Julia

20s | she/her It gets worse before it gets better Currently obsessed with the Silmarillion Previously lkaluna

[staff]

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[shayberri789]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[ilaneya]

írimë ✨

[rohirric-hunter]

"You could get up early and do it before work" I could also wait for a magic beanstalk to start growing in my living room LMAO. Let's focus on things that happen in the real world

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Look, I agree that perhaps the Witch-king should have been less assured of his own invincibility in a world where elves, dwarves, hobbits, wizards, the undead, and women are all real things, but I think he would have still been screwed even if Glorfindel's prophecy had been less exact in its wording. Consider the following scenario, for instance.

Witch-king: "Hinder me? Thou fool! Nobody may hinder me!" Odysseus of Ithaca, very lost:

[valardoommerung]

I've been reading Fate and Free Will (as you do) and on a single page I find these two:

Will first appeared with the Ainur/ Valar, but except for Melkor and those he dominated their wills being in accord with Eru effected little change in Ambar or deflected Umbar.

and

Gandalf was not “fated” to act as he did then. (Indeed his actions were most odd, idiosyncratic, and unexpectable: Gandalf was a powerful “free will” let loose, as it were, among the physical “chances” of the world).

The "Gandalf originally a Maia of Melkor" hypothesis looks stronger than ever.

[seaemberthesecond]

The Fourth Kinslaying is actually so funny, and by funny, I mean horrifying, because imagine you're some Vanya chucklefuck who decided he was going to enlist in the Valar's legions because, idk, it'll look good on your CV later, and like. against all odds you win. you win an unwinnable war, you defeat the mightiest of the Valar. maybe you even see Morgoth's feet get hewn from under him with your own eyes. and that afterparty? oh, it must've been wild. it must've gone on for weeks, and maybe your friend's a little hungover, and they ask you to cover their shift, and you're a good sport and maybe you're still a bit tipsy you won't lie, so you agree. guard duty's pretty easy anyway, you just have to stand there. you can even lean on your spear, squeeze in a little nap, 'cause surely nobody would ever be dumb enough to attack Eonwe's war camp, right? except look out mama! a crazy Maedhros Feanorian behind you!

[perkyshelley]

chose a hill but i won't die on it. feel free to come and be killed on my hill

[stormenos]

[passivelylevolent]

#Maedhros and his history of (large) hill survival

[undying-princess]

knowing how it tends to go with male authors and their wives it was probably marge who wrote the odyssey

[lavosse]

they would NOT fucking have communication skills that good

[mikopikopon]

#technically they know and understand each other better than anyone else alive#but they communicate that in the most fucked up insane unnecessarily complicated way and think thats normal

[pitya-nauco]

I've been thinking a lot about Helcaraxë lately and Idril remembering the ice a lot more clearly than Elenwë...

[spacelesbians-archive-deactivat]

Luke saying “you’ll find i’m full of surprises” to Vader before losing his lightsaber and falling down some stairs is such a life mood

[queerfarmgremlin]

its right up there with anakin saying “you underestimate my power” and then proceeding to get all his remaining limbs chopped off by Obi-Wan. like father, like son. 

[wordsofdiana]

Star Wars establishes the very real life lesson that a badass line does not guarantee success

[tanoraqui]

AΩ3

[elves-as-things-my-friends-said]

Aredhel: are you on your Adderall?

Argon, laughing as he charges the orcs: NO!

[elves-as-things-my-friends-said]

YEAH THIS GUY GETS IT!!

[herawell]

Éowyn is a better person than me because if my uncle and adoptive father failed to protect me from his advisor sexually harassing me, spared that man’s life, and offered him a place in the army, the place in the army that I was denied for being a woman, after I had spent five years nursing my uncle back to health and performing the other thankless womanly duties of his court, no way in hell would I have stood between him and Satan’s right-hand man.

Tolkien never touches on Éowyn’s justified anger at her uncle over Gríma Wormtongue, other than a line about her looking at Théoden with “cool pity”, which is yet another indication he’s not the feminist king fandom makes him out to be.

[torchwood-99]

It would be him calling Eomer "the last of that house" that would do it for me. Especially when you consider that Eowyn had just spent five years in a living hell looking after him because it was her duty as a member of "that house".

"You stand before my liege lord and kin!....well, sort of, sometimes he says I'm his kin. At least, when Hama says I'm a member of his family he doesn't disagree so that's kind of something I suppose?"

[queerofthedagger]

Ósanwe being possible through affinity (i.e. kinship) paired with love and sympathy, and also through authority and urgency, all provided the receiving mind is open, and also regardless of distance genuinely makes me balls to the wall bonkers crazy.

Thinking about Maedhros in Angband, ordering Maglor not to come for him, ordering all his brothers not to come for him. Letting them perceive that he is alive but closing his mind otherwise to what is being done to him.

Thinking about Fingon and Maedhros at the Nirnaeth, Fingon knowing himself not abandoned but knowing that no help will come in time.

Thinking about Finrod in Tol-in-Gaurhoth, getting to say goodbye to Galadriel, telling her the time has come. Thinking about him not doing that, keeping his mind closed to spare her, and that too being a decision he made that she then has to live with.

Thinking about a closed mind being utterly impenetrable. Thinking about Celebrimbor post-Fall of Nargothrond, who has not spoken to his father and uncles in years but cannot let them keep believing he also died. Thinking of Celebrimbor not letting them know. Thinking of Celebrimbor as his body is taken apart methodically the way Morgoth would have taught his lieutenant, in his rage about impenetrable minds, and how yet, Celebrimbor would not open his mind.

I could keep going; what about Fingolfin on the Ice, and Finarfin back in Aman. About Fingolfin on the Ice throwing his mind against Fëanor's over and over and ever being repelled, the fact of it spurring him on. Principally, what about the distance between Beleriand and Aman. Does no distance matter. Do parents learn of their children's deaths because at last their distant minds gutter out. Do some scream out in agony and for help as they're dying and you just have to live with that knowledge, miles and miles and miles away. Like. Hello. HELLO. Can anybody hear me I'm going insane.

[valacirya]

One of my favorite things about Thingol is that he lets the Guest-elves live within the Girdle despite them not considering him their king, and gives their chief a permanent place in his council. Actually the importance of autonomy is one of his defining traits since Cuivienen. He's most concerned for the freedom of the Sindar when the Noldor arrive. He has to be persuaded to let the Haladin settle in Brethil, but (very uniquely) has an equal alliance with them. And he's specifically stated to be the only king to foster a human (compared to the various Noldor-Edain friendships that, while close, were still that of lord and vassal).

[asthedeathoflight]

Resisting the urge to Um Actually this dragon novel because it has the dragon eggs be like three or four feet wide but there is simply a limit to how large hard-shelled terrestrial eggs can be. No matter how large the animal is, the embryo needs oxygen, and oxygen needs surface area. The larger an object is, the lower its surface area relative to volume, and the less oxygen the embryo can receive. We think of large animals as having porportionately large young because mammalian pregnancy has the unique benefit of allowing for the size of the young to scale with the adult because their oxygen is provided directly through the placenta, and almost all the megafauna remaining on Earth are mammals. But this is not the case for species which lay eggs! For fuck's sake even the sauropods hatched out of eggs barely larger than basketballs! Your hatchling dragon would be impressively enormous if it were the size of a house cat. Stop trying to make me believe that this (ROUND!) dragon egg somehow supplied enough oxygen to develop an infant the size of a large dog or even bigger. If it were possible the dinosaurs woulda been doing it!!!!

[achillbeing]

I love you /lh. Experts going off on their particular fascinating cool topics and adding unexpected context to things we take for granted is like my favorite thing this was delightful. Talk to me more about eggs and geometry and biology all you want :D

[achillbeing]

Amazing concept