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his voice is like the s e a
the silmarillion – modern au the second son of Fëanor, known for his incredible poetry and musical talents credit ❈❈
being a silmarillion fan is looking at a piece of fanart featuring forty different elves who all have the same shade of either black or gold hair and instantly being able to tell by their vibe who is who and which finwhatever is which
ian mckellen directed these movies actually
Ian McKellen was not going to stand idly by and allow these movies to be heterosexual <3
Merry: Do you think we went overboard with the party decorations?
Pippin: Nah, it’s cool.
Merry: The backyard is on fire.
Pippin: Aesthetic.
Curufin: I don’t even have the time to explain how wrong you are.
Celegorm: Ok, cool.
Curufin: Actually, it’s gonna bug me if I don’t. You-
Concept: Sam finds out elves can die of sadness, gets very concerned, starts doing his best to make sure Mr Legolas is happy all the time just in case
This causes a terrible dilemma when Legolas expresses that he’d prefer not to be addressed as Mr Legolas and Sam doesn’t want to risk upsetting him but also that goes against everything he knows.
‘Mr Highness Greenleaf sir’
Mr Greenleaf, sir? Mr Green? Mr Leaf?
*Legolas and Gimli fighting, as usual*
Sam: Stop! STOP! You leave Mr L- Elf alone, Mr Gimli!
Legolas: Why, thank you, Sam. You see, Gimli? Your dwarven rudeness has even upset Sam-
Sam, sobbing: He can’t take such a talking to, Mr Gimli! He’s such a sensitive soul. Much more of that and he’ll be dead by morn!
Legolas:
Aragorn: Sam, don’t worry. it takes a lot more sorrow than that to kill an elf
Sam: but these are really sad times
Aragorn: excuse me
Sam: we’re all very upset all the time because of the quest. what if something small is what pushes him over the edge
Aragorn: it doesn’t work like that-
Legolas, genuinely panicked: what if it works like that??
Aragorn: I’m sure it doesn’t
Legolas: he had a point I AM very upset all the time
Gandalf: Legolas I assure you no elf has ever died like that
Legolas: NOT YET THEY HAVEN’T
Legolas & Sam: *both panicking*
the Fellowship has one brain cell and Aragorn is currently the only one using it
"His gaze pierces cloud, shadow, earth, and flesh."
Flesh?? Sauron is out there giving X-rays, MRIs, and CAT scans. He's more affordable than your primary care referral and more benevolent than your insurance company. Come to the Mordor health clinic today and be Perceived by the Eye.
Celebrimbor has the sexiest fucking voice
@verymaedhros @cerulean-shark @cataclysmofstars @curufinsdaddyissues
IT’S BACK
@fratboy-of-orome 👀
earlier today I was just about knocked over by the realization that if you accept the full Statute of Finwë and Míriel as canonical, the entire tragedy of the Silmarillion and of the Noldor is basically built on the fact that a man felt entitled to a woman’s body despite her continued and consistent refusal of his advances
I absolutely do not believe that Tolkien intended to make this extremely feminist point but it sure as hell is a feminist point
w—
what in the goddamn hell are you talking about
so in the full Statute of Finwë and Míriel as it appears in HoME volume 10, Míriel dies and leaves her body and goes to Mandos, and then ten presumably solar years later, Finwë goes crying to the Valar about how he can’t get laid anymore. ten years is an elvish minute, tbh, that’s like No Time At All.
he insists he’s entitled to a wife and more children, and he knows Míriel won’t come back, and he goes on and on about how he’s Lonely and Grieving and Sad and Miserable and the whole thing comes across like him whining about being deprived of sex
Míriel refuses to return, saying she left her body to escape great sorrow - which, yeah, can believe that if this is your husband’s reaction to no longer being able to get laid. Finwë refuses to consider her needs, insisting that he be allowed to remarry because He’s Sad, Isn’t It Sad, Am Deprived, Need Wife. he’s like a guy on AITA asking if he’s the asshole for wanting a divorce because his wife spends all day dealing with postpartum depression and she’s no fun to be around.
I was kind of being hyperbolic in my first post but also not really. Boy he comes across badly. And his remarriage and mishandling of all his parenting tasks causes all the later tragedy.
I—I’m honestly kinda floored at how fucked up your little “argument” is right now. The way you view people who are lonely and mourn in non-trad ways is unsettling and you maybe should talk to someone about that. I’m a mortician and thanatologist, so not me. Also you seem kinda like a sociopath and that’s way above my pay grade.
ANYWAYS. First of all if we’re going to prescribe real emotions and morality to fictional characters, I’d like to start with you don’t get to tell someone how they grieve, bud. If we take the extremely homophobic LaCE at face value, Finwe is looking at eternity alone and as a single dad. This is unprecedented. There are no positivity blogs about it that he can go a check.
Miriel seems to be suffering from ye olde elven post-partum, which is not her fault, and also not something that has happened before. She leaves oit for a while to heal, says she’s unsure if she’ll return. Time goes by, meanwhile Finwe is raising a child by himself while literally every other elf kid has two parents. It probably drives home that Finwe is alone and may be alone for the rest of forever, or at least until Feanor is an adult. But Feanor is his son, not his wife, and again, he’s doing this alone.
Entitlement to Miriel would be him demanding that she come back right now and do wifely duties and make more babies for him. You assume that a) there’s literally no way they could have discussed this beforehand, and b) by Finwe remarrying he’s doing some sort of disservice to Miriel, who has effectively left her husband, as is her right to do as a fully autonomous person.
Which means that Finwe is also entitled to try and have a good life. The crux of your argument seems to be how dare Finwe get remarried and have more kids which has a distinct Catholic flavor to it, which is just cringe pal. I am aware that Tolkien was catholic. I’m also aware that he’s dead and that he wrote a pagan religion and went “oh shit g-d might get mad”.
Speaking of getting mad, how dare you make me read all of that up there with my own two fucking eyes this morning.
Anyways sounds like your problem here is you just hate men, which is pretty gross. Skating dangerously close to TERF nonsense so consider grabbing the wheel of this dookie cruise of a post and turning that shit around.
Miriel deserves to be happy. Finwe also deserves to be happy. Considering how hard the Valar bend themselves into pretzels to Not Get Involved with That Whole Debacle With Morgoth, they could have easily gone deuces and refused to do anything or make any decision when Finwe said “hey I feel horribly alone and sad, and I need the physical touch and comfort of another person. someone i can love and be loved by. because i’m scared and alone and i don’t want to pressure miriel into coming back just because I am scared and alone”.
And the valar went “deuces dude” and he was allowed to get remarried. If his remarriage caused the tragedy of the Silm first of all HOOO BOY we’re not unpacking all of THAT, and second this still makes it the valar’s fault! Hth! (:
Your last paragraph sums up your whole holier-than-thou attitude so succinctly I almost didn’t respond to this, because you’ll make some Scorching Hot Takes and expect everyone to applaud you, and then sorta crumble with a lame argument if anyone gives you some pushback. Also casual ableism which n*ce.
*it was not nice.
I’m fairly certain your scholar hat is just a paper hat with the word “scholar” written on it. I weep for anyone who interacts with you in academia because you sound like a real hoot at parties.
earlier today I was just about knocked over by the realization that if you accept the full Statute of Finwë and Míriel as canonical, the entire tragedy of the Silmarillion and of the Noldor is basically built on the fact that a man felt entitled to a woman’s body despite her continued and consistent refusal of his advances
I absolutely do not believe that Tolkien intended to make this extremely feminist point but it sure as hell is a feminist point
w—
what in the goddamn hell are you talking about
so in the full Statute of Finwë and Míriel as it appears in HoME volume 10, Míriel dies and leaves her body and goes to Mandos, and then ten presumably solar years later, Finwë goes crying to the Valar about how he can’t get laid anymore. ten years is an elvish minute, tbh, that’s like No Time At All.
he insists he’s entitled to a wife and more children, and he knows Míriel won’t come back, and he goes on and on about how he’s Lonely and Grieving and Sad and Miserable and the whole thing comes across like him whining about being deprived of sex
Míriel refuses to return, saying she left her body to escape great sorrow - which, yeah, can believe that if this is your husband’s reaction to no longer being able to get laid. Finwë refuses to consider her needs, insisting that he be allowed to remarry because He’s Sad, Isn’t It Sad, Am Deprived, Need Wife. he’s like a guy on AITA asking if he’s the asshole for wanting a divorce because his wife spends all day dealing with postpartum depression and she’s no fun to be around.
I was kind of being hyperbolic in my first post but also not really. Boy he comes across badly. And his remarriage and mishandling of all his parenting tasks causes all the later tragedy.
Ok so the last person to try to pick apart this flaming trainwreck of a post was suicide baited so let’s see how I go.
No. Just. No. This is literally the least charitable reading of a character that I have ever seen. You cherry picked one specific version and then did some olympic level mental gymnastics to justify this “woke” “feminist” take.
This is the passage dealing with this from the shibboleth. Notice how it talks about how great finwe’s grief is? Yeah i noticed that that was missing from this take. Sure looks like a dude who is super upset about this whole thing to me.
Not only that, but the passage above clearly shows how bullshit your line about him repeatedly making advances on Miriel’s body is. In that, he’s not insisting that Miriel return, because she has said that she does not want to. He’s just asking if he is supposed to remain alone forever.
Which brings us to the crux of this whole matter. People who go through spousal death (which this is, it’s an unprecedented situation in-universe, but Miriel stating that she probably will never want to return is about as close as an elf gets to true permanent death) have the right to move on. The fact that your post completely shoves onto Finwe the valar’s decision that if he marries Indis, Miriel will never be able to return, is honestly like you’re just looking for someone to blame. This is another thing that is deeply fucked up btw, telling someone that they can either be alone probably forever, in a world where literally everyone else is paired off and playing happy families if you go by LaCE, or he can move on but his wife is definitely gone forever is. that’s some real fucked up shit ngl.
What gets me the most about this whole thing is your insistence that ten years for elves is “nothing”. Unless you can point me to where it literally says that elves just live differently in time and ten years is actually ten minutes, ten years is still ten years no matter how old you are. A week seems less long to me now than it did when i was young, but it’s still a week. When it comes to Maedhros’ torture, do you say that ~thirty years is nothing to an elf? Of course not, a year in pain is still a year in pain no matter how many you have. The same applies to grief.
I also find deeply troubling some of the implications in this post where you repeatedly tie Finwë “whining about being unable to get laid” to “the tragedy of the Noldor is basically built on the fact that a man felt entitled to a woman’s body despite her continued and consistent refusal of his advances.” I am certain that it was not your intent to call Finwe a marital rapist but it sure makes it sound like it.
Also, I cannot believe you have literally blamed Finwe for everything that happened in the silm like… melkor doesn’t exist? Or that other characters, who have their own agency and own mistakes, also exist?
What really gets me the most about this post is, I don’t care if you like Finwe or not. That’s fine. But this post just raises so many questions if you are this desperate to make him into a villain. Why does anyone have to be the villain of this tale? Surely the big tragedy of the Noldor is because it’s actually so easy to see it happening in real life. People who make poor choices but in the end are really just trying their best.
I don’t even like Finwe/Indis, and I personally think he should have waited for Miriel, and that is how upset this post has made me - I am arguing against my own natural inclinations here because this is such an awful take on grief and moving on. It can be argued that the real analogy for Miriel would be that she’s in a coma, but since Miriel has made her wishes known that she does not want to return, with only a very very vague “maybe” in future, I am considering her dead.
Miriel has a right to happiness, of course she does, but crucially this is Finwe respecting her wishes. It is Miriel who does not want to return. Finwe’s son is growing up and ten years may not be a lot to an elf as you have said, but it is a lot with a growing child. This is speculation verging into headcanon territory but I feel if you are allowed to so blatantly character assassinate Finwe, I am allowed to speculate that perhaps Finwe wanted a mother for Feanor. Plenty of single dads irl do.
Tl;Dr this is one of the worst posts I’ve ever seen and I’ve been angry about this for the last three days and anyone who has uncritically reblogged this post without questioning it needs to take a hard look at themselves and question how they would respond to someone irl who had waited for years after their spouse died (with a young son) and wanted to remarry. Because if it’s like this, then I worry for you.
Thank. You.
The original post was so fucked I couldn't even start on it. But
aredhel for @ardaneedsmorepride
↳ ‘when she was grown to full stature and beauty she was tall and strong, and loved much to ride and hunt in the forests. there she was often in the company of the sons of fëanor, her kin; but to none was her heart’s love given’
i can’t breathe
When I tell you I snorted!
legolas:
gimli:
aragorn:
gandalf:
BLEASE
Eomer:
Boromir:
Elrond:
This post is like getting pelted with marshmallows shot out of a tennis ball launcher
Guys. I have seen this post probably DOZENS of times.
I saw it on Pinterest before I had a tumblr account I’m PRETTY sure.
And I only NOW realized that these are the actual…actors???
FML
my faceblindness: White guy all same tee hee
we are all joined together by the force of ????