#legendarium ladies

[lycheesodas]

short hair luthien 🪻

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#tolkien #silmarillion #luthien #silmart #tolkiensource #legendarium ladies #artists on tumblr #illustration #portrait art #lycheedraws #sindarweek #oneringnet #doriath

[merilles]

the shieldmaiden 💛⚔️

#tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #legendarium ladies #lotr ladies #eowyn #art #fanart #lotr fanart #my art #merilles

[camille-lachenille]

Silmarillion heraldry ornaments

I made a thing! It was meant to be Christmas ornaments but I vastly underestimated how much time only one would take so I will use them as regular ornaments for my room.

Melian, Lúthien 1 and 2 and Idril; next I will make the houses of the Edain and finally tackle the various blasons of the House of Finwë.

The end goal is to have all of them in a garland on my wall.

Also, I will probably share how I make them bc it’s actually quite easy, if long and precise.

#tolkien #the silmarillion #melian #lúthien #idril #legendarium ladies #heraldry #fan crafts

[timeladyjamie]

TOLKIEN’S LEGENDARIUM LADIES - (5/∞): Arwen Undómiel

Arwen was born in TA 241, to Lord Elrond and Lady Celebrían of Rivendell and was the younger sister of Elladan and Elrohir. As one of the half-elven, she shared the right of her father to choose her fate. She lived most of her life in Imladris, or in Lothlórien with her grandparents. 

Her father fostered the sons of the Chieftains of the Dúnedain, who were the exiled Heirs of Isildur. It was in T.A. 2952 when she returned from Lothlórien to Rivendell when she met a young foster-son of her father, Aragorn. The young Dúnadan fell in love when he first saw her, though as he was still a youth, Arwen did not return his love. It was not until they met many years later in Lórien that Arwen returned Aragorn's love, and in T.A. 2980 they plighted their troth on Cerin Amroth. In marrying Aragorn II Elessar after the War of the Ring, she became Queen of the Reunited Kingdom of Arnor and Gondor, and like Beren and Lúthien before her, she united Elf and Man in peace, while becoming mortal.

She was mother of one son, Eldarion, and at least two unnamed daughters. After Aragorn's death, Arwen departed from Minas Tirith and returned to the abandoned Lothlórien. There she stayed for a time until she gave up her life in Fo.A. 121 at Cerin Amroth, and was buried there. 

#jamieswomenoftolkien #arwen undomiel #arwen #arwen evenstar #liv tyler #lotr #the lord of the rings #elves #legendarium ladies #women of tolkien #jamieedits #tolkien

[hhimring]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Edhellos | Eldalótë, Círdan | Nowë Additional Tags: Implied/Referenced Character Death, Textual Ghost, First Age Summary:

Edhellos has escaped, with a handful of others, from the battle in which her husband Angrod died. She has a request to make.

#legendarium ladies #textual ghost #edhellos #eldalote #cirdan #fixed-length

[anghraine]

By popular demand (aka two people asked lol), a secondary Women's Wrongs Poll for characters I considered for the first one, but ended up not choosing for various reasons:

#anghraine babbles #poll nonsense #ursula #lady macbeth #medea #lady susan vernon #austen blogging #azula #the wife of bath #electra #caterina sforza #maleficent #athena #lobelia sackville baggins #avatar: the last airbender #medieval blogging #the oresteia #political shenanigans and codependent siblings #legendarium blogging

[theworldsoftolkein]

Elves - by Kagalin

Galadriel, Celeborn, Legolas, Thranduil, Elrond, Arwen, Elladan & Elrohir(LOTR)

#tolkien legendarium #the lord of the rings #middle earth #the hobbit #tolkien #the silmarillion #the undying lands #lorien #lothlorien #rivendell #lady galadriel #galadriel #celeborn #legolas #thranduil #the elvenking #elrond #arwen #elladan #elrohir #lotr elves #celebrian

[the-writing-warg]

I'm baffled by the fact that people don't believe Galadriel was a "strong female character" without being a warrior and that she needs to go on a quest and kill some things to be called as such.

Literally look at this quote about galadriel from Sam in the two towers book :

But perhaps you could call her perilous, because she’s so strong in herself. You, you could dash yourself to pieces on her, like a ship on a rock; or drownd yourself, like a hobbit in a river. But neither rock nor river would be to blame.

You're gonna tell me that isn't a description of a strong character? That Galadriel needs to prove her physical strength?

#lotr rings of power #amazon rings of power #anti rings of power #rings of power #rop #lotr #tolkien #middle earth #galadriel #samwise gamgee #sam #the two towers #lady galadriel #lothlorien #artanis #the hobbit #hobbit #lotr the rings of power #tolkien legendarium #jrr tolkien

[novanillacake]

Dís serving cunt, as she should🔥

#dís #lady dís #princess dís #dis durin #Dís Daughter of Thraín #illustration #my art hehe #tolkien #tolkien legendarium #dwarf #tolkien dwarves #dwarves #the hobbit #lord of the rings #i need to stop hoarding sketches and actually post

[laurikarauchscat]

#traditional art #galadriel #tolkien #lothlorien #The lady of lothlorien #lord of the rings #lotr #lotr fanart #the lord of the rings #middle earth #tolkien elves #jrr tolkien #the silmarillion #the hobbit #tolkien legendarium

[velvet4510]

#the hobbit #the hobbit movies #the hobbit trilogy #lady dís #dís #dis #the hobbit poll #tolkien legendarium #tolkien dwarves #film adaptations #thorin and company #the hobbit book

[queenlucythevaliant]

Shieldmaiden

i. I must have been made for the long defeat, she thought, for that is all I have ever been given.

ii. There was a corollary to that: the contours of my heart must have been fashioned for courage.

iii. Éomer said that their father hadn’t died quiet. He told Éowyn stories about the battle, though he knew no more what really happened than Éowyn did. Curled beneath her brother’s chin, Éowyn imagined her daddy with his jaw clenched, knuckles white around his pommel, fighting and fighting until at last he fell. “He gave those orcs a hell of a fight,” Éomer would say. “His courage will be remembered in these halls until the ending of the world.”

iv. (Somehow, it never occurred to Éowyn that perhaps her good, strong daddy would not be remembered at Meduseld for a losing battle against a dozen orcs, but because that was where the people who loved him best still dwelt.)

v. When Éowyn’s momma died, no one told stories. Momma’s defeat came like the fading of grass under the summer sun.

vi. As a girl, Éowyn gathered up courage from lines of verse and lyrics of songs: My head is bloody, but unbowed. Though far outnumbered let us show us brave. Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter. She chanted those words again and again, a shield against despair.

vii. Somewhere along the line, Éowyn learned to wield a sword. This was more incidental than one might think.

viii. Théodred dead. Théoden scarcely himself. Éomer riding afar. Defeat was coming for Rohan, but to Éowyn, this was a familiar feeling.

ix. Aragorn came like a king out of a story or a song. His was the voice that cried “Bloody, but unbowed!” in her mind when she was almost despairing, high and glorious even in the face of defeat. Now, Éowyn dreamed of queenship, if only so that her voice could be like his.

x. She did not mean to tell Aragorn her deepest fear: that if she was left in Edoras as ruin fell, she would die quiet, caught in a cage and gasping smoke as the house burned down around her.

xi. “You have a sword,” Merry observed. He was right.

xii. Éowyn went to battle because she wanted them to call her brave. She went to battle because momma had faded like the grass, but daddy had given those orcs a hell of a fight. Because if defeat was coming, she did not want to wait in a failing kingdom for ruin to come and find her. No, she wanted to die like a great queen in a song, brave until the bitter end.

xiii. The grass of the fields crunched beneath her feet as she turned to face the Witch King. When she smote him with her sword, she did not feel like a queen in a song. She was only Théoden’s niece, a girl who loved her uncle and would let no evil thing touch him.

xiv. When Éowyn woke in the Houses of Healing, a fresh web of scar tissue round her wrist, victory seemed an insubstantial, fading thing.

xv. But then Faramir looked out to darkness inescapable and dared to say, “I do not believe that any darkness will endure.” He was not like a king in a song, but his words stirred up the same deep places in Éowyn’s soul where all those words of courage lived. They echoed there, louder and louder. Éowyn smiled.

xvi. When he kissed her, she felt brave as growing things are brave: like the crocuses that bloom from the snowy spring ground.

xvii. “You have desired to have nothing, unless a brave death in battle. Look at me, Éowyn!”

xviii. Éowyn looked at him long and steadily. I was made for the long defeat, she thought. All I ever wanted was to be brave.

xix. But if the darkness was passing, what courage was there in death?

xx. You were made for life, she heard a voice say, for sunlight and dancing and growing things. Your heart was fashioned for love and for joy. And yes—for courage.

#so as ever i'm a little apprehensive about posting anything lotr and particularly for a character as well-loved as Eowyn #but you know that I love my brave girls and right on brand i loved Eowyn from her first appearance #my recent lotr viewing with my roommate gave me enough oppurtunity to rhapsodize from a place of authority that i feel comfortable here #what i see in eowyn is someone who's had to be very brave while enduring a lot of hardship #and who has conflated hardship with courage #as though one cannot be brave unless faced with inevitable darkness and defeat #she closes herself off to hope because she has lost much #and hope means learning a different kind of courage than the 'riding to your doom' kind she's been living with for so many years #obviously the girlboss lady knight read is oversimplistic and wrong #but equally i think there's a wrongheadedness in acting as though pre-Houses of Healing Eowyn wasn't already very very brave #in very worthwhile ways #suffering and hopeless yes #and in need of the lesson that courage does not always equal fighting #but always coming from a place of essential strength of character #...i'm probably preaching to the choir here #there are many like it but this one is mine #(it's covered in purple prose and has way too much of me in it) #tolkien legendarium #i will not say the day is done #leah stories #pontifications and creations

[merilles]

arwen 💫💜

#tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #middle earth #legendarium ladies #arwen #art #fanart #lotr fanart #my art #merilles #i have changed my arwen design significantly but i think she is even more stunning now! #she's got gorgeous fluffy hair threaded with stars and silver #i put her in the 'flight to the ford' outfit b/c it looks really good on her and she's slaying ✨

[camille-lachenille]

Nerdanel headcanons

She’s short for an Elf. Like Tiny.

Freckles EVERYWHERE

Chubby Nerdanel! No one can stay lean and fit after 6 pregnancies and our girl handles heavy stones on a daily basis. She’s chonky.

She never gets angry but instead will give you a Disappointed Look(tm) that is even worse (Maitimo gets it from her and uses it shamelessly with his brothers). The rare times she really gets angry it’s at Fëanor and everyone in a mile radius can hear her scream.

Short haired Nerdanel! She doesn’t have time to care for her hair.

Nerdanel’s called the Wise and gives genuinely good advice but in an incredibly blunt way, usually using a fuckton of swearwords.

She was the one to ask Fëanor out bc he was too tongue tied and blushing whenever around her to do it himself

She has no patience for court bullshit and etiquette

As a child she sometimes sat on Aulë’s knees and braided trinkets in his beard, using bigger and weirder things each time until he noticed

Once called Aulë grandpa as a toddler and he never let her forget

She genuinely thinks she gave good names to her sons. No one can change her mind.

Incredibly stubborn when she puts her mind to it.

She wears old tunics belonging to her father as work clothes, and then ones from Fëanor after their marriage. She has to cut the sleeves and the tunics fall well past her knees (Fëanor finds this incredibly hot)

She has a very good singing voice though she prefers bawdy drinking songs to refined opera. Makalaurë asked her to perform some of his first compositions at court and it’s the only time Nerdanel sang in public

She made the first tunic for each of her sons despite hating sewing. After they left, she keeps the tunics in the top drawer of her dresser.

#tolkien #the silmarillion #nerdanel #legendarium ladies #headcanons

[timeladyjamie]

Tolkien’s Legendarium Ladies - (3/∞): The Elvenqueen of the Woodland Realm

The Elvenqueen is the wife of the Elvenking Thranduil, and mother to Legolas. She is the Queen of the Woodland Realm. The Elvenqueen is never mentioned by Tolkien in the books, but because of Legolas existence, she must have been part of the world nonetheless.

She is mentioned and briefly touched upon in Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies” where Thranduil had commissioned the dwarves to make the White Gems of Lasgalen in a necklace for her, but she never got to wear it. The Queen of Mirkwood was captured and tortured at Mount Gundabad by Orcs. Legolas mentions that there is no grave for him to visit and his father rarely talks about her, but Thranduil eventually points out that his mother loved him more than anything, even life itself.

#jamieswomenoftolkien #thranduil's wife #Legolas mother #legolas's mother #queen of mirkwood #the elvenqueen #elvenqueen #mirkwood queen #women of tolkien #legendarium ladies #the hobbit #the hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies #legolas #thranduil #jamieedits #elves

[hhimring]

Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, TOLKIEN J. R. R. - Works & Related Fandoms Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Círdan | Nowë, Teleri (Tolkien), Voronwe's mother Additional Tags: Years of the Trees, Beleriand, Falathrim, Family, Boats and Ships, SWG Challenge (Tolkien), Light Angst, Textual Ghost Summary:

In the Years of the Trees, Cirdan and a young relative of his, Voronwe's mother, decide to go on a voyage together. It promises to be an enjoyable trip. Nevertheless, Beleriand at this time is less peaceful than it was, if not as dangerous as it will one day become.

#cirdan #falathrim #legendarium ladies