Face the wind, though it blow away all your leaves

Swinging both ways, violently, with a bat. Brit, she/her, ScribeofArda on ao3 where I have no control and can't stop writing sequels. Author of A Thread Unraveled and the aurë entuluva verse, the time loop fix-it of the Nirnaeth Arnoediad that has gotten way out of hand

[theheirofashandfire]

Travel Hopefully, If We Are to Arrive: Chapter Nine

Part of the aurë entuluva and endure for eyes to see series

“Maedhros Fëanorion. It’s been a while.” Maedhros smiles. The sun is just rising over the mountains far to the east, and the dew on the grass glimmers as he walks through it, dampness clinging to his ankles. Melian is waiting for him just by the treeline, a shawl of deep green wrapped around her shoulders to ward off the lingering chill.

[selkiesparrow]

Zoozve, my beloved

[ktempestbradford]

"...we don't live in a big clockwork, we live in a dance club..."

This is my favorite line.

[rabbitrah]

It is now called Zoozve :')

[mihri-the-sasscatte]

Size comparison of Y’gathok, the Ceaseless Hunger and Bjorn, our level 20 Goliath Barbarian.

[professorsparklepants]

Hey quick question: why the FUCK do you have that

[kittyopteryx]

Imagine, from out of nowhere, your dm casually slapping this thing down on the table like any other encounter.

[mooretimetoplay]

“Yeah, the fight will start in a sec, uh…I’ll give inspiration to whomever helps me get this fucking box out of my car.”

[necrowemancer]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/7asxci/oc_ygathok_the_ceaseless_hunger_final_boss_of_our/ This is the reveal of this ridiculousness during their game

[jelloapocalypse]

Please watch this reveal video it’s kickass

[creepsandcrawlers]

FUCK ME  the reveal video

[threefeline]

“CHRIS??????”

[tanoraqui]

“Um, I don’t think our plan is gonna work.”

[8bitmickey]

[island-delver-go]

Always reblog Y'gathok

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

always ALWAYS reblog Y'gathok!

[pleasedontlickthewoodpolish]

I love Celebrimbor the material scientist, the research engineer, the quantum physicist. I love the idea of him teaching his apprentices with equations on blackboards and thumbnails on scrap paper before work begins in the forge. I love him running his forge like a research lab with unlimited funding and so much time. I love Celebrimbor and Narvi’s collaboration depicted as academic co-authorship. I love Eregion the university town, where scholars hold conferences and students hold informal debates in little bars. I love Eregion as a sea of curiosity and willingness to learn, with strong undercurrents of academic drama (iykyk). I love Eregion as the city of progress, but the right kind of progress, that exists in sync with the natural world, and yet elevates life beyond what nature alone can offer.

[hollowholofernees]

I really, reallyyyyy need friends who read the Silmarillion to ramble with 😭

I look around and there's this super cool community of people on here, but everyone is a super talented artist or a cosplayer or a writer or everything at once and I am just. Standing there.

[curufiin]

WHO FUCKING CARES COME TALK TO US WE ARE NOT CELEBRITIES WE ARE LOSERS WHO LIKE ELVES!!!!!!!!

[ceruleana]

project hail mary is a touching and poignant film that leaves you asking questions about humanity like, "wow what if all mainstream media was genuinely good" and "what if book adaptions actually gave a shit about the book in question" and "what if studios hired actors that could actually act, and then let them get a lil wacky with it"

[astriiformes]

#Don’t forget ‘what if puppetry was treated as a serious artform’ (via @specialagentartemis)

[theheirofashandfire]

Travel Hopefully, If We Are to Arrive: Chapter Eight

Part of the aurë entuluva and endure for eyes to see series

Ryn’s tail is still steadily drumming a bruise into Maedhros’ leg, not made any better by how he keeps scratching at her back. “Forge accident,” Celebrimbor says, and his tone of voice makes Maedhros pause and look up. “Uncle…what is that in your arms?” “Oh no, Tyelko, you didn’t,” Fingon says as Maedhros, something prickling across the back of his neck, sits up and turns to see Celegorm standing behind him. He looks the same as ever, windswept and tanned from endless riding out beneath the sun. He’s grinning, and his arms are cradling something wrapped loosely in a blanket. As Maedhros watches the blanket moves, and then a tuft of fur peeks out from within.

[piratesofthecaribbean]

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

Fun fact: James is quoting Maxim #133 from Baltasar Gracián’s Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647).

(English) (Spanish)

[fore-n-aft]

#this fucking!! scene!!!!! #it’s not as essential as other cut scenes like swann song (awe) or the rumrunners’ isle (cotbp) #but it’s so so rich in character detail #elizabeth as lore-keeper #james quietly horrified at the consequences of an arguably well-meaning colonial man’s actions #(hint: it’s a pretty fucking direct parallel) #and then a roundabout acknowledgement of just how badly he fucked up in between movies #and how dark and guilty a place he’s in now #and elizabeth looks at him in genuine shock because of all the things she might have expected to hear from her old friend’s mouth #she was not expecting such bald despair and self-loathing #and for one moment they just stand there taking stock of one another; what they’ve become because of their actions & despite their pasts #it’s the first real; honest; unshrinking connection they’ve had since…ever? #g o d #it’s been years and this scene still brings out my rambling tag novelist #also the fact that james knows baltasar gracián well enough to quote it fits into some hyperspecific headcanons of mine re: theo groves #but that’s for another time (via @dying-suffering-french-stalkers)

uhhh I hope u don’t mind that I wanted to make your Very Important Tags more visible

[nynevefromthelake]

little russingon wip

[deeep-in-silm]

"Both of them are too late. Curufin stirs, pushing himself up, and Sauron’s mace collides with the side of his head.

Curufin drops to the ground. This time, he doesn't get up.

" No! "

Maedhros' heartbeat thunders in his ears at the scream. "Tyelpë," he rasps. He tries to push himself up again. "Tyelpë, get back."

Celebrimbor appears out of the melee and falls to his knees beside his father's unconscious body, draping himself over him. "Don't you dare ," he hisses up at Sauron. "You can't have him!"

Sauron pauses. "How sweet," he murmurs, tilting his head to one side. Fresh blood spills out down his side at the movement. "I think I'll remember you."

For Chapter 16 of A Thread Unraveled by @theheirofashandfire

The Curufin Draw ! Finally !! (who has since turned into a Celebrimbor & Maedhros & Sauron draw but anyway that's not my point)

One blasted year since I said I was going to make it and it is here !

Okay so in my defense your honor this draw has really been messing with me, like I had to start it from scratch twice. It just kept being mean.

And a hearty thanks to @shuuji-nemo too who helped me to understand on which side of his face Curufin has been slapped by sauron's mace :)

[atrusovaartist]

acrylic, canvas 40*50 cm «Lighthouse of the Northern Sunset» 2025

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

fate awaits you with some sort of purpose, probably.

have you ever wanted to take a quiz where every result was bad and every question was weird? well now ☝️ you can

[sesamenom]

[deeep-in-silm]

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

when i tell you i have never felt so seen by a character in my life

[sparklecryptid]

I don't want to go all 'some of you have incredibly biased opinions of Fëanor based on fanon and fail to acknowledge the canon complexities of such a character' but it really be hard to not do that sometimes

[and-the-times-we-had]

this

[slender-sadness]

@antlered-vixen don't leave this in the tags. i read the book a long time ago and needed the reminders tbh

[antlered-vixen]

Thanks for picking up my tags! Since we're at the Discourse Store, let me add, Shib clarifies explicitly that a crucial factor to the burning of the ships was that Fingolfin declared himself "Finwe-Nolofinwe". Since in Noldorin culture Finwe=King, this was a declaration of intent of usurpation (and was indeed shortly followed by Fingolfin declaring kingship of the Noldor - before he arrived in Beleriand.) Now I am also a Fingolfin stan. I believe he was ambitious but well-intentioned and genuinely believed wrestling the Noldor out of Feanor's influence was the best for his people. Which is... Correct. Yet, if I was terrified of replacement/usurpation and had been stoked in that direction further by Satan and someone openly declared their intent to usurp me and had a larger army than mine, and was due to arrive at my flank, I too wouldn't want them there. Things can be bad without being incomprehensibly unhinged and comically evil. They can have a rationale and reasons without it being enough moral justification. Permitting personhood is not apologia.

[and-the-times-we-had]

@antlered-vixen Lee you left gold in the tags again

[catilinas]

[tolkien voice] morgoth probably didn’t know what a flower was. and if he did it would piss him off

[avantegarda]

video game and film fandoms will come and go for me but the Silmarillion fandom will never die. because that book came out like 50 years ago and we're all still trying to figure out what the hell is going on there.

[hamletthedane]

Average Silmarillion fan:

[theheirofashandfire]

Travel Hopefully, If We Are to Arrive: Chapter Seven

Part of the aurë entuluva and endure for eyes to see series

Eluréd heads over to their small group, closely followed by Elurín. “We’re about ready to leave,” he says. “So…goodbye?” Elwing huffs, and leaps at him, wrapping her arms tightly around Eluréd’s neck. “Goodbye,” she says as Eluréd staggers, catching her and then hugging her back. “Honestly, you two. You can’t summon up a few meagre words before you leave for months and months and break our parents’ hearts because you never remember to write?”