Straight outta Valinor

Kanafinwë or Kan'tafinwë?  He can but he probably shouldn't. -  Known Feanorian apologist / protisvit on ao3  / follows from @insanity-or-genius

[thewhitewolf2002]

I love this fandom, look at this person's comment:

😂😂😂 so true

[r-truth]

[gischtglas]

[hybernating-bear]

That's because this is Silmarillion

[misbehavingmaiar]

straight up Celegorm and Curufin

canon appearance. Tolkien agrees, i asked him.

[abhorrentabby]

Viggo Mortenson does not get enough credit for delivering lines like "not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall" with a complete sincerity and gravitas

[ausefulblogforputtingthingsin]

The whole lotr trilogy works because every single person on set and behind the scenes treated it seriously and with gravitas. It was completely earnest and I don't know if anyone making movies today has that in them anymore.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

one of my favorite parts of the director's commentary is Jackson talking about Sam's "that there is some good in this world" speech. he talks about how when they were writing it, it was like "is this too much? is this too sentimental? are people going to be cringing in the theater?" but at the same time, it was necessary to keep the audience emotionally invested bc TTT was ending on such a dark note. and he knew, KNEW, it was all going to come down to Sean Astin's delivery; there was no wiggle room, he had to nail it. and then, of course, he did.

[emyn-arnens]

Gosh I just love book Legolas. He's immortal. He's a teenager. Elrond picks him instead of Glorfindel because he's average and won't draw attention to the Fellowship. He's the comic relief guy and resident Little Shit, but he can also shoot a Nazgul out of the sky in the pitch black like a one-man elf anti-aircraft defense system. He wants everyone to know that he's, like, really old. He forgets the task at hand because he wants to look at trees. His greatest qualities are that he can become friends with anyone and his loyalty is unending. He shows up to Valinor a century late with Starbucks in hand and his dwarf bestie at his side. Iconic.

[outofangband]

Red and pink flowers in Quenya!

x x x x x x

White flowers

Linuistic notes:

Camilot is an older word from Tolkien's 1910 Quenya lexicon.

There are multiple words for poppy throughout Tolkien's development of Quenya. The lór here is the same root in Lórien. The name means flower of sleep

Campilossë is another older word from when Quenya was called Qenya! Kampin means "hips" whch was noted to mean the rose hips or the berries of wild roses. Lossë means flower and survives to later words, loth in many Sindarin words.

[aureentuluva70]

There's something so wonderfully, perfectly autumnal about the Lord of the Rings and even the Silmarillion. It is profound and beautiful and filled with splendor, but also so melancholic and tragic and bittersweet that it makes your heart ache.

The elves are leaving for the Western Shores and magic is dying, but there is something so beautiful about it, even as it slowly withers, like the changing leaves in the autumn trees. There is beauty even in the loss, life in death, joy found even in the midst of pain. It is fair even in the fading.

[southfarthing]

Sam could never describe in words, nor picture clearly to himself, what he felt or thought that night, though it remained in his memory as one of the chief events of his life. The nearest he ever got was to say: 'Well, sir, if I could grow apples like that, I would call myself a gardener. But it was the singing that went to my heart, if you know what I mean.'

Frodo sat, eating, drinking, and talking with delight; but his mind was chiefly on the words spoken. He knew a little of the elf-speech and listened eagerly. Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!'

[anattmar]

“A king is he that can hold his own, or else his title is vain”, yes, Maedhros?

[carlandrea]

God the like Generic High Fantasy Elf frustrates me so much as a fan of Tolkiens elves who are like. Both balls to the wall insane and canonically fun at parties

[carlandrea]

They’re fairies. they’re in a musical. They host crazy feasts with live music and hopping dance floors and great booze. If they get too sad they die. They’re psychic. They’re creative and curious and they live forever and never ever forget any of it. They’re ghosts

[eternal-fear]

They committed almost all war crimes imaginable.

[welcomingdisaster]

the real silmarillion fan experience is seeing an eight-pointed star anywhere in any context and going omg!! like blörbor from my elf history textbook!!

[heathcliffgirl1847]

[heathcliffgirl1847]

i felt bad. elrond and celebrian were just having trouble with getting arwen in her carseat guys dont worry

[skyeventide]

like I ship Aredhel/Celegorm very badly but in such a specific way. she needs to be aro. she's not in love, he absolutely is. they're not exclusive. sometimes he wishes they were (only sometimes). they are best friends. she's one of the bros. they are fucking, hardcore and nasty. he is her favourite, she would never have married him. he values her freedom, he wishes so badly he could have her for himself. he would kill for her. he would leave her on the ice again if he were asked to. she thinks Huan should have been hers. she does not forgive him, she still misses him. ride or die buddy pals. family feud in full swing. did I mention that they fuck nasty

[stinkylittlegnome]

(Gordon Ramsay in Gollum’s cave) fuck me it’s dark in here. jesus christ. What the hell is that? A fucking wedding ring? I’d rather get a divorce. holy mackarel(he stumbles in the dark. In the distance he sees a silhuette sitting on a lone rock island in the middle of a lake) oh for fucks sake. what the hell is that thing? It’s eating raw fish. the fish is fucking raw

[stinkylittlegnome]

Come here, you. Yeah, you, hiding behind the fucking rock. It’s eggs, you fucking donkey!!! The answer to the riddle is eggs! Ordinary, boiled fucking eggs

[assiraphales]

petition that instead of making new lord of the rings films they should just re release the original trilogy in theaters. have world premieres. press tours and interviews with the cast. new lines of official merchandise. drop unseen content and behind the scenes footage. I promise we will all go ballistic

[assiraphales]

I would commit to the bit so hard. ‘babes you know those old fantasy novels?? the lord of the rings? they’re making LIVE ACTION versions” I’d wear a hobbit costume to the theater. I’d pretend to be shocked when boromir dies. cry in public over frodo sailing away. the whole nine yards

[goldenvoicedminstrel]

having an ides of march post be like

[arlenianchronicles]

I was thinking about Finrod and Beren from @allthatglittersisnotgoldrush again, so I ended up drawing them in a portrait study! I imagine it’s when they’re travelling around together :DDD

Reference used: Katlin Aas and Valerija Kelava, photographed by Agata Pospieszynska for Harper’s Bazaar UK July 2017

[allthatglittersisnotgoldrush]

You’ve done it again, we are not worthy!! 😭

[tolkien-feels]

I feel like the fact Gil-galad is in a position of authority over Elrond “I came of age during the Literal Apocalypse” Peredhel doesn’t get explored as much as it should from a crack standpoint. Please tell me more about the one time Gil-galad had to very carefully explain that one of Elrond’s core assumptions about how life works was Very Specific To Apocalyptic Times Actually

[tolkien-feels]

@runawaymun Listen, it doesn’t fit in with how I read his canon storyline, but!!!! For entertainment purposes, The Domestication of Elrond is an arc that should exist

[runawaymun]

YES.

Is it canon? Unfortunately prolly not. Is it highly entertaining? Absolutely.

He’s only a lil feral!! a lil eldritch! it’s kind of cute actually! Gil Galad can work with this. Elrond is increasingly Self Aware that he is feral but he is not really super sure of How.

He gets away with making the “I’m half Edain” excuse a lot I bet.

[elamarth-calmagol]

Yeah, i want a fanfic specifically titled The Domestication of Elrond and Elros (because they were both with Gil Galad at first)

[tolkien-feels]

Ohhh right, we could have Elros too! I was thinking of this like, in the second half of the first millennium of the Second Age (just because the longer the misunderstanding that Elrond is well-adjusted lasts, the funnier it is when it turns out that his worldview is bizarre) but scratch that, let’s change the timeline so we can include Elros. The twins are in an echo chamber of unhinged ideas about life and Gil-galad has a chronic migraine now

[runawaymun]

I do have a fic planned called “On the Care and Feeding of Peredhil” which I plan to do a bunch of little oneshots of M&M dealing with tiny feral E&E and then Gil-Galad having to do the same many, many years later (because M&M somehow made them worse)  and someday i’ll actually get around to writing it but it’s just an Idea that i’m turning on a roasting spit in my brain currently. 

[disorganisedautodidact]

M&M taught the twins fighting, history, letters, music, wilderness survival and absolutely unhinged life philosophy, and it’s given them the ability to look perfectly normal cultured accomplished elf princes right up until they’re very much not