NobodyElse

(She/her) This is where I dump all my Silmarillion related stuff (art, headcanons, whatever)

[nobodyelsesart]

Welcome to my blog

Hi, welcome to my blog! I'll mainly use this for fandom related activities, so everything I'll post (mainly art both traditional and digital, headcanons and other stuff) will be about the Silmarillion/Tolkien.

About me: queer, nerd, Italian, i prefer she/her but you can call me however you want I don't really mind.

I'm an artist and write fanfiction too, but I only feel comfortable writing in my native language, so I don't see a point in posting my fics here.

I came here to have a good time and interact with other Tolkien fans. Please don't spread hate or bigotry here, if you will you'll be blocked. Also anyone posting AI art will be immediately blocked too.

I won't post very often, don't worry if you see me disappear for a while!

[nobodyelsesart]

quick sketch of a "starfish" for @peasant-player.

I haven't really been active for a while, so imagine my face when I opened tumblr a few days ago and my dash was completely filled with these. It felt like a fever dream.

Yes I'm aware this was for mermay. Yes it is June 2nd. I don't really care, happy (late) mermay!!!

[peasant-player]

Important update to dancing crablor 🎶🎉🦀

Pls be kind thats my first animation with audio and loop I made and I just learned that in a hour

[balrogballs]

círdan is concerned

happy belated @crablorday ! i was so sad i didn’t get any time to do something for the event but i made good time on work and commissions today so enjoy a quick and frankly kind of messy little illustration. if you’re worrying that the implication is that círdan is going to eat crablor, you would be absolutely correct.

thank you for running the event @thescrapwitch (and for your perpetually lovely presence on my dashboard!!!

[thelien-art]

Evenstar in Twilight

Played around with some colours I normally don´t use, as well as fabric.

Prints | Commissions | Support me on Ko-Fi; early access drawings + WIP + commission discounts

[asinoeiv]

hii I'd like to request a miriel if u can :)

Míriel Þerindë Queen of the Ñoldor and haunting Fëanor's shit since YT 1170

[morakricz]

Galadriel✨

[save-the-child-qais]

IF YOU IGNORE THIS, MY BABY DIES TONIGHT.

A moment ago, I held my breath to hear his—terrified the silence meant his heart had already stopped without me noticing.

[save-the-child-qais]

I never thought I would reach a moment where strangers are my only hope to save my child, but today I have nothing left but this plea. Please don’t leave us—your help could keep him alive.

[save-the-child-qais]

Every second feels like a countdown I cannot stop. I am afraid of the silence that could come at any moment. Please donate now and help me save Qais.

Gofundme - Vetted#679

[save-the-child-qais]

Tonight I cleaned my baby Qais’s wound alone, whispering apologies as he cried in pain, knowing I cannot afford his treatment. Please donate now and help me save his life.

[aahmedd]

الكتابة

I am from Gaza…

💔💔💔🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

and my children sometimes go to sleep without food.

Every day, I hide my fear in front of them…

while I break inside when they ask for things I cannot provide.

No work, no income, no safety…

only constant worry, hunger, and fear stealing their childhood.

I’m not asking for much…

I’m asking that my children don’t go to bed hungry.

I’m asking for a simple chance to live with dignity.

Your help today could be the difference between hunger and a meal,

between pain and a new hope.

Please don’t leave us alone.🙏🙏😭😭🇵🇸🍉

[ranaraed]

What kind of crime is this? What kind of people are these, stripped of all humanity, becoming more savage than beasts? An Israeli soldier pins down a Palestinian child, no more than sixteen years old, before a tank treads crushes him in cold blood… a scene that sends shivers down the spine and defies description. This is not a mere incident, but a fully-fledged crime, a stain on the conscience of all who remain silent. What kind of law is this that turns a blind eye? What kind of world is this that doesn't hear the cries of the victims? What is happening is nothing but stark evidence of the collapse of values, and that humanity is being slaughtered every day before the eyes of the world. This crime will not be forgotten… and will remain a testament to an era in which justice has been betrayed and conscience has been silenced.

[ranaraed]

I'm from Gaza… I never sought anything grand; I only dreamed of living a normal life, of walking on my own two feet, of working, of feeding my family with dignity. But the war took away even this simple dream… I lost my leg, and with it, a part of my life, and my hope.

[ranaraed]

Today, I can only walk with crutches; every step reminds me of what I've lost, and every glance from a child or any human being that passes me wounds me further. I see children being killed, I see homes being destroyed, and I wonder: Is there anything left called humanity?

[ranaraed]

I used to dream of a prosthetic leg… just a chance to stand again, to walk, to become a human being capable of living again. But even that dream began to fade, with limited resources and a lack of hope. If my words reach you… don't let them pass you by like the others. Perhaps your small help will be the reason I can start anew.

[abdalsalam2000]

Please share and donate if you can

[nobodyelsesart]

notre dame by paris paloma is sooo eärendil and elwing it hurts

[from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras]

I don’t want to speak for twins because I’m not one, but they run in my family and so I know a bunch. And one thing that I hear from all of them is that yes, their twin is uniquely treasured and, in some senses, an inseparable part of themselves. But also, they are so incredibly frustrated by the tendency of the world to treat them constantly as a unit, two parts of a whole rather than each a whole on their own. As a result, most of them went through a period of twin alienation, when they leaned strongly in opposite directions, spent less (or no) time together, made drastically different choices, and just generally did whatever they felt was necessary to differentiate themselves and force the world to recognize and respect them first and foremost as individuals.

And I think about my cousins, my grandma and her twin, my uncle and his, every time I see First Age Elrond and Elros continuously lumped together, always discussed in a single breath and as a pair. Maybe their choices as peredhel weren’t some profound and intentional statement about their views on the value of mortality or the fates of the two kindreds or their feelings about life among flawed peoples. Maybe it was all just an impulsive drive to finally distinguish themselves from one another in the most undeniable way, to stake a claim to their individual identities that could never be ignored or forgotten. And maybe they regretted that later, but it did its work. No one talks about them as an inseparable pair anymore.

[oldshrewsburyian]

I recently finished a reread of LOTR, and in all the (often reductive) discussions of the influence of WWI on the trilogy, there's one conspicuous motif in the books that I don't think I've ever seen. And that is: leaders being driven by madness to war, and the desire for power and dominion over others being itself a kind of madness. Interestingly, Denethor's blinkered isolationism is a kind of madness too. There's a lot there!

I realize that "unfortunately a lot of world leaders were kind of insane and a lot of people died about it" is -- obviously -- not a framing of this historical conflict now. But the folly of political elites leading to destruction of life and livelihood on a massive scale was absolutely a popular framing of it in the interwar period. Cf. the novels of James Hilton. Or for that matter, arguably, the Women's International League.

Anyway. I also don't see a lot of discussion of the other WWI-informed motif that struck me most forcibly on this reread, which is: sometimes you have to break laws to save lives, and it does not matter if they are civil or military laws or how culturally important they are. Smash them to bits, if it means saving lives.

[hypokeimena]

I don't think that the attitude about war happening because rulers go insane is really present in LOTR? That idea, in interwar thoughts, went really strongly hand in hand with the idea that leaders/officers are a different class than soldiers and are largely insulated from the effects of war, while the soldier underclass suffer all of the consequences -- the idea being that the soldier underclass have more in common with each other, across national lines, than they do with their respective leaders. this kind of class consciousness is utterly absent in Tolkien's work, and I would argue that its presence is essential in capturing interwar attitudes about war. Things like Armistice Day famously were about the pointless tragedy of people who were, barring nationality, essentially the same, killing each other en masse.

Tolkien does not humanize the enemy; he explicitly does the opposite. The enemy is literally inhuman and you're justified in massacring them because they're on the wrong side. There are no pauses in fighting for the elves and the orcs to sing songs together across no man's land, no bittersweet moments of connection with the Personhood of the people you're fighting. Tolkien's war is a Just War. I would argue that the interwar attitude was that there are not just wars. In this way I think LOTR shows a very post WWII slant that I don't feel is compatible with the interwar argument; the interwar period is definitionally an attitude formed before WWII took place. You could make that argument about the Hobbit, maybe, minus the class consciousness aspect (the Hobbit has the leaders going insane and going to war about it and Bilbo being like You’re All Fucking Regular Guys Don’t Kill Each Other Over This Bullshit!!! but then the inhuman army it is okay to kill shows up and they all reconcile their differences because THEY’RE people but goblins should die,) but not LOTR.

The leaders is LOTR are variously 1. evil inhuman forces of utter destruction 2. the good and just people opposing those forces 3. the weak willed people who side with those forces bc they're afraid, and 4. equally weak willed leaders who want to stay out of it. Denethor also is a bad leader because he isn't the real king, and Gondor's problems are pretty much resolved because King Arthur comes back. Essentially. I don't really think any of that is compatible with interwar attitudes. This is the stuff that makes Tolkien's understanding of class in direct opposition to most of the popular understandings of WWI. His own class position makes him unable to see, or too defensive to engage with, the class dynamics that informed those understandings. Tolkein is writing, if anything, a reactionary against that very class consciousness, imo.

Lastly the breaking laws to save lives thing... I can only think "whose laws and whose lives?" Certainly not the enemy's life. The enemy is, as stated, lacking personhood and safely massacrable. Laws in Tolkein are Just as long as they're made by Rightful Rulers who have The Best Interests of the Nation at heart. I think that the popular post WWI thought about rulers was largely skepticism that it was POSSIBLE for them to have the interests of the underclass at heart. It involved a lot of people turning on the hereditary officer class and essentially saying "well, what makes you so special, that you should get to avoid all of this while forcing us to experience it?" and honestly I think that Tolkein is responding to that question by saying "I'll tell you what makes the hereditary officer class special 💅" because he himself is of that class.

[vsnapdragon]

The fellowship + others

[reblogs appreciated]

[anattmar]

Finno :3

[nobodyelsesart]

I love how we all pretty much agree that Tindomiel is a lesbian despite having absolutely 0 info about her

[vixies-art]

I was listening to Burn from Hamilton, and realized that it actually would fit really well for Nerdanel. Minus the Hamilton specific lines, it really captures the scorn that I think she feels for Fëanor defying the valar and leaving valinor and swearing the oath with their sons. "You built me palaces out of paragraphs" is an especially good line for her since Fëanor literally created a written language so of course the guy would write elegant prose in letters to his wife/elf he's courting. During the "you have torn it all apart, I'm watching it burn" part I imagined her somehow seeing news of the burning of the ships and then destroying the statues she made of him. By the end she would be surrounded by the rubble of his statues, just standing there with a sledgehammer in her hand. It's especially accurate also because "I hope you burn" and that's literally now he dies so it matches so perfectly.