Fernweh for Neverland

Multi-fandom madness (with a strong Tolkien bias), comics, science, photography. Some of my own photos (#mine), fanfic favourites (#fic recs), fan art I love (#gorgeous fanart) and my #bookbinding projects

[hellyescharlesedwards]

Throwback Thursday: A rare picture of 27 year old Charles Edwards in rehearsals for a touring production of The Merchant of Venice, 1997. (© Alan Wood)

[outofangband]

Elven words for snow

Elven words for rain and mist

These are elven words for and snow and frost including poetic and archaic words

More in the linguistic resources and word of the day (wotd) tags! Let me know if there are any topics you would like to see covered

Lossë in Quenya is both a noun and an adjective meaning snow and snowy.

Loss is the Sindarin word for snow. Both derive from g(los) meaning snow or snow white.

Hrissë in Quenya means fall of snow, derived from sris, another root for snow.

Helca in Quenya means icy or icy cold. It derives from khelek meaning ice

Heleg means ice in Sindarin. The verbal form is hel meaning to freeze

Helcelimbë, literally ice drop, is a Quenya word for icicle.

Aeglos is the Sindarin word for icicle, meaning snow point. The word is most famous for being the name of the spear of Gil Galad and of a flower that grew upon Amon Rhûdh in The Children of Húrin

Nixë means frost but is sometimes used to mean a flake of snow or use. Niqu is the verb meaning to freeze.

Niquis in Quenya means a snowflake or a petal of a white flower.

Niquessë (Q) means frost patterns, translating literally to chill feather

Ith is an early Sindarin word for fine snow. Is is the Quenya cognate. Both derive from ibi meaning light snow ❄️

Helfileg in early Sindarin means frost on panes. It translates literally to freezing ferns.

Yelma in early Quenya means a bout of frost or sudden chill

[blue-to-blue]

a young finrod on the beaches of alqualondë

[feet-of-clay]

At the marsh. (3)

Blue dasher, skimmer.

[unearthlydust]

ROBERT ARAMAYO as ELROND THE RINGS OF POWER

[jenechhka]

I've spent too much time on ao3 with this guy

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

"Rapid Jottings" by Kitao Keisai Massayoshi from Siegfried Bing's Artistic Japan v.6 (1891).

Full text here.

[emmathefanficgal]

A bit of geology!

@dancerinthestorm I thought it would a bit easier to answer here.

So these are really still growing? How fast do they grow? And will they ever stop?? And what would be “old” mountains by comparison???

Yes, the Alps are still young and growing mountains. They started around... more or less 40 or 50 millions years ago with a peak around 9 millions years ago. It's relatively young compared to other tectonic features in the world. Just the Pyrenees are older with a start around 500 millions years and "growing activity" around 50/40 millions years ago

(if any geologists want to correct my dates, please do, it has been TOO long since I studied those ranges so my apologies if the date are not quite right).

The pace at which they grow depends on the tectonic activities. Once again, if I remember correctly, the Alps growth is around a millimeter per year. It's not much but that's geology for you.

Mountains can stop growing if the tectonic underlying their original appearance either changes or stops. The Appalachians in North America are older (480 millions yo... if I'm not mistaken). When a mountain stops "growing" the natural erosion (which happens all the time) will slowly smooth them down, giving a more rounded aspect to the range.

The oldest range (I had to look into that) is (if I believe Google) Barberton Makhonjwa (South Africa) or Hamersley Range (Australia) with age around the 3 Billions years old.

Let me thank you to allow me to nerd out a bit on something I love and studied when I was young.

When hiking, know that each rocks you see has a secret history to tell you. Its origin, how it appears, was formed, came out of the depth, was folded... and everyone of this details will help you understand how the very landscape around you was born.

Geology is a way of seeing the world around us and to learn its history.

[dancerinthestorm]

07-2026

[wibblyrlin]

Florence Welch at NOS Alive Festival (2026)

[amorbidcorvid]

Celebrían my beloved!

Many, many thanks to @southaway for gifting me a papercraft portrait of one of my favorites 😍

Look at her! She's so cute and perfect!

[southaway]

I'm glad you like her! I love having more opportunities to create art of Celebrìan!

[sallysavestheday]

Friday Fic Recs for Tolkien Gen Week

I've not had time to pull together anything of my own for @tolkiengenweek so I thought I would tip a hat to some of my favorite fics by others. Here are some of my top pics.

On the Nature of Fire and What Lets the Light Pass Through by @rosemary-andtime. Fantastic Gandalf and Pippin fics that give Pippin the depth he deserves.

The fire's toll by @arrivisting. Heartbreaking and gorgeous Nerdanel and Amrod, after he Returns. A perpetual fave.

Golden Light by @cycas. A delightfully complex Fingolfin and Hador, through the years.

angels would not condescend by @crownlessliestheking. In which Feanor's heresies start with math.

One Who Holds by Adlanth. A young Elrond has an exchange with Lorgan's granddaughter, as the end of Beleriand draws near.

Heart and Head by @cycas. Celegorm and Nimloth get to know each other after being reborn.

Idylls of the Queen by Anna_Wing. Spectacularly creative exploration of Gondor and environs in the time of Arwen (and Aragorn), post LOTR. So many goodies in this series!

Abiding His Time by @from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras. Gwindor survives, in Angband.

The Dance by @perchingpasserine. Elwing and Nimloth, after everything.

slip the surly bonds of earth by @hobbitwrangler. Gandalf and Finduilas of Dol Amroth and some might-have-beens.

Little Crab on the Big Stage by @thescrapwitch. My favorite of this delightful series in which Aman comes to terms with Crablor, and vice versa.

Enjoy!!

[myjetpack]

#hotdesking My latest cartoon for New Scientist

[sidequest-official]

Mutuals are only allowed to reply with ONE WORD describing your vibe.

No explanations.

Reblog and tag more people.

[daughterofthesunlands]

Thank you for tagging me @servingfairydust

One word to describe the former mootie who tagged you:

Enchantress 🔮

no pressure tags:

@threaded-in-feelings @evrmoris @pomegranateas @darkeyesshine @dancerinthestorm @xximmortalkissxx @maul-of-shame @asheratoftheseas @dillie60 @cielo81309 @kymiekat @starstruck-mortal-mari @askereiniongilgalad

[dancerinthestorm]

Thanks for tagging me, @daughterofthesunlands! 💚

My word for you:

komorebi 

Open tags for everybody who wants to join in ^_^

[emmathefanficgal]

@dancerinthestorm I don't know why but I thought about you!

[dancerinthestorm]

Probably it was your supernatural spidey-senses tingeling because my work husband (deputy head of my institute) is EXACTLY the kind of guy to do this and then leave it to me to sort out the resulting shenanigans! 😂

You just gotta love Tom Gauld!! He's on tumblr too, if anyone is interested! -> @/myjetpack

[dancerinthestorm]

Bookbinding Projects: Khazâd ai-mênu!

Pretty rocks and cirth runes, sparkly marbled paper and graphite coloured bookcloth… guess which people of the Tolkien legendarium this rookie bookbinder is trying to turn into a typeset and cover aesthetic for her next project! ^_^

What do you think, tumblr? Too boring and on-the-nose? Or could we be on to something? 🤔

Thoughts, anyone?

Yay! 👍

Nay! 👎

Remaining time: 1 day 5 hours

Rock art taken from the public domain publication "Popular mineralogy. Comprising a familiar account of minerals and their uses" by Henry Sowerby (1850) . [So, yes, I still love scavenging public domain books to brighten up my binds! ^_^]

Once again, a huge thank youuuuu to the amazing @messy-insomniac-bookgirl for giving me permissions to bind her fic "Sabra"! 💚 Also: Hollering 🚨🚨 fic rec 🚨🚨 for absolutely all of her stories if you don’t know them yet! Thorin? Boromir? Loki? Bucky and Cap? Baron Zemo? You want it? She’s got it! Plus some of my alltime favorite OFCs! (But please read and mind the tags on “Sabra”!)

[asinoeiv]

If your requests are still open I'd love to see your take on Thuringwethil! 🖤

Love your art so much!

The game Lord of the rings online has an enemy type based on Thuringwethil. They are called Morroval and are tall hot vampire lady. I like to hc that Thuringwethil (and Lhaereth) were mothers of that race. Fallen lower Maiar that were corrupted by Morgoth when he arrived in Beleriand.