who taught thee devotion, soldier?

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[findrahil]

between the shining faults of time

a @tolkienrsb collaboration

Summary:

Time, time, time. They have such little time, from their first fire-scorched meeting to the end. Duty is an iron law separating them, an iron oath sundering them from peace; and whatever grains they can snatch from the turning hourglass of time must be enough.

Between the shining faults of time where fall the lost sand-grains that they catch and cradle as treasures in their callused hands, they are not lord and chieftain, nor Elf and mortal; but Caranthir and Haleth, companions in the good night.

Here is an incomplete record of them. May they shower gold dust upon the crimson trail of fate!

Rating: Mature | No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Caranthir & Haleth

Relationships: Haleth/Caranthir

Word Count: 11.4k

Written for the wonderful @maedhrosrussandol, whose beautiful moodboard is linked here!

Ao3 Link

[jirving]

Francis Crozier for the wonderful @so-i-did-this-thing

[lesbianaglaya]

I like that all the leiutenants on the terror seem like they would be fairly easily lead into a pyramid scheme. alternate version of events where hickey gets them all trying to sell time shares in oahu and that's what makes crozier finally lose it

[lesbianaglaya]

#crozier calling them to the wardroom and being like. 'now im not naming names. but it seems some among us are buying property in oahu#from i understand a caulkers mate called mr. hickey. now i want to be clear. mr. hickey does not have property in oahu to sell'#hodgson who has spent the equivalent of his prize money on the venture: sir he said--i have heard from the men--he has a cousin in oahu#with a vast seaside swath of property who is itching to sell#crozier: mr. hickey has no such cousin.#irving who has likewise spent an outrageous sum: sir--i have heard from the men--mr hickeys cousin has a struggling parish which only needs#the guiding hand of a godly man--men--with a head for numbers to improve it. and--some of the men--have purchased this chapel. together.#crozier: mr. hickeys cousin has no such parish lieutenant irving i assure you. it seems mr hickey has very keenly judged#what would best persuade your men to invest in this venture.#little defeafed but hopeful: sir i have heard-from some of the men-mr hickeys cousin has a parcel of land ideal for grazing and riding horse#s. might that be possible captain#crozier vexed and utterly baffled: in what other way can i say that mr hickey does not have and has never had cousin in oahu#the terror (via @mortuarybees​)

im in tears

[terrorheritageposts]

Terror Heritage Post

submitted by @perenial

[desiertas]

[non-tmercy]

I've seen your flag on the marble arch And love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.

[asinoeiv]

I mean. I mean if you are ASKING for more suggestions. I'm. You know. I'm gonna ask for either Sauron and Finrod (because your tol-in-gaurhoth Sauron design is Delicious) or Annatar and Celebrimbor. Because I am obsessed

♪ The captives sad in Angband mourn Thunder rumbles, the fires burn- And Finrod fell before the throne ♪

I choose Finrod and Sauron because I'm currently listening to Clamavi de profundis - The battle of Sauron and Finrod Felagund on repeat.

[voronovo-gnezdo]

Art of Finrod inspired by this picture:

[melestasflight]

the joys of today's writing: autocorrect coming up with the splendid idea of some of Manwë's servants being beagles. The King of Arda surrounded by baby beagles. Checks out.

[a-sweet-potato-63]

I'm now imagining Sam and Frodo, after having destroyed the ring, huddled together on the exploding volcano, knowing they weren't going to make it out alive, but at least they did what they set out to do. At least evil was defeated and good restored. At least the world was free, even if they weren't going to be there to see it...

And then the beagles show up.

[melestasflight]

And then the beagles show up. All is good with the world.

[dowereallyneedthis]

“I don’t do math because I’m gay” “the gays can’t do math” “If I explain math on tumblr I’ll lose my gay card” all of you apologize to Alan Turing right now 

[myfootyrthroat]

The “+” in LGBTQ+ is for math.

[rock-n-roll-fantasy]

More horses, this time with Turgon and Finrod 💙

[jester-of-tangerines]

mr hickey says im not to call you captain anymore

[faustandfurious]

Reading through some old plot notes for a half-finished canon divergent Silmarillion fic and realising that I sound exactly like Celegorm and Curufin

[captmuldoon]

[activatethis]

🤎🤍

[adamnagaitis]

[findrahil]

“more than god loves them” in s1e9 makes me fucking FERAL

[findrahil]

also they shouldve kept the scene in s1e10 where frmc sees the masts of erebus in shallow water off the adelaide peninsula and, realizing that the skeleton crew has sailed her here and thereby forged with their lives the last link in the northwest passage, says, ‘bravo, gentlemen.’

[jeannereames]

Hello Jeanne! As someone who has recently become more interested in Alexander the Great and has actually started reading the dancing with the lion books (which I'm loving so far) I have a question for you. I was recently given Mary Renault's book the nature of Alexander as a gift and I've been debating whether or not I actually want to read it. The main complaint I have about it (and I know she included this given the fact that she wrote the Persian boy) is that she tried to argue that he and bagoas were intimate partners in life, even though, as you argue, that wasn't really the type of relationship he had with Alexander. But that aside, I guess what I want to know is whether or not this is a biography that you would recommend about Alexander for a sort of beginner like me? I haven't been able to find many articles by historians providing any commentary on the book and whether or not it's historically accurate and paints a realistic picture of who Alexander was as a person, regardless of the fact that she had no formal education in Classics.

Sorry for the delay on this. It's not a complicated reply, I've just been swamped.

And yes, sure, Renault's biography is better than some make it out to be. That said, my chief caution would be that she adopts a lot of ideas from Tarn about him. This is not unlike my personal complaints about her novels about him.

Alexander was her hero. Ergo, she was more inclined to forgive him (and justify) things that were really quite horrible. It definitely lands on the more positive views of him.

There are some biographies I think are better, and still cheap (which I know can be an issue). Brian Bosworth's Conquest and Empire is fairly even-handed, more so than his later Alexander in the East. Lindsay Adams' Alexander the Great: Legacy of a Conqueror is one I've used in my own ATG class. Ed Anson's Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues is also reliable. All these are intended for students really, and as such, make great introduction texts. If you happen to be able to read German, Sabine Müller's Alexander der Grosse is superb.