morcondil

Renae | 24 | she/her — Tolkien, elves, etc.

[morcondil]

a snippet of a thing i just wrote:

“That poor boy,” Mahtan sighs into his morning porridge. “Somebody ought to do something about him.”

“Yes, Father,” she says, “somebody really should." 

While she sips her coffee, Nerdanel decides that somebody ought to be her; she further decides that something, in this case, ought to be a proposal of marriage.

‘That poor boy’ never saw it coming.  

[nowendil]

Thinking about how reborn Finrod probably pesters all newly returned elves about how the edain are doing, WHAT they're doing: have they adopted any new customs? foods? songs? I think he would be especially interested in the new songs: he would learn every single one of them, every nursing rhyme and drinking song. Imagine Frodo's shock (and Bilbo's smugness) when he meets Lady Galadriel's legendary older brother for the first time and he practically pleads the hobbits to teach him Every Song Known To Hobbitkind.

Now imagine Finrod, the eldest child and heir to the High King of the Noldor West of the Sea, drunk off his ass, happily singing The Cat And The Moon on top of a table.

[thegreatstrongbow]

doriathweek day one - Melian the Maia

In Beleriand in those days the Elves walked, and the rivers flowed, and the stars shone, and the night-flowers gave forth their scents; and the beauty of Melian was as the noon

[morcondil]

A Tolkien fanfic — prologue posted 2/16/2020

Summary — The Fell Winter: blizzards sweep the plains, wolves attack settlements of Men, and Mirkwood burns. Cast from their home, the survivors of a woodcutters’ colony seek refuge with a stranger named Beorn. One of the exiles, a widow with three children, finds herself drawn to this enigmatic savior. Yet though they are safe within the wild man’s hall, the winter is long and treacherous.

Warnings, tags, etc — Tolkienesque violence, eventual F/M romance, bear shapeshifters and canon(!) anthropomorphic dogs and ponies

>> // AO3 LINK. // <<

[morcondil]

UPDATED w/ chapter 1, in which the protagonists are introduced!

[LINK.]

[incomingalbatross]

Some Points on Frodo’s childhood:

His parents were drowned in the Brandywine when he was twelve (and I will never be over the fact that despite no hobbit ever having killed another in the Shire, Sandyman is still out there spreading rumors that they murdered each other)

Lived in Brandy Hall from twelve to twenty-one (roughly 8-14 for us, I think, if you accept hobbits grow up more slowly). 

It’s implied that he was largely lost in the shuffle of all the Brandybucks, left to his own devices; now, this is implied by Hobbiton hobbits, with their strong anti-Buckland biases, but it doesn’t seem out of line with what we know of Frodo.

Stole mushrooms from Farmer Maggot several times in his teens–or no, I’m sorry, he was caught several times, which implies he may have committed more thefts than that–until he was finally Scarred For Life and avoided Maggot for thirty years until Pippin insisted they should go see him.

Farmer Maggot remembers young Frodo as “one of the worst young rascals of Buckland” and says he was “always a reckless lad,” which intrigues me greatly.

He went into the Old Forest once, “long ago”–I assume during these years, but I’m curious how Merry knows, considering he was seven when Frodo moved to Bag End.

Bilbo adopted him when he was twenty-one, in a very Bilbo-ish way: “You had better come and live here, Frodo my lad,” said Bilbo one day; “and then we can celebrate our birthday-parties comfortably together.” I love this bit.

Side note: Bilbo “had no close friends, until some of his younger cousins began to grow up. The eldest of these, and Bilbo’s favorite, was young Frodo Baggins.” This means Frodo was his first close friend in the Shire. Also, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to guess his other friendships with the “younger cousins” came through Frodo? Which gives me Feelings.

When Frodo moved to Bag End, Sam was nine; Merry was seven; and Pippin didn’t exist yet. (Folco Boffin was eleven, and Fatty Bolger was also nine–Frodo, like Bilbo, has no friends his own age. This kinda supports the idea he was isolated in Buckland…)

Please imagine Tiny Sam and Tween Frodo becoming friends.

At some point Frodo met Gandalf for the first time, and I would like to know whether it was before or after his adoption.

Frodo and Bilbo clearly were really close, which I also love.

Frodo was the only person in the Shire even allowed to see There and Back Again, let alone read it (Merry managed to sneak one quick look because he was a child spy, but that’s it).

More than that, Bilbo made sure to tell him the true story of how he got the Ring, which is not what he put in the book and which only Gandalf knew (after badgering it out of him and straining their friendship in the process). “He told me the true story soon after I came to live here”–meaning he trusted a young tween with this. “No secrets between us, Frodo,” he said. Yeah, uh… no kidding.

Bilbo also shared his songs with Frodo & Friends, as evidenced by all the times one of the hobbits starts singing a Bilbo-made song. (There are three I can think of off the top of my head.)

Bilbo taught Frodo a little High Elvish, which is just… super cool, and a little insane to think about from the perspective of anyone who doesn’t know Bilbo personally. There are just random hobbits going around speaking the Ancient Speech of the Elves?? Okay then.

When Bilbo left, Frodo was thirty-three; Sam was twenty-one (and already doing most of Bag End’s gardening); Merry was nineteen; and Pippin was eleven. (Folco was twenty-three and and Fatty was twenty-one.)

Frodo misses Bilbo a lot. Like, I don’t even know how many times he suddenly Misses Bilbo during the first five chapters, but it keeps coming up. I’m very much looking forward to hitting Rivendell.

In conclusion: Amazon, if you must make extra-canonical Middle-earth content, where is my domestic Shire-based slice-of-life show about Frodo and Bilbo???

[aredhels]

all the tolkien ladies ♥︎ celebrían

In its concluding passage the narrative returns to Galadriel, telling that the sea-longing grew so strong in her that she determined to leave Lórinand and to dwell near the sea. She committed Lórinand to Amroth, and passing again through Moria with Celebrían she came to Imladris, seeking Celeborn. There she found him, and there they dwelt together for a long time; and it was then that Elrond first saw Celebrían, and loved her, though he said nothing of it.

[incorrecttolkienquotes]

These are my children. Their names are The Hot One, Good Harpist, Morning Person, Blushes A Lot, Dad Jr., Damned, and Ginger.

- Nerdanel, on her sons, the Shibboleth of Fëanor as recorded in the History of Middle-Earth

[morcondil]

A Tolkien fanfic — prologue posted 2/16/2020

Summary — The Fell Winter: blizzards sweep the plains, wolves attack settlements of Men, and Mirkwood burns. Cast from their home, the survivors of a woodcutters' colony seek refuge with a stranger named Beorn. One of the exiles, a widow with three children, finds herself drawn to this enigmatic savior. Yet though they are safe within the wild man's hall, the winter is long and treacherous.

Warnings, tags, etc — Tolkienesque violence, eventual F/M romance, bear shapeshifters and canon(!) anthropomorphic dogs and ponies

>> // AO3 LINK. // <<

[suriquesse]

There is a gnomish word for hermaphrodite*: gwegwin. It’s composed of gweg (“man; man, male of the Elda”) and the feminine suffix -win. Since it’s from Tolkien’s earlier period it is probably no longer “canonically” part of any elvish language, but we have a word in Quenya that follows the exact same structure: Nerwen, Galadriel’s mother-name that Eärwen chose because of Galadriel’s “height and her great strength of body and will”. It’s composed of nér (“adult male elf, mortal, or of other speaking race”) and the feminine suffix -wen (shortened from wendë, “maiden”). So, instead of following the implication that (elvish) women are generally shorter and weaker-willed than (elvish) men, with Galadriel’s strength being so exceptional that it warrants a name, I’ll conclude that she is intersex. *Hermaphrodite is used in older literature to describe any person whose physical characteristics do not neatly fit male or female classifications. It’s an outdated term and considered a slur when used instead of intersex for humans.

[elucubrare]

I’ve posted a third chapter of “Try What Repentance Can,” a fic set in the beginning of the Fourth Age – Palanmaethor, an Elf, decides to help the Orcs left after the fall of Sauron instead of sailing West. But really I just wanted to share this part of the second chapter: 

“How was your journey?” she asked, and “How do you like Mordor?" 

And when he was asked the second question, Palanmaethor blinked. "It is… not what I had expected,” he said. “It is bleak, still, and I miss the trees and sweet streams of my own land. But now that the Shadow has lifted I see the stark beauty of the mountains; the tenacity of the grasses and mosses that cling to the rock; the bleak loveliness of all the landscape. For we have winter, too, in the lands of the West, and Mordor now is like those lands after a longer winter than I have ever known.”

[morcondil]

A massive black bear sits atop the place known by some as the Carrock. The beast rests on its haunches and tastes the tidings carried on the wind, just as it has many nights before. Its small dark eyes glitter. Starry skies stretch back through the bear’s memories until they fade past all recollection. The bear knows the stars; they are friends of old. But no warmth is shared between them this night.

current wip

[morcondil]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

“In the Spring of Arda, we dwelled with our kind upon Almaren. Together, you and I wrought beautiful and good things according to the will of Ilúvatar. And when we tired of our toils, we lay in the soft heather beside the lake.”

A Nienna/Nessa piece for @silmladylove‘s Femslash February day 5 prompt: “Bride.”

[silmaspens]

Caranthir and Haleth

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

“I have come,” he said. “But I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!” And suddenly, as he set it on his finger, he vanished from Sam’s sight.“

“You’re fucking kidding me,” muttered Sam.

[movedto-dazaipositive]

types of fic writers #2

bullet points: the only thing you write is bullet point fic. or short fic. it’s good writing, it’s just never as long as you want it to be. you envy those who can write 50k epics at the drop of a hat. and they, in turn, envy you.

WIP Central: you last completed a fic in 2009. your folders are full of nameless fics crying out for attention. you cannot open them without a surge of guilt. in spite of this, you open another document, and begin another fic.

word counter broke: this one, you tell yourself, will be a measly 2k. it is not. you watch in creeping horror as the counter climbs first to 5k, then to 11k. you still have six major plot points left to go. the fic is expected to clock at 23k but knowing you, will reach 50k. you have a sequel planned. there is no end in sight.

error 404: I’m writing, you tell people, and you are. you post snippets on your blog. yet your ao3 fic counter is a firm zero. you never post anything. you crave validation. your finger hovers over the new work button. you close the tab.

[silmladylove]

It’s Femslash February, and your mods come bearing 28 prompts for every day of the month on the theme of bodies. Make fic, make art, make fanmixes, meta, cosplay or anything your minds will come up with, with any rating and Legendarium femslash pairing you like! 

Tag your contribution #sllfemfeb and post it up on the corresponding day (or after), or submit it to us. You can also upload it to SLL’s AO3 Collection.  

That’s it! Now go make femslash! ♥

[magnuskervalen]

glory and fallen of Numenor by breathing2004