then sudden felagund there swaying

random silmarillion and tolkien thoughts

[that-angry-noldo]

how silm characters react to being faced with a horror beyond comprehension:

- fëanor: comprehends it out of spite. goes mad. possibly becomes an incomprehensible horror himself

- fingolfin: comprehends the horror. walks with the knowledge of horror for a century or so, quietly going mad. the day he snaps the land is aflame and he's riding to challenge the devil to duel

- finarfin: refuses to comprehend the horror out of spite. walks away from the horror. returns a century later to give the horror a beating, still refusing to comprehend it

- finrod: is so interested in the cultural background of the horror he forgets to comprehend it. possibly spends a year just chatting it up

- beren: comprehends the horror, walks away forever changed by the knowledge which he can't quite remember but which will forever haunt him, never speaks of it.

- luthien: uno reverse. the horror comprehends her

- eönwë: outhorrors the horror like some sort of an eldritch creature show off. comprehends it and is not impressed.

[mhevarujta]

I don't say this often enough, but I really love Beren and that's primarily because he was a little shit. Like, "for little price do Elven-kings sell their daughters: for gems, and things made by craft" being said while he laughed in Thingol's face? Saying ‘It is fulfilled. Even now a Silmaril is in my hand’ with a straight face? This man was a comedian.

[nortism]

The thing is Louis de Pointe du Lac is an objectively worse father than Jean Valjean. However Jean Valjean never had to co-parent with Lestat and who’s to say how that would have changed the plot of Les Misérables

[queerofthedagger]

i love celegorm. in any other context the fancy blond third-born who can speak to animals and loves nature would be subject to the worst disney princess-ification known to mankind, but then you have this bitch and it's just the most abhorrent little gremlin bastard you can possibly imagine. godspeed

[thescrapwitch]

ITS DONE!

After 179 hours of stitching, too much black thread to count, and some very tired fingers, my Beleriand Map is complete!

But also not entirely complete, because I need to wash the pattern paper off and then quilt back it. This entire thing needs to go in my bathtub (it’s too big to fit in the sink!) and so I’m gonna be having nightmares tonight about it all falling apart when I go to wash it. It shouldn’t - it won’t - because that’s not how anything works, but my brain will still worry 😛

Also obligatory picture of the back of the embroidery below:

[havisham]

good guy fingon makes people totally forget that he sort of slayed his kin that one time.

[kareenvorbarra]

#‘idk i like him’ - cirdan

[nachtfuin]

other elves: i can’t BELIEVE those awful awful kinslayers

fingon: um

other elves: oh not you dear

[queerasbuck]

@shineoftherainbow

[feanorionapologist]

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

thingol beren and dior talking about their wives:

[queerofthedagger]

if you read enough of HoME you too can reach a point where reading 'gnome' will actually make you think 'noldor' before, yk, this

unfortunately this is not a flex at all

[ridingforrohan]

Instead of trying to digitally reverse age actors for The Hunt for Gollum I think they should abandon the script entirely and just put Viggo Mortensen in costume and film him chasing Andy Serkis in a leotard across the scenic landscapes of Aotearoa. Give Andy Serkis a head start. Viggo will probably become Aragorn several hours into the chase. Locals can aid or hinder as they see fit.

[natequarter]

Tom Lehrer, Known Old Man, Unexpectedly Crushed By Falling Piano (But Hey, It's What He Would Have Wanted)

[natequarter]

if this is how you found out, please show this post to your friends, coworkers, and poisoned pigeons, so that they can also find out

[asinoeiv]

if you're still taking requests, id love to see your take on Eonwe 😳(maybe with Mairon/Sauron too hehe)

regardless, also just wanted to say that i absolutely ADORE your art and the way you draw Sauron is just 😩😩absolute perfection

Mairon and Eonwe probably going out to annoy Olorin or check out Arien.

So that's my first attempt at a design for Eonwe, I like the direction but would probaby need a few more attempts to say I found it.

[aamuusva]

Reconciliation in Valinor

[triplecryingphoenix]

Biggest take-away from war of the rohirrim is that I've been pronouncing haleth wrong :/

[dictatorshipper]

Finrod: I ain't no snitch

Angrod: move, I am

[welcomingdisaster]

how did i lose my last job. funny you ask. you see, some while ago i went for a walk in the woods. and around me they grew dark and unfamiliar, and i saw i was bewitched. and there was this real hot chick also. went back to her place, which was actually the meadow. got to eighteenth base, in our souls, if you know what im saying. yeah. wild night. came out of it two feet taller . pls hire me back do you guys still like me

[janeeyreofmanderley]

Gandalf: Uh well, so apparently you can destroy Sauron by just hacking away at his tower with a big sword in anger- who knew?

[welcomingdisaster]

final girl elwing drenched in blood at the end of a horror movie do you see my vision