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the "canon isn't real we make our own rules" to "i am begging you people to revisit the source material" pipeline

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a thousand names of doom and despair

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can I get bi Turin/gay Beleg for the pride requests 🥺

I've never drawn these two before, so thank you for the excuse to figure out a design! <3

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the cursed man and the cursed blade

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The death of Túrin

I'm pretty sure sabers don't change color with blood but I like the symbolism. Obviously Túrin would never turn to the dark side, but he would be tempted. That said, he'd rather die than become a Sith.

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Wonderful commission I did for @daegred-winsterhand ❤

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Chubby Finduilas?

Here she is!

Bonus with Turin dinsdknishdksdk

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Family portrait

I wanted to draw something happy for my birthday! So here's a happy family, I'm sure nothing bad will happen to them.

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Maglor's duel with Ulfang the traitor. This episode is so interesting to me bc we don't often see Maglor taking initiative and doing something on his own. He acts very much as one of Maedhros' follower, but I think that this moment and his mercy for elrond and elros are the two defining actions that shape his character in my head.

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aragorn i understand ur projecting onto beren and luthien and worrying about the love of ur life sacrificing her immortality for you but like, someone asking you about the story of luthien and all you say is “she died” is the most reductive shit ever. this woman broke into satan’s house, called him a bitch to his face, stole his most valuable objects, and ran off to marry her malewife. show some respect.

#also mortality is canonically the good ending and by all standards she was frighteningly happy with her mortality #it means her and beren will be together for ever #and plus her dad and mom kind of pissed on their realationship and she was probably done with elves #I get that the point of this is luthien girlboss post #but it always gets me like ‘no Aragorn stop parroting numenorean ideas on mortality your too sexy’

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Who would win in a parking lot fistfight?

The rules of the fight:

They are unarmed, shirtless, and have had the equivalent of two shots (everyone, elves and men, equally inebriated)

Currently the parking lot contains: one broken beer bottle, many cigarette butts, six sewer rats, discarded curly fries, a big stick, Finwë's gorgeous Noldorin jewels, angrist, Azaghal's dwarven tools, Eldacar's crown, Thingol's nauglamir, Earendil's silmaril, Fingolfin's crown, and Angrod's cigarette lighter, Maglor's music notes, and Turgon's kingly orb, Tuor's shipbuilding tools, and Ecthelion's sparkling silver flute, Turin's dragon-helm, Feanor's red-plumed helmet, Maeglin's forge tools, Aredhel's white cloak, Haleth's spear, Elrond's hotel manager ID card, Finrod's silver crown, Idril's tunnel-digging implements, and Galadriel's mirror basin thingy.

Victory is declared once one person surrenders, dies, is knocked out, or flees the scene.

FINAL ROUND!!

Notes:

Morwen has scored a decisive victory against Beren. She comes into the fight grimly determined and unharmed.

Luthien has had an edible with Fingon and Samwise after the last round.

#vote morwen she’s a MOTHER

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#amber grey OR Patrick page idk fucking the whole cast of hadestown at ONCE

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I’m really struck by this bit from the Nirnaeth Arnoediad:

Now Morgoth, who knew much of what was done and designed by his enemies, chose his hour, and trusting in his treacherous servants to hold back Maedhros and prevent the union of his foes he sent a force seeming great (and yet but a part of all that he had made ready) towards Hithlum; and they were clad all in dun raiment and showed no naked steel, and thus were already far over the sands of Anfauglith before their approach was seen.

Then the hearts of the Noldor grew hot, and their captains wished to assail their foes upon the plain; but Húrin spoke against it, and bade them beware of the guile of Morgoth, whose strength was always greater than it seemed, and his purpose other than revealed. And though the signal of the approach of Maedhros came not, and the host grew impatient, Húrin urged them still to await it, and to let the Orcs break themselves in assault upon the hills.

Húrin in this scene is 31 years old. He’s already been leading his people for ten years, ever since his father died in one of the follow-up assaults to the Dagor Bragollach. And he’s more self-controlled and cannier than elven-lords who are centuries to millinnia old. Not only that, he has the self-confidence to argue this point with the High King of the Noldor and all of his commanders, repeatedly, and is convincing enough that they listen to him, up until the gruesome killing of Gelmir, and Gwindor’s attack. He’s doing what a good general should be doing in this situation: urging them to maintain their advantage of cover and the high ground, and not be baited.

(This is the thing that you’d want the leader/general of your army to be doing, but prudence, caution, and levelheadedness are not exactly Fingon’s hallmarks. I’m amusing myself by imaging a parting conversation between Turgon and Húrin when Húrin leaves Gondolin. “Take care of my brother,” Turgon says to the 17-year-old. “Don’t let him do do anything stupid.” “Do my best!” Húrin promises.)

But it doesn’t last, and Gwindor launches his attack, and Fingon leads them all out to follow him and rides straight to Angband, and Morgoth springs his trap. And it all ends with Húrin being captured and the tragedy of everything that Morgoth does to his family - Húrin, who knew better, and warned them all that Morgoth was playing them.

#hurin is so much smarter than people make him out to be #he and morwen may not like the plan but they are already planning on how they can use their closeness to the nolofinweans to think about #how they can consolidate power and basically make themselves kings of the edain numenor style early using Hurin’s claim to the haladin #through his mother and his hadorian father and morwen’s claim to the beorians leadership #the humans have so much to gain and it’s too bad the elves dick it for them as always (I’m joking but only half) #but I think there is a def lean that all of the edain are way more interested in playing politics than the more shoen anime hero beat satan #elves for most of the first age #anyway I love Hurin favorite man find supreme and mvp of this battle #the children of húrin

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The whole “Elrond and Elros didn’t actually change when they made their choices,” always feels like people are just looking at Elrond but completely ignore Elros completely shifting his whole personality (at least publicly) to being a king of men. Like, when you choose the gift of men that’s it. Your mortal and your whole line is now mortal. It seems that Elros took that very literally. And frankly, I think that is so much interesting because 1) makes the later numenoreans even more dumb stupid looking 2) actually acknowledges that being mannish is like a thing like Elros comes from very defined cultures and it shows that he loved that side of himself so much that he defined himself by it in return.

#anyway. mortals unite #tea with milk #like I’m struggling remember where and if Elros was written with the same duality that his brother is #and I can’t remember anything outside him being described as a man #and maybe that’s because we are reading ‘duedian’ sources but to me that’s almost more important #unlike Elrond; Elros’ own people saw him #as a man as a human being as a mortal first and half elf #second like idk I think we need to get a point where we can accept that humanity and a love of mortality can be a choice someone picks #also never forget that even before she was mortal in a draft luthien was learning aduniac for Berne #I also think it makes Elros position of king better if he was like no I’m human I’m #a regular human man because yeah that’s how you win a election to king with a group of humans lmao

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“And setting their course towards it the Edain came at last over leagues of sea and saw afar the land that was prepared for them...”

🌊 🏔️ ⭐️

Revisited this piece from four years ago.

#numenoreans #silm #fav

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The world always needs more doomboi

#sex on legs #the children of húrin