Liëndacil Súrion

Surely thats a silmaril that shines now in the west? he/18 🇭🇷 im also on tiktok @/celegorm :)

[eldamaranquendi]

Legendarium by Pete Amachree

Oromë leading his forces during The War of Wrath

Beleg is presented with the sword, Anglachel

Númenórean shrine to Yavanna, before the arrival of Sauron

Húrin's last stand at Nírnaeth Arnoediad

Melian the Maia and her daughter Lúthien, in the throne room of Menegroth

Húrin finds the Nauglamír, in the ruins of Nargothrond

Luthien sends the court of Morgoth to sleep with a song of enchantment

Fingolfin challenges Morgoth at the Gates of Angband

City of the Gondolindrim

Gondolin: The House of the Golden Flower

Daeron at the court of Menegroth

Assault on Nargothrond

Ruins of Doriath

Beren and Luthien flee Angband

Two Valaraukar, or Balrogs at Nírnaeth Arnoediad

Húrin returns to Morwen

Fëanor's last stand at Dagor-nuin-Giliath

The Catacombs of Menegroth

The Halls of Mandos

Númenórean shrine to Yavanna Kementari

Melkor and Sauron

[avantegarda]

video game and film fandoms will come and go for me but the Silmarillion fandom will never die. because that book came out like 50 years ago and we're all still trying to figure out what the hell is going on there.

[lemonomelette]

Unstoppable force meets immovable object

[ferithtolkienesque]

The Silmarillion fandom is genuinely insane. Like, you hang out on tumblr, read fic on AO3 and you think, yeah. Lots of people have read the Silmarillion. It’s Tolkien. Everyone’s read Tolkien. Barnes and Noble has a whole bunch of the HoME and also a bunch of books by people writing about the legendarium. This is mainstream, surely.

But then you actually touch grass and talk to normal people. Not even that, you talk to people who self diagnose as hard core Tolkien fans. And. None of them have read the Silmarillion. The Silmarillion is famously a book that nobody reads.

And yet. On AO3 The Silmarillion and Other Histories of Middle Earth has more works than The Lord of the Rings. Think about that. That’s baffling. It’s ridiculous. Like I realize that LotR fandom is split a bit by the movie, but still. The Silmarillion has almost four times as many fics as the LotR movies. Everybody has watched the movies!

I need to know what percentage of people who actually read the Silmarillion went on to write fic or draw fanart about it. Because it must be insane, surely. Like, I’m pretty sure the Silmarillion wins some kind of record in this department.

Thinking about the fanfic bell curve where on one end you have “Perfect, needs no improvement or elaboration” (LotR sits here) and on the other you have “So bad it’s no fun to even think about” with the middle being the fanfic zone. But I think there may be a secret fourth Silmarillion option. Which is a book that is perfect* but simultaneously non existent. It’s not even a real story! The language is super pretty and deeply incomprehensible (especially to people who, unlike me, were not raised from early childhood on both the Bible and classic literature). And it’s more of an outline and an abstract painting of cultural and world building vibes (not cultural and world building facts and information) than an actual narrative. There are story hooks galore. There are vivid and fascinating characters, but their lives are glossed over and you only get one or two paragraphs of prose that will reorder your brain chemistry and haunt you forever. There are countless more characters who only exist as names, the implication of whose existence is fascinating. All of this is deeply frustrating, both to casual readers who just want a Normal Enjoyable Book, and super fans who want All the Lore. But it is catnip to anyone who engages in transformative work.

*I am aware that not anyone who is a fan of the silm thinks it’s perfect

[cuth4lion]

[cuth4lion]

Morgoths spirit still haunts you, lord Mairon? Has He not been banished to the endless void?

melkor poisoning mairons mind until the very end

[cuth4lion]

we are so back with melkors tiktok

the turns have tabled

[cuth4lion]

'Seek no longer. My bow is rotten in the barrow ruinous; my grove is burned by grim lightning...my life has winged to the long waiting in the halls of the Moon o'er the hills of the sea.' -lay of tcoh

[cuth4lion]

Melkor and Tevildo

[cuth4lion]

dark lord looking out at utumno i just wanted to paint melk in a coat so i made this in like an hour and a half

they put a content warning on this so im reposting

[cuth4lion]

A Túrin Turambar túrun' ambartanen!

[cuth4lion]

Túrin sketch might make this digitally

[cuth4lion]

The first chaining of Melkor and the judgement in Máhanaxar

[cuth4lion]

Fear of the Light, fall of Thangorodrim and the last goodbye

[cuth4lion]

melkor but i used peter steele as reference

[mrsmiroir]

gayest elf in the silm. has this been done before.

[cuth4lion]

thank you beleg for inventing gay people

[cuth4lion]

Melkor, oil on pressed cardboard

the reflection is killing me