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Fëanor and Nerdanel [modern] Art University AU

Fëanor would be like,, school president, president of a bunch of extracurricular clubs, and "popular" with his good looks, exceptional skills, and the fact that he's like,, literal royalty--but like, secretly unpopular amongst his classmates bc of his arrogant attitude and superiority complex.

Nerdanel would probably be considered 'cool' and be like, genuinely popular in a university setting due to her skill, her likable personality, and the fact that she probably gets along with everyone (yes, even the snobby Feanor!? h o w) but like, doesn't let her likability and popularity go to her head bc she's so down to earth.

Anyway,, thinkin' about these nerds today :'))

#self reblog #OMG I forgot about this au #I should do more #I remember a mini comic I was going to do a while back for this au #where Feanor comes the Sudden and Horrible realization that Nerd and Fingolfin are besties XD #and they troll him BADLY by pretending that THEY are dating and he (Feanor) is just Nerd's 'boy toy on the side' LOLLL #Feanor just about implodes #anyway... Nerd and Fingolfin trolling Feanor is a Sacred tradition that they gleefully take part in every few decades lol #also what was with me writing 'like' so much in the description LOL i know i say it a lot but i feel like it must have been intentional lol

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The inhabitants of the S.S. Tirion were unanimously shocked when their king's heir--and their space station's lead engineer--Prince Curufinwë, starting courting a simple mechanic by the name of Nerdanel. After all, one would assume that a prince, heir to the Noldor, would choose someone of higher status, and at least of better looks. But it seemed that the prince was determined to court the mechanic, and while even she herself was a bit surprised by his courtship, no one could deny, at least of those who knew the couple, that the two lovebirds were somehow destined for each other.

Silmarillion/LOTR in Space AU

#self reblog #tonight is a NerdxFeanor night i guess LOL #going through my tag :>

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Nerdanel X Fëanor howl’s moving castle au

#Self Reblog #omg i forgot about this i love this one too

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Nerdanel and Fëanor 😌

#self reblog #I still love how this turned out #all these years later :')

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need to find me a spouse who is also an avid writer so we can make comics together, them as the main writer and me as the artist,, 🥹

#funky's personal tag #this is the kind of relationship I desire LOL #FORGET about compatibility and EVERYTHING ELSE (/jk lol) #I just want to be able to make comics with my one true love and dance off together into the sunset 🥹 #like legit this is relationship goals for me #Become an author/artist duo/power team with my life partner 😅

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🥰 Thank you so much for commissioning me!! I really enjoyed the fic it was based on AND working with you on this :D

Everyone go check out the fic and give it some love!!

I AM SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS!

@serregon wrote a beautiful post-canon Beleg/Túrin in Valinor

To Share This Light With You

It was a cottage with two small floors, built in a familiar Doriathrim style mixed with unfamiliar elements of its new Valinorian homeland. Surrounding the cottage were meadows of millions of flowers, and a small waterfall that fed into a pool and a creek trailing along the edge of his home. It was a lovely, peaceful place to live, and it was exactly the type of place Túrin expected Beleg to reside in.

And @essenceofarda has brought this image to beautiful life - thank you so very, very much! It was such a joy working with you!

So my friend, I hope you like this gift artwork of your fic!

Behold!

They're so peaceful, so beautiful, so perfect 🥺😭💖

It's what they deserved so very much.

I hope you like it @serregon 🥰

#my art #not my writing #This was Such a delightful commission to work on 🥰

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the art cuarthol commissioned for me is so beautiful! would you mind if I make it my blog header?

of course you can!!! I'm so happy you like it 🥰

For those of you who want to check out the commission here it is! (link to the fic in question is on that post :D The fic is delightful and I highly recommend!)

#funky's personal tag #ahhh this commission was so delightful to work on too :D #also the fic it's based on is so good y'all should def go check it out!

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Hi, I saw your post about modern Girl in Middle Earth and the first and fourth idea really made me curious. Do you want to talk more about them?

Yeah!! i'll be honest with you, those are the ones i'm most interested in writing, so I'm absolutely thrilled that they intrigued you in particular!!

(Link to the original post)

Okay, so the first fic idea, where the girl becomes a baker's maid... Like i mentioned, this one is very slice of life, and focuses on the normal, average inhabitants of Gondor/Rohan/Middle Earth. There's no grand epic 'saving the world' plotline... but the theme of this story, if i had to choose one, is that, no matter how grand or simple of a life may you lead, you are still an essential part of the grand story of life. Basically, that we're all important and we all make a difference.

The fourth fic idea I have is, like mentioned, more of a political fantasy story, with an emphasis of the love triangle (that def has poly vibes to it lol). At first, when King Eldarion returns with his pregnant lover, his queen is both shocked (and unbelievably happy) that her lover seems to have returned to life, but is also kinda devastated that her lover doesn't seem to recall who she is, and not only that, but is pregnant with the child of and the the lover of another person. At first she's like, "'"This woman just happens to LOOK like my lover, since i saw her die with my own eyes (hence trauma to the extreme), and while I'm protective of her, I can't let myself be jealous or expect her to remember something she cannot." (spoiler: she does get a 'bit' jealous lol). But then, she starts to get hints that this woman DOES remember some things, since the woman's dream memories become more and more vivid. And of course, she's not the only one who notices. Some of the bad guys back at the queen's homeland of Umbar/Harad catch on that the queen's dead lover seems to have come back to life, and that alone puts the now pregnant woman on a bit of a hit list 😱

Anyway, that's a little more on both of those stories 🥰

#Funky's personal tag #ahhh thank you so much for asking abt them and bein' interested 🥰

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okay!! ~ *rolls up sleeves*

(also thank you so much for indulging me 🥹)

So, immediately after posting this i realized i actually have at least four "girl falls into middle earth" ideas that I wanna write. Apologies bc this is gonna get a bit long, but i hopefully it's okay bc it'll get shortened by the dash anyway lol so,,

FIRST STORY is one that takes place maybe a decade or so after the events of the war of the ring. About a girl who falls into middle earth, and ends up becoming the maid of a baker in Minas Tirith. It's a story exploring the daily lives of the average person in Gondor/Rohan. Notable things (imho) about this fic is that while canon characters are featured, they're featured mostly from 'afar', aka, she's not going to go up to the king of Gondor (aragorn) and be like "yo we're best buds now!" she just kinda,, lives her life and tries to adjust and makes friends and falls in love. Also, like i said, this fic focuses on the normal and "non-hero" (but no less *essential* and important) people that inhabit middle earth. Very slice of life, although there is a plot in mind.

My SECOND story is an old one of mine, that is basically a girl falls into middle earth, and when she's there, she's a horse. A meara to be exact. She spends some time as a wild horse, then kinda gets like, 'captured' by Prince Elfwine of Rohan, who makes her his steed. It's sort of gives Beauty and the Beast but like,,, platonic instead of romance? At least between the main oc and Elfwine.

THIRD story is ALSO a spin on beauty and the beast but is also VERY Eustace Scrubb inspired lol. Rich and spoiled trust fund young woman with a fiery temper and a nasty attitude falls into middle earth, and naturally arrives as a dragon. She has a clue that a 'prince' is the key to turning back human, and so she kidnaps a prince (i think it was either Elboron or Eldarion) and they become friends, and then kinda fall in love. Has more comedy than some of my other fics/fic ideas lol. Anyway, eventually, she learns to become a better person, through her friendship/romance with the prince, and through just like,,, not being a total ass to people lol, and that's what allows her to turn back human.

FOURTH story is a more recent idea. In this story, Aragorn and Arwen's son Eldarian has just been crowned king of the reunited kingdom, and agrees to marry a princess from Harad/Umbar in an attempt to establish peace between the lands. They have an... interesting relationship. His wife, while a good queen, is adamant that they never consummate their marriage, and has given her full consent to him begetting his heirs by a mistress. Mainly bc not only is she a giant lesbian, but, unbeknownst to Eldarion, her partner/lover had just been brutally killed not long before Harad/Umbar agreed to marry her off to him, with the threat of killing her mother and sister, too, if she did not comply with the marriage. Devasted and mourning the loss of her lover, plus the fact that she's a lesbian, she's just plain not interested romantically or otherwise in her husband. So... anyway, a year or so after they wed, Eldarion is returning from a battle with some eastern nations, and stumbles across an odd young woman. This young woman is our main pov character, and is the "Girl" who y'know "Fell" from a strange far off "place" into middle earth ;)... Eldarion quickly falls in love with her, and, knowing that he has his wife's consent to do so, even if he's always been reluctant previously to take lovers on principle, he takes this woman he found as his lover and she ends up getting pregnant. He assumes she knows that he's married, but she doesn't bc she's technically 'not from around here', and when she finds out, she's horrified that she's pregnant with a married man's child. She's also, ever since she's arrived in middle earth, been having dreams and visions of memories she doesn't remember actually experiencing of a female lover that she doesn't recognize but apparently was VERY, uh, close to ;) They arrive in Minas Tirith, where Gondor's queen is prepared to graciously receive the two, and... well, isn't this interesting? The pregnant lover the king happens to be the exact spitting image of the queen's former lover, and the queen matches the image of the lover's "dream lover". Which kinda complicates things. As you can imagine ;) this fic is a love triangle (with a possible 'she has two hands' kind romance solution lol) and political fantasy vibes :)

Anyway! I'm really fond of this story ideas and hope to write them one day! I'm curious, if any of y'all made it to the end of this post,, which story intrigues you the most? Might help inspire/encourage me to write it next :)

no,, sadly i am not immune to the strong desire to write "girl falls into middle earth" fics 😔

#funky's personal tag

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no,, sadly i am not immune to the strong desire to write "girl falls into middle earth" fics 😔

#to be FAIR i only really have two that I really wanna write lol #somebody PLS ask me about them bc i really wanna talk about them but I'm.. #too ~embarrassed~ to subject my 'girl falls into middle earth' fic ideas unsolicited LMAO #one is objectively less cringe than the other #but i hold both close and dear to my heart 🥹 #edit: Oh shit i have like 4+ 'girl falls into middle earth' fic ideas that i wanna write omg

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An Agonizing and Passionate Eclipse ✨🌑☀️

#morning rebloggo! #self reblog #bc i posted this kinda late last night 😅

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An Agonizing and Passionate Eclipse ✨🌑☀️

#lotr #lord of the rings fanart #lord of the rings #silm fanart #tolkien fanart #lotr fanart #the silmarillion #silmarillion #the silmarillion fanart #silmarillion fanart #Arien #Tilion #my boy Til finally getting some 😏 #my art #i did not look at ANY reference for this except for photos of the eclipse so i MUST apologize for the questionable anatomy lol #just felt like doodling it out bc the thought popped into my head bc of the recent eclipse #i wonder if there's tales (?) or myths in middle earth abt eclipses and if they involve arien and tilion doing uhh... y'know ;)

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"ah yes, i do commune with ghosts, demons and ✨spirits✨ using my ancient and cursed" *squints* "waluigi board"

#funky's personal tag #when you try to say Ouija and something ELSE ENTIRELY comes out instead LMAO #i was like 'i'm sure that's not right' but it also took me a solid 30-60+ seconds to realize lol

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OF BLESSED THYME & THISTLE | Chapter 1 | Page 5

Masterlist of Pages

Faramir’s cousin, Lothiriel, comes to Minas Tirith to become a companion of his new bride, Eowyn, something that he hopes will ease Eowyn’s rough transition into Gondorian Society. Eowyn, for her part, decides her new companion would in turn make the perfect bride for her brother, Eomer King of Rohan. Matchmaking shenanigans ensue 😏

When the aunties pull no punches 😳😖 Poor Eowyn lol

I'm actually kinda super proud of how this page turned out LOL

#Lotr #lord of the rings #tolkien fanart #tolkien art #lotr fanart #lotr art #lotr fic #lotr fanfic #lotr comic #lord of the rings fanfic #lord of the rings fanart #eowyn of rohan #eowyn x faramir #faramir x eowyn #farawyn #eothiriel #lothiriel of dol amroth #eomer x lothiriel #my art #Eowyn tries SO hard to make a good impression on her relatives (none of whom are impressed #by the fact that she's the FREAKING WITCH KING SLAYER) #and they're just like #varying levels of asshole to her :( #Mainly Faramir's aunt is #bc his aunt's husband's niece (an antagonist in this story) was the preferred bride to be #so Faramir's aunt is a little miffed that Faramir chose an 'uncivilized' woman of the 'lesser men' to marry #instead of #y'know the one she herself chose for Faramir to marry #not that faramir was ever inclined to do so in the first place lol

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I just finished scripting out the pages for Chapter 1 of "Of Blessed Thyme & Thistle" and its gonna be, at least if i stick to the scripts, around 33 pages long total 😳 just for chapter 1 lol

anyway, if anyone is interested in reading the next page, I hope to be working on it this weekend!! 😀

#farawyn #eothiriel #faramir #eowyn #lothiriel of dol amroth #eomer/lothiriel #eomer x lothiriel #eomer eadig #eowyn x faramir #faramir x eowyn #faramir/eowyn #lotr #lord of the rings #tolkien fanart #lotr fanart #lotr fanfic #lotr fic #lotr comic #lord of the rings fanfic #lord of the rings comic #Also i really really love Lothiriel in this story haha #she's so the opposite of Lothiriel in 'To be Loved" #'Of Blessed' Lothiriel gives ZERO fucks LOL #(except about riding horses ;) #(Faramir may have misled Eowyn a lil bit in the beginning of this chapter 😜) #but Lothiriel has her reasons #I'll say that

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Some Celrond Boops for your dash (●ˇ∀ˇ●)

#Celrond #Lord of the rings #lotr fanart #lotr #silmarillion #the silmarillion #silm fanart #tolkien fanart #elrond x celebrian #elrond #celebrian #lotr art #lord of the rings fanart #tolkien art #my art

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OF BLESSED THYME & THISTLE | Chapter 1 | Page 4

Masterlist of Pages

Faramir’s cousin, Lothiriel, comes to Minas Tirith to become a companion of his new bride, Eowyn, something that he hopes will ease Eowyn’s rough transition into Gondorian Society. Eowyn, for her part, decides her new companion would in turn make the perfect bride for her brother, Eomer King of Rohan. Matchmaking shenanigans ensue 😏

Page 4! Hmm... face the witch king again? Or spend your days with Faramir's female relatives (on his father's side) who are non-too-pleased (and make their displeasure very known) with the fact that Faramir wedded one of those "uncouth fair-haired northerners" 🤔 the witch king would be a welcome reprieve from these ladies!!

Thank you to Konartiste (won't let me tag you for some reason?) for making this page happen by donating to my Ko-Fi 💗🥰

I feel kinda bad that this page is non dialogue, so I'll try to get the next page up by sometime this weekend if i can!

#farawyn #faramir #eowyn #eothiriel #lothiriel of dol amroth #eomer/lothiriel #eomer x lothiriel #eomer eadig #eowyn x faramir #faramir/eowyn #faramir x eowyn #eowyn of rohan #lotr #lord of the rings #lotr fic #lotr comic #lord of the rings comic #lord of the rings fanart #lotr fanart #tolkien fanart