[Image description: Three colored pencil drawings of the Curufinwës from the Silmarillion. Fëanor is holding the first gems he created; Curufin is looking through a kaleidoscope; Celebrimbor is admiring a ring. End image description.]
The Creations of Curufinwë(s)
“The first gems that Fëanor made were white and colourless, but being set under starlight they would blaze with blue and silver fires brighter than Helluin...” (Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor)
“Curufin the crafty, who inherited most his father's skill of hand...” (Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië)
“In Eregion the craftsmen of the Gwaith-i-Mírdain, the People of the Jewel-smiths, surpassed in cunning all that have ever wrought, save only Fëanor himself; and indeed greatest in skill among them was Celebrimbor, son of Curufin...” (Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age)
Here’s the first of my art pieces for the @tolkienrsb 2020! I’m very excited to read the accompanying fic by the lovely 2Nienna2, which will be available on September 6!
References + more detailed image description under the cut!
[Detailed image description: Three colored pencil drawings of the Curufinwës from the Silmarillion. The first depicts Fëanor in his youth, grinning down at seven teardrop-shaped blue-white gems shining into his face. Fëanor is an elf man with brown skin, dark eyes, and black hair pulled up into a bun. He is wearing a gold crown-shaped hair piece, purple earrings (studs in his earlobes and three hoops along his long ear), a red apron with a purple belt, and light blue elbow-length work gloves. The background is a dark blue.
The second drawing depicts Curufin smiling as he looks through a brown kaleidoscope with purple, blue, and green rays shining out of it. Curufin is an elf man with a startling resemblance to Fëanor: he has brown skin and long black hair partially pulled up into a bun, but he is a little bit thinner and shorter than his father. He is wearing a silver triangle-shaped hair piece, a gold stud earring in his earlobe, three teal triangle-shaped earrings along his long ear, a red bead choker necklace, a gold chain necklace with its charm obscured by his arm, and two bracelets on each of his wrists. He is also wearing a pair of red glasses pushed up on his forehead as he squints into the kaleidoscope, red nail polish, a black robe with a red undershirt, and red arm bracers with yellow eight-pointed Fëanorian stars emblazoned on them. The background is a pale yellow.
The third and final drawing depicts Celebrimbor beaming up at a gold sapphire-studded ring he is holding up to the light. Celebrimbor is an elf man with the same brown skin, dark eyes, and black hair as his father and grandfather, except his hair is much curlier; he is broader than his father and taller than his grandfather. He is wearing several rings on the hand holding up the new ring (a silver ring on his ring finger, a gold ruby-studded ring on his forefinger, a red ring and a silver ring on his thumb), light teal nail polish, three gold hoop earrings beginning at his earlobe and going up his long ear, a golden crown-shaped hair piece, a silver choker necklace, and a purple shirt with red lining. The background is a light pink. End image description.]
Here is the link, which will be available on September 6th: https://archiveofourown.org/works/26198350/chapters/63755707
What really happened when the Quenya ban was announced? How did the Noldor react? And how did it affect both Noldor and the other elves from Beleriand?
Tags: Valinor, Pre-Darkening, The Girls Go Camping
Word Count: 8099
Summary:
"So, do you think the view is worth the undertaking?" She enquired.
"I think it's the most beautiful place I've ever been," Artanis answered honestly, "And it is my greatest privilege to be here with the most beautiful maiden I have ever seen."
Hello, Tolkien fans! In today’s Summer Showcase, we have something a little bit different - it’s a fanmix from the wonderful...
2Nienna2
A little bit of info about yourself: I’ve been in fandom for about three years, and I still feel very new. My primary activities are writing fic, writing poetry, and fanmixing, although recently I’ve started making art. Outside of fandom, I’m (training as) an opera singer, and I also volunteer at the zoo and am really passionate about sleep and dreams, especially lucid dreaming. Tolkien has impacted so much of my life. It was really his writings, as well as how I made a hobby of setting his poetry to music, that first got me interested in music in a more serious way. Reading LOTR for the first time at age 13 set off a flurry of thoughts and feelings in me that dramatically changed my beliefs and understanding of myself. I’m sure that can’t all be attributed to Tolkien, as I was also going through puberty, but they are very intertwined for me, and I definitely wouldn’t be having the experience I am today if not for Tolkien.
How are you joining in with TRSB20? I am writing, pinch hitting, arting, and treating. Phew! The TRSB is my favorite fandom event and it really made my summer last year, so this year I decided to go all out.
Númenor Playlist
Rating: G
Warnings: CNTW (aka... it’s Númenor. Songs referencing death and destruction, but nothing graphic)
This was my first fanmix, and it’s still one of my favorites. I have pretty much always entertained myself by connecting songs to stories. I had a lot of fun coming up with different aspects of Númenor and finding songs for them (although perhaps a dispraportionate amount of the songs ended up referencing the destruction.) I usually have at least one song in mind before starting on a fanmix, and this was no exception. In this case it was Blinding, which I listened to (along with the rest of the album) immediately after finishing the Akallabêth for the first time in an attempt to comfort myself but which just gave me even more Númenor feelings.
Top creative tips/words of wisdom for fellow participants: I’m a major procrastinator, so for me the biggest thing is forcing myself to actually write. I find it very helpful to set daily word count or time spent writing requirements (depending on whether I am writing online or in a notebook.) This could also be applied to art-ing, although in a bit of a different way. The main idea is just that you set a certain amount (however you measure that) to create every day until it’s done.
For example “I must write 500 words every day before I sleep. It doesn’t have to be “good” words, it just has to be words.” Obviously there are some days where this just can’t happen, and of course it depends on your schedule, but I think setting whatever goals are manageable for you and actually following through on them, not just sporadically but as part of your regular schedule, is extremely valuable (or at least it has been for me.) Relatedly, I find it very helpful in the first draft to freewrite, setting a 10 minute timer and writing nonstop until it goes off. The thing produced may be terrible, but it often isn’t, and even if it is, it often has a kernel of plot ideas or characterizations that end up becoming central.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: All Canon Relationships
Characters: Eventually every character in The Silmarillion
Additional Tags: Retelling, Poetry, Humor
Summary:
The Silmarillion, roughly paragraph by paragraph, as told through limericks. (In progress, currently just the Ainulindalë.)
