Currently Hyperfixating On The Silmarillion

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[rana-temporaria]

I wonder if lost sailors see Elwing's isle shrouded and beg her for aid. I wonder if she's awkward and somewhat cold and very distant but so so obviously trying so hard and kindness and gentleness. I wonder if she tells them her husband is a sailor. I wonder if she gives them a hot meal and tells them to be off and that they shall find land safely. I wonder if an Albatross glides easily above the ship and leads them to land. I wonder if Elwing's isle becomes a legend, salvation for the lost and weary

[yuzutea1864]

"The Orcs fled before his face; for since his torment upon Thangorodrim his spirit burned like a white fire within, and he was as one that returns from the dead."

[heathertrash10-blog]

Reblog if

It’s 104% okay to come to your DM and just say, “Hi, can we be friends?” And then start asking you random questions.

[lesbiansforboromir]

I've another tolkien academic article to recommend, though this one is far more easily accessible than 'Wretched of Middle-earth' thankfully, though is also amusingly written by some 'Millers'

"Tolkien and Rape; Sexual Terror, Sexual Violence, and the Woman’s Body in Middle-earth" by T. S. Miller and Elizabeth Miller contains #1 an excellent examination of Shelob's often remarked upon 'monstrously-feminine sexuality' #2 a robust (if still too nervous for my liking) critique of Tolkien's treatment of rape in all his body of work, and #3 a whole new anecdote about Tolkien's medievalist scholarship that I had never heard about. This anecdote is also, crucially, so fucking embarassing for him like it has to be read to be believed.

The paper is (I think?) pretty approachable apart from the quotes that are in middle english. And somehow a bit funny too! Which I understand is strange to say about an article discussing rape but look;

In what follows, we will insist on paying close attention to what Tolkien and his writings say and show about women as embodied beings who desire and who age, even when these women take the shape of outsized arachnids.

[willgrahamscock]

don’t focus on your responsibilities you need to make gay shit for a dying fandom

[kedrickgl]

doodle

[gratuacuunart]

"The Seven gathered again" for TRSB 2025

Inspired by the passage:

[...] but now hearing of the renewal of Doriath and of Dior's pride the seven gathered again from wandering, and they sent to him to claim their own. – The Silmarillion, Chapter 22, Of the Ruin of Doriath

This moment always hits me hard. It's the last time they meet, and it just gives me feels!

All of that and more is captured in the story to all things housed in silence by queerofthedagger! The depth of the story was so inspiring for me! Go read it!

To the process:

For this one, I mainly focused on color palette, design, and most importantly, the composition.

They're one family, so I imagine they all come in their family colors. However, a sea of red would look boring. Luckily, the family also wears a lot of gold! Mixing some green into it, we now have at least three colors we can use.

For the design, I wanted to play into their personalities: Maedhros always prepared for battle, Caranthir with extra jewels since he's rich, and the twins being hunters, wearing more simple and practical clothing.

And then there's composition. I wanted to make sure there's still a lot going on and the tension is high, with just them sitting around a table, talking.

Once all of this was decided, it's just painstakingly rendering all of it. :)

[stardustmuguet]

@feanorianweek 2026 day 2, Maglor 🪉✨ and the forget-me-not flowers

[autistichalsin]

Periodic rent-lowering-gunshots:

Fiction is not reality.

You can enjoy things in fiction that would be awful in the real world. Like playing a murderhobo in a game! In the real world, being or supporting a murderer-thief would be pretty damn awful, while in the game it's just good fun. Same with anything else you choose to do with the pixels on the screen, like kinks that don't affect anyone real, so they're okay in fiction, but would be pretty damn bad in real life.

No one else is responsible for your online experience. They are required not to harass you, but they are not and never will be obligated to not post about ships, kinks, or tropes you dislike just to avoid you seeing them. It's up to you to blacklist words or phrases, block tags, or even block users as needed to avoid seeing content that upsets you.

No one can force you to read anything against your consent. Any content you don't like seeing can be instantly avoided by closing out of the offending post/fic.

You are not owed an online experience free of discomfort.

Nothing that happens in your imagination can ever make you a bad person. Words you write or read about fictional characters will never make you a bad person.

The claim that media consumption influences real-life behavior is intellectually dishonest and serves only to excuse the behavior of real offenders.

Fiction is a safe way to explore horrifying or confusing concepts. Therapists agree that fiction, even (or especially) about taboo topics is a good coping mechanism, especially, but not exclusively, for trauma survivors. Fiction is to adults what play therapy is to children. This doesn't stop being true if the work in question is of a sexual nature.

Sex isn't an inherently worse or better motivation than anything else. A work written to create feelings of arousal isn't dirty, shameful, or in any way less pure than works written to entertain, provoke moral questions, or for other reasons. And worth noting is that multiple purposes can exist in the same story, especially fanfiction.

You aren't entitled to an explanation for why someone reads, writes, or otherwise enjoys certain works, kinks, tropes, ships, etc.

[mycelliumelium]

girl idk what to tell you, sometimes you’ve just gotta rip the blorbo apart

[kibutsulove]

feanor having those dead-wife type hallucinations as soon as he got on that damn boat when he was really the dead one. post kinslaying clarity

[arafinweanappreciation]

for the record, I do think finrod has a moment where he's forcefully confronted with the enormity of what he's done with continuing on to beleriand after the first kinslaying and keeping silent about it afterwards. however I have no idea why people keep insisting that it's during the battle with sauron when it's literally in the text of the silmarillion that thingol looks him in the dead in the eye and calls him "son of ëarwen" while expelling him and his siblings from doriath

[arafinweanappreciation]

also I think it's kinda funny that finrod has to deal with all of the fallout from this while his baby sister is crashing on his couch. trying to fight off the bouts of intense regret and self-loathing long enough to draft a letter to fingolfin explaining what happened when galadriel pops her head into his study like "btw you're out of cosmic brownies"

[beebfreeb]

Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

[scribe-cas]

Reblog if you're okay with people coming into your DMs with the "you seem really odd and your blog intrigues me, do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters"

[fickleartdump]

leithian!!!

[katyamondfische]

King Findaráto Ingoldo Felagund of Nargothrond

[akitasenseidraws]

odd request but Maedhros and Maglor's respective faces when Celegorm and Curufin get up to some politically damaging shenanigans?

[akitasenseidraws]

What are they scheming? 🤔