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Basking in Light
Lake Cuivienen Lake where the Elves awoke…
Costume design concept art for Legolas from The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug, Chronicles: Art & Design.
Thranduil pt.1 || pt.2
Are the Valar Gods?
Well, there’s at least one - Iluvatar, the Supreme Creator. But what about the Valar (whom you can read more about here)? Tolkien sort of dances around the issue a few times, but seems to make up his mind pretty clearly in this quote:
‘There is only one ‘god’: God, Eru Ilúvatar. There are the first creations, angelic beings, or which those most concerned in the Cosmogony reside (of love and choice) inside the World, as Valar or gods, or governors; and there are incarnate rational creatures. Elves and Men, of similar but different status and natures.
In this quote, and in other similar ones, Tolkien says that he basically considers the Valar to be an “angelic order”, and not actual gods. But he acknowledges how fuzzy that distinction can be. At one point he says that the Valar are “Englished as gods”, then goes on to say that they are “of course meant to provide beings of the same order and beauty, power, majesty as the 'gods’ of higher mythology, which can yet be accepted – well, shall we say baldly, by a mind that believes in the Blessed Trinity.” So, basically, he recognizes that the Valar function pretty much like gods. But they’re not actually gods - because there’s only one, and that’s Iluvatar.
SOURCES: Tolkien’s letters #131 and #156
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Orion nebula with his neighbour.
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Comparison between M74 and M51
Messier 74 (also known as NGC 628) is a face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is at a distance of about 32 million light-years away from Earth. The galaxy contains two clearly defined spiral arms and is therefore used as an archetypal example of a Grand Design Spiral Galaxy
The Whirlpool Galaxy (also known as Messier 51a, M51a, or NGC 5194) is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus in the constellation Canes Venatici. Recently it was estimated to be 23 ± 4 million light-years from the Milky Way, but different methods yield distances between 15 and 35 million ly. Messier 51 is one of the best known galaxies in the sky.
Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)
I just had a thought:
We see these bottled plants several times in the behind the scenes stuff of Mirkwood and here her face is like “Look at this guys, like, why are there bottled flowers?” And its funny right?
But what if these plants are from Doriath. They only grew in Doriath and now that Doriath is gone these plants are the only ones left. Thranduil and the other Sindarin elves saved them some how and now these ridiculous bottled flowers are the last things they have of their home.
Oh now I’ve made myself sad.
NOTE: gif does not belong to me! if yours please claim!
‘Riders!’ cried Aragorn, springing to his feet. ‘Many riders on swift steeds are coming towards us!’ ‘Yes,’ said Legolas, ‘there are one hundred and five. Yellow is their hair, and bright are their spears. Their leader is very tall.’ Aragorn smiled. ‘Keen are the eyes of the Elves,’ he said.
Graphite drawing by me, ladyduinel. (work-in-progress)
When finished, the drawing should have several of my favourite characters.
Dagor Dagorath
The Dagor Dagorath (“Battle of Battles”) is Middle Earth’s version of Ragnorok, or the destruction and subsequent rebirth of the world. It’s mentioned in passing a few times in Tolkien’s published works, but it’s only really described in the History of Middle Earth series.
It’s said that at some point in the future, Morgoth will manage to break through the Door of Night and reenter Arda. He will destroy the sun and the moon – or, more specifically, the Maiar carrying them.
Eonwe, one of the Maiar and Manwe’s herald, will in rage and grief (because he loved Arien, who was the sun) attack Morgoth, along with Tulkas (another of the Valar) and Turin (who is a man, and already dead – Tolkien never explains how this is possible.) Earendil will aid them from his flying ship, and there will be a great battle on the plains of Valinor. In some versions they are also aided by the Numenoreans who sailed with Ar-Pharazon (again, they should all be long dead, it’s really not explained how this works.)
Anyway, it’s Turin who actually kills Morgoth for good by stabbing him with his black sword Gurthang, thereby avenging the Children of Hurin. After the battle is over Arda goes through a great change. The sun and moon are gone, so instead the Valar finally reunite the three silmarils. Feanor’s spirit is released from Mandos, and he breaks them open, using the light captured inside to revive the Two Trees. The Pelori mountains are leveled, and the light of the Two Trees covers all the world.
At this point the dwarves help Aule rebuild Arda, the elves are reborn and are young again. After this, the Valar, Maiar, and the Children of Iluvatar will sing the Second Music of the Ainur, which will be greater than the First. What happens after the music, not even the Valar know.
It’s pretty vague, and there are a lot of holes in the story, but this is mostly because Tolkien never really completed it. It’s for these reasons, too, that Christopher Tolkien didn’t publish it with The Silmarillion.
SOURCES: The History of Middle Earth vol. 4 (“The Shaping of Middle Earth”)
((This wonderful artwork, by Ted Nasmith, actually shows Morgoth and Fingolfin from The Silmarillion. But, well, there really aren’t any pictures of Dagor Dagorath, so…))