'S YOUR SON! You'd let your brother threaten to kill your son? It wasn't like Eöl interrupted her before she could smack Turgon or something. It says:

But [Eöl] stood long without word or movement while a still silence fell upon the hall.

It sounds like there was plenty of time for her to say something like "Turgon, if you threaten my son again, I'll make sure you never have any of your own". Was she just too cowardly to say something against Turgon, or did she seriously not care about Maeglin?

Can you imagine being left alone in a city of people you don't know, your parents are dead, you can't speak one of the main languages, you don't understand the culture very well if at all, you aren't used to the sun, you have a crush on your cousin that you can't help having and no one will help you talk it through, and the guy in charge also threatened to kill you the first time you met? Oh, and he's also your uncle.

Someone call CPS for this 80 year old. Geez, even Tyelco would probably make for a better parent.

What happened to the cool Turgon who fought through a horde of orcs to retrieve his father's body, and then he made his father's heart the main sigil of his heraldry? This guy is just a loser, hypocrite, and coward.

[winged-freaksometimes]

Day 2: Dark Spring

with some themes of spring folklore if you squint

The Prince of Foxes and Flame visits the King of Beasts and Spring to express his concern

Day 2 for @tamlinweek 2025

Close ups

Version without 1000 effects

Also in collaboration with @thornsinwinter Day 2 fic part!

[irithyllians]

maedhros ✵ maglor

[inthehouseoffinwe]

Finrod and Fingon feed off each other’s chaotic energy. Leave them in a room and next thing you know they’ve accidentally exploded their way out and are heading to jump off a cliff just to see what it’s like.

There’s a reason they were kept apart in Beleriand. Maedhros wasn’t there to watch over them and keep them alive. Fingolfin has Experience of the Chaos and doesn’t trust anyone else to do the job.

It was honestly somewhat of a relief when Finrod built a secret city and refused to give the exact location, though Fingolfin kept a close eye on his son in case he decided to try and find it. Valar knew Fingon had no sense of self preservation… and an uncanny luck that led to more chaos than anyone could handle.

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

it being canon that in valinor melkor's eye "lighted on" turgon and that anytime he approached him he got the sense that "from turgon ruin should come to him"... we as a society need to explore this concept more. melkor brazenly and confidently approaching every one of the noldor and getting them to fall into his charm without breaking a sweat. one day he's making his usual rounds looking for more elves to manipulate when his eyes fall on turgon standing some distance away, chatting with his friends. and for the first time when faced with an elf, melkor hesitates

[sadlybeans]

Nelyo ✨

LISTEN

I TRIED. I REALLT TRIED WITH THE ARMOUR A DOZEN TIMES AND I GIVE UP, I’M ONLY A RANDOM GUY.

so um, yeah, this is the best you get, i’m so sorry 😔

[aamuusva]

A young Fëanáro

[silmalope]

when you’re rúmil of tirion and the tiny prince of the noldor keeps barging into your house to Yell About Orthography so finally you give up and make him some tea

[salman-90]

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[sephynne]

the mother of dragons

[mycelliumelium]

Do you ever just think about Fingon? I do. I think about him a lot.

A hero prince, and a king who should have left the heroics to those who could afford to die. Common theme with Noldor kings, actually.

[swordfright]

you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.

[lukitua]

"You're too big for that now, sweetling."

Dany and Viserion portrait because I miss my girls

[mandhos]

You art is absolutely stunning!!! Thank you for everything you do! 🥹

Have you ever drawn Círdan? He's one of my favourite Tolkien's characters. I'm sure he would look amazing in your style! ❤️

Thanks for the compliment it's so sweet❤; ah! ah! Yes, I wanted to draw Cirdan for a while but I wasn't sure how. 🙂

Side note, I'm going to open commissions this week ✌