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LOTR yuri 💍

#precious <3 #I read a fic about them last year and I've been thinking about it ever since tbh #eowyn of rohan #eowyn/arwen #lotr

bigbluefishi

Eowyn 🐴

#eowyn!!!!!!! <3 #her hair is drawn so beautifully!!!#eowyn of rohan #lotr

thetiredprometheus

Little Stars

#I love this!!!#maedhros #the silm #the jagged ear!

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There’s something so ominous about the repeated notes throughout Tolkien’s histories that Ungoliant took the form of a spider, the obvious implication being that she isn’t one, she’s something else, something worse.

In Morgoth’s Ring it says she takes the form of a spider so she can weave “webs of strangling gloom” to catch light.

We actually get similar language with Glaurung who is repeatedly described as a spirit in the form of a great, wingless dragon. But though this does raise fascinating questions about Glaurung’s nature and the precise mechanisms through which he was created, we do at least know he was created in Angband by Morgoth

With Ungoliant, there is so such detail. Her first mention in The Silmarillion speaks of her through heresay, what is believed of her without offering a definitive answer. It was said that she “descended from the darkness that lies about Arda” and while Melkor sought her service early, her lack of allegiance to him began long before the darkening. Indeed there are similarities in the way Ungoliant’s “unlight” and the Shadow Morgoth casts are described

Ungoliant’s horror comes primarily from her relationship to light and her hunger. The Unlight she creates is not just darkness, it is thick with a paralysing, venomous despair

It’s worth noting that this phrasing, that the Eldar knew not where she came from, is repeated in every draft of the darkening as well as the official Silmarillion. And of course this unknowing only adds to the horror she inspires

Anyways just something I’m thinking about; I really love entities like Ungoliant and the Watcher in the Water, and what their existence means about the larger legendarium

#ungoliant #she is honestly Tolkien's coolest dark creation #how great is it to think about “unlight”#and try to wrap your mind around it!!!

peasant-player

Ungoliant

Primeval devourer of light

#this is so beautiful!#the many eyes and the long hair are perfect!!#Ungoliant

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

Hello everyone! I'm back!

I got a little too used to writing for my comfy ships that I forgot how to write darker things, so that was a struggle. But I managed to write a new chapter of my "Darkness comes to Rivendell" story. I hope you enjoy reading it!

(and yes I promise, I will start posting about Claymore at some point as well!)

#writing #auteuronirique

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Elven word of the day, 407/?

Qualmisan from early Quenya

It’s a name for Tuesday but it literally means the day of the agony of death.

This is derived from qualmë meaning death agony and sana, an archaic word for day

Apparently Tuesday was quite a morbid day for Tolkien or his elves because in addition to that, Tuesday was also called Fuinen, in honor of an abandoned name for Nienna meaning death goddess.

Aldúya meaning day of the trees was the most commonly used name for Tuesday in Quenya and Orgaladh meaning the same is the most commonly used name in Sindarin.

So if you ever have a bad Tuesday, as I frequently do, here’s something.

#I feel this so much today #also how insanely cool and well researched #the silm #I like to think Tolkien had a terrible class he had to teach on Tuesdays

kordelia-vale

ahh he’s hot Art by @Niruskyart on X

#the black halo!!#and the armour!!#it's gorgeous #maekar targaryen #akotsk

isabelaleleh

All girls are like the Rose Bride

theatreofthelivingmind

A girl who can't become a princess has no choice but to become a witch

#all the rgu artists are incredibly talented I can't #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #utena tenjou #anthy himemiya

hyphose

Wakaba Shinohara, Nanami Kiryuu, Juri Arisugawa - Utena, la fillette révolutionnaire

There it is, a triptych of my favorite duels from each season, and coincidentally my favorite characters.

#not even joking those are my faves so far #the black rose arc is sooooooooooo good #I love everything about it #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #nanami kiryuu #wakaba shinohara #juri arisugawa

hyphose

Juri Arisugawa - Utena, la fillette révolutionnaire

#my fave so far <3 #I love her <3 #juri arisugawa #revolutionary girl utena #rgu #this art is insane #the light hitting the lettering on the parchment #the well-defined curls

redlipstickresurrected

Martin Voigt (German, b. 1990, Leipzig, Germany) - Flucht lV, 2020-2021, Paintings: Mixed Media, Acrylic on Linen

#ophelia coded #paintings

Clare ready to fight in Claymore, The Battle of the North

#claymore #claymore manga #clare claymore #the battle of the north

Maybe the reason Miria has been sent to a hopeless battle in the North has less to do with her Awakening and more with the fact that she has caused too many Awakenings (TM) among the younger warriors at the Organisation....

Claymore, The Battle of the North

#love a character that inspires such devotion #but feels the heavy burden of that devotion at the same time #phantom miria #claymore manga #claymore #the battle of the north