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artist & musician ,, enfp 7w6 ⛰︎ ོ ༄ he/him , minor people call me buck unless i know them well

[petertomiscrushingme]

Desperately need more fanart of them so made one myself

[kimchikkim]

... That is a good thing. The talented Mr. Ripley (1999) dir. Anthony Minghella

[jimmystarrdust]

i really want to watch arty froushan's performance in American Psycho but I missed my chance to go see it live… does ANYONE on the planet know if any 'slime tutorials' exist… and if there are any, if anyone can, please could you let me know/send me some 🥹 begging on my knees

[darthlivion]

I'm falling back to my LOTR bullshit

[jimmystarrdust]

incredibly felt 😭

[lemonomelette]

[jimmystarrdust]

digital drawing done by yours truly of celebrimbor and talion from shadow of mordor!!!11

let‘s not point out the fact they have no clothes on okay it got to a point where i forgot to add them and I was already rendering..

[jimmystarrdust]

hey guys… another edit made… thinking-about-silvergifting-wednesday…

(P.S. if you really hate TROP, i couldnt care less… i dont need one more comment amongst millions of others to remind me that its heavily inaccurate)

[ferithtolkienesque]

The Silmarillion fandom is genuinely insane. Like, you hang out on tumblr, read fic on AO3 and you think, yeah. Lots of people have read the Silmarillion. It’s Tolkien. Everyone’s read Tolkien. Barnes and Noble has a whole bunch of the HoME and also a bunch of books by people writing about the legendarium. This is mainstream, surely.

But then you actually touch grass and talk to normal people. Not even that, you talk to people who self diagnose as hard core Tolkien fans. And. None of them have read the Silmarillion. The Silmarillion is famously a book that nobody reads.

And yet. On AO3 The Silmarillion and Other Histories of Middle Earth has more works than The Lord of the Rings. Think about that. That’s baffling. It’s ridiculous. Like I realize that LotR fandom is split a bit by the movie, but still. The Silmarillion has almost four times as many fics as the LotR movies. Everybody has watched the movies!

I need to know what percentage of people who actually read the Silmarillion went on to write fic or draw fanart about it. Because it must be insane, surely. Like, I’m pretty sure the Silmarillion wins some kind of record in this department.

Thinking about the fanfic bell curve where on one end you have “Perfect, needs no improvement or elaboration” (LotR sits here) and on the other you have “So bad it’s no fun to even think about” with the middle being the fanfic zone. But I think there may be a secret fourth Silmarillion option. Which is a book that is perfect* but simultaneously non existent. It’s not even a real story! The language is super pretty and deeply incomprehensible (especially to people who, unlike me, were not raised from early childhood on both the Bible and classic literature). And it’s more of an outline and an abstract painting of cultural and world building vibes (not cultural and world building facts and information) than an actual narrative. There are story hooks galore. There are vivid and fascinating characters, but their lives are glossed over and you only get one or two paragraphs of prose that will reorder your brain chemistry and haunt you forever. There are countless more characters who only exist as names, the implication of whose existence is fascinating. All of this is deeply frustrating, both to casual readers who just want a Normal Enjoyable Book, and super fans who want All the Lore. But it is catnip to anyone who engages in transformative work.

*I am aware that not anyone who is a fan of the silm thinks it’s perfect

[jimmystarrdust]

the use of the phrase 'self diagnose' made me giggle

[ematothesky]

things about middle-earth that sound fake to people who haven't read the silmarillion

the earth was flat until some people pissed off god enough that he punched it round

the sun and moon used to be trees, but a big spider ate them

elves even being in middle-earth can be traced back to one (1) dude hating that people mispronounced his mom's name

sauron is a werewolf

elrond's biological parents are a star and a bird now

there's a sexy vampire lady

fighting a balrog barehanded is so cool it'll get you reincarnated right away even if there isn't a current big crisis going on (sorry gandalf, glorfindel just did it better)

satan got banned from heaven for playing his own music too loud

if you were intense enough in life, when you die, you might literally explode

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

specifically, the sun and moon are a fruit and a flower from the trees the big spider ate

this one guy (Sauron’s boss) got so scared of the big spider that he screeched really loud and the rocks nearby echoed his screams for centuries

that is until the land got squelched and fell into the sea in a giant battle that destroyed the continent (as you do)

(some of the other) elves being in Middle-earth happened because the Valar invited them to their special land but the elves lost their king in a forest and didn’t want to leave him

the Minas Tirith that you know in LOTR isn’t the first Minas Tirith—Sauron conquered the other one, but then lost it again because of a girl and her dog

Sauron had beef with the dog even before meeting him

the dog could talk

eagles used to be even bigger (yes really)

the elf-dwarf feud can be traced back to a dispute over a necklace with a very shiny rock

elves might seem all wise in LOTR, but in the Silmarillion they straight up murder other elves (this happens multiple times) (it is for the shiny rocks also)

[jimmystarrdust]

im currently reading the silmarillion before going onto reading the main 4 books (yes i haven‘t read them yet… dont attack me) and after the main 4 i have like 3 other tolkien books and im wondering if theres ever a specific order to reading them??2?

i have the silmarillion (which im reading right now), unfinished tales, and the books of lost tales part one and two…. Im going to get all the rest eventually (fall of gondolin, beren and lúthien, etc..),but is there a specific order anyone would recommend i read them in???

(this question includes the main 4 books — lotr and the hobbit)

also is reading the silmarillion first a bad idea? 😭😭

[jimmystarrdust]

i made this the other day because im mid tolkien hyperfixation and just finished a 5th-or-so rewatch of the hobbit and im mourning kíli durin yet again…

[beebot2]

roll uuuuppp

[wh0-is-lily]

Pattie Boyd modelling for, 'Birds of Britain.' Photography by John D. Green, 1967