Lurker In The Mirk

Middle-earth dispatches out of the lurkmirk. Just a Tolkien fangirl-nerd doing what fangirl-nerds do: blog stuff, reblog stuff, gush (especially over Thranduil), opiniate, resist head-canon spawned ships. Yup, run-of-mill OCD over, laugh at, cry about, geekout, and snerk them all. Oh, and write book!canon-respectful fan-fiction (sometimes).

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[dionetaofavalon]

Negotiations Awkwardslide (1/25)

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And there's 24 more of these gems!

[dionetaofavalon]

#8: he’s heard of Thorinduil, and he’s against it

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Pretty much so.

[dionetaofavalon]

Enhanced Interrogation Fail (27/50)

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#Touche #PWP #PlotholeGallery #LeapOfFaithOrNot #FecklessWriting #DefyLogicAtYourOwnPeril #ThranduilIsGreat #GiveItToTheDamnDramaDwarf #OutsizedComplex #DeusExMachina #HaplessRandomOrc #EnhancedInterrogationFail #JustLove #dionetaofavalon #FIFY

[eldamaranquendi]

Would have been the galaxy originally by today… but I broke the rule, how we shall be allowed to bow before that man who made it possible for us to read and see all of his father’s wonderful works. Namárië, Christopher Tolkien! 😥

https://www.instagram.com/cs_biborka/

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Don't mind me

Just a quick flyby dusting and to clear out the ask/mail... not that most folks noticed anyway. elven-nicknacks, I'll send my chatter via the usual.

[finduilas-faelivrin]

Witch-king of Angmar sketch by kimberly80

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RiverOfLight II by wmoritzer

[lurkerinthemirk]

At the head of the glen a torrent flowed like a white lace over an endless ladder of short falls, and a mist of foam hung in the air about the mountains’ feet. ‘Yonder is the Dimrill Stair,’ said Aragorn, pointing to the falls. - The Lord of the Rings, Volume Two: The Two Towers, Book Three: The Treason Of Isengard, Chapter 6 Lothlórien

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Static Sphere by DigitalArtPhotography

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It is said that the towers of Emyn Beraid were not built indeed by the Exiles of Númenor, but were raised by Gilgalad for Elendil, his friend; and the Seeing Stone of Emyn Beraid was set in Elostirion, the tallest of the towers. Thither Elendil would repair, and thence he would gaze out over the sundering seas, when the yearning of exile was upon him; and it is believed that thus he would at whiles see far away even the Tower of Avallónë upon Eressëa, where the Master-stone abode, and yet abides. These stones were gifts of the Eldar to Amandil, father of Elendil, for the comfort of the Faithful of Númenor in their dark days, when the Elves might come no longer to that land under the shadow of Sauron. They were called the Palantíri, those that watch from afar; but all those that were brought to Middle-earth long ago were lost. - The Silmarillion, Akallabêth

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fumée de mer - Sea smoke by ylacaille

[lurkerinthemirk]

The sun was still close to the eastern edge of things. The morning was cool, and mists were in the valleys and hollows and twined here and there about the peaks and pinnacles of the hills. - The Hobbit, Chapter 7 Queer Lodgings

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Smiling squirrel by laryan1

[lurkerinthemirk]

“Yes it certainly is! No I could not! And I was explaining very carefully,” answered the wizard crossly. “If you must know more, his name is Beorn. He is very strong, and he is a skin-changer.” “What! a furrier, a man that calls rabbits conies, when he doesn’t turn their skins into squirrels?” asked Bilbo. “Good gracious heavens, no, no, NO, NO!” said Gandalf. “Don’t be a fool Mr. Baggins if you can help it; and in the name of all wonder don’t mention the word furrier again as long as you are within a hundred miles of his house, nor rug, cape, tippet, muff, nor any other such unfortunate word! He is a skin-changer.... - The Hobbit, Chapter 7 Queer Lodgings

Nowhere else could a squirrel be at such ease.

[sitoutside]

Horsehead Nebula in Orion - HaLRGB

by cfaobam

[lurkerinthemirk]

Then the pursuit was begun; and the earth shook beneath the horses of the host of Oromë, and the fire that was stricken from the hooves of Nahar was the first light that returned to Valinor. - The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion Chapter VIII Of the Darkening of Valinor

Somewhere out there, the prototype for Nahar and the Mearas still roam the dark of the Void.

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(Atheris squamigera) variable bush viper

D’awwww

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‘It can’t be helped, Sam,’ said Frodo sadly. He had suddenly realized that flying from the Shire would mean more painful partings than merely saying farewell to the familiar comforts of Bag End. ‘I shall have to go. But’ – and here he looked hard at Sam – ‘if you really care about me, you will keep that dead secret. See? If you don’t, if you even breathe a word of what you’ve heard here, then I hope Gandalf will turn you into a spotted toad and fill the garden full of grass-snakes.’ Sam fell on his knees, trembling. - The Lord of the Rings, Volume One: The Fellowship of the Ring, Book One: The Ring Sets Out, Chapter 3 Three is Company

D'awww indeed. If Sam knew about these guys, I bet his reaction would be far different.

[winstons-and-enochs]

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The hobbits turned back. The voices of the Ents were still rising and falling in their conclave. The sun had now risen high enough to look over the high hedge: it gleamed on the tops of the birches and lit the northward side of the dingle with a cool yellow light. There they saw a little glittering fountain. They walked along the rim of the great bowl at the feet of the evergreens – it was pleasant to feel cool grass about their toes again, and not to be in a hurry – and then they climbed down to the gushing water. - The Lord of the Rings, Volume Two: The Two Towers, Book Three: The Treason Of Isengard, Chapter 4: Treebeard

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The green and red valley by Iñaki Larrea

[lurkerinthemirk]

Between the arms of Gelion was the ward of Maglor, and here in one place the hills failed altogether; there it was that the Orcs came into East Beleriand before the Third Battle. - The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion Chapter XIV Of Beleriand and its Realms 

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Archipelago by borisss1982

[lurkerinthemirk]

It is probable that the craft of building, as many other crafts beside, was derived from the Dúnedain. But the Hobbits may have learned it direct from the Elves, the teachers of Men in their youth. For the Elves of the High Kindred had not yet forsaken Middle-earth, and they dwelt still at that time at the Grey Havens away to the west, and in other places within reach of the Shire. Three Elf-towers of immemorial age were still to be seen on the Tower Hills beyond the western marches. They shone far off in the moonlight. The tallest was furthest away, standing alone upon a green mound. - The Lord of the Rings, Prologue

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BROTHERS GRIMM'S WANDERINGS

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They would soon now be going forward into lands wholly strange to them, and beyond all but the most vague and distant legends of the Shire, and in the gathering twilight they longed for home. - The Lord of the Rings, Volume One: The Fellowship of the Ring, Book One: The Ring Sets Out, Chapter 8 Fog on the Barrow-downs