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sindar-princeling · 1 year
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I truly and deeply love Eowyn because she's angry, bitter and can be genuinely cold when we meet her - and she's only 24! already she's changed by this war, by the loss of her parents, by the long period of her life where she had no parental figure because Theoden was battling his own depression, and by Grima being a creep. Tolkien's young characters go to war and are changed by it, like Pippin, like Sam, who is still quite a young hobbit (he's 39, and they come of age at 33), but not her - she is already deep in grim thoughts about dying for honour, cheerless, cold.
I don't like comparing all Tolkien women to one another because they are quite different from each other and comparing them just because they're women often feels reductive because they serve vastly different roles in the story, but when you're considering how he presents femininity, it's necessary to do so. so far we've met Lobelia, Mrs. Maggot, Goldberry, Arwen, Galadriel and Eowyn (Rosie was only mentioned as far as i remember?). hobbit women we meet while we are still at home, and they fit right into the homey atmosphere of the shire, in which characters are often presented playfully, or have one defining trait (think about the characters we only know from notes attached to bilbo's "gifts"). further from home, we meet goldberry, arwen and galadriel, who are old, fair, good, beautiful. each of them is different (and galadriel especially has a dark, flawed part of her we can see), but with the women meet on the journey, further from home, a pattern starts to emerge - they come from a different time, from a different world, and even with all their fairness and kindness they can at times feel distant, out of reach.
and then!! eowyn comes into the picture, and- she could be you. she could be me. she's not only complex, but also within reach. she's not a gentle or joyful presence, she's not a powerful ancient force, she doesn't come bearing gifts for everyone - she's so full of negative emotions and pain which she needs to heal from, she's so young and already feels like an old, weary soul.
and it's not to say one kind of character is better than the other, or more complex or anything, because that's exactly the reductive way of looking at those women that I don't like seeing in discussions. ultimately, they are all just different people. but the introduction of eowyn broadens the spectrum of femininity shown in LOTR, and while it's still not exactly wide, it's a bit wider than it was before.
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jaz-the-bard · 7 months
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There should be a festival in middle earth commemorating lúthien's silmaril theft where people steal things from each other competitively
(Well, it didn't start off as commemorating lúthien. It started off as various people going "well if I'd designed formenos--" and being told to put their money where their mouth was)
Elrond thinks this is hilarious and at least once borrowed eärendil's silmaril for it so anyone who actually made it to the end of his really complicated obstacle course was too scared of maglor to actually follow through and win. He has since been banned from doing that.
Traditionally everything that gets stolen has to be returned, unless it's an item designated for the holiday that'll be set up for theft next year, but that hasn't stopped lobelia
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theroadtofairyland · 7 months
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Cardinal Rule
Watercolor On Black Cotton Paper
2023, 10"x 14"
Cardinal Flower, Lobelia cardinalis
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flame-shadow · 8 days
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art trade with @vulturereyy - Lobelia and Leafie!
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geopsych · 7 months
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It was good to see the cardinal flowers blooming out there. Along with the orange jewelweed, which often grows right with it, it provides hummingbirds with the burst of energy they need to start their long trip to the Yucatán.
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oneireos · 1 year
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Doodles, my BF duo (Gran and Dolich) getting the heck outta there before Hessi (@flame-shadow) blasts them with a gun for attempting to steal Lobelia (@vulturereyy) for profit
Bonus wrench toss headshot by Wig
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sesamenom · 2 months
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Some design sketches for Bilbo and Lobelia, plus a bonus thorin
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redrum-alice · 10 days
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Drew some TB kids. Mine's Bee, Heaven belongs to @starry-nights12
Short lore about Bee: her full name is "Lobelia"
More on the future chapters on the fic explaining why that's her name (according to young Ekko)
P.S., the fic doesnt heavily focus on the OC, but rather its to establish Ekko's relationship with his parents and interest to Jinx :3
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Thorin: Was that her? The Sackville-Baggins woman?
Bilbo: Yes.
Thorin: I see. If anything, you were overly generous in your description of her.
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kohanavp · 6 months
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theroadtofairyland · 3 months
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Cardinal Rule
Watercolor On Black Cotton Paper
2023, 10"x 14"
Cardinal Flower, Lobelia cardinalis
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flame-shadow · 2 months
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bonus version of one sketch from yesterday's commission, because bees can hold other bees!
[flax belongs to @luxhalcyonatro and lobelia belongs to @vulturereyy]
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geopsych · 10 months
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Some flowers in a mixed container planting.
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photoblogdujour · 2 months
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Lobelia (Erinus) lazing away a springy day. Not hanging with the bees or butterflies, not going to the bank to deposit money, not shopping at Vons, not building a nuclear power plant. Just a lazy spring day.
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