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Eru Iluvatar in the Second Age:

1. *sinks an entire continent with 15 million people on it*

2. "That's it mister! You just lost your slut privileges!"

3. *refuses to elaborate*

4. *leaves*

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So, I spent the holidays reading 'Meanwhile in Ost-in-Edhil' series by @elennalore and thinking 'I must draw something', and then I did.

It's an illustration to 'Cellar Door', a fic that nearly made me cry.

(There's a pattern here, isn't it? First, I cry over a fic, then I go and draw something, hehehe, maybe one day it'll make me good at drawing).

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Can someone, please, for the love of Eru, make any actual designs for the seven and the nine rings?

Let's not talk about "The Rings of Power". I want actually lore-wise, accurate and noldolin Rings.

I'm starving for designs, despite the knowledge we have of the Three, what we know of the Seven and the Nine is very little.

Had Sauron influenced the form and the designs by his presence? Were they made thicker than the three to symbolize chains? Were the gems different among them, or were they the same, to hint at the same goal?

I NEED TO KNOW!

#lord of the rings #the seven rings of dwarves #the nine rings of men #celebrimbor #telperinquar #tyelpe #the silmarillion #the silm fandom #lotr #the one ring #sauron #annatar #the second age #dwarves #nazgul

imagine tyelpe being drunk and singing 1985 (by bo burnam) about feanor in front of annatar and narvi back in eregion

the other two looking at eachother like wtf??

just substitute every “white guy, 1985” to “noldor, age of the trees” and “dad” to “grandfather”

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FROM TEA AND SECOND BREAKFAST IN THE SHIRE TO FACING DOWN MORGOTH'S EVIL.

GIF INFO: Spotlight on what, personally, I find to think is the coolest-looking, most terrifying Orc adversary in the entire "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001) motion picture, the unidentified, more than likely, female goblin warrior encountered in the mines of Moria. Creature makeup effects/design by Wēta Workshop.

PIC #2: In second place, my second favorite Orc creature design was the unidentified Orc Taskmaster, who ultimately oversaw the Isengard Orcs working in the caverns, breeding Goblin-men and forging weapons for the Great Enemy's army of Uruk-hai warriors.

Sources: https://tenor.com/view/goblin-moria-moria-goblin-ortadunya-ork-gif-319813380959318563, various, etc...

Some thoughts about the First Age (WoT)

Most of us know that the Wheel of Time is not a mediaeval-esque fantasy world, but a post-apocalyptic scenario taking place many thousands of years in the future of our world. This is made clearer in the books, which contain references to ancient stories such as "Lenn who flew to the moon in the belly of an eagle made of fire," and "Salya his daughter who walked among the stars." These refer to John Glenn and Sally Ride, respectively. My favourite reference, which is "Mosk (Moscow) and Merk (America) who fought with spears of fire," also appears quite early in the series.

There are more, but in the "First Age" page of the WoT wiki, you can find some of Robert Jordan's notes, which read:

"The First Age ended when fire rained from the heavens. The flesh of men melted, and those who did not melt were charred like coals. Plagues, boils and sores roamed the world and famine, yet to eat or drink often meant death, for waters and fruits that once were wholesome now slew at the eating. Even the air or the dust could slay. The wind could bring death. Rivers filled with dead fish and birds fell from the sky. Invisible vapours from the land that slew. Noxious fumes that corroded men’s flesh.

Man stretched forth his hands to the heavens, and seized the stars, and called them his own. For his presumption man was purged of his greatness, purged of knowledge and abilities, reduced to an animal to begin again the climb to the Light…”

This seems to imply that a nuclear holocaust ended the First Age, our Age, which erased nearly all scientific and social progress. It would also, I suspect, be the source of humanity's access to the One Power, whether from rapid genetic mutation or perhaps some dimensional/scientific/space faring shenanigans prior to the end of the Age.

Speaking of, the Ogier, according to their page, were not constructs of the One Power like the Nym, but people from another dimension who arrived in either the First or Second Age. I question whether it was willingly, since humans appear to have put the Ogier to work growing food; however, this dimension-diving might well have been the research which revealed the existence of the One Power as well (pure speculation).

Note that mention of humans living as wild animals, which suggests that the amount of time between the end of the First Age and the Second was probably many thousands of years, possibly dozens of thousands, as the end of the Second Age was significantly more advanced than our time now.

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