#westernesse

[larsisfrommars]

I am never gonna get over how Merry is set up in the books to essentially be the revenging spirit of the Men of Westernesse and a bridge between Hobbit & Men's histories from the very get-go of the LOTR trilogy it makes me insane.

The fact that as early as the frickin Barrow-Wights chapter of Fellowship there's hints of what he'll do and become makes my brain snap crackle and pop like nobody's business. What do you MEAN he's the only one who recalls out loud the death of a Westernesse warrior at the hands of the Carn Dǔm (Witch King of Angmar's soldiers) when he was taken/possessed by the Wights?! I mean, they all get those Westernesse daggers from Tom but only Merry recalls a vision before that.

Then of course he's the one with a special interest in Hobbit history in Rohan and Gondor (y'know Gondor where the Men of Westernesse share a heritage with Aragorn!!) like??? AAAAH!

It's like fate ping ponged him into the EXACT position he needed to be in in order to help Eowyn take out The Witch King with a blade crafted by those who hated him most. He was always gonna be the Hobbit for that specific job even way back in the first Book of the Fellowship.

[sunderedseas]

LOTR: The Rings of Power (2022)

[lords-of-arda]

I cracked the code!!!

The reason Morgoth always, always loses no matter what isn’t that Eru made the world too resilient for him to damage and break - every single particle of matter in the setting has some of Melkor’s Will behind and inside it - the reason is that Morgoth’s evil DECAYS AT A FASTER RATE THAN THE REST OF THE WORLD. The world never heals from the evils he and his agents introduce, they just crumble faster than the norm is in Arda Marred. People killed are replaced by others and in time their descendants forget them. Ruined lands are abandoned for new ones until they recover or are removed entirely. Orcs are a regional threat when they have a powerful will driving them; otherwise they (a ruined and stumped form of life) seem mostly capable of being raiders, which, fair enough, it isn’t exactly a picnic to be attacked by a warband in the middle of the night, but it isn’t exactly a unified army intent on conquest either. Humans are corruptible, but also tend to corrupt things on their own - how long does it take after Sauron’s fall for the various evil cults he inspired to turn on eachother? Numenor lasted for millennia, but the more they turned to evil the quicker the rot started setting in (I don’t think Eru destroyed them because they set foot on Aman, but rather because the Valar weren’t doing their jobs as rulers of the World). Saruman likewise spirals out of control and ends up murdered by his own henchman, with Isengard, Rohan, Dunland and the Shire all recovering in a generation or two.

Basically, this is what I think it means that Morgoth and Evil are self-defeating in the Tolkien-verse.

EDIT this is basically Eru and Morgoth’s interactions

[befanini]

Annuminas by aegeri on DeviantArt

Annuminas by aegeri

[mothdalf]

Day 5: Build

A young Elros Tar-Minyatur and the foundation of a Númenorean city (inspired by Valletta, Malta)

[bluestaratsunrise]

Silmarillion-The Downfall of Numenor by morgaer on deviantart

Artist’s caption:

As Ar Pharazôn’s fleet approaches Valinor, Manwe calls to Ilúvatar: “Dad, this planet is full of crazies and aggressive personalities, take me away!”

[chalabrun]

@oneringnet‘s favorite locations event: Númenor

Númenor (Q: "westland", pron. [ˈnuːmenor]) or Númenórë (pron. [ˌnuːmeˈnoːre]), known in the Common Speech as Westernesse and in Adûnaic as Anadûnê, was one of the names of the isle of Elenna, which was raised from the Great Sea by the Valar in the beginning of the Second Age. While strictly speaking the term Númenor referred to the realm established on the island, it was more often used as a synonym of the land itself. Númenor was one of the most powerful realms of the Second Age, and its people, called Númenóreans, as well as their descendants, had considerable influence on the events of the Third Age.

[bhb-equanimitimmarcescible]

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