#ilmarien

[arofili]

@arospecfanworksweek day seven | free day | soft romo ilmarë x arien

My starlight // My sunshine My midnight // My dawn Dear maiden, I love thee In time with the Song My teardrop // My sunbeam My glimmer // My gleam Dear maiden, I love thee As hearts love a dream

As stars rise // As dawn breaks As light fills the sky I long to be with thee When twilight is nigh As hands touch // As hearts blush As choruses sound I think of thee fondly The love I have found

O nightfall // O daybreak O sweetheart of mine Thine orbit eludes me And yet I am fine O darkness // O brightness O light and its lack I need not to love thee If thou lov’st me back

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[nerevar-quote-and-star]

For the story ideas folder "You Drew Stars Around My Scars" have definitely caught my eye!

Also hope you are doing good, Elm!

First of all, Crys, hiiiiiii! I'm doing okay! I hope you're well! ✨ Second, I just want to thank you for asking about "You Drew Stars Around My Scars" and to apologize for the person I'm about to become.

Are you ready for it?

"You Drew Stars Around My Scars" is a The Elder Scrolls V/Baldur's Gate 3 crossover that will likely never see the light of day for several factors, such as the number of WIPs I have, my original novel, school, and, oh, the fact that I've never played BG3 My MacBook Air cannot handle those demands. DESPITE THE EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES!, I just think the game is neat and have been sucked into it in part by Astarion. Mostly Astarion . . . okay, entirely.

Background information: Ever since I started writing Keeping Count, I knew Bishop was lifted from Neverwinter Nights and that it was a D&D-based game. And I guess that's why someone mentioned Astarion as a palette cleanser to me a few months ago, shared universe and all. And my initial perception of the character was so cool that I vaguely entertained an alternative Keeping Count where Astarion shows up, seduces Leara from Bishop, and probably sexy stabs Bishop or something. And then I didn't really think about it again. For months.

Then my brain went back to it and Astarion and BG3 and I cried a bit when I realized that my laptop couldn't play the game. I'm fine. And you know what? @cosmermaid is right: Leara deserves a better companion than freaking Bishop. Also please forgive my minimal BG3/D&D knowledge, 95% of which I've absorbed since like last Monday ish.

SO! "You Drew Stars Around My Scars" features Leara getting picked up by the Mind Flayer ship post-Sovngarde and taken via dimensional travel to Faerûn where, following the crash, she joins the usual party on a quest to get rid of the parasites. This Leara is very specifically taken after the planned Chapter 15 of Keeping Count for Reasons. Can Leara use magic in Faerûn since she's not able to draw it from Aetherius? No idea. Can she Dragon Shout? Also no idea. Transdimensional magic mechanics are weird. Regardless, Leara probably mentions something about being Dragonborn and gets weird and confused looks because her definition of Dragonborn is totally different from that in the Forgotten Realms. Linearly, I have no idea what would happen, but overall, Leara and Astarion both suffer trauma from following people who hurt them and they have complicated relationships with sex. They could have what could be a very cathartic relationship. Or I think so, anyway. Also, I kinda want to know if vampires react differently to the Dragonblood.

Symbolism in the story could heavily involve stars and light. Leara means "Light of the Sea" while Astarion means "Little Star". Leara is dependent on the stars for her magic but she's lost them, while Astarion wants to walk in the light even after the parasite is gone. There's no balance and it has to be found. They're both so cold and have lived in the shadows for a long time. There are dark versions of themselves they don't want to be anymore.

There's the possibility that, given her background in the Blades and Dominion, Leara might see through Astarion's mask in Act I. But she'd end up helping Astarion (and probably not giving on that she's on to him until later) because she's a bleeding heart. Two other very important things about this underwhelming but brain-rotting story: First, Astarion wouldn't ascend. We would need a Leara Disapproves sticker because she would not be for Astarion doing that. The second thing is, well, since motherhood is an extremely important part of Leara's character, I did pick out a name for a possible child. If Leara and Astarion had a daughter, her name would be Ilmarien, derived from Quenya, Ilmarë, meaning “starlight”.

Because after all this time, Tolkien elves still make the most sense to me.

#i am not tagging his character in this because I am too embarrassed #it is taking all my willpower to tell myself that sharing this is okay and that I'm not being too much or annoying #it's okay i felt the same way when I was fixated on legolas and loki as a teen I just figured i'd have outgrown it oh well #oc: leara roseblade #azura's ask box

[space-hobbits]

Ilmarë/Arien (Ilmarien) moodboard

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#silmarillion #tolkien #jrr tolkien #ilmare #arien #maiar #ilmarien #silm #i just think that they

[mothdalf]

“There’s always a place in my heart for you

I’m still caught in your gravity”

#my art #tolkien #the silmarillion #of the sun and the moon #arien #ilmarië #ilmarien #celestial lesbians #celestial bodies #sun and stars #maiar

[avoyagetoarcturus]

🎅🎄🎁 Merry Christmas @bayta-darell! 🎁🎄🎅

Here’s everyone’s favorite medieval astronaut girlfriends Arien and Ilmarë in the sunship! For @officialtolkiensecretsanta 2019!

Note to those who haven’t read Tolkien’s Lost Tales - it describes Arien (Urwendi) as always being naked and being made of fire, that’s why I draw her as such.

#tss2019 #ilmarien #arien #silmarillion #yearofthefemslash #tolkien #ilmare #tolkien secret santa #femslash #airship #Ilmarë #urwendi #i based arien on flo***** pu** #the ship hangs from the sun like a hot air balloon/steampunk airship

[gemennair]

Ilmarë with Arien, requested by @couldve-been-me!

Thank you for the request! This was fun to make ~

#ilmare #arien #maiar #silmarillion #the silmarillion #silmart #tolkien #jrrt #tolkien art #silm art #silm #valinor #this was fun #silmart requests #it's basically ilmare visiting arien in the golden flower gardens of vana #ilmarien #enlarge for better quality!! #artists on tumblr #my art

[bisexualturin]

i got really attached to the silmarillion

#my posts #turleg #angbang #russingon #ilmarien #ok im done :)))

[morifiinwe]

@oneringnet favourite relationship → ilmarë x arien

‘touch touch touch touch touch

i could be your crush crush crush crush crush’

#silmedit #tolkienedit #ilmare #arien #ilmarien #the silmarillion #tolkien #oneringnet #usersari #userjamcs

[shineoftherainbow]

Ilmarë and B

Ilmare - Under cover of darkness

It was dark, under the world. There were no stars to light the way, and the few that had accidentally found their way there she was swift to gather up, so they could be put back in their place.

This was, however, not the reason she traveled in the only point of light in this eternal darkness.

She only did that because Arien, the Sun, brightest and most glorious, Light of the Day, Guardian of the Secondborn, fire personified, the love of her life, was afraid of the dark.

Not all dark, of course, but the all-consuming darkness, broken only by her own light, seemed always to conceal great dangers, always on the edge of her vision, and so, Arien had said, she needed to bring her own darkness, to hide the one that distressed her.

Ilmare had, briefly, argued. Avoiding the imaginary dangers around her by hiding her face in her lover’s dark hair didn’t seem like a great strategy for one who was supposed to be piloting a ship.

Of course, she hadn’t said no. That would have been unthinkable. So she kept watch during their journey in the deep darkness, her hands covering Arien’s on the rudder, as her voice, crackling like fire yet softer than anything, spoke sweet nothings into her ear.

She always gave Anar back as they approached the Gates of the Morning, but sometimes Arien’s playful struggles resulted in Ilmare staying close for the whole journey of the day. Those times, her being of shadow would seep through the radiance of the Sun, as she unconsciously tried to bring to it the night that was her domain. This created small dark spots in her radiance, thankfully invisible to those on the ground, which would persist for months.

Arien, when she eventually noticed, loved them. A sign of her darkness was always with her, protecting her and her craft, even on nights when Ilmare was too busy to accompany her on her journey.

Thus were born the sunspots, not a marring of Anar, as might be thought, but a token of love and protection for a fire that was afraid of the dark.

#writing #silmarillion #ilmarien #i was writing and then it just turned gay #i hope you don't mind #also turned weirdly mythical but eh

[arofili]

To Find the Sun

a fic for the @tolkienrsb 2022, written by me @arofili and featuring art by @an-eldritch-peredhel !

Once, Legolas boasted he would find the Sun herself. Now in Valinor, he and Gimli are in a position to do just that. Or: musings on Song, Creation, Light, and the interactions of Elves and Dwarves and Ainur.

Rating: T | No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Legolas and Gimli, Arien | Auron/Ilmárë, Arien | Auron & Tilion, Arien | Auron & Morgoth, Gandalf & Legolas, Gimli & Galadriel, Arien | Auron & Legolas & Gimli, Ilmárë & Legolas Characters: Legolas, Gimli, genderfluid!Arien | Auron, Ilmárë, Tilion, Morgoth, Gandalf, Galadriel, Bilbo Baggins Word count: 5,000

Full art piece rebloggable HERE! (Rating: G)

READ IT ON AO3! (available beginning 9/10/22!)

#trsb22 #tolkienrsb #silm #silmarillion #lotr #lord of the rings #gimli #legolas #gigolas #arien #ilmare #ilmarien #melkor #gandalf #galadriel #my writing #my fic #tefain nin #to find the sun #an eldritch peredhel

[cerulean-shark]

Arien is a lesbian who's in love with Ilmarë and Tilion is the str8 guy who can't seem to figure out that she's gay

#ilmarien #arien #ilmare #tilion #tolkien

[swaggins-of-swagend]

sketch is done!!!

#arien #ilmare #tolkien #silmarillion #ilmarien #now for the coloring

[space-hobbits]

wishing a happy pride to my fav wlw ilmarë and arien the original star crossed lovers

#silmarillion #tolkien #maiar #ilmarë #arien #ilmarien

[mothdalf]

Sunset

Sunrise

#tolkien #my art #the silmarillion #first age antics #celestial lesbians #celestial bodies #ainur #maiar #arien #ilmarien #ilmare #sun and stars #sun #stars #laurelin #anar #sunset

[susandeath]

Aghdfkyjfh I can't get the thought out of my head that in a Modern Day Silmarillion AU Ilmarë is in a high profile internship with one of the world's top modern artists and Arien is... a truck driver

#probably for like Tropicana or something since the sun is a big orange fruit #Ilmarien

[burdenedwithgloriousfandoms]

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Arien/Ilmarë (Tolkien), Morgoth Bauglir | Melkor/Sauron | Mairon, mentions of non-canon family relationships, Ilmarien, Space Girlfriends - Relationship Characters: Ilmarë (Tolkien), Arien (Tolkien), Sauron | Mairon, Tilion (Tolkien), Melian (Tolkien), Radagast | Aiwendil, Gandalf | Olórin, Manwë Súlimo, Elbereth Gilthoniel | Varda Elentári, mentions of other characters Additional Tags: Astronaut AU, Mars Mission 2033, Mairon is nice(ish), Tilion has a crush on Arien, Ilmarë has a crush on Arien, Obviously Arien is cute :), mentions of angbang, no wraiths, Valar are Ground Control, Melian is captain, References to other Fandoms (like Doctor Who), nerds, Tilion is a computer geek Summary:

It's the year 2033, and a space ship is headed towards Mars, with a crew of angsty Maiar.

Ilmarë is in love with Arien, Arien is in love with Ilmarë, neither of them say so, Melian is fed up with all of this shit, Tilion thinks he has a chance with Arien, Olórin and Aiwendil have no idea this is going on, and Mairon just wants to message Melkor in peace.

So... I finally got around to updating this :D

Please, any comments, things you’d like to see in it, headcanons, random space facts or puns etc etc etc

#mars one #ilmare/arien #ilmarien #space girlfriends #silmarillion #my fic #reblogs are also appreciated <3