#tuvo

[tuvooakenoak]

love is in the air

[mhevarujta]

Tevildo is always seen as the precursor of Sauron, but they are characters who, other than fulfilling the same role in Beren and Luthien's story, are entirely different. Tevildo was disregarded. The villain that fought against Huan in the Story of Tinuviel was reworked.

But in The Book Of Lost Tales, there is a character called Tuvo, who always pulls my attention in the earlier versions of his story.

A and B call the wizard-king Tuvo, not Tu; in C he is not named, and in D he is Tu 'the fay', as in the tale. Evil asso- ciations of this being appear in A: 'Melko meets with Tuvo in the halls of Mandos during his enchainment. He teaches Tuvo much black magic.' This was struck out, and nothing else is said of the matter, but both A and B say that it was after the escape of Melko and the ruin of the Trees that Tuvo entered the world and 'set up a wizard kingship in the middle lands'.

Tuvo is rewritten and becomes Tu. A fay (the Maiar had not been conceived yet, Melian is also called 'fay') with strong magical power, who became a king among Elves who never left Palisor. He does not stand with Melkor. He is a protector of elves and men and ensures their safety when Melkor sends his agents.

All those versions are abandoned.

But I do wonder if the early versions of Tu/Tuvo's story were reworked for the early version of Sauron's story as we read it in The Lost Road:

Sauron was the chief servant of the evil Vala, whom he had suborned to his service in Valinor from among the people of the Gods. He was become a wizard of dreadful power, master of necromancy, foul in wisdom, cruel in strength, mis-shaping what he touched, twisting what he ruled, lord of werewolves: his dominion was torment.

Maybe I'm also affected by the name because, despite the fact that Tu/Tuvo 's character did not make it past the Book of Lost Tales, it also makes aesthetic sense lingustically that the name can be associated with 'Thu' and 'Gorthaur' (and therefore with Sauron's character).

Of course all of this is speculation. But, regardless, I think the association between the two brings an interesting element to the story. It's very clear that Melkor was not just some brute who knew how to pick competent people to work for him. He chose people who had potential and ensured that they'd reach it. He wasn't just a despotic ruler who gave orders. He was a teacher. He enhanced his servants' knowledge. He gave them the means that were necessary for them to hone their abilities and thrive.

[frasesenespa-ol]

el muy perro no tuvo ni la cortesía de devolverme la llamada.

B de Bella -Alberto Ferreras

[leregirenga]

Y en ese preciso momento sabrás que yo fui lo mejor que tuviste en tu vida. Que nadie te amo como yo lo hice; que mis besos eran el cielo en tu marchita vida, que yo creaba poesía sobre tu piel vacía, que mis caricias eran el pasaje al paraíso... Y es que definitivamente, yo fui y por siempre seré la que más te ha amado.

No, no niego que yo también te he extrañado, que anhelo fervientemente que vuelvas, pero quién se fue, ya no regresa; y si lo hace, jamás vuelve a ser lo mismo porque el amor real se fugó del corazón.

Leregi Renga

[celebregol]

[ID: Grayscale digital art of six characters from Middle Earth. On the top row are Nuin, Daeron, and Legolas. On the bottom row are Tuvo/Tu, Luthien, and Tauriel. Each character is shown from the shoulders up and looking forward. Nuin has shoulder length hair. He has multiple scars on his face, including one that goes across his nose, a bite mark on the side of his face, and slash marks on his throat. He has a plain tunic and a thin, patterned vest. Tuvo has a tired expression, a wide-brimmed hat, a dark tunic, long hair, and a wide, patterned vest. Daeron has dark hair, which he wears in an afro. He is wearing a terleg. Luthien has her hair dark in box braids and is also wearing a terleg. Legolas has dark, wavy hair which is contained in a ponytail. He is wearing a patterned tunic that closes at the front and has a collar. Tauriel has straight, dark hair, which is worn in a braid. She wears a similar kind of clothing to Legolas, though her has a darker background and light patterning, while Legolas’s is the opposite. End ID]

6 character fanart finally done.

[sarablogs2]

ima's floor / el piso de ima - prologo? (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1333856569-ima%27s-floor-el-piso-de-ima-prologo?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=SaraBlogs111&wp_originator=1NSkwTOuOQqdjEynziHOGyJkjyh2U0ScaHvFFl2rEY8XyiCF%2Bn4lOYCKsdShZxgov%2BCPZsJExKh94t5cgcOjjUdJ7csBdT7L9uflXV3mvT5hq7biWMBmM5WBEWjlCpLP una historia de un mundo despues del mundo donde las criaturas no son como los humanos pero sigue habiendo algo de humanidad en ellos, algo que muchos toman como una vendicion, otros como algo normal y otroas como una maldicion. . .

[lovecrazy-y]

La verdad de que este soltera es que solamente hay una persona que me tuvo, me tiene y me tendrá siempre y el cual es el motivo de que no quiera algo serio con nadie más.

[phoenixrisesoncemore]

Whom Morgoth Made

Speculations on my favorite baddie: part 1

“Some say also that Morgoth at whiles secretly as a cloud that cannot be seen or felt, and yet is, and the poison is, creeps back surmounting the Walls and visiteth the world; but others say that this is the black shadow of Thû [Sauron], whom Morgoth made, and who escaped from the Battle Terrible, and dwells in dark places and perverts Men to his dreadful allegiance and his foul worship.” --History of Middle-earth vol. 4: The Shaping of Middle-earth, The Quenta, Section 19

This language from the Quenta paralells a similar description of Morgoth’s continuing influence on the world via Sauron that Tolkien writes in the earliest drafts of The Fall of Numenor (as published in HoMe 5: The Lost Road). Christopher places the writing of the Quenta in 1930 (and its earlier drafts as early as 1926) and the early Fall of Numenor outlines in 1936, both after Thû has been “created” and established as “Morgoth’s mightiest thane/lord/chief” as well as Lord of Wolves and a dread necromancer/sorcerer in The Lays sometime around or after 1925. But most interesting to me in this passage (and unique to it, from what I can tell) is Tolkien’s use of the phrase “whom Morgoth made” to describe Thû.

It seems doubtful he meant this literally—Thû (who is for all intents and purposes Sauron by an earlier name) is an independent, extremely powerful, thinking entity—clearly a rational being. If he can be said to descend (in the Primary World) partly from both or either of the abandoned characters Tû/Tuvo and/or Fankil/Fangli, then he likely remains a “fay,” the same as Melian, a type of being that was a precursor to the maiar—hence, not a creature Morgoth could literally “make” by demiurgic means, even at this early stage in the writing of the Legendarium.

Another possibility is that Tolkien had not yet entirely abandoned the notion of Morgoth having children. In the Book of Lost Tales, Fankil/Fangli is once referred to as Morgoth’s “child,” and the earliest reference to Thû in The Fall of Numenor refers to his “ghastly temples” as being temples to Thû-Morgoth where Thû is represented as almost speaking for or as the exiled spirit of Morgoth. Perhaps some of this could imply literal heredity rather than figurative. However, I am not familiar with any other mentions of Melkor begetting children in the Quenta (the “son of Melko” origin for Gothmog/Kosomot appears to have been abandoned by this stage) and so I suspect “made” does not mean “beget” here. Plus, in what may be the very first use of the name Thû, he is referred to as a great thane under Morgoth, a title that, in the Primary World, implies the granting of lands and titles without hereditary right.

No, I have to imagine that Tolkien almost certainly means “made Thû what/how he is.” In fact, concurrently, Tolkien conceived of Thû/Sauron as following Melkor back during his escape with Ungoliant from Valinor. In Valinor he had been suborned and become Melkor’s servant—meaning Thû/Sauron would have had to learn a lot of dreadful magic from Melkor and rise in the ranks in a very short period of time, presumably all under Morgoth’s direct tutelage, in order to be his “mightiest lord” by the time of the events of Beren and Luthien’s quest. Can we take this to mean that this Sauron is a Sauron whose Fall happens much faster than his later characterization will suggest? Is whoever he was In the beginning nearly “overwritten” via Morgoth’s influence?

Eventually Tolkien emends the passage in question and removes the “made” language: “Sauron, who served Morgoth and became the greatest and most evil of his underlings.“ When this happened is not clear, but it is part of a long progression of changes to Sauron’s early history, which will, at some point after 1951, include pushing back Sauron’s “Fall” deeper into Arda’s prehistory (see Tolkien’s letter 131 to Milton Waldman in which he is still referring to First Age Sauron as a being of Valinor). Did Tolkien think this later Sauron began his own Fall before Melkor got to him? Did Tolkien see him now as a distinct enough character in his own right (after concieving an entire Second and Third Age for him to torment) that he felt it best to lay more responsibility for his own nature and choices as his own feet? Or did Tolkien simply want to avoid imprecise language that could be confused with, say, Melkor’s “making” of non-rational underlings such as dragons and orcs?