#elves of cuivienen

[nin-varisse]

There are Elven names such as Finarfin, Galadriel, Makalaure or Ecthelion and then there's Tata.

#that's also a bombass name tho #tata #maglor #galadriel #finarfin #ecthelion #cuivienen #elves of cuivienen #elves #fun with names #again #silmarillion #history of middle earth #silm #meta #nin's thoughts

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Hc in my au:

Thranduil doesn’t speak Quenya, but he does speak Primitive Quendian bc he was literally there when that was still the language used, so while he doesn’t understand exactly what people are saying when they speak in quenya, he does get the gist of it using context clues.

The thing is, no one realizes it, so sometimes some noldor elves are talking in quenya, talking shit in front of him, thinking he can’t understand them, but he can. He’s been wanting to drop that little tit bit of information forever, but he can only do it once, so it has to have the largest impact as possible.

Naturally, he replys to something galadriel said in quenya in sindarin, knowing exactly what the conversation was about, in the middle of a banquet, and he could see half the elves present go through the 5 stages of grief right then and there as galadriel reboots her systems.

#thranduil #lord of the rings #lotr #lotr elves #the hobbit #silmarillion #quenya #primitive quendian #lake cuivienen #pre orome days #4 silvan sibs au #shamelessly pushing my ‘miriel and thranduil are twins agenda’ #house of edireth

[overlord-of-fantasy]

Miriel is a threat

The orc scout wonders, where that elf went. Miriel Therinde goes in for the kill. This is where Feanor gets it from.

#lotr #silmarillion #miriel therinde #silm art #my art #lotr orcs #pre orome elves #years of the trees #cuivienen elves #warrior miriel #she is soooo going to eat that orc #miriel hunting

[evil-crayon]

I am participating in Tolkientober (no I am not too late what are you talking about)!

There are obviously a lot of beginnings in Tolkiens universe, but I like this one so here you go.

#yes I gave the newly born elf lady stretch marks what about it #cuivienen #tolkientober 2023 #beginnings #elves #silmarillion #i'm not sure how much of the challenge I am actually going to do so #my art

[strelkovski]

Water of Awakening

#art #Illustration #digital art #artists on tumblr #silmart #The Silmarillion #JRR Tolkien #elves #quendi #cuivienen

[giaffa]

some more concepts: Miriel, Finwë, Fëanor, Nerdanel

#my headcanon for elf ears is the oldest the generation is the bigger the ears are #it's just fun to draw and makes them look funky #cuivienen elves have the funkiest fae look (see finwe and miriel here) #later generations have basic pointy ears (like in the pj movies) #anyway enjoy more sketches! #tolkien #tolkien art #silmarillion #silm art #silmart #miriel #miriel therinde #miriel serinde #finwe #finwë #feanor #fëanor #nerdanel #tolkien elves #the silm #the silmarillion #sketches #giaffa's art

[moonwalker750]

HEADCANON:

The early flora and fauna of Arda (i.e., before the making of Sun and Moon in the first age) was weird and entirely different from later times.

I realised that before the destruction of tree therenwas only starlight. The trees (from which Silmaril and Sun/Moon was made) were planted in Valinor, which is far from the Middle Earth, where the Elves awakened and lived for a duration of time. The light of the trees did not reach the middle earth.

The Trees could be considered the effective substitute of sunlight. So while the flora, and by the association, fauna of Valinor was what you see around yourself. Y'know, normal trees and plants that depended on sunlight for photosynthesis and normal animals that depended on these normal trees.

It does raises the question then how did life evolved in Arda? Or how does creatures survive the cold? And all the other little titbits. Considering the presence of Valar, let's leave it wacky Valar Magic....

Back to headcanon, the flora and fauna of everywhere, except Valinor, was weird as hell. Like carnivorous plant, chemosynthetic plants, symbiotic plants, movable plants and blue leaves, purple fruit, bioluminescent flowers,'what the hell is this? Plant? Animal? Insect' things. Brightly coloured animals, weird physiology, giant worms and centipede, eyeless fish, biolouminescent aquatic creatures in ponds, etc. Kind of a cross between psychedelic and horror.

Also, as the time went on, it all became a myth for Valinor born Elves. The elvish version of 'back in my day, you had yada yada yada to get to the school' thing that your parents or grandparents tells you when you're being obstinate.

(My another headcanon: The majority of elves following Finwions were Valinor born along with those who were nearly babies during the first great journey. But the awakened and old elves were like, 'nope. Not doing it.')

By the time Fingolfin and his intrigue came, the sun was already in the sky so it was a bit easy for them. But Feanorians, bam... they got the faceful of this horror for nearly a year.

#silmarillion #Noldor #Feanor #cuivienen #Elves #Elf #tolkein #Tolkien #weird shit #first age #Doriath #Headcanon #the lord of the rings #Fingolfin #finweans #house of finwe #sindar #elvis history #Lotr #silm headcanons

[alqualonde-s]

i’m going to write about this later but what gets me is fics casually mentioning our royal elves having maids or whatever… like if you lived forever and also could just live in the woods and hunt and gather legally and easily would YOU have a job you didn’t like? why would there be a “lower class”? elves are utopian communists and that’s that. they clean up after themselves and pitch in for big jobs. yes i know tolkien said a lot of stuff and he’s wrong because he loved old english epics where people had to live under feudalism or whatever.

#more coming once i’ve actually done research #to be clear nothing wrong w being a cleaner professionally! i’ve been one #and it sucked #imo being a royal elf is like being an influencer nepo baby in valinor #people pay attention to you bc they think you’re kinda cool and your dad was really awesome #obviously things changed once war became a thing and there were actual life and death decisions to be made #but overall considering by the time the flight happens elves are like 3-4 generations in #that’s not a ton of generations to establish generational wealth and a deep-rooted class system #all the elves were born in cuivienen as equals and that’s still living memory #there’s nothing systematically preventing social mobility #considering elves live forever basically #i’m a poli sci major if that explains everything #silmarillion #silmarillion meta #silm meta #silm worldbuilding #worldbuilding #tolkien

[valinorianyears]

Silm OC’s: Inye of the Minyar. She is an avarin elf who stayed at Cuivienen while her brother Ingwe left to follow Orome to Valinor. She is kind of a hermit who cares for the gravesite of the Minyar after her loveaffair with the current queen of the Avari, Turinde, failed. She is as prideful as most Vanyar and just as stubborn. Ready to fuck you up. Hasn’t seen a comb in centuries.

#silm oc #tolkien oc #elf oc #vanyar #minyar #valinorian years #avari #silm tag #silm art #silm headcanons #silmarillion #The Silmarillion #silmarillion fanart #silmarillion headcanon #cuivienen #tolkien tag #tolkien elves

[welcometolotr]

TFO II | Chapter 13: give me your time

“Finwë keeps trying to offer me his own strength. Because I can’t do it on my own.” Elwë shook his head. “It just makes me colder.”

Enel sighed and reached out, laying his hand atop Elwë’s knee. The taller elf shivered and closed his eyes, subsiding and letting the gentle wave of familiar power soothe him.

“Does that hurt?”

“No,” Elwë sighed. “I don’t know why.”

Enel pulled back and shuffled several pieces of bark, resuming his work.

“Well, I’m not going to pretend I understood most of that,” Enelyë decided, leaning over towards them. “But maybe you should talk to Finwë about it rather than assuming what he feels?”

whee new chapters :) thinkin’ more about Elwë these days as well as his relationship with Elmo. there’s a reason they were considered ‘siblings’ more than any of the other Nelyarin wakers (aside from Enel & Enelyë in the first place). twinning! 

#elwe #elmo #elmo of doriath #the first oath #tfo things #art of fic #cuivienen #equal opportunititty #them's the rules #twinning pre-Melian at least #after that elwe gets taller and gaunter #he was always skinny though. no meat on this boy #unlike elmo and erestor lol #~disabled elves~ #welcometolotr

[tilions]

Imin and Iminyë · First of the Firstborn

→ for day iii of @tolkienocweek · gaps and ghosts

#tolkienocweek #userlyndeth #tuserosie #userindomiel #tolkien #silmarillion #silm #HoME #history of middle earth #silmedit #tolkienedit #my beloved cuivienen elves #vanyar #minyar #tolkien elves #my edit #sooo this is what i did instead of intensive study session like other people #there's three edit sets in total #i always imagined the minyar and later the vanyar to simply be fascinated by light #it was them who discovered fire and figured out how to make torches and lamps and stuff #they obv also love the stars a lot #and when they heard that there was a land in which light grows on trees? well off they were #imin and iminye both didn't make it #iminye was taken by the shadow and died an awful death if she didn't become and orc #and imin faded on the journey and it took him multiple millennia to be ready to be reborn again #probably to de-escalate the tricky unstable valinor after the darkening #i like to imagine that he's quite the negotiator even though it takes him a hot second to understand the entire situation #also i like to imagine that ininye does get reborn as well and they live a happy life raising orphans in the county side

[lotrfashion]

Dresses for Cuivienen elves - Alexander McQueen

#lord of the rings #the silmarillion #cuivienen #elves #lotr #clothing

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Elrond, talking to erestor: i would love to find lake cuivinen and see the place our ancestors first awakened at.

Legolas, just here for a quick visit: would-would you like directions? Cuivienen was never lost, idk why you think it is-

#lord of the rings #silmarillion #lotr #the hobbit #lotr elves #legolas #mirkwood #greenwood the great #silvans #elrond #incorrect lotr quotes #incorrect tolkien quotes #incorrect hobbit quotes #i’m assuming that the noldor sindar teleri vanyar etc elves have no concrete idea where cuivienen is #but the silvan and avari all do #it’s considered nuetral ground for them

[baddybaddyadardaddy]

MY FRIENDS, this song is a WHOLE-ASS ADAR VIBE.

Translation (according to Tolkien Gateway):

Here I am sitting in the pale moonlight;

from Ilmen sparks are shining in the night;

They see me, the silvery eyes,

as they saw the wakening Elves.

Joy the heavenly jewels give me,

I praise them in the fairest songs.

Forever is the moonlight new;

I watch them now as the first Elf did

as the first one of Cuiviénen

who saw the light of a star.

#adar #baddydaddy #first elves #cuivienen #my boy loves stars more than anything #seriously i am DYING over this #saddydaddy #Youtube

[thesummerestsolstice]

Elrond hides from the stars, at first. Morgoth's hazy corruption hid the sky, at Amon Ereb, and the Feanorians didn't spend much time outside at night anyway– it was dangerous, even for hardened warriors.

Maedhros and Maglor taught them about the stars of course, they were determined to give E&E education befitting of elvish princes, and no such education could be complete without thorough studies of both astronomy and the elvish star lore from the days of Cuivienen. Still, while they could chart the course of any star across the sky, and tell the tale of any constellation, E&E rarely actually got to see the stars.

They could, on rare nights when the smog wasn't so bad, see Gil-Estel, brightest of them all, faintly shining through the haze. They knew what it was. They didn't know what to think about it. The Feanorians didn't like discussing it, so E&E didn't either.

But then, Elrond and Elros left the Feanorians. Maedhros and Maglor sent them away from just about everyone and everything they'd ever known. They came to Gil-Galad's camp as traumatized children who were treated as objects of curiosity, veneration, even suspicion. Eyes follow them everywhere, and their gaze is never neutral– always approving or disapproving, angry or joyful, awed or fearful.

Gil-Galad's camp, guarded by Maiarin soldiers, is nearly free of Morgoth's corruption. For the first time, E&E see the light of the sun and moon in their full glory. They also see Gil-Estel, burning brightly against the dark sky; no faint light.

Elrond doesn't like it. He feels like Gil-Estel is watching him. When he tries to explain this to Gil-Galad, he's met with sympathy– of course Earendil is watching over him. But Gil-Galad doesn't understand.

Elrond hasn't gotten used to being watched, being evaluated, at Gil-Galad's camp. He'd never felt that way at Amon Ereb– where there had been far fewer elves and his presence had quickly become normal. All those elves watching him now? Viscerally uncomfortable. And the thought of the father he barely remembers being another set of eyes judging him is unbearable. After all, what if Earendil doesn't like what he sees?

#silmarillion #silm headcanons #elrond #elrond peredhel #elros #maglor #maedhros #gil galad #earendil #gil estel #kidnap dads #kidnap fam #help I'm having feelings again #You can't tell me Elrond's feelings about Earendil weren't a horrible tangle #But I do think Elrond really wants Earendil's approval #And worries that he's disappointed his father with his choices #And the constant sensation of being watched without any way to actually talk to Earendil doesn't help

[meluiloth]

Here is my drawing for @silmarillionepistolary day 2, Exploration!

There are a lot of drawings on this page, and Finwë has been practicing - though it isn’t just his sketches that are new. The Elves are migrating!

On the top left is a patch of strawberries, which Finwë really likes. The top left is an illustration of Oromë, the Elves’ Valadin guide, and his steed. There is also a sketch of a mountain, and a moment from the journey; some of the Elves are excited about the new land that Oromë is leading them to, but others are more wary about the possibility of danger (a company remained behind, at Cuivienen, which Finwë is still grieving). Then, on the bottom right, is a portrait of the weaver Míriel, whom Finwë finds very beautiful.

I had so much fun with this page (although not the horse or the mountains). So far this event has been lovely, and it’s a challenge figuring out how to draw in Finwë’s style, and also portray a story without words. I hope I’m doing well!

#art #my art #the silmarillion #finwe #miriel serinde #orome #silmarillion epistolary #fandom event #finwe's sketchbook