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Where do the dwarves go after they die?
The dwarves believe that after death Aulë gathers them in the Halls of Mandos, but in halls set apart from those holding the other Children of Ilúvatar. The Longbeards also have a legend that Durin will return to them seven times carrying the same name and reign as king, suggesting dwarves may also believe in some form of reincarnation
cultural clothes are not your elven aesthetic
All clothes are cultural clothes. Every piece of clothing we humans wear is an artifact of the place, time, and society that made and used it.
This is not an aesthetic blog, by the way. This is an inspiration and reference blog I created to index my personal hoard of pictures/meta/misc. I am neither an artist nor a filmmaker, so if I want to envision my version of Tolkien’s legendarium, I need to find things that imitate the images in my head. I chose influences based on any number of factors such as: climate, resource availability, cultural values, conjecture based on similar real life civilizations, and personal preference. If others find my collection interesting or inspiring, I’m happy to share. If you don’t, you’re quite free to find something more to your liking elsewhere.
OK BUT Elves meeting polyandry and polygamy. Just think of it. Just IMAGE. Elf: Where is your wife? Man: she is at home with her other husband. Elf:?!?!!! Elf: ... this is your child. Woman: yes. Elf: but not your blood. Woman: no, it is of my sister-wife. Elf:?!?!?!?!
Oh my, the elves would be very confused! Especially since all participants are alive at the same time. But humans are already kind of weird and promiscuous by elvish standards, so the elves would probably just shake their heads and deal with it.
I imagine they’d always be doubtful the marriages would work out though, considering their only experience of multiple marriages ended in catastrophe.
Regarding your post about the Numenor's population. I hope you don't mind, but I think your high-end estimates are kinda implausible. Yes, Numenor would be capable of supporting some (or over) 100 million people but with today's level of technology and globalization. Tolkien toyed with the idea of "steampunk" Numenor embracing the industrial revolution level but went with the more traditional "high fantasy" of development, just more advanced than the Gondor’s one.
I had written a revised version of that post, which I have just reblogged, that you may not have seen. Really, anybody’s figures are a guess, and you’re welcome to prefer whichever ones you like.
Tolkien didn’t write much about Numenor at all, and was quite fond of revising what he did write. Since there was no published version (that Christopher Tolkien did not put together from his father’s notes), we can’t definitively say we have a canon, except what was included in the LOTR appendices.
Personally, a more technologically advanced Numenor with a high population makes the most sense to me. It doesn’t even have to be pushed as far as steampunk; I prefer a Numenor just on the cusp of industrialization myself. Tolkien never accounted for technological advancement in his timelines. Numenor stood uninvaded for over 3,000 years. 3,000 years ago, our world was just seeing Stonehenge built, and Egypt’s first dynasty had existed for about 100 years. Think of all humanity has done in 3,000 years!
It’s really much stranger that the Numenoreans didn’t invent guns and tanks after all that time. They had plenty of peace and resources to devote to technological advancement, and low levels of disease and childhood mortality for much of their early history. Either way, Numenor created great feats of engineering and marvels their descendants couldn’t dream of. They conquered the whole world and built an empire out of it, and even dared make war on the land of the gods. The Numenoreans do plenty of legendary things that have never happened in our world. I don’t think a high population density is too much of a stretch.
Hello! There's a way to learn the Adunaic? Because I'm doing some research about, but I cannot find any informations .-. If you could help me, I'm going to be very happy :)
Tolkien never finished his work on the Adunaic language, so you can’t technically learn his version. But some fans have reconstructed more complete versions of Adunaic based on his writing, and you can learn those.
The best source on Tolkien’s Adunaic is Ardalambion’s page on Adunaic. They also have the best wordlist I know of. This is the source I use most frequently.
Another grammar guide I’ve often consulted is this one. This version is no longer available on the website, because the author actually wrote an updated version and published a book.
If you want a neo-Adunaic course, then there’s a downloadable pdf with lessons here.
You can also find clips of the way Adunaic may have sounded here.
Realelvish.net has some constructed neo-Adunaic wordlists, name lists, and phrasebooks.
I wrote a guide for writers making Adunaic character names.
On tumblr, @beruthielthequeen has some vocabulary and poetry in neo-Adunaic.
If anyone else has good resources, please feel free to add them to the list via reblog or comment!
I love this blog so much.
Thank you, I’m really happy to hear that! Please have a great weekend :)
that's.. a lady's dress.. i'm picturing sauron walking around mordor in drag
Why is it that out of all of my Tolkien heresies, my clothing choices for Sauron are apparently the most radical? I don’t understand, this is the second ask I’ve gotten on the subject.
If you want the long answer, read this, but the short answer is that A. Sauron having a body and what it looks like/the genitals it has is more of an optional choice because he’s a powerful angel-like spirit who helped create the world, and B. ‘lady dress’ is a culturally derived concept grounded in the expectations of Western fashion, and in non-Western cultures dress-like or robe-like garments can be perfectly normal masculine coded clothing.
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might I suggest sea silk (Pinna nobilis) as a fiber used by the Teleri and Falmari?
Good suggestion! I think the Falmari might produce sea silk. It’s made from the fine fibers a certain species of mussel (pinna mobiles) uses to anchor itself to the rocks. They only live in the Mediterranean and seem to be rather rare and fragile (they’re currently a threatened species), so sea silk is likely extremely rare and expensive, probably only available to royalty and the highest nobility, similar to our own world.
