Of Beleriand and its Realms

caden | they/them | an adult, not a very adulty one feanárian apologist, jaskier enthusiast, enjoyer of bhaalspawn. consumed by brba/bcs brainrot. pfp art by franciswhetsel

[fingons-rad-harp]

Masterlist

Tolkien masterlist

The Witcher masterlist

Baldur's Gate 3 masterlist

misc: if you came this way (The Murderbot Diaries)

death inspires me (like a dog inspires a rabbit) (Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul)

[lalocorleone-deactivated2026041]

“Let them keep believing I’m dead.”

Tony Dalton as Lalo Salamanca in Better Call Saul: Season 6, Part 1

[catasters]

[catsithkelpie]

I cannot describe how much I laughed at this.

Sound is VERY important.

[fingons-rad-harp]

Milkoviches need to hit people with cars its enrichment for them

[future-crab]

The key to writing good fanfiction is to harbor a deeply humiliating desire, and the trick there is that even pretty basic and societally-accepted desires like “being held” and “being wanted” CAN and WILL be humiliating if they’re intense enough. Become so estranged from human connection that the idea of someone playing with your hair fills you with yearning so deep you feel like you’re going to throw up and you will write some banger fanfiction. It might have some other consequences too but idrk about that.

[catilinas]

im reading war of the jewels. it says the grey annals explicitly are taken from ‘annals that were made in doriath’ (which is already ??? because a few pages later it says the sindar didn’t really write things down… oral history ig.) and sure bits of it were edited/compiled later in sirion but i am sooo curious about the pre-sun TIMEKEEPING because it is formally annalistic but like. what are they basing the length of a ‘year’ on if they don’t have magic trees/The Sun yet??? ig the boring option is ‘melian knows how long a valian year is’ but there is still the issue of how to reckon that. also its boring and i am a fan of problems caused by ainur time blindness. animals have seasonal behaviours like hibernation but would those be happening without seasons??? arbitrary water clock shenanigans? they’re building the clock of the long now in menegroth. can you measure time based on the growth of lichen or something??? variable novae??? once the sun existed did they recalculate/retcon time??? thingol so into the language ban that he didn’t bother with stopping the noldorin calendar from becoming dominant? and even there: did the hosts of feanor and fingolfin end up on different calendar systems while separated from one another? ‘ohhh who is going to be the high king’ WHO CARES. which CALENDAR are you using??? or on a smaller scale: how long was a day in doriath reckoning, pre-sun? when the sun arrived did they all get mega jetlagged because their circadian rhythms were doing something completely different. they’re using tree rings. they’re using cicada periodical cycles. i have no fucking clue

[catilinas]

in the angband calendar a year is however long it takes a cubic melkre (melkor metre) of lava to cool. this is dependent on the composition/viscosity/temperature of the lava etc. so the angband calendar distinguishes different categories of year-length-as-determined-by-lava-type. e.g. a few rhyolitic years followed by a basaltic one. this is incomprehensible to most and helps nobody.

[puppybong]

[easterneuropeangirliedotcom]

welcome back celegorm feanorion

[lady-merian]

Do you ever think about the possibility that maybe Eowyn was able to face the Witch King as fearlessly as she did because despair is his chief weapon and she’s already well acquainted with despair so it didn’t catch her off guard?

[lady-merian]

What I’m saying is I think Eru used horrible circumstances for good on multiple levels here and that her joy later not only outshone the horror of what she had been through it literally happened because of that horror

[15055034455]

actually the best scene in better call saul is the bingo mental breakdown because I did the math and the probability of jimmy drawing six B’s in a row is less than .00007 which makes it almost canonically explicit that he is being  taunted by the machinations of fate

[clementine-kesh]

network effect is really good because to amena murderbot is basically just a babysitter with guns but to everyone from the corporate rim it’s like seeing a teen hanging out with a grizzly bear and when they’re like what the hell she’s just like yeah that’s my mom’s friend it’s lame as fuckkkk

[discontentramblings]

got this party banter the other day which made me realise how much of Wyll and Gale's dynamic is defined by them being in their 20s and 30s respectively

[ryttu3k]

#i love how much of wyll's dynamics with the other party members are him trying to gently prise them out of their shells#and not a single one of them has any idea what to do with that (tags by wiltingdecay)

[femalegifsource]

ANOK YAI at the 2024 Met Gala (May 6, 2024)

[egonkula]

practicing my hot weather affirmations. You are not evil, you are just sweating. You do not hate your friends you are just walking down a street with no shade. You aren’t anger incarnate, you just need a glass of water.

[birdplushie]

i think it's funny when a character is almost exclusively referred to by their last name by other people and this carries over into their internal monologue when someone writes from their pov. not even on a first name basis with herself

[shigure]

i'm sorry i never did your tag game. i love you

[escondidx]

[chaotic-archaeologist]

[wizardshark]

99% of queer discourse stops right before they define the true difference between bisexual and pansexual!

[saspitite]

FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME

BISEXUALS GROW FROM THE GROUND

PANSEXUALS GROW FROM THE CEILING