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Analogy: Why I Agree with Celegorm and Curufin and Maedhros

Now I imagine myself as someone from Egypt, or some African countries, or China, or those countries whose super important artworks or national treasures were taken by the British and put into the British Museum. And, I start to feel really angry about the whole b&l thing and all the blames that the feanorians received.

Of course I want them back, regardless of I ever had something like an oath. It is just RIGHT to get them back. There's no other option.

Let's say that I am from Egypt. An Egyptian nationalist? A normal person who loves Egypt as my own country? You name it.

Now the emperor of Japan suddenly says to a guy that wanna marry his daughter "go steal one of Egypt's national treasures out of the British museum and give it to me, and I'll allow you to marry my daughter."

That guy goes to the Museum and successfully steals, let's say, The Rosetta Stone. Of course he made a lot of effort stealing it and not getting caught. But, for me, someone from Egypt, this DOES NOT make this guy the owner of the Rosetta Stone. Also, this DOES NOT make the Japanese emperor the owner of the Rosetta Stone.

You can tell me that the Rosetta Stone is SO IMPORTANT to that guy and the Japanese princess. I DO NOT CARE. My national treasure is not some bride price. It is not something that my people made to SATISFY YOUR STUPID FATHER-IN-LAW or to help with your BORING SWEETIE LOVE STORY. Making it a bride price is already an insult to my people and my country.

No, I do not care if this matters in your love story. It was not me who told you to steal the Rosetta Stone and claim that you are the right owners. I do not care about what the Japanese emperor think.

The Rosetta Stone belongs to EGYPT, not BRITAIN, not JAPAN.

My national treasure must back, regardless of I ever made an oath.

If negotiations fail, I see nothing wrong in taking military actions.

By the way the silmarils are even more important than national treasures in our world. They are national treasures + important strategic resources + the dignity of a nation + the most advances, secret nuclear weapon + the greatest scientific discovery ever.

The oath is not bad, it is right, completely right.

The military action is not bad, it is reasonable, completely understandable.

#oath of feanor

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Maedhros: Fingon is definitely asleep. Maglor: Well that's great. Fingon: Do you always stare at people who are asleep? Maglor *shooting a betrayed look at Maedhros*: I thought you said he was asleep!

#tolkien #silmarillion #silm #maedhros #maglor #fingon #silm incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes #you don't want to know what maglor was doing #or planning #russingon

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#feanor #tolkien #pretty

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Annatar: Alright, pretend normalcy and think about your hobbies. Sauron *from the back of his mind*: Necromancy, torture, murder, extermination, infiltration, manipulation...

#silmarillion #tolkien #silm #lotr #sauron #annatar #silm incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes

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Celegorm: I have done nothing to deserve this! Maglor: *exasperated look* Maedhros: ... Celegorm: Okay, so I've done some things. But... I still don't deserve this!

#silmarillion #celegorm #maglor #maedhros #silm incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes #silm

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eustace: how the fuck do people just stay motivated their entire lives? what drives you? i got out of bed once and i've been exhausted ever since

edmund: you need to hate life to the point where you want to get revenge on existence itself

caspian: best advice ever

#eustace scrubb #caspian x #edmund pevensie #narnia #incorrect quotes #incorrect narnia quotes

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I love how the entrance to Rivendell is shown in the Hobbit movies– the path is clearly enchanted; the geography is wonky, and the passage only shows up when Thorin & co really need to escape danger.

I feel like this is just how Rivendell works– there are no set pathways in and out of the valley, strange corridors and hidden passages to it just show up when and where they're needed. People who have been to Rivendell before can usually find their way back pretty easily, but even they usually can't explain exactly how they got there. Only the residents of Rivendell can reliably lead others to the valley– and Galadriel, because she's Galadriel. It usually takes Gandalf a while to find the path. He's convinced Elrond just like messing with him.

This is very much Elrond channeling his inner Melian. Doriath was extremely hard to get into, but in the normal fairy way where you just get lost in the woods endlessly if you're not welcome, and the forest parts for you if you are. Elrond saw that and decided to spice things up a little for his realm. You know, some impossible rock formations, a few very strange trees, landscaping that is vaguely beyond mortal comprehension, all that.

Rivendell's residents think it's great. Most outsiders think it's a little creepy.

#silm #the hobbit #rivendell #elrond

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Morgoth promised Maedhros a joke And then left him hanging.

#silm #... #that is so bad #it's good

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Finished at last: Fëanor, light of creation and fire of destruction. (Animated and static versions) 21x30cms, pencils, acrylics; and digital colouring for the flamey business.

Prints and shiny things here.

#feanor #this is incredible #so pretty

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Fëanor: Both my half-brothers have attached another Finwë to their names. I shall not be usurped!

Curufin: You should do the same, Atya. Fingolfin and Finarfin shall be nothing before a... Fincurufin?

Fëanor: No. It doesn't have the same ring to it.

Maedhros: You prefer Fëanáro anyhow, Atar. Perhaps a variation of Fëanor with Finwë?

Caranthir: Finfëanor?

Fëanor: *grimacing* That sounds like a stutter.

Amras: If we're going for repetition, then shouldn't it be Norfëanor?

Celegorm: No, that's not right-

Maglor: *nodding* Yes, the word Finwë is import-

Celegorm: -it should be Neitherfëanor.

Maedhros: ...

Maglor: ...

Caranthir: ...

Curufin: ...

Amras: ...

Celegorm: What? You can't have two nors without a neither. It's neither and nor. The rules say so!

Amrod: Atar, perhaps Fëanáro is best.

Fëanor: *on the verge of crying* I couldn't agree more.

Or why Fëanor never added a 'fin'. Why the fins FinDolphin? FinOarfish?

#tolkien #feanor's a disaster #feanor #sons of feanor

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Kiss hands

Fingolfin x Feanor

Kiss the bound hands of the craftsman.

#feanor #fingolfin #silmarillion

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Skewed Reality (Silm fic)

The Dagor Dagorath ended. Morgoth was dead.

The Valar need to move on and reweave the world, but they can't take those that have been Marred into the new world. And so, some of the elves and men and dwarves are left behind in Arda Marred.

Nolofinwe wakes up on the day the Sun was supposed to rise in Tirion with the feeling that something is very, very wrong. He doesn't know what it is, but with his brother's help, perhaps they can unravel the tangled threads that are plaguing this new world of theirs.

Chapter 5 Posted - 29/3/2024.

#silmarillion #tolkien #silm #ao3 #fanfic #feanor #sons of feanor #fingolfin #finarfin #elrond #elros #elrond and elros

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Elrond and Elros

Random thought...

Elros is just a random human child that Elrond adopted as his brother. They were both just playing on the beach, and the Feanorians attack, so Elrond just goes 'welp you're now my brother, just run with it'. And with the help of his Maia witchery, Elrond makes himself look similar enough to Elros that they're basically twins. (He also connects them together with said Maia witchery, but that's accidental).

Elros is probably a distant cousin of Elrond's (but then again, who isn't??) but he's def not Elrond's brother. But he also doesn't want to be abandoned and left to die. So he goes with it. And the two of them grow at relatively similar rates (cause Elrond is half-Man), so no one questions it.

And then Eonwe conveniently gives Elros an out when he offers Elrond the Choice (which Elros never gets, but no one else knows that). And after Elros leaves for Numenor, Elrond slowly starts removing the Maia witchery thing, and then it's completely removed about 400 years later, and that's when Elros dies (cause he's no longer connected to Elrond, who was keeping him relatively immortal)

#silmarillion #tolkien #elrond peredhel #elrond #elros tar minyatur #elros #random thoughts #what if idea #idk what I was thinking

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There were quite a few people who absolutely refused to believe Elrond and Elros were who they claimed to be when they first came to Gil-Galad's camp. This led to the rise of several extremely questionable theories on who they really were, from the more mundane– they're just two half-elves the Feanorians found somewhere– to the more... esoteric, like that Maglor had "sung them into existence" to fool the armies of Valinor into letting them steal the Silmarils.

The most popular theory was that Elrond and Elros were actually the children of Maglor and Daeron of Doriath, and that they'd been kept secret for... some reason– look I never said the conspiracy theories made sense. E&E look a lot like Luthien (Luthien and Daeron are siblings with pretty similar features) and a bit like Fingolfin (who looks like Feanor who looks like Maglor), so it's not totally implausible. It would also explain how E&E had Maia powers without being Elwing's kids. And that was just enough information for it to become a completely unkillable rumor. Most of it dies down after E&E show some clearly human traits, like getting sick, but there are still die-hard believers out there. Some genealogies from the early Third Age list Elrond as Daeron and Maglor's child.

Elrond, who's been confronted about his "real parents" several times, is very over it. Gil-Galad thinks it's extremely funny.

#this is so good #elrond #elrond peredhel #elros #elros tar minyatur #maglor #daeron #tolkien #headcanon

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I have three modes of reading

Dont read

Read a 500 page book in a day

Read only fanfiction until my eyeballs drop out of my skull from exhaustion

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hello!~ for @arlenianchronicles DTIYS, haha~ :( I made a mistake when taking reference and it turns out that what I did is not in any of the 5 reference images… I just realized t_t but I upload it anyway because Your fan art it was beautiful and I wanted to send it to you before the end of the month or the beginning.

#maedhros #elrond #art

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Talking about Lord of the Rings (books or movies) with people who haven’t read the Silmarillion is so hard now. How am I supposed to explain that I have complicated opinions about The Undying Lands without sounding like Feanor. They don’t even know who Feanor is.

#the silmarillion #lord of the rings #tolkien #Feanor