the long defeat

this is mostly a tolkien blog, occasional bird allowed. ao3: jauneclair header image by the amazing @violecov

[monopole]

[gremlininho]

looking. at you

[kilosink]

They are asking (respectfully) to see your coin collection (no intentions of taking to add to their horde)

[sailooorm]

Sauron sketchhh

[pukiirice]

Indis and Nerdanel

[quixoticanarchy]

i've seen lots of depictions of post-thangorodrim maedhros whose very striking eyes convey his spirit burning like a white fire, etc, which i'm quite fond of as an aesthetic but on rereading the silm i just noticed (as always) another line i'd never made the connection with before, which is this:

and although the resemblance might be lost on most of the elves, who knew melkor in his fair form or not at all, i do like the idea of maedhros reflecting something of melkor's own appearance in the process of his 'returning from the dead' & fashioning of himself as a weapon... and if i was an orc and this guy i'm fighting looks at me with the eyes of melkor, my tyrannical god-master, i would also flee before his face

[quixoticanarchy]

and actually, speaking of characters who are described with particularly intense light in their eyes, ilúvatar is another one (the chord with which he ends the discord of the music being described as "piercing as the light of the eye of Ilúvatar"). something something maedhros coming back from his ordeal with a little bit of imperishable flame animating (consuming?) his spirit... or well, perishable flame in his case, one might say

[embroiderycrafts]

A microscopic view of the cross section of a pine needle - hand embroidered in pearl cotton by M-Rage on reddit.

[queerofthedagger]

okay let's actually do this properly

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[magicalhideoutengineer]

Finwë vs Celebrimbor facing the Dark Lord

‘Darkness and blood! When we could move again we came to the house. There we found the king slain at the door. His head was crushed as with a great mace of iron. We found no others: all had fled, and he had stood alone, defiant. That is plain; for his sword lay beside him, twisted and untempered as if by lightning-stroke. All the house was broken and ravaged. Naught is left. The treasuries are empty. The chamber of iron is torn apart. The Silmarils are taken!’

- Morgoth's Ring: Of the Silmarils and the Darkening of Valinor

At last the attackers broke into Eregion with ruin and devastation, and captured the chief object of Sauron’s assault, the House of the Mírdain, where were their smithies and their treasures. Celebrimbor, desperate, himself withstood Sauron on the steps of the great door of the Mírdain; but he was grappled and taken captive, and the House was ransacked.

- Unfinished Tales: The History of Galadriel and Celeborn

[kairennart]

Little gift for dear @queerofthedagger

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Shadow Prince by Timothy Von Rueden // Instagram

[theartistlou]

Maeglin in Nan Elmoth. I decided that Nan Elmoth is so creepy to everybody cause its the same forest from hungarian folktales. I believe Nan Elmoth is made out of every rich metal/material and the "sun light" is just reflection, which is not as strong of light thus why Maeglins eyes hurt so much in Gondolin.

I might do a fanfic of this au, don't know yet tho

Closeups and speedpaint(which got fucked up):

[isbergillustration]

What is Sun if not Big Ball??

[artanaros]

(wip i’ll never finish) been toying with the idea of aulë having petroglyph tattoos

[cheshmenoor]

[wovi]

[hideki-koga]

アオバト（White-bellied green-pigeon）