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”Now come ye all, who have courage and hope! My call harken to flight, to freedom in far places!

The woods of the world whose wide mansions yet in darkness dream drowned in slumber, the pathless plains and perilous shores no moon yet shines on nor mounting dawn in dew and daylight hath drenched for ever, far better were these for bold footsteps than gardens of the Gods gloom-encircled with idleness filled and empty days.”

--- Lays of Beleriand, HoMe III

|| I have so much love for this version of the speech to the Ñoldor. There are so many figures of speech and it’s very poetic. And it makes me wonder how many different versions of the speech could exist in-universe, transcribed by different scholars in different languages.

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          || A reminder that you can find me active here on my Dragon Age blog. I also post some stuff on my ooc sideblog, mostly Silmarillion, Dragon Age and occasionally bunnies. This hiatus is lasting longer than I expected, which saddens me a little, but writing Silmarillion-exclusive things is very difficult at the moment. Not exactly sure why. I can take shorter threads though, I think. Or banter. So if you want to do banter and we’re mutuals? Hit me up. Maybe I’ll get some inspiration back.

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EIGHT PEOPLE I’D LIKE TO GET TO KNOW BETTER: If you see this and you wanna do it, do it, and tag me in it so that I can read.

TAGGED BY. @fireinherveins

ONE. NAME / ALIAS.  Gaia. TWO. BIRTHDAY. November 20th. THREE. ZODIAC SIGN. Scorpio. FOUR. HEIGHT. 5′9′’ / 179cm FIVE. TIME. You mean what time is it? Currently 19_05 GMT+1 SIX. SLEEP. Wild laughters. It’s not rare that I go more than 24 hours without sleep, you only need to know that. SEVEN. FAVOURITE BOOKS. You cannot ask me this and expect me to come up with an answer… but alright, some of my lifelong favourites are Watership Down by Richard Adams and The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. EIGHT. FAVOURITE ARTISTS.  Like… painters, sculptors, musicians…? Uuuh, alright, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Michelangelo (for sculptors), Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Botticelli (for painters), Verdi, Puccini and Wagner (opera composers) and many others I can’t remember. NINE. LAST MOVIE I WATCHED. The Martian just this afternoon. TEN. COLLEGE. We call it “university” here. Anyway, a first degree in the Academy of Fine Arts (specifically costume and scenography in theatre and cinema), and now I attend courses on foreign languages and literatures. ELEVEN. DREAM JOB. It’s not exactly a job but I want a Nobel in literature.  TWELVE. THE MEANING BEHIND YOUR URL. Pretty much his name in Quenya, first the father-name and then the mother-name, which respectively mean “skilled-Finwe” and “spirit of fire”. 

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I suddenly want a modern AU where Fëanor runs a blog and does in fact start writing his tags in the IPA just to fuck with people who use fancy symbols in theirs. Because that's clever, hilarious and also makes me kinda want to slap someone, so it'd clearly be perfectly in character for him.

|| …He would do that though. He really would. ju ɑr tɛmptɪŋ mi maj frɛnd

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tag 10 people you want to get to know better ! tagged by: @theharellan (thanks friend!)

name: Gaia birthday: November 20th relationship status: Not in a relationship zodiac sign: Scorpio siblings: None pets: None, but I once had bunnies time: 00:47 am (GMT +1) type of phone: I think... it’s a Samsung...? love or lust: Both? Why not both? lemonade or iced tea: Neither, lord spare me. cats or dogs: Cats coke or pepsi: Coke day or night: I’d like to say day but I’m always awake during the night and at this point I don’t even notice the difference anymore. meet a celebrity: I look in the mirror every morning, it’s a nice experience. ...Okay, but on a serious note I met a bunch of actors by chance, and also met Terry Brooks and Ken Follett? And... maybe the current head of state here in Italy counts too. chapstick or lipstick: Lipstick city or country: Both, though it depends on the place exactly. last song you listened to: Harvest of Sorrow by Blind Guardian, for the extra Silmarillion feelings.

Tagging:  @theeternalsun, @oftheranger, @guthcwen, @howeveryclever, @ofthemark, @theplaguelord, @mordorshi, @grishildr... whoever else wants to do it tbh

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Okay so, adventures in writing Fëanor: Fingolfin edition. Until I started working on this fic I never quite appreciated how Fëanor perceives Fingolfin as this explosive riddle wrapped up in a poisonous enigma. Fingolfin's got ulterior motives for his ulterior motives. Fëanor can sense that he's Up To Something, but he's 50% right and 50% horribly wrong about why that is. And I can't get them to stop side-eyeing each other long enough to accomplish anything. It's like herding cats.

|| I do think that at a certain point they stopped understanding each other, and they never really did that properly to begin with. There was likely a time when Fëanor did not really care to understand his brother, a time when… maybe didn’t eactly “get along”, but they tolerated each other’s company just fine (likely kinda canon).

Fëanor’s real interest in understanding Fingolfin grows during the time of the feud; of course his deductions are only partially right. Fingolfin doesn’t get Fëanor on an intimate level, but gets his reactions and, above all, understands “the public”, a thing that I think Fëanor never was perceptive of or cared about. Their methods in approaching people are different. Or rather, Fingolfin has a method, Fëanor lacks it.

And let me tell you: “I can’t get them to stop side-eyeing each other long enough to accomplish anything” is a very good summary of the entire feud of the House of Finwë.

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Six facts 

I was tagged by @doegred​

I am not inclined to use any endearing nickname for Fëanor. Nothing like “my child” and such, and it happens very rarely even with other characters. The farthest I went, I think, is “my poor darling”, usually describing some kind of asshole. On the other side there is a Dragon Age character who is just MY MAN. In caps lock. (It's Ser Thrask. Thrask is my man.) 

If I have the time for a proper meal, I always eat first main course (usually pasta. ...Who am I kidding, it’s always pasta), second main course (meat or fish with a side dish) and dessert. If I am in a restaurant, I also eat a starter and add a digestif at the end of it. Wine always present.

I have a bunch of pretty stationery that I need to use. But I’m so very slow when it comes to actually sending the mail. Sometimes a letter sits on my desk for days and days before I remember to mail it.

Bunnies.

I have come to the conclusion that, more often than not, I roleplay dads.

At the moment I have several messages sitting in my inbox that are waiting for a reply. If you are one of those who is waiting, I am sorry and I’ll do it soon-ish.

Tagging some of my newest followers: @telahlin, @courtxjewel, @ofbrokenimages, @aurcrean