without a name and without a face

...there's just the occasional urge and need to talk to someone.

[jodeeeart]

Adar speedy

[dobriy-nunciy]

[dobriy-nunciy]

👋hey! Just to say the Adarlings are missing you. It looks like you're having account issues. Hopefully you can get them fixed! Sending good wishes 🫶💖✨🖤🥰

@varda-star-queen @itwillbeourswansong Thank you so much for your kind words and such a warm attitude! I'm rarely here because for some reason now I can't comment under posts or reply to anyone's comments. But I do watch the Adarling's posts and keep my nose to the wind 😊 🤝 🖤

[dobriy-nunciy]

@valar-did-me-wrong I'm here and I'm reading you all 🫂

[dobriy-nunciy]

👋hey! Just to say the Adarlings are missing you. It looks like you're having account issues. Hopefully you can get them fixed! Sending good wishes 🫶💖✨🖤🥰

@varda-star-queen @itwillbeourswansong Thank you so much for your kind words and such a warm attitude! I'm rarely here because for some reason now I can't comment under posts or reply to anyone's comments. But I do watch the Adarling's posts and keep my nose to the wind 😊 🤝 🖤

[dobriy-nunciy]

Can't comment under any posts 😕

If these are sanctions for rules I've broken, I'm not aware of it. If it's technical issues, I don't know how to fix that either.

So I'll be an observer for now 🙂

[dobriy-nunciy]

If you receive this, know that you are a bringer of joy, a source of laughter, a reason for someone’s day to shine a little brighter. Pass it on, find ten others who light up your world or who may need a spark themselves. And if it returns to you, well… sparkle!!! ✨🖤

OMG just saw this. Thank you 😊🙏

[southfarthing]

little delving! (notebooks available in my store!)

[dobriy-nunciy]

For some technical reason I can't post this in the comments in the baddydaddy brigade community.

Are you sure these are human skulls?)

[dobriy-nunciy]

I realize that it's silly to compare and that we're talking about a completely different world/era, but in general Adar represents in a concentrated form everything I dislike and fear so much: militarism, paternalism, dictatorial traits, overwhelming power and connection (albeit in the past) with dark forces.

But every time I see some text about RoP, I run my eyes over it to find his name there. And every frame with him makes my mind as soft as a boiled fish))) I guess Messrs. Freud and Jung would have a lot to say on this subject 🙈

[mai-komagata]

On Contrition

In Catholicism, there is a distinction made between the concept of perfect contrition and imperfect contrition. Perfect contrition is when you hate your sin, you know it is wrong because it is against God's plan and you have a sincere intention of changing your ways. Imperfect contrition is not that. Usually it is when you are only sorry for your sins b/c of whatever punishment you might incur (either on earth or in heaven). This is an important difference in Catholicism, that holds that if you had perfect contrition, you can just say sorry directly to God, and if you died you'd go to Heaven. But with imperfect contrition, that is not enough, that is why Catholics have Confession: you get the Church to intercede on your behalf to make up for the defects in your contrition. So like, if you are a catholic, you should always err on the side of going to Confession for serious stuff. No point leaving it to chance. But it is not *necessary* if you are truly sorry, this is just a cheat code. Now obviously we have no Church and no Sacraments in the world of Middle Earth. However, Sauron demonstrates what is clearly imperfect contrition, at best. He is sorry *out of fear*. So he needs the intercession of Manwë to adjudicate the seriousness of his transgressions, he can't just wing it on his own. Because he is sorry, but not the right type of sorry that he can just get off scott-free with just praying to Eru Iluvatar. Especially when he also has no sincere intention of changing.

(can you imagine Sauron praying to Eru? He literally wants to be an atheist but literally can't b/c he is an Ainur and knows God).

[dobriy-nunciy]

I quite agree with this. I think Sauron literally "believes and trembles" like the demons spoken of in the Gospel. And he wants to know nothing of the One and not be bound by that knowledge. But he can't. He does not have, in a sense, the freedom of faith and conscience that humans and elves have.

[hobbitinnumenor]

Sam by Maia O. Tolkien's "chief hero", a gardener. The one who grows, tends, nurtures. It's too perfect 😭😭😭

[dobriy-nunciy]

And I also have a question: whose skin is that? 🫣

[dobriy-nunciy]

"If you managed to fool someone, it doesn't mean he is stupid. It means you were trusted more than you deserved"(c)

[thelien-art]

Day 1: Maedhros for @feanorianweek

Kingship│Angband│Coping

[dobriy-nunciy]

He's not sure it's a good idea, but he'll remember.

[glorf1ndel]

March 22 is the marriage anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien and Edith Tolkien! The couple was married in 1916. Edith was the inspiration for Tolkien's epic hero Lúthien Tinúviel, who (among many feats) took down Sauron, stole a Silmaril from Morgoth, rescued her star-crossed lover Beren from death, and lived happily ever after. Now, that's true love. Here's to Edith and the Professor! ♡

[mvashnic]

And finished up! :) Still not ok. :(