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Iâve considered something like this for my canon-character whims, because on any given day Iâll want to RP an unclaimed muse but not enough to make an actual account for them. I donât know, it seems like a pretty awesome idea to me. Iâd be willing to pioneer something of the sort I too shouldnât be considering it given the state of my drafts Dx
*leaps in* MurzyMun and I talked about something like this, like, way over a year ago, before we had a good Sauron but really wanted one. Basically a shared side-blog for a character. Like, in that example, I would have written Sauron for her, and she would have written Sauron for me, but it would be the same blog. Basically.
Iâd suggested that to Gaia when I didnât have a Maedhros, but the consensus was that sharing one character would be too hard. But if it was a bunch of charactersâdidnât you and healerofimladris have a shared blog for a set of characters? It could be something like that. Or a few things like that. Maybe a blog for each ME Race, so one for elves, one for dwarves, one for MenâŠÂ
I think it would be complicated either way, tbh. It would take a bit of organization, hehe. The idea is worth thinking about though!
watching Birdsong and itâs reminding me that I have the strongest need for Fingon to have OC friends and servants and soldiers whose deaths he can cry over so if anyoneâs looking to pick up an OC or an AU verseâ
THIS GAVE ME A REALLY COOL IDEA THOUGH??: Â A disposable/rotating Middle Earth OC/NPC account, where the character in question is determined by the needs of the partner. Â 8D Iâm like the last person on earth who should be considering this given my drafts folder BUT I REALLY WANT TO TRY IT.
Itâs not something Iâve ever seen before but I think it would be a fun experiment (if this already exists Iâd like to check it out).
Iâve considered something like this for my canon-character whims, because on any given day Iâll want to RP an unclaimed muse but not enough to make an actual account for them. I donât know, it seems like a pretty awesome idea to me. Iâd be willing to pioneer something of the sort I too shouldnât be considering it given the state of my drafts Dx
*leaps in* MurzyMun and I talked about something like this, like, way over a year ago, before we had a good Sauron but really wanted one. Basically a shared side-blog for a character. Like, in that example, I would have written Sauron for her, and she would have written Sauron for me, but it would be the same blog. Basically.
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition. Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
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I found this copy of Thoreauâs Walden buried in the park. I opened it and saw these roots growing between the pages. I donât know whether to frame it or put it back in the ground.
I think part of what I miss is that feeling like I'm part of a tight group dynamic and a real priority and that people are excited to see me posting or responding to a thread, or something like that.
Basically I'm whining because I don't feel like a special snowflake anymore, huh?
Gods less fortunate, I am just terrible.
Did they never see Men? See, I donât even know my Mortals of ME canon that well xD Iâm ⊠out of my depth. Though there are the Rohirrim who have some concept of OromĂ«âthat mustâve been a cultural memory passed down for a really long time picked up from⊠maybe even Finrod? I feel like I should know this, since Rohan is the only human culture of ME that I can claim any serious knowledge of. >.>Â
It sounds like something that actual Real World people believe, though, except Iâm not sure if Iâm just saying that because it seems logical? I suppose I could go research it, but Iâm only⊠what, 4 pages into Valaquenta, which was my reading project for today, so thatâs the first step. :PÂ
To HildĂłrien there came no Vala to guide Men, or to summon them to dwell in Valinor; and Men have feared the Valar, rather than loved them, and have not understood the purposes of the Powers, being at variance with them, and at strife with the world.
So, yeah, no, the Valar didn't go to Men the way they did for Elves.Â
And yes, there are Rohirrim with ideas about OromĂ«, and the Kine of Araw, native to the region around RhĂșn, are named for him also. Araw = OromĂ«, basically. But those are more in the nature of legends than direct experiences in the same way the Elves were granted, it seems like.Â
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Maybe thatâs part of it, indeed! I also see it as a basis of a lot of spirituality in those groups, though? Water is important, oases have spirits/voices in them, those who encounter those spirits become reveredâŠ? Idk, I have Haradcanons, man.
Just one of your Haradcanons will be more thought than Iâve given them as a whole in the duration of my time as a Tolkien fan, Iâm sure. Heh. I donât know, my thoughtâs there to offer a solution for why they turned to Mordor other than âthey are black and black people are badâ so Iâll stick to it in terms of what is there in canon. But headcanon-wise, I do like the idea of oases-Maiar. ^^Â
⊠This sounds really defensive, I realise, haha, but I canât seem to fix it and make it sound more natural. Ah well. I tried.Â
No, no, not defensive. Because yeah, it IS canon that none of the Valar ever went to visit Men directly -- except Melkor. And Tolkien clearly had a strong bias about water. Throughout the books, hating or fearing the sea is used as a sort of shorthand for "evil." So it fits with the canon.
I've probably just been too influenced by Dune, honestly. Water in the desert is so important, I cannot help but think that desert-dwellers would actually value it far more highly than those who are surrounded by it all the time, ha!Â
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nĂșmenor went down into the sea, with all its children and its wives and its maidens and its ladies proud; and all its gardens and its halls and its towers, its tombs and its riches, and its jewels and its webs and its things painted and carven, and its laughter and its mirth and its music, its wisdom and its lore: they vanished for ever.
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ainulindale or valaquenta or quenta silmarillion or akallabĂȘth
two lamps or two trees or sun and moon
valinor or middle-earth
elves or men or dwarves
sindar or teleri or noldor or vanyar
fëanor or fingolfin or finarfin
gondolin or doriath or nargothrond
haladin or bëorians or hadorians
orcs or balrogs or dragons
thuringwethil or melian or sauron
andreth/aegnor or beren/lĂșthien or tuor/idril
tĂșrin or niĂ«nor or beleg or finduilas
lĂșthien or dior or elwing
maedhros or fingon or finrod felagund
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Oh my fuck, I'm reading the first volume of Rat Queens and like whoa, where has this been all my life?!
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Louis McMaster Bujold, definitely, if you havenât already read her books. The Temeraire books by Naomi Novik, which are the napoleonic war with dragons. Lord of Light. The Chronicles of Prydain skew sort of young, but I enjoyed them.
Ah, yes, I'll look at Bujold. She's one I haven't gotten to. I've heard good things about Temeraire, and will add it to a list. Right now I'm more in the mood for an entirely fictional world, rather than alternate history, I think? Lord of Light I tried, and couldn't quite get into somehow? And I read Prydain about twenty years ago, lol, at least a dozen times! They are old favorites, indeed.