neither law, nor love, nor league of hell

Vampires, Silmarillion and some other things ❤️ potentially triggering contents so follow at your own risk&peril 🙏 i do like to complain about things i dislike a lot so be also warned about this header: Vengeance is Sworn by Francesco Hayez | icon: Vampire by Edvard Munch

[mircallaruthven]

since i'm getting some new followers because of my Silmarillion related stuff, here some very quick guidelines !

Fëanor / Fëanorians fan, but not anti-Sindar. i firmly believe that i can be sold any character if you present them to me in a compelling way.

i dislike every form of bashing towards female characters that get too much hate, such as Elwing / Indis / Idril / Aredhel etc etc

18+ content, discussion of ships that people may dislike like Russingon, Silvergifting etc etc.

i like both Elwing and Celeborn no bashing tolerated here.

i'm very critical towards adaptations such as the Hobbit movies, Amazon's Rings of Power, War of the Rohirrim + upcoming Gollum movie + other Warner Bros movies, due to a mixture of ethical concerns (the use of Christopher Lee's voice to dub Saruman after his death, the shameless rip-off from a fanmovie for the Gollum solo, Amazon's use of Tolkien's stories to whitewash its exploitation of workers etc) and personal dislike. i don't believe in a 'fans of x DNI' mentality, but if you follow me keep this in mind.

i don't hate the peter jackson's trilogy of Lord of the Rings, but neither i am its biggest fan. meanwhile i am affectionated to it because i've fond memories from my childhood, i think that there's value in its criticism by Christopher Tolkien.

If you stalk my blog in the attempt to frame me as a troublemaker, fuck off.

Metas & fandom submissions under the cut

my 'Witches of Middle Earth' series

Feanor | Griffith webweaving

Maeglin | Mordred webweaving

Silm x Art series

Numenor Week submissions

Celedriel Week submission

about Feanor asking for Galadriel's hair

why Galadriel stayed in the Middle Earth

why i don't think that the Silmarillion has an 'unreliable narrator'

Mairon isn't Sauron "real name"

parallels between Frodo&Sam and Galadriel&Celeborn

i do sometimes post contents that can be triggering for some people. i do tag everything just in case, but again, keep this in mind.

if i dislike a ship/a character, my dislike isn't for you personally!

i don't write many metas, but if i'll do, i'll add them to this list.

[Artwork: Maglor cast the Silmaril into the sea, by Ted Nasmith]

[enchantedbook]

'Vampire Hunter D' by Yoshitaka Amano

[pietroleopoldo]

The more i think about it the more I think that one thing that tells us much about Italian (and European at large, in a way) culture is the year that Italians that are nostalgic about fascism decided was the moment the regime stopped being defensible. Because of the way the Holocaust has been painted as a negative founding myth for all of Europe, they know they cannot defend the 1938 racial laws (not in public at least)... But the regime didn't suddenly become racist in 1938. And yet i've never seen anyone say that the moment fascism went bad was with the war in Ethiopia in 1936. Or with the attacks to slavs in Istria in 1919-1920

[pietroleopoldo]

Nostalgics will be like: i can excuse the beatings of workers on strike, the complete destruction of democracy, the killing and confining of political enemies, the colonial war, the gassing of Ethiopian civilians but I draw the line at antisemitism [and then cheer for the 'boys of Salò' who were actively working with nazis to send Jewish people to concentration camps]

[zeetannas]

to be honest i think there’s a large number of people who conflate the very real and widespread phenomenon that women tend to be written off as just mothers or love interests in order to diminish their importance in a given story with the fact that a huge reason they’re sent to narrative purgatory in this way is BECAUSE the labels of “mother” and “girlfriend/wife” are systematically devalued and seen as inherently inferior because they’re terms that have been associated with ownership and/or control over women. like the amount of people who’ve told me that a certain female character is uninteresting or badly written because she happened to have a kid or be a man’s girlfriend or sister just to find out she was actually fleshed out very well and carried significant narrative importance frustrates me soo bad. there’s a huge problem with how those roles (specifically “wife” and “mother”) are systematically devalued and yet also perpetuated as the only viable options for women to achieve their societal roles in the patriarchy but acknowledging the devaluation of those labels to begin with is an important discussion in itself.

[dei-dei]

What are the great victories to you, of Darkness or of Light?

You can only stand and watch them fade — tenn Ambar-metta."

[rana-temporaria]

Fascinated by how the SoF gather for kinslayings and then separate again into their little groups, split off either alone or doubles (C + C, A + A) across Beleriand (after Alqualondë) and it's mentioned they all gathered together to send Dior the letter of demand/kinslay at Doriath, and then it's mentioned they all gathered from their hunting paths when they found out Elwing had the silmaril. Can only stand each other when it's time for mass murder huh?

[kisses-in-the-void]

It's not that surprising, considering that there's a version of the story in which they managed to take the Silmaril from Dior, but then quarreled over who it belonged to and ended up fucking killing each other, with only Maglor remaining. That makes me believe that if Dior had given them the jewel without a fight, the result would have been pretty much the same.

Even when M&M stole the two Silmarils from Eonwe's camp, it's explicitly stated that they were able to divide them between themselves because there were now two Silmarils and two brothers

[girlcodedhamlet]

it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.

Do we really think the 80s and its Satanic Panic were better at critical thinking? what about the 40s? the Victorian era? societies have always had problems with critical thinking and literacy, because most societies have dealt with propaganda, corrupt leadership, difficulty providing education (due to poverty or discrimination or other issues), and/or people who resist critical thinking (due to privilege or circumstance or what have you). we can criticize media trends without pulling a "well back in the GOOD OLD DAYS" about it.

[balrogballs]

Do not make this little mistake in my motherhood a tragic footnote in my life, Maglor. Why must we define what living is like for difficult people in difficult places, as a tragedy? The true tragedy lies in the masking of little mistakes, the ensconcement of little lives in the language of the promising, the language of potential possessed and lost, of heroic deeds and terrible mistakes. Such words do not denote reality, they make reality feel like mass failure instead of proof of human lives lived under impossible conditions.

Make this mistake a part of the whole of me, a counterpart to my kindness. Do not tell them that I was the best mother in the world solely by virtue of my womanhood. Tell them Nerdanel looked at her firstborn, could not see him truly, and did not think to ask.

LIGHTBRINGER: A ‘nonfictional fanfiction’ family history situating the Fëanorians in Prayers to Broken Stone, looking at the sociopolitical standing of a 'secular leftist' yet landowning and feudalistic Mappila Muslim family in Kozhikode between 1920 and 1980, interspersed with letters Nerdanel, a hijabi woman who painted murals on temple walls, wrote to her second son Maglor.

Or: why Fëanor set himself on fire when his swords were flung into the sea.

READ ON AO3 [~15,000 words] - late entry to @silmarillionepistolary week!

[mircallaruthven]

since HOT D is starting soon, i'll take a pebble off my shoe and say that i find funny that half of the fandom is saying "Ryan Condom is a Targaryen fan boy who can't get off Daemon's dick" and the other half is saying "Ryan Condom lives to hate Targaryens he had done everything he could to ruin Daemon". Like people should stick to a narrative but no! As someone who's out of the cycle im like "i don't think that's true"

[symphony7inamajor]

via ellaburtonmua on instagram

[quelmdn]

No limits.

[mircallaruthven]

i am not one to cry about death of media literacy or whatever the fuck is the buzzword of the day but we'll avoid the 99% of divine comedy hot takes if people read the damn thing instead of learning about it through memes ...

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

a lot of things have led to this including the 4b shit, blackpill feminism, female dating strategy and female looksmaxxing, and so on, but a lot of very online young women have come to believe that hating men (allegedly) is a replacement for liking and caring about other women and it’s irritating. and really more accurately, a lot of women have realized that they can mask their hatred of other women as a hatred of or indifference to men. now when you talk down on other women, or shame other women for their sexual behaviors, or express envy of other women for this that or the third, you can pretend you are doing so because this woman is male-centered, or a pickme, or whatever. but it is the same typical womanhating from other women that has always existed

[malachia-il-bibliotecario]

heartbreaking: upon being asked to say something different on the divine comedy than it being fanfiction "the divine comedy is fanfiction" jokesters assertively come up with opinions equally uninformed and comparably idiotic

[lovestory49]

“It [The Lord of the Rings] is finished, if still partly unrevised, and is, I suppose, in a condition which a reader could read, if he did not wilt at the sight of it…now I look at it, the magnitude of the disaster is apparent to me. My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster: an immensely long, complex, rather bitter, and very terrifying romance, quite unfit for children (if fit for anybody); and it is not really a sequel to The Hobbit, but to The Silmarillion.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien to Sir Stanley Unwin, 24 February 1950. Reprinted in The Fall of Gondolin (via thebookwormunderground)

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

men get pegged pride flag

hot pink: women’s liberation navy: security in one’s own masculinity  grey: subverting heterosexuality lavender: vulnerability light pink: love & tenderness 

[haughtyraban]

sometimes u go to a ship’s ao3 page and the top 10 fics are like “what if these guys were 2 completely different guys but had the same actors’ faces and character names”