Y'all are wrong about elves

Mitzi, 30s, they/them | Silm fandom blog, mostly a dumping ground for my opinions and commentary on other people's | about | Ao3 | this is my main, go here for my sideblogs for other fandoms

[feanorianethicsdepartment]

hey! this is a Silm-and-other-assorted-Tolkien-stuff blog, and for slightly complicated reasons it’s also my main! if you’re not into Tolkien, but I’m interacting with you anyway, it’s probably because you post one of my 800 other fandoms. I have a more general sideblog at @mitzirockerextendeduniverse, and the pinned post there has a list of more fandom-specific sideblogs! whatever you’re into, I’m excited to start fandoming with you!

[musicofthe-ainur]

Am I the only person who thought this was really fucking funny

[eleemosynecdoche]

A lot of the really funny moments in Lord of the Rings come from Tolkien playing with language like this, where we have relatively formal, archaic, “high” language responded to with informal, modern, “low” language. 

[modernclaire]

another hilarious example:

[lotrmusical]

my absolute favorite example of tolkien switching registers in this way is

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

[unamccormack]

I like how in the first example Gandalf is employing the kind of sass that the hobbits have been using on him for generations now.

[asinoeiv]

Hiiii! I haven’t seen any art of them by themselves yet, so I was wondering if you could draw Amrod and Amras?? :)) I come to life everytime you post an artwork, thank you for blessing my eyes🙏

The face I'm making when I realized my little brother is 'fated'.

Thank you <3 I should draw them a little bit more often considering how much I love drawing Fëanorians.

[buck1eys]

trying to work out who would be the weak link at the fellowship garden barbecue. obviously not sam, frodo doesn't really cook but does bring a huge amount of expensive cheese and wine from bilbo's cellar so he's out. merry and pippin exceed expectations which are admittedly low. boromir and gimli bring insane quantities of meat and spend the whole time at the grill cooking it and flexing, which is befitting of these kind of things. might be legolas but i think he would bring a lot of mushrooms, herb marinades, salads etc which is a good balance which unfortunately leaves mr six pack and trail jerky aragorn son of arathorn. (gandalf arrives late with dessert)

[ministarfruit]

doodled this post because I couldn’t stop thinking about aragorn just pulling up and nobody knows where he got any of that. neither does he. where is he? what is he holding?? don’t ask him any more questions

[faithful-grigori]

”#I THINK op meant a modern day barbecue but I kept laughing so I drew this instead, #hope you don’t mind me jumping on your post!, #been thinking about lotr lately and this gave me an excuse to draw the fellowship”

[luthnethril]

i cannot stress enough that whenever i say Maglor is "dramatic" in any form, and especially Years of the Trees Maglor, i'm always picturing/referring not simply to "overdramatic", but to Howl from Howl's Moving Castle levels of "dramatic"

some examples for reference: (x)

[ffigwit]

trying to write Feanor like no, he's not inherently evil. yes, they hate him, yes, he is locally loved. yes, he's fucking annoying. yes, they are envious. yes, they have reason to be. no, he's not an idiot (ignore That One Time). yes, he's clever and brilliant. yes, he's charming. no, that doesn't stop people from wanting to kill him.

[bad-writer]

Honestly when I imagine Maedhros in Himring, I imagine he absolutely never leaves the ramparts unless he's going to battle. He stands there brooding in Morgoth's general direction all day everyday, not stopping to eat or sleep. Fingon comes to visit, they are at the ramparts. They fuck right there on the ramparts in Morgoth's general direction. Maedhros drills on the ramparts, draws up battle plans on the ramparts, scolds his brothers on the ramparts, all of that jazz!

When he has to leave Himring behind he is most upset about not being allowed on those ramparts anymore. He tries it at Amon Ereb, but it's just not the same.

[hamletphase]

valinor days.....he wants to be tall

bonuses:

maglor shinji chair + first panel without text

[pollkien]

WHICH DAD WOULD YOU LIKE TO FUCK EXCEPT THESE OPTIONS ARE VERY QUESTIONABLE

Eöl

Curufin

Eru Ilúvatar

Glaurung

Ulfang

Morgoth

Mîm

Andróg

Ungoliant’s mates

Orodreth

Voting ended onJun 29

Happy father’s day

[perchingpasserine]

Anyway I think Elenwë convinced Turgon to cross the Ice. This solves two problems for me: (a) why Turgon was opposed to Fëanor in the big Oath-swearing, Finweans-have-an-argument episode but chooses to go anyway, and (b) why he builds Tirion 2.0 in Middle-earth. He never wanted to be there. He went for Elenwë’s sake, and now she’s dead, and he wants to go home. (Also it gives Elenwë some fun agency.)

Then they are re-embodied and are furious with each other. They don’t want to be, but they are.

[pan-da-hero]

adult! Elured and Elurin

[anattmar]

Maedhros

[solume]

I adore the elves of Tolkien, because you read The Hobbit and you think oh, they're a little weird and fey-like. Then you read The Lord of the Rings and you're like they're very alien, but Thranduil just seems to be Like That™. Galadriel, Celeborn and Elrond are pretty chill actually. Yeah Glorfindel is like the strongest fighter ever and Cirdan's a little off-putting but they're most likely outliers. Legolas forgets he is surrounded by non-elves half the time and trolls the rest of the time, but otherwise he is not weirder than Aragorn.

And then you get to the Silmarillion. And you encounter the Noldor.

Fëanor "spirit so strong his body cremated itself" and Maedhros "got amputated for reasons™ being suspended on one of the highest moutains and probably tortured by Evil Incarnate but got over it in a week". Fingolfin "calling Morgoth to a 1v1 seem like a reasonable solution" and Fingon "climbed Melkor's highest mountain right after having survived the most hostile, icy, treacherous cliffs in existence while singing, to rescue his estranged situationship". Finrod "teeth count as a plausible weapon against a werewolf" Felagund and Galadriel "just in it for the possible crown and this very pretty Sindar I just met".

And that's not even touching Elwë "will marry a goddess at the first opportunity" Singollo or Luthien "sang so well the notoriously inflexible keeper of souls & Judge of the Valar let her and her man have another chance at life". Or whatever Ëarendil was on.

Reading about the elves of Tolkien when your first encounter with them is the Third Age brings the slow realisation that they are not wise and good and all-knowing. The most batshit crazy ones are just already in Mandos or Valinor (except Glorfindel, he cannot be Contained). They are actually the most chaotic people in the lengendarium and are trying very hard to leave behing a dignified image, and it's the funniest thing ever.

[lemonomelette]

Feanorian lineups are apparently a rite of passage for silm artists, so I wanted to include Feanor and Nerdanel but they're on honeymoon.

[mdaaaang]

cut snippet from Nerdanelfic

(Takes place in the world of the inimitable @chthonion's Your shadow rising to meet you, although I think this snippet actually works without that context. In Aman, in the Fourth Age, Nerdanel processes how her children have changed, and how she relates to them now.)

When Makalaurë is upset, Maedhros calls him “Mags”.

Nerdanel hates it.

It is a coarse, crude epessë, more like the names of Men than of the Eldar; she is sure that is part of why they use it. It is a name that was used when they were less than, when they were cut down into something smaller and more comprehensible and bloodier; it has no place in her house. She bears it. She is determined not to hurt them any more than she has already.

She hates, also, with a crystalline fury, how often her second son is upset. He seems to oscillate between absence and pain. Elrond had said he was tired, but she thinks 'tired' is to have one foot in the waking world and one in sleep, and it is not sleep that her songbird is stepping towards.

She sees the way he orients himself thoughtlessly to Maedhros, much the way Maedhros once had with Fëanáro: an orbit built of habit more than of love. She sees the way he forcibly stops himself when he notices himself doing it; the way he tries to set Elrond as his guiding star instead. Elrond would make a good guiding star. She supposes it may run in the family.

[1rabong]

Balrog: Why do I hear boss music

Based on this post

[papita474]

Ok but the fact that Nelyo lived so many years,being (canonically) the elf who fought more wars than any other,and no one but himself could end him its something that haunts me in many ways.