and even dragons have their endings

An elf of Lindon wandering through Ferelden

[mcpayne]

"In the novel, [The Creature] gets lost in the ice and the fog and disappears. I thought, 'What if he embraces the sun? The most humble thing we can do. You stand alone. The sun is rising.'"- Guillermo Del Toro

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“A soul that carries empathy is a soul which has survived enormous pain.”

— Unknown

[corvidprompts]

The fae smiled, sharply: “Give me your name, child.”

“Uhhhhh. Stick.”

“What.”

“Does Leaf work better? I’m just kinda looking around this clearing. Look, I’m trans, I haven’t decided on one yet, I’m throwing some spaghetti at the wall, you know how it is.”

[shadeshadow234]

Fae are born with features sharp and narrow, yet this one seems to soften as Moss looks at it. Its grin— sharp, teeth gleaming, its eyes— cutting, searching, the jut and pull of its jaw enough to scratch glass. It does not blink. Branch does not blink. It softens.

“I said, give me your name, child.”

“I still haven’t picked one,” Grass defends, even now still hoping for a way out of a faeries deal.

“No. But your parents did. Give me your name, child, and it shall no longer be yours. The entity of your name shall no longer exist, and you will be free for whichever name you choose— Leaf, or Stick, or Lichen.”

“…oh.” says Petal, and in the next moment a name falls from their lips. It is not their name. It never has been. The fae is sharp and cutting and witty, that moment of softness an imagined slight.

“Very well, child. Be warned of mushroom circles, should you lose your name again.”

“Okay,” Mushroom smiles, and the Fae pulls itself away from their reality in a swirl of feathers and silk.

When they go home for the first time in two months, their mother frets over them in a way she had not since they were a child, and she calls them by no name at all.

[iwhumpyou]

Goddamn.  This is my favorite version of ‘faeries take your name’, that’s it, we can all go home now.

[lord0fries]

The fae said trans rights

[arofili]

ok the burning of the ships pisses me off, obviously because it’s morally reprehensible, but also it’s literally the STUPIDEST thing Feanor could do as a military commander. like you’re abandoning the main part of your army??? you’re destroying any possibility of a navy??? i know you’re literally Inventing war so you don’t have much history to study but this part specifically is NOT that complicated my dude!!! you are going up against A GOD, who is also the most powerful of the gods, and you’re shooting yourself in the foot right before you do it!!!

[first-son-of-finwe]

Feanor: I am going to do many things, but making a logical decision isn’t one of them

[broadwayz-deactivated20171002]

a midsummer night’s meme

[daughter-of-prospero]

my name is Puck and wen its nite or faerie-kind is in a fite the humans run i shout wyth glee “lord what fools these mortals be”

[magic-and-moonlit-wings]

This is what Shakespeare would have wanted.

[ashestoashesjc]

sorry, protagonists-who-end-up-in-fantastical-otherworldly-realms-and-spend-their-entire-time-there-trying-to-get-back-home, but I’m different

[ashestoashesjc]

“man, i sure do miss it back on earth where nothing’s magical and taxes are an eventuality and my parents are divorced,” sighed no one

[ashestoashesjc]

you know who’s president right now?

trick question! there’s no president in oz! just a wizard, and his is more of a ceremonial authority

[fell-reverie-deactivated2026051]

Story where the protagonist is trying like hell to stay in the fantastical otherworldly realm (because returning means going back to 2020) while most of the inhabitants try to get them back through the portal in a way that satisfies their inane fae rules

[ashestoashesjc]

someone… a wordsmith… please smith the words…

[estherkelldraws]

“They call me the Dread Wolf… what will they call you when this is over?”

[sugarchains]

ok im gonna eat BUT THIS GIRL ON TWITTER

shes chinese and also like a chinese historian and she watched the live action mulan 

the way she had me crying through this thread because its apparently V bad

like. 

its trying v hard to be historically accurate but theyre using terms/concepts that chinese people would NOT

and the battle scenes are bad please 

remind me to link it later, but oh my god

the pain she was in is like clearly felt through the tweets shes so upset

[sugarchains]

https://twitter.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1302352476465590272?s=19

I’m on mobile so it looks ugly but here!

[sugarchains]

This is the tweet specifically that made me yell

[background-noise-headache]

Reading this thread is infinitely more entertaining and enlightening than watching the actual film, fully recommend

[elvencantation]

also thought y’all would like this!!

(it’s called Iron Widow! also it’s poly!)

[phantom-kiwi]

Far From Home - Sam Tinnesz 

I was listening to that song the other day, it made me think of Here Lies the Abyss and I got emotional lmao

[marvelfandom]

Diana and Steve + incorrect quotes (14/?)

[magsbanes]

me: i want love

also me: doesn’t like dating apps, doesn’t go out, doesn’t put herself out there, always falls for unavailable people, is kinda ugly anyways

[bluetiefling]

The Great - 1.10 – featuring Voltaire

[silmaspens]

Elven Fashion Week

Nandor elves- wear rich and vibrant earth tones, complimented with a silvers and turquoise. Nandor clothing is sturdy and easy to move in, but ornamentation is not sacrificed for functionality. Their hair is almost always a shade of brown and is worn either very long and braided or styled short and manageable.

Avari elves- don’t see the light all that much and both their collective complexion and clothing traditions reflect that. Like the Nandor they prefer long braided hair or short and sleek styles. They prefer the darkest clothing of all the branches of elves, which they accent with deep blues, rich purples and sometimes irredescent hues. They never wear anything shiny or flashy, but they are fond of embroidery as long as it’s subtle.

Teleri elves (Sindar & Falmari)- are almost the same people aesthetic wise. Clothing, adornment and hair styling are all practically the same save color schemes. Sindar adore darker blues and greens, while the Falmari are into pastel, or lighter colors, namely sea foam green and teal. Falmari elves absorb themselves in pearls, shells and corals, while their cousins the Sindar prefer silver and precious gems. All Teleri elves have varying shades of blue eyes. Silver hair is common in the Falmari while Black hair is more common in the Sindar.

Vanyar- long golden hair, amber eyes and sun kissed skin are the main features of this branch of elves. Each vanyar has a fondness/devotion to a specific Vala which they model their personal clothing after. Embroidered golden feathers or jeweled vines for Manwe or Yvanna, a radiating headdress for Varda or flowing robes that dance and shimmer like fire for Aule.

Noldor- unless they are busy crafting, their hair is worn free, very long and unstyled. Almost all of the Noldor have green eyes and black hair, with red hair being very rare (they are the only group that has redheads). Noldor will wear all the colors on the spectrum in a variety of styles. They have the most ornate clothing of all the elves, and are famous for their intricate embroidery and stunning jewelry which is always worn with tremendous pride.

[arwenindomiel]

Brown Tolkien characters

Archana Akil Kumar as Luthien Tinuviel 

See this amazing edit by @arofili 

 Mahesh Jadu as Beren Erchamion

casting shamelessly stolen from arofili’s edit 

 Shoba Narayan as Arwen Undomiel

See this edit by arofili

Manish Dayal as Aragorn

Avan Jogia as Legolas 

Sacha Dhawan as Thranduil

Suriya as Oropher 

Mindy Kaling as Galadriel

Raymond Ablack as Celeborn 

Tiya Sircar as Celebrían

Dev Patel as Elrond

Padmini as Melian

Nikesh Patel as Denethor

Varshita Thatavarthi as Finduilas 

Rana Daggubati as Boromir

casting shamelessly stolen from @lesbiansforboromir​‘s edit

Ritesh Rajan as Faramir

[penny-anna]

Bilbo was declared dead while he was away in the Hobbit (and had to do a bunch of paperwork to get declared alive again) but there’s no indication he was formally declared dead after leaving the Shire, even though most people assumed he had died.

Therefore I posit: having a missing person declared dead in the Shire requires the consent of their next of kin. Whoever Bilbo’s next of kin was at the time of the Hobbit (possibly Otho? I’m not sure) had him declared dead at the first opportunity but Frodo refused to ever do it.

Frodo had anxious hobbit bureaucrats knocking on his door every couple of years like ‘Mr Baggins… blease… it’s been 10 years… he was eleventy-one… can we fill out his death certificate yet’ and Frodo was like ‘absolutely not’.

Early on he genuinely couldn’t bring himself too but after a while it was more that he enjoyed irritating the local magistrate’s office than anything else.

[61below]

I raise you: the hobbitish bureaucracy has no means to re-declare someone dead. They had no precedent to declare someone who was once-dead dead again. They would need the Thain, the Mayor, and the Master of Buckland to agree to changing the statute, and since the Thain and the Master are too amused by the whole henclucking that they haven’t gotten round to it just yet.

[telltalelily]

I’m upping the stakes with: last time Bilbo was declared dead when he was, in fact, not dead, they removed the law stating that you can have someone declared dead without a body, so when Bilbo left (happily aware of this legal loophole and snickering) he could never become legally dead again.

[penny-anna]

I am loving the implication here that Bilbo can literally never die in the eyes of the law. He’d love that.

[apathetic-revenant]

a hobbit parent telling their kids the story of Mad Baggins and being like “thanks to a loophole in hobbit law he’s technically still alive today”

a hobbit child misinterprets this and lies awake at night worrying that Mad Baggins is still out there and will appear in their room without warning 

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Alternatively: the laws for declaring somebody dead if they’re missing for long enough are still in place, but the magistrates are just refusing to enforce them in this particular case.

After all, last time they declared Bilbo Baggins dead— which involved filling out all the paperwork necessary to declare somebody dead without a body— he had the rudeness to show up again, forcing them to do a lot more paperwork, and this time with an indignant Bilbo having a go at them while they did it.

As a result, the magistrates have decided that they’re not going to declare Bilbo Baggins dead a second time unless they have a body, a coroners reprt explaining the cause of death, and a three day wake to make sure that he doesn’t get up and walk away again.

Centuries later, hobbit parents tell their children that Mad Baggins is forever gone from the shire— at least until the day when somebody is stupid enough to declare him legally dead, at which point legend states that he will immediately come marching back, demanding an explanation.

[algorizmi]

@rosefulevelyns

[just-evo-now]

The King Under The Mountain will come back at the hour of his kingdom’s greatest need

The Hobbit Under The Hill will come back when some punk dares to say he’s gone for good

[asexualityresources]

[palavenblues-blog]

holy shit there is a name for it

[queensimia-deactivated20181215]

Well damn. Explains a lot.

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

Suddenly I understand some of my fan base a LOT better.  That is Awesome. 

[obsessionisaperfume]

“holy shit there is a name for it” was my reaction before I even scrolled down to the comments.

[clucku]

I just need to keep reblogging this because I cannot even begin to tell you how profound a feeling of YES and THIS and THERE IS A WORD FOR ME OMG I get every time I see this, and I hope it helps others too.

[astronomifier]

seriously, anytime you see a post with a comment saying “theres a name for it?!” reblog that post because even if it doesnt apply to you any of your followers could be waiting for that revelation.

[thisdiscontentedwinter]

Always reblog, because I never knew there was a word for this. 

[whitepeopletwitter]