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Elven words for the moon

Elven words for stars

This is a collection of elven words related to the moon including poetic and archaic words.

More in the linguistic resources and word of the day (wotd) tags! Let me know if there are any topics you would like to see covered!

Rána and Isil are the two most common Quenya names for the moon. Rána means “Wayward” and derives from an archaic word for wandering or straying off course. Isil derives from thil meaning to shine white or silver.

Ránuringwi is an archaic Quenya word for sun and moon.

Isilmë means moonlight in Quenya.

Gilm is an older Sindarin word for moonlight, derived from gili meaning pale shining

Raun, a cognate of Rána, is used most commonly in Sindarin however Ithil, also derived from thil, is used poetically

Istil is the name of the moon in Ilkorin, the Sindarin language of Doriath.

Ceuran means new moon in Quenya. This word has two cognates; cýron in Sindarin and ciuran in Telerin.

Cúran is an older Sindarin word for crescent moon 🌙 from cú meaning arch or crescent and rhan, the older form of raun.

Cú or Kú by itself was used to mean the crescent moon in Quenya

Though Silpilon was the name of the white tree of Tirion, in older Quenya, Silpilon meant red or cherry moon, possibly a reference to the phenomenon of a blood moon or lunar eclipse.

Rincu is an archaic Quenya word for the shape of the moon, derived from rini meaning circle

Important note: Morwen’s sobriquet, Eledhwen, is translated to elf-sheen in The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. Though the two primary parts, eled(h), an archaic word for elf and (g)wen, a feminine suffix often related to beauty, do not refer to shine or sheen, it is possible it is related to iþil, the older version of ithil which does relate to shining.

#the silmarillion #the lord of the rings #lotr #wotd #Quenya #Sindarin #Ilkorin #Telerin

Medieval Ainur! Aesthetic: Varda

Varda Starfield is the Lady of Greengrove, Protector of the Two Trees, and Lady Commander of the fabled Knights of the Grove. When she was still a child, her father sent her to Doriath, a prosperous kingdom in Endorët. While there, Varda served as a handmaid to Queen Melian, who taught her many things, including witchcraft. Varda assumed her father's title after his death. She was only nineteen at the time.

This is my present list of noble houses in Valinor. This will change once I revamp and expand my Medieval AU.

#medieval au #medieval valinor #medieval varda #varda elentari #varda #ainur #valar

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✨Athena✨ and… um… Ody?

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The Barrowfields of Edoras, where the kings of Rohan were buried beneath white flowers of evermind.

I imagine it to be expansive and somewhat eerie, the only sounds the rushing of the small river to the north, and the wind through the grasses blending together.

#the silmarillion #edits #lotredits #the lord of the rings #lotr #silmedits

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ahhhh this is the best thing I've ever seen, a favorite artist taking requests for pride month?! If you're amenable, could we get a bisexual Éowyn? Perhaps with some color coordinating flowers she grew in her gardens in Ithilien? <3

Also for @groovy-lady

An Éowyn in Ithilien with a flower from her garden🌸

Celebrate Pride with me

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Consider an AU where Ghost Debunkers! Oromë and Celegorm join forces with Aradhel and her best friend, Nahtanis, as they explore the opulent but abandoned rooms of Utumno Manor, a place made infamous by its owner, Mr. Melkor Bauglir, and the ritual sacrifices he performed to summon malevolent entities. Their routine exploration takes a dark turn when they discover the tales surrounding the manor are more than mere exaggerations and lies.

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Reblogging this to say that I, being the plot-bunny-indulging gremlin that I am, have already devised an unedited, bare-bones skeleton of a story that I will work on soon. Why? Because I cannot help myself, that is why.

#oromë #celegorm #aredhel #original character #ghost debunker au #the silm au

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Tips for writing Abandoned Hospitals

✮ The smell arrives before anything visual does. Always before. Decades-old antiseptic that never fully evaporated, black mold, particulate plaster, and something underneath all of that you will not name. Your character detects it from the parking lot. Do not skip this. Writers skip this constantly. Smell is 70% of fear. If your character walks in and immediately describes what they SEE, you have already lost the reader's stomach. Fix it.

✮ Long hospital corridors are acoustic funnels. A door swinging on a corroded hinge forty feet away sounds, physiologically and neurologically, like it is directly behind your character. It is not. But they don't know that yet. And more importantly: they can't immediately tell the difference.

✮ Original floor tiles: white hexagons, many cracked, grout gone grey-black with decades of something. Footsteps echo differently on intact vs. cracked tile. Your character will begin unconsciously stepping around the cracked ones without deciding to. Write it as unconscious. Don't give them the decision.The body knows things the mind hasn't processed.

✮ Nurses' stations have the room call-board still mounted. Metal slots, room numbers, some still containing names on yellowed paper in faded handwriting. Perfectly legible. Your character should read one name specifically. A real first and last name. This is what grounds supernatural dread in human scale. The horror of a ghost is always the horror of the specific person who became one.

✮ Do not have your character open a patient file and find something horrifying written in it. That is lazy and everyone does it. The horror in the file is that it is completely routine: a 54-year-old man admitted for a hip replacement in 1987, three pages of unremarkable medical notes in a nurse's tidy handwriting, then nothing. No discharge date. No transfer. Just nothing. The nothing is the story. Let the reader ask the question. Don't answer it.

✮ Operating theaters are always on upper floors. The surgical table is still there. They never take the table. In real abandoned hospitals, across multiple countries, documented cases: they always leave the table. Your character should wonder why no one took the table. Do not have a character explain why no one took the table. Some questions should stay questions.

✮ The morgue is in the basement. This is always true. The drawer handles are still there. Your character's hand will move toward one of them. Write this as involuntary. The hand goes first. The decision to stop, or not stop, comes second. We don't choose our curiosity; we choose whether to follow it.

✮ The drawers are not all empty. Not because of anything supernatural. Because animals nest in sheltered spaces in abandoned buildings, and a heavy insulated metal drawer that latches shut is extremely sheltered. Your character knows this. They do not think of this until after they've opened one.

#writing tips

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“You can’t fix him” I don’t wanna fix him! I wanna FUCK him! I’m a pervert not a psychologist!

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#because i am #and its all thanks to watching sam and colby videos yet again #something for october maybe #oromë #celegorm #aredhel #original character #ghost debunker au

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Small Fandom Summer 2026!

For the fourth year in a row now, it's time for Small Fandom Summer! Join me for Small Fandom Summer! It's real easy to play:

Make a fanwork for something that has fewer than 1000 English-language works on AO3

Post it to AO3

And then you've done it! You've made a thing and you've diversified the fandom ecosystem! You're basically a hero.

Q: The fandom I want to create for has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but the specific pairing I want to write for has fewer than that. Does that count? A: Yes! Q: What if it has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but, like, just barely? A: Okay! Q: What if it actually has a lot more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but it still feels small? A: Sure! Q: What if I don't want to post it to AO3? What if I don't even have an AO3 account? Can I post it somewhere else? A: Wherever! Q: What if-- A: Just do a thing, friend. Make a thing. Share the thing. This is not meant to be restrictive; this is meant to be inspirational. Create the fanworks you want to see in the world. Make a stranger happy by appealing to their niche interests. Bring joy.

And if you want to give yourself some silly little Steam-like achievement badges to commemorate your accomplishments, well, you're in luck! I've made a bunch of them right here! You can grab the ones that apply to your work and paste them wherever you like and feel good about what you've done. Here's a few of my favorites:

So you see? This is meant to be silly and fun.

There's nowhere to sign up. There's nothing to commit to. There's zero pressure. You just do it if you do it, and don't if you don't. But if you do want to play (yay!), tag your stuff with #small fandom summer so we can all swoop in and appreciate everyone else's efforts.

Here's to creativity!