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maeofthenoldor · 5 months

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Bilbo Baggins would actually be the most unhinged character if he was in the events of the Silmarillion. Like if he was to be magically transported into the First Age Beleriand. I feel like he would adopt and be adopted by every creature residing in Beleriand. Including Morgoth

#now I kinda want to write this #it’s such a niche au that has so much potential #it would be so funny #silmarillion #the hobbit bilbo #bilbo baggins #tolkien #beleriand #silm #bilbo

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riding-with-the-wild-hunt · 9 months

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if the horror of mordor is that it’s a fundamentally dead place, the horror of beleriand under melkor is that it’s alive. every wild thing, every plant, the land itself, all of it can be bent and shaped to the will of that which wants you gone. woods with vines to choke and trap and strangle, bogs replete with depthless pools and paths that lead nowhere and clouds of mosquitoes that can turn your blood to poison. leave a wound in the open air and by nightfall infection will have set in. goats and sheep are born shrivelled and eyeless. springs that if drunk from will bloat your belly and waste you away to nothing. deer watching with too many eyes, boars running mad and foaming even after they’re felled. just endless possibilities for fear and havoc and destruction, and all of it is intended…there is no comfort in the randomness of nature when nature hates you personally

#if mordor is a corpse beleriand is a construct. sparkle on :))#brought to you by me #every day i wake up + i get on my little soapbox #the professor's world #the silmarillion #beleriand #melkor #give me some good old-fashioned tolkien nature horror

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iaearcanvennamar · 3 months

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So a lot of progress on the map of Beleriand, did all of Belegaer in the last two weeks!

#silmarillion #tolkien #embroidery #my stuff #beleriand

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humbleschilder · 19 days

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Raw concept of Finarfin led the Noldor into battle. The war of wrath is definitely one of my favorite chapters in Silmarillion.

Tolkien elves are basically superhuman, and I love the idea of how the elves rides the horse without any saddle or rein.

#war of wrath #silmarillion #silm art #drawing #sketch #illustration #art #lotr #fanart #elf #details #finarfin #noldor #beleriand #fandom #jrr tolkien

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thesummerestsolstice · 1 month

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I don't know if this is what Tolkien intended, but whenever I picture Maglor's Gap I picture it in the spring; a meadow in full bloom, with colorful flowers and gentle bumblebees. While Himring is icy for much of the year, the lower plains around it are warm and welcoming for a good few months in the spring and summer, and have much milder falls and winters.

I feel like it's important for Maglor's Gap to be not just a strategic choke point, but a genuinely beautiful piece of Beleriand that Maglor and his followers loved dearly. Somewhere they thought of as a home. Somewhere they eulogized in songs long after it was destroyed.

Maglor sings of the Gap, in the Noldolante, but the only part of it remembered there is the part where it was scorched into nothingness.

But he also told Elrond and Elros about his old home; keeping its better memories alive. Elrond, as Gil-Galad's minstrel in the Second Age, often sings songs about the wildflowers and songbirds of the Gap in Spring. Not many know that's what he's singing about, but he does, and that's enough.

#silmarillion #silm headcanons #elrond #elrond peredhel #elros #maglor #maglor's gap #beleriand #geography and nature of middle-earth my beloved #fluffy middle earth bumblebees could fix me actually #I feel like Maglor and Elrond are two very different kinds of memory #we need more minstrel Elrond also #it's very thematically interesting

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ettelenethelien · 5 months

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1st age Beleriand dashboard Simulator

🌫️ mithrim-noldo following

Yeah, Thingol kind of flew off the handle with banning Quenya and all that, but why on Arda are people now justifying the Kinslaying in response?? have some nuance and also, that's just plain horrible.

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hope it's fine to copy your tags, mithrim, because they're great:

#I mean I know this is probably because they've taken part in the kinslaying themselves #but #can't you just admit you did wrong and move on? #in so far as it is possible because of course forgetting would be disrespectful and unwise #because the consequences are with us still #but it should be way more comfortable than being on your defences all the time #always ready to rationalize or deny #with a conscience you cannot silence

✴️ eightpointedstar83

I am tired of typing this out again and again but Alqualondë could have been averted had the teleri been less self-centred and readier to cooperate. Thingol is just another example of this attitude. But of course, please deny that the third clan is what it is and pin the blame on the people who saved everyone's skins.

We have done nothing wrong and yet our own people are turning on us. One day you will rue this.

Long live the house of Fëanor!

💝 heart-in-a-box

This is just the sort of behaviour OP was talking about.🤦‍♀️

🌫️ mithrim-noldo following

Admittedly, this seems to be a fanatical Fëanorian and more committed than the average apologist of his/her own actions - but yes.

#current events #thingol's quenya ban #my post

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🧝🏼‍♂️maglorfeanorion following

finished another canto of the noldolante today

🌖 hunters-moon

you have a tumblr account??!

🧝🏼‍♂️ maglorfeanorion following

do I know you?

🌖 hunters-moon

yes :)

🧝🏼‍♂️ maglorfeanorion following

wait - yeah, I do...

which of the twins are you?

🌖 hunters-moon

how did you know😮???

👨🏻‍🦰red-haired-twin

he looked through your blog, nitwit :)

🧝🏼‍♂️maglorfeanorion following

I guess I shouldn't be surprised to find you two out of all possible people on here...

so - which is which?

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🌸 a-flower-in-the-snow following

himring winters are horrible and I hate my parents for bringing me to middle-earth

#rant #children of exilse #i meant #children of exiles #coe

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Y'all weren't joking when y'all said the Sirion is impressive...

(more photos under cut)

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with all due respect, gondolin is the most boring place in the world.

🌼 golden-flower

it's not. but you're entitled to your opinion.

🌌 daughterofdoriath following

if only all debates on here were as civil...

👤 incessant-leaves

OP is a kinslayer apologist. Didn't you check that out before you started praising them?

🌌 daughterofdoriath following

*throws hands up*

I was admiring that one exchange.

(and this was actually more about @golden-flower's response than about OP)

*sighs*

#this site...

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image used for Sirion: link

#I'll try making part two with men in the picture #but I'm posting this for now #unreality #in universe texts #Tolkien #the Silmarillion #Silmarillion #Beleriand #beleriand politics #first age #noldor #sindar #gondolin

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saintsilmarillion · 16 days

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pov: you're a first age elf who just won a one way trip to the Halls of Mandos!

Close ups/ alt version:

#i'd let them wreck more than just my city if you know what i mean #my art #angbang #power couple fr #the silmarillion #silm fanart #silm art #angbang art #melkor x mairon #grond #mairon #melkor #morgoth #beleriand #armour designs #tw: decapitation #yes the armour is all about the fact that they have the silmarils lol

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outofangband · 19 days

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Working on my vision for Thargelion! I imagine it is warmer than most of Northeastern Beleriand as its directly north of Ossiriand. Let me know if anyone has world building questions!

#the silmarillion #beleriand #thargelion #silmedit #silmedits #edits

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foedhrass · 12 days

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While the previous photos of my newest Tolkien cosplay (Ndani-tharo/Denethor of the Nandor) showcase the colors of the costume, this edit is closer to how it probably would have looked, since Ndanitharo lived and died before the Sun and the Moon first rose. I imagine the elves would have been able to see better than we do in a moonless night, so I didn’t edit everything just grey or excessively dark. ;)

Cosplay & edit: Foedhrass

Photo: little_solnyshka

#tolkien silmarillion #Ndanitharo #Denethor #denethor cosplay #denethor of the nandor #nandor cosplay #nandor elves #Nandor #silmarillion #tolkien #silmarillion cosplay #tolkien cosplay #middle-earth #the silmarillion #cosplay #lord of the rings #elves #Ossiriand #Beleriand

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silmarillion-ways-to-die · 12 days

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I love this painting, the way Eru Ilúvatar is staring down at Melkor like DUDE WHAT THE FUCK.

#eru is the real villain #eru iluvatar #bad guy eru #beleriand #numenor #genocide #silmarillion #the silmarillion #the silm #lord of the rings #the hobbit #jrr tolkien #tolkien #lotr #fantasy #lotr memes #tolkien memes #lord of the rings meme

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velvet4510 · 17 days

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I’ve read some criticisms that Beren doesn’t listen to Lúthien and keeps trying to leave her behind even when she’s proven herself capable … and I’m like … are you even aware of Beren’s life story?

This man has lost everything he’s ever loved.

He had to part ways with his mother and sister for their safety, and then came back from a hunt to find his entire clan brutally murdered, including his father. He tracked down those responsible to take revenge and get his father’s ring back, because what else could he do? What purpose did he have without his family and his comrades? What was the use when the enemy was hunting him down 24/7? While his survival instincts won out, he was still a man who had no hope, afraid of love and attachment after what he’d lost, completely alone and isolated for years.

Then he met Lúthien. And she made him want to live. She gave him something to fight for: her. He found a new purpose, a new dream: he could be her husband, he could give her love and a family, happiness and freedom, everything she deserves.

He invoked Finrod’s promise to his father just so he could achieve his new goal…and how did that turn out? His entire group of helpers got captured and killed, because of him, including his dear friend. Every time he gets attached to someone in the heat of danger, he loses them. Every time. The poor guy must feel like he’s cursed.

And suddenly here’s Lúthien, in the middle of Sauron’s fortress, targeted by the sons of Fëanor, vowing to follow him into the lion’s mouth to end all lion’s mouths that is Angband.

And Beren just…can’t bear it. She is his hope, his light, his love, his Tinúviel…he can’t let that “curse” on him affect her. He can’t drag her into further danger when that has spelled doom for everyone else he’s loved. Not when the enemy has proven time and again that he can and will conquer everyone Beren cares for, no matter how strong.

He pushes her away not because he doesn’t respect her, but because he does.

He insists that she go back to Doriath and he go on alone, NOT because he thinks she can’t handle herself - he knows her far too well to believe that - but because he can’t lose her too.

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mdb-art89 · 2 months

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The Long March of the Calaquendi. The three caravans follow Oromë on his white steed Nahar across Beleriand. Long and slow was this exhausting march through Middle Earth, first along the shores of the Helcar sea, then past the Hithaeglir, the towers of mist, the mountains on the borders of Eriador. Black clouds of smoke still linger in the north above the ruins of the war against Melkor and the destroyed fortress of Utumno. All of this out of a longing to return to the Light of the Trees and the beauty of Aman.

I read the Silmarillion again and stop to draw a scene whenever it inspires me.

#drawing #illustration #art #digital art #inspiration #silmarillion #silm art #drawingoftheday #procreate #fantasy art #beleriand #tolkien elves #middle earth #story

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lucyfloyenworkshop · 5 days

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Glorfindel and the Balrog

“Many are the songs that have been sung of the duel of Glorfindel with the Balrog upon a pinnacle of rock in that high place... “

The Silmarillion, Chapter 23 : of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin, 1977, J.R.R Tolkien,

Glorfindel is one of my favorites Elves from Tolkien's books and I really wanted to drawing and paint his last fight when everything is lost.

Gondolin, the last Elven sanctuary of Beleriand is no more. Its people are dead or trying to espace by the mountains with despair and fear, as Morgoth's forces hunt them down.

And then came Glorfindel, an Elf chieftain, who is certainly weakened by the Siege and perhaps knowing that this fight againts the Balrog will bring their both end, but he will give a chance to his people and friends to escape to safety.

Glorfindel is I think, one of the greastest, selfless and bravest hero of Middle-Earth. Not just during that fight (which that will allowed to Eärendil to live and bring back hope on Middle-Earth) but also during the events of The Lord of the Rings... to help once more the Free People in their darkest hours.

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#middle earth #silmarillion #lord of the rings #lotr #beleriand #glorfindel #balrog #elf #tolkien #tolkien art

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iaearcanvennamar · 4 months

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