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Húrin and Huor disappearing from Brethil means that the top theory among their relations must have been that they spent that little chunk of adolescence in Doriath. Adds a little more spice to Thingol's very well-publicized antimortal crashout a couple of years later, and certainly recontextualizes Morwen's choice to send Túrin there.

#the silmarillion #the children of hurin #hurin #huor

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Happy Pride Month!

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This Pride Month, we’re celebrating the beauty of diversity above and below the surface. The ocean is full of vibrant life in every color imaginable. It reminds us that nature thrives when everyone has space to belong.

Environmental advocacy and the LGBTQ+ rights movement share a common purpose: protecting vulnerable communities, caring for the spaces we all call home, and creating a world where we all can flourish. Our world is brightest when people can live authentically, love freely, and be embraced for who they are. From rainbow reefs to shimmering tides, diversity makes our blue planet stronger, healthier, and more inspiring.

Here’s to protecting our ocean, uplifting every voice, and honoring the colorful communities that make this world so wonderful.

monsterpotion

"You can now sort your likes from oldest to newest on web and iOS. Do you remember what your first liked post was?"

oh dear

monsterpotion

oh its bad back there.

tlirsgender

What do they put in turtlenecks that makes them feel so slutty despite covering as much of your skin as possible

tlirsgender

Who is Qifrey

tlirsgender

Yeah that's a slut in a turtleneck

tlirsgender

Curious why some of the first images to show up were manga panels where he's like coughing and spluttering injured on the ground ? Is he always doing this

darkandstormyranger

finally some relatable content on ig

pukiirice

What are you running from? Daughter of Hurin, Nienor Niniel!

julijbee

nothing to say for yourself?

fisheatingowntail

Mutilation of the arm or hand in Tolkien. turin and eowyn are both mutilated in the process of killing a thing that cant be touched. beren and frodo are both mutilated because their hand contains a valued object, and the object is bitten off of them. sauron and frodo both lose a ring finger. maedhros and beren both lose a hand at or nearabouts the gates of thangorodrim. maedhros and frodo are both saved in the mutilation.

#i was rereading fog on the barrowdowns recently and noticed the barrow wight loses a hand too #sure is a theme

wolfythewitch

My favorite version of the trojan horse is from Netflix's Troy: Fall of a City because it really does look like if a bunch of grown men did arts and crafts

The extension of Arda's astronomy slowly conforming to "reality" (the earth rounding, the sun and moon becoming less people and more objects) is that at some point Eärendil must be exiled again, 24 million miles from home. This would be a good ending for the half sketched Horrible Fourth Age Story that Tolkien scrapped, tbh. Oh, to be the Evening Star becoming the planet Venus in an age of terrible half-formed astronomies.

#the silmarillion #earendil #I want to be an evil science wizard in some post gondorian empire #plotting to catch a star and juice its power for evil #only to have my own forefather flee the heavens in fear of me #this sounds sick as hell actually

julijbee

you can see pretty far, right?

wisteria53

Túrin Turambar and Beleg Cúthalion 🌿

theoppositeofprofound

I'll say it, I think Caranthir should have died at the hands of Ulfang and his sons at the Nirnaeth.

The same way that Celegorm and Curufin dying at Dior's hands closes the circle on their earlier actions against Lúthien, so too would Caranthir being murdered by Men loop through his subplot seeking the service of (and offending) Haleth. It would also give actual credence to his supposed ill temper! Being such a mid liege lord you get killed for it is compelling, that kind of obvious personal grudge gives the Easterlings' betrayal a little more oomph. Plus, I think the Secondborn deserve more narrative wins. They should get a Son of Feanor on a pike too.

ymfingsteadilyon

#yeah this is compelling #gives caranthir more of an arc #but otoh i kind of love that 0 of the sons of feanor died fighting morgoth’s forces #(while all the sons of fingolfin and finarfin did - and fingolfin died fighting morgoth personally)

Also a good point.

#as always i have to agree with warrioreowyn's points #the only way it works is if ulfang's betrayal is more of a personal beef than about morgoth #and i do get that sort of anti-liege lord action undermines the themes #betrayed-by-vassal is automatic sympathy points in a pre modern text #or a text trying to evoke that energy #and the deaths of all the sons of feanor have to retain a sense of comeuppance #tragic but not unwarranted or effectuated by the servants of evil

I'll say it, I think Caranthir should have died at the hands of Ulfang and his sons at the Nirnaeth.

The same way that Celegorm and Curufin dying at Dior's hands closes the circle on their earlier actions against Lúthien, so too would Caranthir being murdered by Men loop through his subplot seeking the service of (and offending) Haleth. It would also give actual credence to his supposed ill temper! Being such a mid liege lord you get killed for it is compelling, that kind of obvious personal grudge gives the Easterlings' betrayal a little more oomph. Plus, I think the Secondborn deserve more narrative wins. They should get a Son of Feanor on a pike too.

#the silmarillion #caranthir #ulfang the black #as much as i love dior three v oneing the sons of feanor and breaking even #thematically it makes more sense for caranthir to get stabbed in the back by his own lieutenant

ilovecoelacanths

went to a new optometrist today wearing my squid facts ‘save our freaks’ shirt from @sarahmackattack that has a strawberry squid on it. and i wasn’t even thinking about it but the optometrist walked in and he was like ‘oh what does your shirt say’ so i showed him and he was like ‘oh that’s neat!’ and then i thought he might like to know about strawberry squid eyes since they have weird eyes and he is an optometrist and all. so i was like ‘yeah it’s actually a real kind of squid called a strawberry squid, their eyes are really cool because they have one big yellow-green one and one small blue one’ and he kind of gasped and went ‘oh my god that’s so interesting i wonder why they have that. do you know what their retina composition is like?’ and i watched as he minimized my chart on the computer and started looking up images of strawberry squid and then he googled ‘strawberry squid retina composition’ and he was like ‘sorry we’ll get to your eye exam in a moment i just really want to find out’ LMAO 10/10 optometrist experience will be returning