#silmarillon

[redreyenotarget]

I missed drawing him

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[peasant-player]

Valinor!Maglor 💜 🎶

I strongly recommend zooming in to see his beautiful face 😌✨️

I used the oil painting from here as a reference and I'm very proud if this <3

[comeontakemyname]

Nerdanel and Fëanor over a baby Curufin:

Nerdanel: Absolutely not, Fëanáro, his first word will be ammë!

Fëanor: No, I can feel it, he is a father's boy! You named him yourself! His first word will be atar!

Curufin: -gurgles-

Nerdanel: Say ammë, a-m-m-ë!

Fëanor: Say atar! Or perhaps atya, which is a permutation of the--

Curufin: N, n, n, n....

Nerdanel: Oh! He's trying to say my name! How sweet! And see? An elfling will call for his moth--

Curufin: NELLLYOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

- Camera pans to a frazzled, disheveled, and tired looking Maedhros with Maglor, Celegorm, and Caranthir already hanging off him -

[xximmortalkissxx]

Andreth: Why is it that elleths can marry one of the Edain? But when I, Andreth, Wise-Woman of the Bëorians, wish to wed one of the Eldar, "such a union would only be for a high Doom, though it would still be brief and painful."??

Haleth: *holding a peredhel on her hip while Caranthir files their joint taxes* Skill issue.

[sadsilmarilsoup]

Sibling portraits (ft. cool blue table!!)

Finduilas & Gil-galad

[moringottocake]

The thing is, when I dove into the silm fandom, my first interest were well-researched and layered (Sauron) redemption fics, because they are the closest to what fascinates me: Growth and development of a character who has done evil things and gradually realizes there is more they did not consider yet in life. I am interested in the internal process of this growth. The pains, regrets, awkwardness, guilt, and the tonnes of responsibility weighing their mind down to force them to become, and no longer just "be".

And this forward and open ended growth that that interests me is not redemption in the literal sense: bringing the evildoer back into the fold and see them conform to a prescribed good.

That's bending over backwards. Ouch!

So I never even tried my hand at a dark lord redemption fic. It's been done wonderfully by some pretty amazing authors.

So instead I ask myself how interesting an opposittion to the Valar and Eru can look like and be a change from what Tolkien already wrote. And by interesting I mean showing the Dark Lords as forces of messy, weird, and sometimes ingenious becoming as a foil to the stagnant idea of bliss in Valinor.

That's also why I love seeing how Melkor is sometimes framed as the Valar of change. And if you decide to depict Manwë as the keeper of "We have always done it this way", the conflict writes itself without even using labels like good or evil anymore, so the discussion gets even more interesting.

And then there are the facets of humor I love when critiquing things to make it entertaining and fun.

Good crack can be the most serious thing you have read in a while.

[lady-of-ithilien]

couldn’t get this out of my head after seeing @melians-griddle ‘s username

[finrodsketchbook]

Beren and Luthien in twelve panels, panel 1/12 :

Beren sees Luthien for the first time in Doriath

tagging @xximmortalkissxx,

someone else wanna be tagged?