Mateiru

Mateiru (she/her) | Artist | Silmarillion, Ninjago, Star Wars | https://t.me/mattefun

[blue-to-blue]

some messy celebrimbor sketches (ft. flower crowns with baby celebrían)

[moredhel]

"...he descended upon Arda in power and majesty greater than any other of the Valar, as a mountain that wades in the sea and has its head above the clouds and is clad in ice and crowned with smoke and fire; and the light of the eyes of Melkor was like a flame that withers with heat and pierces with a deadly cold.”

[vampducki]

Happy Mother's Day (*＾3＾)/～☆

[unaarista]

...she put forth her arts of enchantment, and caused her hair to grow to great length, and of it she wove a dark robe that wrapped her beauty like a shadow, and it was laden with a spell of sleep

Swaddling her baby son in sweet shadows, and shrouding him as she welcomes him in death

a Mane Event gift

[thefloweraster]

Yoo, maybe Garmadon and Wu hugging would be a cute ideea to draw? Only if you want to!!

Brothers hugging

[finrod-feelagund]

Made a comic kinda

[crocordile]

this past month I have been trying to find my Tuor face but as you can see, I haven’t been successful :S I figured I would post the less boring sketches i’ve produced, since i couldn’t get anything done for his day… there are some comments in the captions but yeah…. /fails

(the theme was, as you can see, slavery)

[mhevarujta]

I was discussing the other day that Galadriel and Celeborn are such a refreshing pair among Tolkien's ships.

You have Feanor being a wife-guy UNTIL Nerdanel disagress with him. Which is when he becomes awful to her.

Then you have marriages that work and endure: Thingol and Melian loved each other deeply until the end, and YET Thingol closed his ears to Melian's advice when his passion took the best of him. But this is not how it goes for Galadriel and Celeborn. When Galadriel talks Celeborn listens and even as his emotions threaten to overtake him, his trauma still apparent, he controls himself.

There are of course the unions of elves and men and Earendil's relationship with Elwing. All of these are loving, but ultimately the female character ends up following the male character.

Galadriel and Celeborn are different. Galadriel sets the path they follow most of the time. She precedes and Celeborn follows, sometimes immediately and sometimes following his own pace.

They are the only ship that epitomize the way Tolkien imagined an elven marriage in Morgoth's Ring:

The union of love is indeed to them great delight and joy, and the 'days of the children', as they call them, remain in their memory as the most merry in life; but they have many other powers of body and of mind which their nature urges them to fulfil. Thus, although the wedded remain so for ever, they do not necessarily dwell or house together at all times; for without considering the chances and separations of evil days, wife and husband, albeit united, remain persons individual having each gifts of mind and body that differ.

This all happens while Galadriel remains the most prominent and more powerful of the two. In Numenor, where women COULD have power and become queens, there are too often examples of men feeling threatened and trying to dominate and to supplant. But this is never the case when it comes to Galadriel and Celeborn.

They have it all: A beautiful love that endures, their days of happiness with Celebrian, trials and grief that they faced together, but they also followed their individual desires, each knowing that at the end of it all the other would be there; being aware that they would be reunited and their pursue of their needs would not estrange them. And in Tolkien's work their ability to maintain this relationship both by being together and by being apart is not a show of emotional distance, but a testament to their love.

And one might assume that such a love is not too exciting, but I don't think this is the case. Galadriel is the one character in the legendarium who chooses to be known by her epesse. Her lover gave her a name and she felt so loved and seen that she wanted the entire world to perceive her as he does. This shows adoration, but also certaintly that their love was IT for her. And centurles later, Celeborn still considers Galadriel his treasure and is bereft of her. But he manages to treasure her without objectifying her. And that's so beautiful. These two were down bad for each other.

[mattefun]

FINWË AND THINGOL

This post is dedicated to the friendship between Finwë and Thingol (Elwë), the most underrated in the fandom in my opinion

Finwë: Adventurous, gallant, ardent, rhetorically skilled, rebellious, independent, heretical (This is mainly in his youth)

Thingol: Complex, prideful, and authoritative figure, extreme possessiveness, often described as arrogant yet fundamentally noble, he is sincere in what he loves

And Tolkien calls them great friends

And I've collected quotes about them:

Silmarillion:

"And the host of the Teleri passed over the Misty Mountains, and crossed thewide lands of Eriador, being urged on by Elwë Singollo, for he was eager toreturn to Valinor and the Light that he had beheld; and he wished not to be sundered from the Noldor, for he had great friendship with Finwë their lord."

"Elwë, lord of the Teleri, went often through the great woods to seek out Finwë his friend in the dwellings of the Noldor"

"and Finwë grieved when the Teleri came not, and yet more when he learned that Elwë was forsaken, and knew that he should not see him again, unless it were in the halls of Mandos."

The Nature of Middle-earth:

"Elwë would prefer the “lesser light, and shadows” of Endor, but will follow Finwë his friend."

"Elwë says: “I will go with my friend, but I do not choose for anyone but myself..."

Also information that Finwë and Elwë are from the same generation but Finwë is older than Elwë

Morgoth's ring:

"At this time Elwë strayed in the woods of Beleriand and was lost, and his people sought him long in vain. For as he journeyed homeward from a meeting with Finwë, he passed by the borders of Nan Elmoth."

"In this year Ulmo hearkened to the prayers of Finwë and went again to Middle-earth to bring Elwë and his people to Aman, if they would come."

They are opposites to each other: in appearance, character, family status, and fate

Their heraldic are the winged sun and moon

Finwë has five children and two marriages, while Elwë has only one daughter and one marriage. But both have incredible children their likes were not born again in Arda (Fëanor and Lúthien)

Their descendants slew each other, but eventually their two families united thanks to Elwing and Eärendil. This union created an incredible force that had a profound impact on the history of Middle-earth

[morphym37]

Doodling a fancy “prototype annatar” Melkor (゜ω゜), for reference see The ‘Tale of Adanel’ in HoME 10.

Again…this is just an excuse to draw that stupid “reptilian stare” though it doesn’t turn out so well… .

[laurie-fish]

Idril meeting Tuor for the first time xD

Idril is having a full shoujo manga experience, while Tuor is trying to navigate a political drama loll

[navyinks]

@tolkiengenweek day 2: friendship

Then said he to his mother: "Mother Idril, I would we had good Ecthelion of the Fountain here to play to me on his flute, or make me willow-whistles! Perchance he has gone on ahead?" But Idril say nay, and told what she had heard of his end. Then said Earendil that he cared not ever to see the streets of Gondolin again, and he wept bitterly; but Tuor said that he would not again see those streets, "for Gondolin is no more."

[simonabrunilde]

“The Valar dragged Melkor back to Valinor for judgment before Manwë, in the Ring of Doom. Melkor laid upon his face and begged for mercy from Manwë, but his prayers were denied.”

I wanted to draw exactly the moment after Manwe's sentence, but showing Melkor's face... And I admit it, yes, I would really like there to be a chance of redemption for him🖤

Do we have any fanfiction? 🥹

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

i find it interesting how thingol and finwe's grandchildren rip each other apart (dior killing celegorm and potentially caranthir and curufin as well, the sons of feanor destroying doriath and losing almost half their numbers to doriath's fighters) and yet at the same time their lines unite multiple times throughout the history of middle earth (elwing, direct descendant of thingol, marrying earendil, direct descendant of finwe; and then elrond, direct descendant of thingol, marrying celebrian, direct descendant of finwe) and produce so many of its most notable figures. they pursue very very very different paths and very very very different structures of "family" (thingol's marital life being unprecedented and forever unequalled in that his wife is a goddess, and he has one single child who then also goes on to have one single child; finwe's marital life being unprecedented and forever unequalled in that he has one wife and then later takes a second one, and he has multiple children among whom many then also go on to have multiple children) but ultimately this repeating union of their descendants forms one single line that stretches onward so far into the future of middle-earth that it ends up going beyond what we as readers even have access to. it kind of really makes you feel something when you think about how they were best friends before it all began, long long long before any of the people who take center stage in the silmarillion and lotr were born. you imagine when they were just two young elves hanging out and having fun together and then you think of all the history that will end up spawning from the two of them specifically. their shadows extending far far far far beyond what either of them ever imagined. idk it's pretty cool

[ecthelioffd]

little eärendil and voronwë’s legs I guess

[kaia-art]

“Elrond my dear brother! Do not cry for me for this is the path that I chose. I am contented, satisfied and happy…” The last words from Elros was finally sent to his brother after a very very long time. The reason why the letter had not been sent to Elrond from the beginning and lost for a long time is unknown, But Elrond finally got the letter from a herald of the Númenóreans - who could not hide their emotion while giving it to him solemnly. Then the night fell. The candle was out. The grief once more was unimaginable. But Celebrian was there… ——– ——– ——– ——– Elrond is usually in the role who taking care for others but when it comes to himself, I think it’s kinda hard because he has a deep background and history and all….so I just thought that even the person seems like they’re always doing a very good job at holding themselves together, can even show their true feelings. It’s OK to be sad, to miss someone, to be who you are.

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[eldamaranquendi]

Elrond by https://lotus-sss.lofter.com/