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Kanafinwe Makalaure "Maglor" RP blog from The Silmarillion. Read About page and Guidelines please.

[foreverinexile]

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[beardedmrbean]

[theman]

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

[tattooedzombigirl]

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

[imanutcase-10]

Then bring me luck

[thirddeadlysin]

the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work

[fishpunsarelife]

You certainly are not foul to look upon and if you were taken by my own elven impracticalities I would not be opposed to your courting. (forever-in-exile)

@foreverinexile

FAFFAADDASASA  NO. NOPE. NOPE NOPE NOPE.

[foreverinexile]

Indeed "he" intended to make you feel better but it appears I have not. My apologies, but I did speak the truth...

[meme-cafe]

when you make a starter call an have no idea how to write one of them because you have no idea of how your muse would interact with the other muse. 

so just are just stare at it for fifty years like:

[gaiabamman]

Using the appropriate vocabulary in your novel

It is very important that the language in your novel reflects the time and place in which the story is set.

For example, my story is set in Italy. My characters would never “ride shotgun”, a term coined in US in the early 1900s referring to riding alongside the driver with a shotgun to gun bandits. 

Do your research! A free tool that I found to be very useful is Ngram Viewer. 

You can type any word and see when it started appearing in books. For example…one of my characters was going to say “gazillion” (I write YA) in 1994. Was “gazillion” used back then?

And the answer is…YES! It started trending in 1988 and was quite popular in 1994.

Enjoy ^_^

[storiesintheashes]

This is really important, especially because language can change in very unexpected ways. 

For example, did you know that before 1986 people never said “I need to”?Instead, they were far more likely to say “I ought to”, “I have to”, “I must”, or “I should”.

Don’t believe me?

Anyway, most people won’t notice subtle changes like that. But your reader will notice and be confused when characters in your medieval world use metaphors involving railroads and rockets.

One of the things you can do besides use Google Ngrams is to read books or watch movies written in the time period you want to set your story. The key here is that they can’t just be set in that time period, they have to have been made in that time period.

Also, there’s a Lexicon Valley episode on this very topic which I highly recommend. It’s called Capturing the Past. 

[still-intrepid]

SEE ALSO Etymonline.  Word origins and when they’re first recorded. So, say I wanted to find out when a “coffee break” became a thing – around the 1950s, as seen in magazine adverts – or characters might talk about more genrallly “taking a break” from the 1860s…

[fishpunsarelife]

(renegadeinfiltrator) [Query: What materials are the most effective for the weapons you create?]

@renegadeinfiltrator

You’d think that metal would be a reasonable go-to, but fun thing about Atlantis: it’s underwater. Extracting metal from ore (or finding it) and then shaping it is pretty much impossible if you don’t know the right magic to do what you need to.

So that leaves bone, shell, and stone. Occasionally shark teeth or octopus or squid beaks. I prefer bone or shell, coral if I have no other option. Stone works, but it dulls easily– and in my experience doesn’t take magic too well.

Magic-reinforced bone and shell on the other hand… With the right spells you can get either to be almost as hard as diamond. (At the same time for a lot of things you don’t want them too hard because then if something breaks then you’ve got less control over where the break is, and in the worst cases you might end up with a broken arm.)

Bone works best due to the fact that there’s more material. (And the fact that it was alive at one point might have something to do with it. Sometimes magic works better with contained energy even if it’s old energy. Ignore me talking magic technicalities.)

Shell has the same sort of energy quality bone does, but unless it’s turtle shell it’s usually pretty thin and flimsy. And fun thing– you can’t lock spells in place when you’re trying to shape something. Think of it like going from working on something reasonable, and then suddenly in the middle of working on it it’s like trying to carve a chunk of metal. So if a piece of shell breaks while it’s getting shaped, that’s it. It’s done. Complete shark shit.

Coral’s pretty much my last resort because while I can harden it, there are a LOT of break-points due to the holes scattered through it. But I prefer it to shark, seal, or whale teeth because there’s more material to work with (and I’ve heard stories about creepy things happening around people who decide to make tools from whale, dolphin, a’lansha, or porpoise teeth– which is kind of weird because those same stories don’t crop up when it comes to using the bone).

Octopus and squid beaks are pretty much impossible to get (most of those things end up way deeper than I feel comfortable going), and there are occasional creepy stories about tools made from those too.

So, short answer: magic-reinforced whale bone.

[glorianas]

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown.

[foreverinexile]

“If you need me, let me know.” (celairmirdan)

“I perish the thought of involving you in our doom… You are not bound to our oath, and that is a tremendous comfort. I would see that you remain untouched by this madness.”

[celairmirdan]

“I may not be bound, but I cannot avoid being affected by it. Not when everyone I care about is a part of it and I am told to stay back and watch. There has to be something I can do to help.”

[foreverinexile]

“My dear nephew, what would you do to help? Would you pick up blade and bow or smith words of wit and sense to the dark one and our kin so they might relinquish what is our birthright?”

[celairmirdan]

“Whatever I could, uncle. It is not right for me to do nothing when you are all doing what you can. I would rather not be set aside as useless, and you are rather more likely to know what I could do than others.”

[foreverinexile]

“Then help us in this way; survive. Remember us in absence of this infernal curse. Do not let the texts paint us as murderers and thieves, though surely we deserve as such. Remember us as the fallen fair, shadows in twilight. And do not hate us.”

[celairmirdan]

“I could never hate any of you,” he sighed. “Yet you are being far to hasty to assume your death and ultimate infamy. You may not die through this, with your chance of survival increased if you would tell me what to do to help. Unless you would rather i fight without being any the wiser as to my location and plans?”

[foreverinexile]

Maglor sighed then, perhaps he had been overwhelmingly dramatic and condescending to his brilliant nephew. No longer a child he was allowed to ruin his life if he so pleased. There he went again! Maglor reigned himself back some, there was no certainty in any end, if there even ever was an end to anything. “Very well Tyelpe,” he began with a much brighter disposition. “There always is a great need for a skilled metallurgist, and though your uncle will say nothing, the prosthetic your father crafted is in need of repair.”

[celairmirdan]

“That prosthetic is always in need of repair,” Tyelpe muttered under his breath, “because Nelyo doesn’t seem to understand tools need actual maintenance and not just literal hand-waving.” Louder, he addressed his uncle. “Anything else? That wouldn’t take too long, it’s reasonably simple.”

[foreverinexile]

Maglor still had his reservations for involving their precious nephew, but he could not push him away forever. A small amused smile tugged the corners of his lips upwards then as he considered his older brother. “He claims the maintenance is too difficult for him to manage with one hand, which he profusely reminds us of. So perhaps a new model would be something more to his liking. Your father will probably pout though.”

[the-devils-keeper-deactivated20]

replace one word of your url with bitch

[foreverinexile]

“If you need me, let me know.” (celairmirdan)

“I perish the thought of involving you in our doom… You are not bound to our oath, and that is a tremendous comfort. I would see that you remain untouched by this madness.”

[celairmirdan]

“I may not be bound, but I cannot avoid being affected by it. Not when everyone I care about is a part of it and I am told to stay back and watch. There has to be something I can do to help.”

[foreverinexile]

“My dear nephew, what would you do to help? Would you pick up blade and bow or smith words of wit and sense to the dark one and our kin so they might relinquish what is our birthright?”

[celairmirdan]

“Whatever I could, uncle. It is not right for me to do nothing when you are all doing what you can. I would rather not be set aside as useless, and you are rather more likely to know what I could do than others.”

[foreverinexile]

“Then help us in this way; survive. Remember us in absence of this infernal curse. Do not let the texts paint us as murderers and thieves, though surely we deserve as such. Remember us as the fallen fair, shadows in twilight. And do not hate us.”

[celairmirdan]

“I could never hate any of you,” he sighed. “Yet you are being far to hasty to assume your death and ultimate infamy. You may not die through this, with your chance of survival increased if you would tell me what to do to help. Unless you would rather i fight without being any the wiser as to my location and plans?”

[foreverinexile]

Maglor sighed then, perhaps he had been overwhelmingly dramatic and condescending to his brilliant nephew. No longer a child he was allowed to ruin his life if he so pleased. There he went again! Maglor reigned himself back some, there was no certainty in any end, if there even ever was an end to anything. “Very well Tyelpe,” he began with a much brighter disposition. “There always is a great need for a skilled metallurgist, and though your uncle will say nothing, the prosthetic your father crafted is in need of repair.”

[fishpunsarelife]

🗞 - foreverinexile

*ducks after getting hit*

@foreverinexile Hey! What was that for?!

You didn’t need to hit me with a rolled-up newspaper!

[foreverinexile]

"F-forgive me, I thought you might have been... Nevermind."

[foreverinexile]

“If you need me, let me know.” (celairmirdan)

“I perish the thought of involving you in our doom… You are not bound to our oath, and that is a tremendous comfort. I would see that you remain untouched by this madness.”

[celairmirdan]

“I may not be bound, but I cannot avoid being affected by it. Not when everyone I care about is a part of it and I am told to stay back and watch. There has to be something I can do to help.”

[foreverinexile]

“My dear nephew, what would you do to help? Would you pick up blade and bow or smith words of wit and sense to the dark one and our kin so they might relinquish what is our birthright?”

[celairmirdan]

“Whatever I could, uncle. It is not right for me to do nothing when you are all doing what you can. I would rather not be set aside as useless, and you are rather more likely to know what I could do than others.”

[foreverinexile]

"Then help us in this way; survive. Remember us in absence of this infernal curse. Do not let the texts paint us as murderers and thieves, though surely we deserve as such. Remember us as the fallen fair, shadows in twilight. And do not hate us."

[foreverinexile]

“If you need me, let me know.” (celairmirdan)

“I perish the thought of involving you in our doom… You are not bound to our oath, and that is a tremendous comfort. I would see that you remain untouched by this madness.”

[celairmirdan]

“I may not be bound, but I cannot avoid being affected by it. Not when everyone I care about is a part of it and I am told to stay back and watch. There has to be something I can do to help.”

[foreverinexile]

"My dear nephew, what would you do to help? Would you pick up blade and bow or smith words of wit and sense to the dark one and our kin so they might relinquish what is our birthright?"

[acommonanomaly]

My art for @elesianne‘s wonderful character Tinweriel!

Tinweriel is my take on the unnamed, unknown woman who was Maglor’s wife.

Maglor and Tinweriel meet when they are teenagers and Tinweriel, who is some years older, is acting as an assistant to Maglor’s new music tutor. They become friends as they grow up and become more equal, delighting in making music and dancing together. It takes years of convincing and courting from Maglor to deepen their relationship beyond friendship, but once they are married they are fiercely loving and loyal to each other.

Tinweriel is loyal to Fëanor as well, speaking out for his views during the unrest of the Noldor and learning to fight along with Maglor and his brothers when Fëanor forges weapons. She goes with Maglor to Beleriand, fighting and guarding the Gap together with him. She meets a bloody end in the Second Kinslaying, but even after that she walks alongside her husband in his dreams.

So far there are only two stories about Maglor and Tinweriel’s relationship in the Fëanorian marriages series, but there will be more. Consonance, the story of their courtship, is currently ongoing.

[foreverinexile]

“If you need me, let me know.” (celairmirdan)

"I perish the thought of involving you in our doom... You are not bound to our oath, and that is a tremendous comfort. I would see that you remain untouched by this madness."

[foreverinexile]

“My only chance is giving up the fight.”{Maedhros}

"And what of our fight? Are we all not bound as one?"

[therpmemeshop]

ABBA Sentence Starters

Waterloo

“I tried to hold you back, but you were stronger.”

“My only chance is giving up the fight.”

“How could I ever refuse?”

“I feel like I win when I lose.”

“Couldn’t escape if I wanted to.”

Mamma Mia

“I’ve been cheated by you.”

“Will I ever learn?”

“There’s a fire within my soul.”

“How can I resist you?”

“Why did I ever let you go?”

“You know that I’m not that strong.”

“’Bye-bye’ doesn’t mean forever.”

Take a Chance on Me

“Honey, I’m still free.”

“If you need me, let me know.”

“We can go dancing.”

“I’m in no hurry.”

“My love is strong enough to last when things are rough.”

“But I can’t get you off my mind.”

Lay All Your Love on Me

“I wasn’t jealous before we met.”

“Every woman/man I see is a potential threat.”

“Don’t go wasting your emotion.”

“A grown-up woman/man should never fall so easily.”

“Lay all your love on me.”

“I’ve had a few little love affairs.”

“Everything is new and everything is you.”

Does Your Mother Know?

“You’re so hot, teasing me.”

“It’s something I couldn’t do.”

“Does your mother know that you’re out?”

“You seem pretty young to be searching for that kind of fun.”

“I know what you mean when you give me a flash of that smile.”

“That’s no way to go.”

Fernando

“We were young and full of life and none of us prepared to die.”

“The roar of guns and cannons almost made me cry.”

“There was something in the air that night.”

“Now we’re old and gray.”

“I could see it in your eyes how proud you were.”

“If I had to do the same again, I would.”