land of limitless despondency

Ich bin voll Schnee und rühre mich nicht.

[zaireetoo-draws]

Highlark from Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree

You can't just give me an elven surgeon who is secretly a softie and expect me to act normal about it

(I was also recovering from the surgery at the same time I was reading the book and it happened to fit very well)

[curufiin]

“i asked chatGPT” well I asked Fëanor and he said ‘Why, O people of the Noldor, why should we longer serve the jealous Valar, who cannot keep us nor even their own realm secure from their Enemy? And though he be now their foe, are not they and he of one kin? Vengeance calls me hence, but even were it otherwise I would not dwell longer in the same land with the kin of my father’s slayer and of the thief of my treasure. Yet I am not the only valiant in this valiant people. And have ye not all lost your King? And what else have ye not lost, cooped here in a narrow land between the mountains and the sea?

‘Here once was light, that the Valar begrudged to Middle-earth, but now dark levels all. Shall we mourn here deedless for ever, a shadow-folk, mist-haunting, dropping vain tears in the thankless sea? Or shall we return to our home? In Cuiviénen sweet ran the waters under unclouded stars, and wide lands lay about, where a free people might walk. There they lie still and await us who in our folly forsook them. Come away! Let the cowards keep this city!’

[thescrapwitch]

ITS DONE!

After 179 hours of stitching, too much black thread to count, and some very tired fingers, my Beleriand Map is complete!

But also not entirely complete, because I need to wash the pattern paper off and then quilt back it. This entire thing needs to go in my bathtub (it’s too big to fit in the sink!) and so I’m gonna be having nightmares tonight about it all falling apart when I go to wash it. It shouldn’t - it won’t - because that’s not how anything works, but my brain will still worry 😛

Also obligatory picture of the back of the embroidery below:

[limitlessdespondency]

OP is awesome... i'm in awe!

[jackimer]

Some well-meaning Noldo: And what is little Caranthir's Craft?

Nerdanel: Throwing pottery

Some well-meaning Noldo: Oh how creative! May I see one of his pieces?

*distant shattering, muffled screaming*

Nerdanel: no you misunderstand

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Feanor gathers his sons

Feanor: Son, wanna help me commit arson? Caranthir, quietly: Adar, this is a library! Feanor: Oh, sorry, my bad. Feanor, whispering: Wanna help me commit arson? Caranthir, whispering: Of course. What do you need?

[beardedmrbean]

Original blog post

Le important day in meme history has arrived

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

And Internet history was made.

[ms-demeanor]

Here she is in November 2023 celebrating her 18th birthday and being a very good doge.

[psstwantsomecheese]

Caranthir so unserious bc how is he more racist to elves than he is to other separate races. Can't even stand to be in the same room as his cousins but trades daily with the dwarves, risks his skin to save the Haladin and loses the Nirnaeth Arnoediad specifically because he trusted the Edain

[limitlessdespondency]

# he's like i'm slaying kin and kin only

Best tag ever

[sakasakiii]

so @thatfeanorian​ proposed a scenario in which one of the younger brothers walked in during firstborn bro’s imitation games which i really liked!! (thank you sm for your ask again!) and i wanted to try my hand at it so here’s curufinwe  atarinke being an absolute snitch like the favourite son of feanor he is 🤧 (for context the og scenario this is referencing is here !)

bonus image bc i felt guilty not including the rest of the feanorians: 

[sakasakiii]

i need a name for the maedhros fingon finrod combo for my tags lmao- should it be the eldest bro squad? the primary colours? elves that cant seem to catch a break? anyways im still in denial about all the bad things they go through or do in nelyo’s case lol so these are some valinor antics between the eldest of finwe’s grandkids OTL

on another note i just received a drawing request which i am very excited to get started on! so for the lovely requester, please look forward to it on monday and i’ll do my best! 🤗💓

[captainjonnitkessler]

Do I have too many books? No. It is my shelving methods that are inadequate

[rputthebottledown]

It‘s a rare moment of peace this time!

If I were to start again I would change everything but oh well…

The background gave me a headache and it’s getting harder to cramp all the people into the format lmao

Anyway two more to go

part I & II

part III

part IV

[patientno7]

the suffering never ends

[sinksanksockie2]

This is the real process

[thewritingbeast-blog]

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!

[brucewayneright]

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

[jasmehraj]

Oh my God!

It’s amazing, some links aren’t working for me but those who are, are spectacular.

[tamsinswriting]

Reblogging because NAMING IS HARD

[writing-prompt-s]

!!!!!!!

[nobunsonpesach]

Feanorians and monies

[thevisualvamp]

Bookworm

[in-the-glow-of-a-silmaril]

The key thing about Feanor's characterization is that he left. His father got remarried, which hurt him profoundly. And he left. In the silm it says that he married young and then he and his household traveled extensively. Finwe wanted him to be closer but he preferred to travel. Feanor avoided the thing that hurt him. That tells you a lot right off the bat. It took a valar stirring things up to drive him into a confrontation.

The other thing about feanor is that his objections to indis and her children have nothing to do with them as people. It does not matter what they are like. It seems like Nolofinwe took his avoidance personally, but it wasn't personal. It was about Miriel, and it was about Finwe, and it was about Feanor, and it was kind of about the Valar, too. But who indis was, who Nolofinwe was, these things did not enter into it. There was nothing Nolofinwe could ever have done or said to make feanor accept him as a brother, because the rift had nothing to do with Nolofinwe.

[dovahkaate]

She was brought back to Imladris, and though healed in body by Elrond, lost all delight in Middle-earth, and the next year went to the Havens and passed over Sea.

[pujojoi17042]

Everyday in Finwë/Fëanor/Fingolfin/Finarfin’s house

Some silly doodles

Finwë’s house

Fëanor’s house

Fingolfin’s house

Finarfin’s house