Laurefindele, what else?

My Art is here: @valinorianyears  ON here is: Gondolin Silmarillion Glorfindel and Ecthelion , most importantly: Glorthelion - Art, and everything else that makes me laugh. Professional Erestor hater. Taking Silmarillion art requests whenever > #Valinorian Years < is my main project: a complete set of Valinor and Gondolin lore surrounding Laurefindele

[lymira]

Update on comission prices

For nsfw or nude artworks just dm me

[wertfi-penguin]

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

[geekyhistoriansunite]

[akitasenseidraws]

@silvergiftingweek day 2 : attraction

He's totally pretending guys, he's just trying to manipulate him... totally 👀

[saintstars]

@silvergiftingweek day 4: Living in Ost-in-Edhil

[homunculus-argument]

I've been fed, walked and watered and I've slept enough and been out of the internet and I'm doing crafts.

Why am I still angry.

[homunculus-argument]

I walked right into this one like a blind horse into a revolving door.

[expressions-of-nature]

by Onidaiko

[fictionadventurer]

One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.

Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.

There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!

[starfieldcanvas]

the other mild historical disjoint i run into is when people talk about dating in the fifties like it automatically meant exclusivity. the whole reason we have the expression "going steady" is because the default was to or "go around with" or "go out with" multiple people. not in the sense of being in a stable polyamorous vee, but in the sense that archie is actively "seeing" both betty and veronica during the entire time the two girls are competing for his attention and they're both seeing other guys to make him jealous, and nobody involved considers this "cheating."

bizarrely, America has in many ways gotten more conservative about dating since World War II.

[theunfortunate-author]

my daily affirmation as an author

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat

[aphilologicalbatman-deactivated]

this literally means “bad at summer” pass it on

[zipstick]

Reblog if you, too, are bad at summer

[coffincutie3]

*sighs*

*slaps the reblog button*

[nimphelos]

really funny how círdan helped fingon 1 time and he got a free son as a reward (in my imagination)

[nimphelos]

happy father’s day círdad. we love youu 💖

[ecthelioffd]

glorthelion again

[antikate]

Current mood

[spartanlocke]

mood. and alternatively: 

[ecthelioffd]

oop he dead

[glorthelionweek]

Prompts 2026

↳ Day one: A Glance across the Square | The Bells of Festivals | Gifts of the Heart

↳ Day two: Words in the Dark | Following the Star | The Weight of the Sword

↳ Day three: Silver and Gold | Sun and Moon | The Roar of the Waterfall

↳ Day four: Silver Flutes | The Language of Flowers | Water Mirrors

↳ Day five: A Final Glance | Entrusted Secrets | "I will find you again"

↳ Day six: Ashes and Sorrow | Waiting in Mandos | Forever Changed

↳ Day seven: Beyond the Circles of the World | Constellations | The Promise Kept

[misswhalie]

Reunion in Valinor

Glorfindel/Ecthelion

[blue-to-blue]

maedhros and fingon in valinor

[leucisticpuffin]

Tirion upon Túna

Many months ago now, I thought it would be fun to try painting locations from the Silmarillion in the style of the Monument Valley games, because they are among my favourite games and I enjoy the art very much. Unfortunately, it turns out that this style enables my worst habits in terms of perfectionism and adding endless tiny details, and so this cityscape of Tirion has taken a grand total of 148 hours to complete. Please zoom in to see all the details!!!

I think the city was built to look beautiful under treelight, using principally white stone, which takes on a golden-pink hue under Laurelin's light and a silver-blue hue under Telperion's. Open spaces and tall windows let the light into every building, especially around the Great Square, where the royal and aristocratic families live. Valuing creativity and craftsmanship as they do, the Noldor experimented with different types of architecture and ornamentation (inspired by a mixture of real-world architectural styles as well as the architecture in Monument Valley). Some buildings have intricate painted designs on the walls, mostly based on natural imagery or geometric patterns; others have statues of Elven figures dancing, holding musical instruments, or holding birds. The flags around the Great Square are based on the Two Trees and Finwë's heraldry.

The city is also full of trees and gardens - I got a bit carried away with all the plants and birds 😅 Tirion probably gets regular rainstorms blown in through the Calacirya, so it's wetter than inland Valinor and many different plants can grow in the warm treelit climate. They have a lot of roof gardens.