#silverphantomcat

[nathanielorion]

Hi, I just read through all your poetry I just. Your writing is absolutely beautiful, and time and again a line would take my breath away with its weight. Thank you.

Thank you very much!! This means a lot to me :)

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silverphantomcat replied to your post: none of the 99999999 things I need to get done by...

This is a mood except instead of learning anything useful like the seven nation army baseline I barely avoided shooting arrows into the street

hey dude, practice is practice ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[thelioninmybed]

silverphantomcat said: Isn’t there like a draft version where Maglor kills all his brothers and takes the Silmarils? Look at it this way, he at least didn’t do that in canon! Which, granted, is not a very high bar, but it makes the point that there’s definitely more evil he could do.

cycas said: @silverphantomcat where does that COME from? I thought I was pretty good on HoME but I can’t remember ever reading that…

On page 771 of my copy of HOME:

But the 'Nauglafring' remains hoarded secretly in Beren's keeping. When Mandos let Beren return with Luthien, it was only at the price that Luthien should be- come as shortlived as Beren the mortal. Luthien now fades, even as the Elves in later days faded as Men grew strong and took the goodness of earth (for the Elves needed the light of the Trees). At last she vanished, and Beren was lost, looking in vain for her, and his son Dior ruled after him. Dior re-established Doriath and grew proud, and wore the 'Nauglafring', and the fame of the Silmaril went abroad. After vain bargaining the sons of Feanor made war on him (the second slaying of Elf by Elf) and destroyed him, and took the 'Nauglafring'. They quarrelled over it, owing to the curse of the gold, until only Maglor was left. But Elwing daughter of Dior was saved and carried away to the mouth of the river Sirion 

And Christopher Tolkien’s commentary on page 794:

Lastly, in the story of Dior and the ruin of Doriath as told in S, there are various developments. The son of Dior, Auredhir (II. 240) has disappeared. The 'vain bargaining' be- tween Dior and the Sons of Feanor perhaps refers to the passage in the Tale (II. 241) where Dior asserts that to return the Silmaril the Nauglafring must be broken, and Curufin (the messenger of the Feanorians) retorts that in that case the Nauglafring must be given to them unbroken. In the Tale Maglor, Diriel, Celegorm, and Cranthir (or the earlier equiva- lents of their names) were killed in the battle (which there took place in Hithlum, where Dior ruled after his father); but in S, as first written, the story takes a very strange turn, in that the Feanorians did get their hands on the Nauglafring, but then so quarrelled over it that in the end 'only Maglor was left'. How the story would have gone in this case is impossible to discern.

I think there are other passages but HOME is really long even with ctrl+f!

@mainecoon76 apologies if my original post was unclear - I meant that the poem only applied to the nastiest possible interpretation of Maglor’s character. It’s certainly not my actual opinion that he’s a monster devoid of compassion and undeserving of pity. 

[slimegargoyle]

Okay so idk if anyone's pointed this out before, but I was reading The Price of Salt, right. And I came across the line, "The wine in her head promised music or poetry or truth..." I am screaming. WHY.

it just be like that sometimes 

[actualmermaid]

I guess for 16 I was kind of thinking along the lines of is there any character who you find yourself thinking about a lot, for whatever reason? I mean I definitely do this and turn characters and their motivations over and over for hours, so I was curious!

Yeah definitely! In most of my fandoms I tend to glom onto one character or one relationship or one specific part of the story for long periods of time and just entertain myself by thinking over all the little details. In the Silm fandom it’s definitely Maedhros. He’s my dude.

[thelioninmybed]

Tolkien Taliban replies (+misc)

imindhowwelayinjune replied to your post “Saw this garbage fucking book in a bookstore ‘The Heroes of Tolkien’...”

fucking idiots having the audacity to be wrong when you're ILL and not even at FIGHTING STRENGTH how honestly dare they let me at them

Please kick his ass for me, I’ll hold your HOME

imindhowwelayinjune replied to your quote “Frankly speaking, Mr. Goering, you and other members of your Tolkien...”

wat

stop cyberbullying him

imindhowwelayinjune replied to your post “ok but enough (for now) about idiots, I need to buy some bones. Can...”

your family is a gift

also alarming

i cant wait to meet them someday i'll bring taxidermy

Can your cousin hook me up with one of his sprayy painted deer skulls?

berrysphase replied to your post “Saw this garbage fucking book in a bookstore ‘The Heroes of Tolkien’...”

oh, dear.

I mean it about the cyberbullying you guys, don’t make Award Winning Tolkien Scholar David Day cry!

erotetica replied to your post “vardasvapors replied to your post: Saw this garbage fucking book in a...”

well he just saw the movie and assumed it must be the same

“Now I hate to appear over-sensitive” - a poor sensitive bab, in the middle of a 1.2k ramble over a bad Amazon review, be nice to him, he’s FRAGILE. 

theotherwesley replied to your quote “Frankly speaking, Mr. Goering, you and other members of your Tolkien...”

What am I even fucking looking at here this is surreal

theotherwesley replied to your post “Saw this garbage fucking book in a bookstore ‘The Heroes of Tolkien’...”

WHAT

theotherwesley replied to your post “actualmermaid replied to your post: crocordile replied to your post:...”

AMAZING

@Juliana i love you

Yeah this was basically my progression too...

crocordile replied to your post “crocordile replied to your post: Saw this garbage fucking book in a...”

I'm morbidly curious about the Túrin section 👀 I'll see if I can download this omg.. Although I've seen SO MUCH BAD META about the hurinin, let's see if this one brings something new to the game

PLEASE do this and post a trip report omgggg

thepioden replied to your post “ok but enough (for now) about idiots, I need to buy some bones. Can...”

roadthrills here on tumblr is trying to sell some stuff right now!

https://roadthrills.tumblr.com/post/166077305693/i-need-to-replace-my-computer-asap-because-i-have#notes is a link to their sales post

Thank you, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for!

crocordile replied to your post “actualmermaid replied to your post: crocordile replied to your post:...”

IM LAUGHING

Also.. Seconding getting done with the Elf stuff, all superficial, really uwu

SUPERFICIAL LIKE YOUR FACE okay but like, who would Turin brain with that goblet, it would be like 90% less hilarious without Saeros. 

icesalamander replied to your quote “Frankly speaking, Mr. Goering, you and other members of your Tolkien...”

is there like_{? non-abusive} bullying? but yes :D that page is just gold

This page is an absolutel treasure. “Despite reportedly selling over 4 million books,[4] Day is regarded as having a "bad reputation" amongst the Tolkien community.” (The [4] is, unsurprisingly, a link to David Day’s defunct website ahahahaha)

actualmermaid replied to your quote “Frankly speaking, Mr. Goering, you and other members of your Tolkien...”

oh my godddddddddddd

TOLKIEN TALIBAN

Like, if we didn’t already have a good idea as to why everyone was fucking blacklisting this asshole...

simaethae replied to your post “actualmermaid replied to your post: crocordile replied to your post:...”

....that tolkien gateway page is *amazing*

“It was noted by another commenter that Day had failed to provide a single reference from J.R.R. Tolkien to defend claims of inaccuracy.[15] Day asserts that his books are "extremely popular."” 

silverphantomcat replied to your post “Saw this garbage fucking book in a bookstore ‘The Heroes of Tolkien’...”

"losing an arm and giving up the kingship as a result"... how the hell does that have anything to do with feanor... as opposed to like... feanor's son... who did basically that???

Listen David Day is very popular and has won awards and the One Wiki To Rule Them All supports his work so honestly who is in the right here, I’m not sure Feanor even had sons.

[bigbangbuff]

Book asks: 1, 2, 16, 30?

1: What book did you last finish? When was that?

Literally the first question I get asked when I tell anyone over 40 that I do crew is “Have you read The Boys in the Boat?” so I finally forced myself to sit down and read it this year.  It took me a while because memoirs aren’t really my thing, but I actually ended up really liking it!  It’s truly a loveletter to the sport with the journey of the main characters from novices to Olympians, and their (true!) stories are really incredible.  It also handled the historical context pretty well!  It’s by Daniel James Brown, and I highly recommend it.

2: What are you currently reading?

Of Fire and Stars, by Audrey Coulthurst.  @silima​ lent it to me, and while its plot is nothing revolutionary, it’s refreshing to have a wlw relationship at the core of a YA fantasy!

16: If you could bring three books to a deserted island which would you bring and why?

Oof, only three?  Uhhh… I guess The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams; The Warrior Heir, by Cinda Williams Chima; and Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman, which I haven’t read yet but has been on my list for a while.

30: Who’s your favorite author?

I’ve only actually read two of his books (Stardust and Coraline) and a few of his short stories, but I adore Neil Gaiman’s writing style!  My book store expedition yesterday was supposed to be a quest for Good Omens, but I couldn’t find it and ended up taking three entirely different books by three entirely different authors home instead whoops ^^; I have a friend who has a copy so I’ll probably just borrow his.

[twinksauron]

asks: 7, 14, 49?

7. earbuds or headphones?headphones!! the only reason i own a pair of earbuds is that i wanted to be able to bike (while wearing a helmet) and enjoy some music at the same time shjkdsgs

14. favorite non-chocolate candy?any type of chocolate is my go-to when buying candy hgjgshdsjhsd but liquorice is v good!! esp the salty kind

49. what saying or quote do you live by? i honestly don’t have one but i do have a couple of quotes that i’ve read that really stuck with me and that motivate me to go on. the first one is from harold kushner’s book “to life!” which i highly recommend. i don’t remember the quote verbatim but the essence of it was that we do not desire immortality, only to die feeling that we did good, that we did enough. his wording was a lot punchier and I wish I could remember it cause I read it and it was just.... what a way to phrase it, what an absolute punch to the stomach

the second quote i don’t remember verbatim either, and i don’t remember the source more than it was another rabbi. it was abt that if u set out to do good, that itself is a good deed even if the outcome is not the one you were aiming for. ofc i know good intentions aren’t everything but thinking abt it helps me move on and not get stuck on my failures, which is smth that hasn’t been easy for me hsjhgskdghs