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@lotro-week Day 2: NPCs | Favourite Locations | Sidequests
The Lady of Death, Daughter of Strife, Champion of Angmar and my special princess with a disorder…Amarthiel!
HEY SO GUESS WHO GOT HERSELF A LIL COMMISSION FROM @drpumpkinsart AS A TREAT
it was me :3 I've always wanted to have a [Portrait of Narmeleth] to hang up in my house, but seeing as it was just a teensy lil jpg in a video game it would never survive being blown up to that scale. SO I thought to myself "hey why don't I just pay my cool artist friend to remake it in its style?" AND TURNS OUT THAT WAS A REALLY GOOD IDEA. I AM EATING THIS IMAGE
I've been wondering if some of the creative team for Rings of Power played/plays Lotro.
A blonde elf student of Celebrimbor(as seen in a flashback)
A blonde elf student of Celebrimbor(as seen in Rings of Power)
A blonde elf and former student of Celebrimbor, corrupted by a ring.
A blonde elf and former student of Celebrimbor, corrupted by...
Just look at that hair.
Welcome back, Narmeleth/Amarthiel 😭
SPOILER: unfortunately, she couldn't survive in any LOTR universe, my poor girl.
I needed an evil arc for my girl Mirdania, but maybe they didn't want to end up in a lawsuit with the LOTRO developers. Such a pity. WE NEED FEMALE VILLAINS OKAY.
The Rise and Fall of Empires
Chapter 8: Mastermind, Makers, Pirates, Spies…and Necromancer (Part 2)
Fuck the update schedule, we deserve an extra chapter this week. Flashbacks, part 2 of 2!
On balance, Annatar was enjoying himself. The loss of his jewel of a city still burned like a brand, and Celebrimbor and many of his lesser favorite elves were under constant threat, out of his reach, or both. And the obsequious manner he had to maintain with the lords of Númenor was wearing thin.
But it was so pleasant to not only flex skills he’d let lie dormant for most of an Age of the World, but to have a real project for which to do so. Celebrimbor’s method of perfecting Arda was so slow that it became seductive, a never-ending series of daily, yearly, centennial minutiae. Now, Annatar held ever-fluctuating thousands of variables in his hands, and with every step of the equation he reduced them—though to the layman they seemed at times to grow—down toward perfect nothingness.
Most of all, Annatar enjoyed practicing necromancy again. It was the one craft he’d never been able to convince Celebrimbor to appreciate, much less to practice. (To be fair, it required power and perception far beyond that of a mere elf.) The marvel of a captured fëa in his hands, thrashing in desperate frenzy with every last speck of life and will that Eru had gifted it! The moment of unmatched beauty when it finally submitted and fell still, like a lake returned to picture-perfect after a stone’s ripples finally ceased! And the picture it then reflected, of course, was Annatar’s own admirable will…
Not that he pursued such stillness now, of course. These were not the grand old days of hunting prey through a dark forest or sweeping a net through a bloody battlefield and mauling, warping, breaking to bloodlust and chaining to service... Just a bud of trust watered here, a nightmarish memory muffled there—nothing that stood out from the natural effects of time and acclimatization.
[keep reading on AO3]
anyway LOTRO fans who are also ROP watchers what if Narmeleth as Mirdania AU
Obscure Tolkien Blorbo: Round 4
Narmeleth vs Golfimbul
Narmeleth:
Elf of Lindon & later the Gwaith-i-Mirdain; crafted & entrapped by a minor ring of power (Lord of the Rings Online character)
Narmelleth!!! I mean. She's got it all. Corrupted by the Gift Lord, Ring-forger, Bane of Fornost, Earnur's Worstie, COOL OUTFIT, Redemption Arc we didn't start the fire
she actually managed to destroy the lesser ring of power "Annatar" had used to corrupt her, which is like, SO impressive considering how long she had been under its influence. She also fought Mordirith (the steward of Angmar) and his new champion Mordrambor (a universally loathed NPC that everyone rightfully hates for personal reasons) single-handedly!! I don't mean alone, the player character was there, but I mean she did it single-handed. with one hand. she lost a hand and kept fighting. and WON!!!
Golfimbul:
A king of Orcs whose beheading by Bandobras Took led to the invention of golf.
Look the guy was instrumental to the invention of golf in middle earth, what more could you want
Who is your blorbo?
Narmeleth
Golfimbul
Round 4 masterpost
Narmeleth doesn’t get enough love. She is basically the female Celebrimbor, and what he might have become had he joined Sauron instead of defying him.
She is also the best villain/antihero in LOTRO.
