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7pleiades7

Winifred, Duchess of Portland, (Detail), (1902), by John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 – 1925), oil on canvas, 226.1 x 110.5 cm (89 x 43.5 in), Private Collection

asinoeiv

request for smug ass Valinor Maglor if request are still open 🥺

Not really a smug Maglor, but I felt like doing a sexy one 👀

Together with the Maedhros one this is starting to turn into a Fëanorian pin up set 😅

#maglor

whirlception

When Fëanor says to the Valar,

If I must break [the Silmarils] I shall break my heart, and I shall be slain; first of all the Eldar in Aman

the wording is important: not might break, or might be slain, but shall break, and shall be slain. He is expressing his certainty that breaking the Silmarils will kill him.

And I know that some people are a little hesitant to take Fëanor’s word on this at face value, but the very next spoken line in the text is Mandos (!!!) saying, “Not the first.”

Mandos is not disputing the part of Fëanor’s statement where he says that breaking the Silmarils will kill him — just the fact that Fëanor would then be the first in Aman to be slain, considering that Finwë —unknown to Fëanor— had just been killed at Formenos by Melkor.

Anyways, I really don’t think that Fëanor’s refusal to break the Silmarils / restore the Trees was out of greed for the Silmarils’ beauty or light or power. I think he declined to kill himself for the sake of re-lighting the Trees, which — judging both by the Elves’ survival for years uncounted at Cuivienen and the fact that Valinor & the Valar didn’t cease to exist after the Trees were destroyed— were not really crucial to anyone’s survival.

#feanor

ulmondil

Huor + Rían doodle

#rian..... ough my lovely :(#rian #huor

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.

#post that made me make this “>:)” face at the computer screen #elenwë #turgon

wraithbride

huan, the hound of valinor

#huan

wizardjail

the thing that bewilders me about a lot of fantasy readers is that they read about settings and plots featuring imperialism, war, and slavery and then call the inclusion of violence, abuse, and sexual exploitation "edgy" and "gratuitous" and it's like what did you think was happening. why were you under the impression that you were going to get a cozy story about fascism or something. far be it from me to criticize anyone for not wanting to read about torture in their spare time, and there are certainly cases where heavy subjects are poorly executed, but is it not equally insulting to sanitize them for a feel-good adventure.. like no one put a gun to your head and forced you to give your fantasy novel an enslaved protagonist. sometimes writing is supposed to make you feel bad

#literally

riding-with-the-wild-hunt

aligned the kinslaying cousins or something

#THE GAP BTWN MAEDHROS AND FINGON.....eating this op how lovely #btwn turgon and fingon also......#theres a lot going on here. should come back when its not 5:30am #fav

welcomingdisaster

my dealer: got you some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called "the oath of feanor" 😳 and it'll have have you zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever. i don't feel shit

5 minutes later: who can tell to what dreadful doom we shall come, if we disobey the Powers in their own land, or purpose ever to bring war again into their holy realm?

my buddy maglor pacing: i want to leave

#JDS:DLS PLEASE #to be fair those were probably the longest five minutes in the history of noldorin reckoning of time #< prev. your tags are just excellent today

thetiredprometheus

Little Stars

#eating this #maedhros #<- implied #elrond #elros #it’s okay tinies!!! the evil floating skull doesn’t mean harm i promise #< prev

silmaspens

What are we thinking about tonight?

That’s right Noldo Theatre✨

silmaspens

Heres a little bonus flashback to Valinor of Mags getting ready for a show, yknow as a treat

#fav #noldor #maglor

sallysavestheday

Unrepentant

Have 100 words of Curufin after Losgar, from the LTC microfics prompts.

Maitimo’s twisted face in the half-light looked oddly like our father’s. I have never seen him weep so: like Atar at the Darkening, blind with grief, abandoning his famous self control. “Please, Curvo,” he begged. “Help him see reason. Two thirds of our people! We will need them; I feel it in my bones.” His desperation made my skin crawl, but Maitimo has never had foresight. ‘Twas only foolish fondness. We shall win this war alone. And yes, I lit the torch Maitimo had refused – I am, after all, Curufinwë. “As you wish, then, Atar,” I said. “Let them burn.”

#putting this in my pocket and running #fic #curufin #maedhros