CobaltJellyfish's organised chaos

Hi, I'm CobaltJellyfish (23, she/her, autistic) and this is my blog for my Silmarillion thoughts.

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Words said in todays Silmarillion session:

“You cannot procure an aerodynamic tent! I’m not giving you a zeppelin!”

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I started running a Silmarillion dnd game for my friends and it’s a really funny because one of my players has accidentally just made Mairon. Like, as an elf. It feels like that Spider-Man mean except she has No Idea What She’s Done so I can just ominously foreshadow at her.

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So small update, one of my players has pledged absolutely loyalty to Celegorm of all elves and the other has got themselves captured by angband.

We’re off to a great start lads.

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@jaz-the-bard well, I’ve got two players and we started the campaign with the death of the Two Trees. One character is doriathrim and the other is a prince of the Nandor and they Bicker. They bicker so much, I love it! But they’ve been trying to make their way to mithrim for a while to meet up with the Feanorians to try and make plans to storm Angband.

So Far So Good.

So anyways, my nandor player was warned that if they gave their character red hair there would be Plot and Drama. And they were shocked (SHOCKED I tell you) when they got to Mithrim and everyone starts acting a lil weird about them. (It’s like, babe, you look like Maedhros. They think you’re working for The Enemy.) and then she immediately decided that swearing an oath of loyalty to Celegorm is a great idea. A real swell thing to do.

The second player has just got got by Angband because they made the marvellous decision to head out to Doriath by themselves. Because the two characters had a bad breakup and they want to Sulk.

I love them dearly and they are very funny🤣

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I started running a Silmarillion dnd game for my friends and it’s a really funny because one of my players has accidentally just made Mairon. Like, as an elf. It feels like that Spider-Man mean except she has No Idea What She’s Done so I can just ominously foreshadow at her.

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So small update, one of my players has pledged absolutely loyalty to Celegorm of all elves and the other has got themselves captured by angband.

We’re off to a great start lads.

[cobaltjellyfish]

I started running a Silmarillion dnd game for my friends and it’s a really funny because one of my players has accidentally just made Mairon. Like, as an elf. It feels like that Spider-Man mean except she has No Idea What She’s Done so I can just ominously foreshadow at her.

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I think Maglor should have a voice like a choir in a cathedral. Grand and lovely and utterly boneshaking in its loudness to the point it is entirely impossible to ignore. He sings with the voice of fifty in registers that others cannot possibly reach by themselves.

When Elrond sings with the voices of his people everyone likes to assume it is because of his blood and not his teacher.

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….hiiiiii. It’s been like…a while

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🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

I'm curious😌

Wild blue yonder- The Amazing devil

The moon will sing- The Crane Wives

Dandelion wine- Blackmore's night

Oak & Ash & Thorn- The longest Johns

Secret worlds- The Amazing Devil

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Bit of a redesign of Mairon/Sauron. full body and design notes below the cut

Mairon's main influence was the mythological Argus because the main thing I didn't like about his first design was the lack of eyes. I wanted to give him the sort of vibe that if you got in a room with him you'd immediately be put on edge as if you were being watched. His tunic is slightly more greek than roman, especially by the shoulders and belt, and is generally a bit more practical-mostly because I couldn't really imagine Mairon in a toga because those things are so impractical if you want to do anything other than walk around very slowly. I also wanted to make him a bit shinier and I added some curls to his hair that make it look a bit more like fire. I imagine it would be made out of silk.

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Hi guys! Just wanted to say sorry for not posting a lot in the past year, things got a bit busy and I got really into discworld so the Tolkien stuff was mostly put on the backburner. I also have a few issues with some of my old art, so there's probably going to be a lot of redesigns in the new year bc I want to finally give at least the Finweons and angbang a bit more of a matching aesthetic rather than the weird pseudo-medieval thing I gave them a few years ago. It'll probably lean more Greek/Roman so I can pretend it's valid uni work lol. So yeah, sorry about the past year, and hopefully you'll see me more!

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Things that happen in Angband

Melkor forgets he needs to make his fana shorter and either bangs his head on every doorway or just smashes through them.

Gothmog has this problem too, but Gothmog has learned to preemptively blast doors/doorframes/walls/orcs

Mairon leaves shed fana around the fortress because it wasn't quite right for the work he wants to do so he just made another one. As a consequence at least twice a day some poor orc is left convinced that he's dead and the elves have snuck into the fortress

Thuringwethil attempts to snack on Melkor's Favourite Prisoner. This is not allowed, but she'll get there someday

Manwe sends letters. Or maybe sacrifices. The eagles are tasty

Maedhros learns new ways to curse. It's not like he can make anything worse by insulting Mairon's organizational system.

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Morwen for @outofangband. She was very fun to draw and I especially like their headcanons about her!

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The witch of the Golden Woods

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I know if Mairon was an animal it’s canonically a cat or a wolf, but he feels very stoat-ish

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silvergifting howls moving castle au where it turns out that all along annatar/Sauron was just some guy from wales LARPing around middle earth and everyone fell for it

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Human psychic: I sense a darkness in this house...

Elrond:...

Glorfindel (from the gardens): I KNEW YOUR DAD HAD BAD VIBES!

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the most common saying of Gil-Galad

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Thinking about names and kennings and song, and how having a being as powerful as a valar, never mind multiple, declare feanor/feanor's creation as marred, and how that declaration made him so through his own self-worth issues that existed mostly because of that declaration, compared to Grima naming Theoden as old and weak and how that made him so. How naming Melkor Morgoth removed any pretence of greatness, and how Sauron takes Mairon's shapeshifting and seductive power away from him.

idk i just think it's neat