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*fire emoji* something about one of your favorite underrepresented silm characters

AAAAAAAA i’m still so confused most people have totally mentally-edited-out and therefore haven’t gone batshit insane with excitement about the explicit statement that Tuor’s longing was for THE DEEPS of the sea....which he already entered once, off the coast of Vinyamar. Not for ‘the sea’! Not sailing on the surface! Specifically for THE DEEPS OF THE SEA.

#tuor is a holy of ulmo lol #vaporous answers #tuor #ulmo #memes and assorted tumblrosity

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🔥🔥 jirt

people don’t actually talk about catholicism as a CULT with ingrained brainwashing, which would be sort of fine tbh, but actually (just as they treat most people of ~nonwestern or ~foreign ~exotic ~niche religions) as some kind of like, Computer Operating System or phylum-wide body plan that puts an absolute hardware framework and limit on its members’ capacity to perform actions or conceive of thoughts and can predict like an early flowchart branch what an individual must, will, and cannot do/think. which is very different from claiming cultiness — it’s bottom-up instead of top-down and way more repellent and incapable of recieving and responding to like ‘actual facts about what x person or what xyz members have actually done in irl actual reality’. idk ssorry this isn’t actually about tolkien i don’t really have any unpopular opinions about him, he’s dumb and fixated and also extremely self-aware-ly meta-analytical and insightful and thoughtful.

#vaporous answers #memes and assorted tumblrosity #j r r tolkien

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🔥 poetry

embarrassing poetry is the best kind unless it gives you answers or prescriptions which sucks and renders the whole point invalid lol!

#vaporous answers #memes and assorted tumblrosity #poetry

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🔥?

[ivan karamazov voice] i don’t think humans are a garbage species they’re a really really cool species that has produced the most amazing things in the universe but i literally have nothing but utter disdain for 80% of the actual humans i meet. i think this is the opposite of most people’s Humanity Problems(TM)? idk

#vaporous answers #memes and assorted tumblrosity

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11 question meme

tagged by @eugeniedanglars after not seeing anything from this meme for ages, thanks so much!!

1. What is your favorite body of water?

oh man.......i’m not sure but i was super enthralled by the springtime Gunnison river in colorado last year, so maybe that!

2. What are some of your favorite idioms?

i guess the one i find most satisfying is ‘beat around the bush’ bc its so broadly applicable and self-explanatory

3. What is a song that always makes you feel thirteen years old when you hear it?

Probably ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ by Green Day but not as much bc i listened to it a lot but because my 7th grade music teacher blasted it in class sometimes to get our attention.

4. If the main character of the last book you read had to solve a murder mystery, how good would they be at it? If you last read a murder mystery, how good would the detective be at completing an epic fantasy quest?

Theia from The Size of the World! She would suck because she only cares about crossing all the seas to reach the end of the world and also can’t talk to people.

5. What is your comfort food?

Pastaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

6. What is your favorite adaptation of a book you also like?

i know there’s more but the only one i can think of is Holes

7. What is your favorite book you had to read for a class?

Most fiction books I had to read for class that I actually liked were ones I had already read before the class lol. But ones I read in class for the first time, I guess a lot of Shakespeare? Or, The Iliad.

8. If you were a video game character, what would your default outfit look like?

black tanktop, boot-cut jeans. add long black-and-tan belted coat in the winter. i wear this like 250 days out of the year.

9. What are you most likely to start explaining at length when drunk/tired/generally feeling silly and talkative?

probably like, how stories Work Well? or laws. or elves.

10. If you had to pick a fictional character for your roommate, who would it be and how would your cohabitation work out?

The Devil from The Brothers Karamazov and our cohabitation would work out fine because my issues are nothing like Ivan’s, and also I CRAVE assholes who will longwindedly split hairs about shit for pages on end.

11. Recommend me a book.

To you PERSONALLY i would recommend @ivanaskye ‘s The Stars That Rise At Dawn not only bc I keep bitching at everyone around me to read it, although i do, but because i remember that you have said or reblogged or been excited about things in similar veins of thought or concept to some stuff in that book. LOL.

I’m too lazy to come up with my own questions so uhhhh copy these ones if you like.

tagging @ivanaskye @thelioninmybed @bamboocounting @garden-ghoul @gurguliare @crocordile @kareenvorbarra @swampdiamonds @actualmermaid @imindhowwelayinjune @plinytheyounger uhhhhh i guess that’s enough for the now!

#memes and assorted tumblrosity

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Yesterday my gf and i were talking abt how if you could only explain what star wars is About in one word, one good candidate would be “redemption”. but that got me thinking about how different ppl might pick something else, and also how a one-word limit usually means obfuscating a bit, so

send me the title of a fandom or work of fiction, and i will attempt to pick just one (1) word that best describes it

#memes and assorted tumblrosity

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This is excessively dumb but: send me a character relationship (romantic or non-romantic) and I will quote a passage from a song (or failing that, a poem) that fits them.

Notably, the entire song might not fit them at all, bc I don’t ‘know’ any ‘music’ but my verse selections work!! I promise! They will at least be funny.

#memes and assorted tumblrosity

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Tagged by: @starspray and @glorfindels-muse for this meme, thank you!!

Rules: Tag 10 followers you want to get to know better.

Star sign: fuck u

Gender: female

Height: 5′3″

Sexuality: Bisexual

What image do you have as a wallpaper?: a pic of me and my girlfriend on lockscreen and a pic of, uh, mount sinai, as my home screen, for some reason. oh wait laptop wallpaper? tolkien’s “Laketown” illustration for the hobbit

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?: idfk what a boring thing to think out one option for. married probably.

What was your coolest Halloween costume?: I’ve never had a cool halloween costume in my life sorry 

What’s your favorite 90s show?: Seinfeld lmao

Last kiss: @ivanaskye at the airport before she returned to her mountain and desert habitat a little less (?????) than a week (???????!!!!!!) ago

Have you ever been stood up?: I don’t remember tbh because my brain recorded very few memories of college

Have you ever been to Las Vegas?: This past May, for the first time!! It is not the sort of place I would ever stay for more than like 4 days in a row

Favorite pair of shoes: I just wore out the most comfortable and chameleon-like sneakers ever and discovered they’re no longer in stock ;__;

Favorite fruit: mangoes or wild strawberries 

Stupidest thing you’ve ever done: IDK but probably something gay. no wait I drove home in a deathly shut-down-the-state 10-miles-of-traffic-jam crushing blizzard one night because I was distracted by thinking about something else until I got onto the highway.

Favorite book: JUST ONE......uh, potentially The Brothers Karamazov in the AU where Dostoevsky didn’t randomly die after the first book in a trilogy...as it stands, maybe Lord of the Rings.

Favorite GIF: that one with Obama making a ‘wtf man?’ expression and hand gesture 

Tagging: @ivanaskye @gurguliare @thelioninmybed @imindhowwelayinjune @actualmermaid @kareenvorbarra @bamboocounting I am of course only picking mutuals who i know very well who haven’t been tagged yet for this ‘get to know u better’ meme bc i’m jonesing for funny answers

#memes and assorted tumblrosity

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silm meme

i was tagged by @lunavagantt for this meme that was titled “silm meme” but has random non-silm questions sprinkled throughout and looks suspiciously like a no-longer-morphing iteration of the 11 questions meme.....

1. Where was the last place you traveled? Depending on the definition of “travel”, Colorado and Las Vegas with my gf <3

2. Chapter of the Silmarillion that gets you the most emotional? Either “Of The Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath”, or “Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor”

3. And why?

The Voyage of Eärendil, because of the amazing vivid fragility and mythicness of the events and the set pieces and scenes and character dynamics....the two half-elves, the last of their houses, orphaned, homeless, childless, all their city and people dead and scattered, cast away across the sea on a desperate hope, and the becoming a star....Of the Sun and Moon, because of the most quintessentially tolkien alchemy, of a small marred scrap salvaged from ruin and death and loss, and holding an echo of what was lost, transformed into the light of the world.

4. Which do you think is more important to civilization, science or art? I mean, both are necessary (and often very overlapping) but I suppose science is more of a means and art is more of an ends. If you think of ends as most important, then mayb art, but I’m not sure I think of world processes like that....

5. Tell me your go-to order at one of your favorite restaurants: Amsterdam Falafels, on 18th Street in Adams-Morgan, Washington D.C. -- a serving of the literal best falafels in the universe, eaten ASAP in the tiny narrow seating area.

6. If you write or make art, what’s one idea you’ve had that you haven’t started working on (yet)? (If you don’t, what’s one leisure activity you’d like to do, but haven’t?) That I HAVEN’T started working on.....which of the 4923......um i mean......the in-universe Your Religious Kink Is Not My Kink fic featuring background Annatar/Celebrimbor is a good one

7. Do you have a pet? If so, what kind? I have a dog! Okay he’s my parents dog now, used to be our family dog before my sister and I moved away, but he is the handsomest border collie ever.

8. What’s one thing you’re looking forward to right now? My girlfriend is gonna be visiting me again before the semester starts and I am losing my fucking mind with excite

9. Apples or bananas? Both is good!!!!

10. What’s the weather like today? It was cloudy and hot and humid and windless, aka the actual worst weather type possible.The night is giving some relief atm though.

11. Do you have a favorite fandom-related item that you own? If so, what is it? I have some precious art and cards from juliana and lion!!!!! and my grandmother’s battered ancient 1960s canadian paperback edition of LOTR, which i love very much and it’s pretty weird to think of reading LOTR from any other physical source.

Feel free to ignore me if you’ve done it already because i have no clue what’s been happening, but @gurguliare @thelioninmybed @crocordile @actualmermaid @imindhowwelayinjune @ivanaskye

#memes and assorted tumblrosity

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anywhere 2-5 depending on how horny you are, F poured into D, #

🤔🤔🤔

#that sounds like a lot of energy.......hmmmmmmmmmm #ivanaskye #memes and assorted tumblrosity

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Tagged by: @nelyafinwe, thank u! sorry this is so late lmao

5 things you’ll find in my bag: define ‘bag’, i’m a student -_- Anyway: empty peanut m&m wrappers, tiny sticky-notes for tabbing my notebook, the aforementioned notebook (which i have neglected to tab with sticky-notes), 5 pens that have run out of ink (see the twice-mentioned notebook), a book of writings by eihei dogen

5 things you’ll find in my bedroom: an awesome vanity, a gigantic wardrobe, a painting of hot air balloons at night my sister made for me, a philodendron, an electric kettle

5 of my favorite things: sleeping in, coffee, friends, my house, drizzly nights with the streetlamps and headlights reflecting off the road and misting around

5 things I’m currently into: recording my incredibly entertaining dreams, rly bad love letters, brunch recipes, studying, reading apoplexy-inducing news articles about ICE to motivate said studying

5 things on my to-do list: study, write up full notes for the one class with a closed-book exam, get a massage, attempt gajar-halwa, read jonathan strange & mr norrell

Tagging: i can’t fucking remember who’s been tagged, gonna say @ivanaskye @gurguliare @bamboocounting @simaethae @thelioninmybed @imindhowwelayinjune @garden-ghoul @thulimo @kareenvorbarra @thepioden @nyarnamaitar @leahsfiction

#memes and assorted tumblrosity

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8 writing questions and 2 extra meme

Tagged by @imindhowwelayinjune thank you buddy you’re great <333

1. What are your current writing goals? ACTUALLY WRITE DOWN all the stories I like dreamily going over in my head, make a habit of writing a small goalless chunk every day instead of sudden deluges when the impulse + time + energy stars miraculously align, internalize the knowledge that the voice that says ‘no no you gotta wait for the Exact Right Moment’ in order to write this’ is the devil talking.

2. When did you first discover your love of writing? IDK, probably when my writing skills rose to some threshold point where the Delta-Y between the stories in my head and the stories I got down in writing became small enough to be encouraging instead of frustrating.

3. What motivates you to keep writing? 20% praise 30% own enjoyment 50% ‘no one else has been polite enough to cater specifically to my wishes so i guess i’ll have to do it myself’

4. How important is worldbuilding for your writing?

Tbh I’m a pretty big believer in ‘world-build as you go’, both from observing how awesome this is while reading long-term serial works, and from my own writing, and I have an enormous love of stories where a lot of the world the characters live in is not explained or neatly ordered, this was the most intense and rereadable appeal of LOTR to kid-me, but I have never written a story longer than about.....18K I think? and most of that was fanfic where a lot of the work was done for me, so IDK.

5. Pen on paper versus typing? Always typing! I know editing as one writes is a pretty bad habit but I  c a n n o t  completely cut this out it is impossible.

6. Favorite Author?

Just one? No seriously I have no idea.

7. Something you do to get the creative juices flowing to write? See someone else do it and feel the instant need to compete. [stolen straight from June’s response], seeing someone else do an idea, but a little bit to the left, and needing to write the bullseye version.

8. Do you write better at night, or first thing in the morning? ILmao the idea that I have a ‘good time’ for writing. Either one is fine, though on Sunday-Thursday definitely the night. I’ve done a lot of my best work in the morning though IIRC.

9. How do you take your coffee/tea? Coffee with 3-4 packets of sugar and a medium amount of cream or at least half-and-half (not milk or god forbid that thing ppl call ‘skim milk’, black is better than those). Tea: depends on the blend/day/moon phase. ‘Shitton of espresso’ is a nice writing companion because typing is a pleasantly satisfying outlet for jitters.

10. If you could only live with one season for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Uhhhhhh probably fall, the period of it when the leaves are bright orange and the sky is usually bright blue, and it’s chilly from pitch-blackness to breakfast time but hot in the sun.

Not sure who has been tagged yet, but I’ll do @gurguliare @berrysphase @garden-ghoul  @ivanaskye @simaethae @actualmermaid @roadgoeson @swampdiamonds @kareenvorbarra

#memes and assorted tumblrosity #i just realized my drawing habits are waaaaay better than my writing ones

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New Meme lol

Send me a character and I’ll analyze them in the form of headcanons about how they have sex

#i'm stealing this idea from gogol's anon from like a week ago if i'm remembering what they said correctly and not like. projecting. #if it turns out there's a character who i hc as ace and totally not sexually active uhhhh i'll come up with some contrived scenario #memes and assorted tumblrosity

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Since my other sexual-character-analysis meme asks will take a bit more contemplation to answer well, I will do this! tagged by @nelyafinwe, thank you very much!

1. what is your favourite word in your native language?

Shit....i KNOW THIS....i can’t remember. Probably “town”, for the etymology

2. do you prefer FPS or RPGs?

Listen....this is a full list of every video game I have ever played:

Pokemon

Harvest Moon

...that’s it

3. which historical moment you lived through marked you the most? (not necessarily in your country’s history, can be international news too)

NGL while it’s a bit early to tell I’m pretty sure it’s the Trump administration

4. favourite painter/visual artist?

HOW CAN I PICK A FAVORITE

5. tell us a pet peeve

People who don’t acknowledge that they don’t know how to drive in the snow

6. what would you do if you were the ruler of your country for one day?

Replace all appointed officials in the current administration + crop-duster sow a load of hemp, or however tf it’s supposed to be planted

7. and what if you were the (supreme) leader of north korea? (still for one day only don’t cheat)

IDEK man, their leader seems a smidge saner than ours

8. pick one dish to eat for the rest of your life

Kicheri

9. choose one: the power of god or anime

I have no idea what this means and I’m afraid to ask

10. you won the time travel lottery! you’re going to be time-travelled to another year and you can never go back. when do you go to?

about 4,000 BC sounds good

11. what is your favourite meme

still sorta fond of bredlik i guess

#vaporous answers #memes and assorted tumblrosity

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Fic meme: 16 + Elrond & Elros

16. small birds, dry grass

Eärendil sprang up from the rim of the silent sea, and hung in the evening that poured into the west. Above him the golden smudge of the waning gibbous moon was floating down on the sunset’s fiery dying breath. Below, the ocean’s cup caught the sky in a mirror.

“Tilion is chasing Papa again,” Elrond murmured from Elros’s side.

“Mm. He has sunk closer in my lifetime, and still not caught him,” said Elros. They’d had this conversation at least two dozen times before, but Elrond sounded just as wondering every time, and so Elros was glad to have it again.

They had lain on their backs lazy with heat all afternoon, smoking, with their arms folded behind their heads, in the parched grass and dusty summer heather of the highlands above the blue bay of Andúnië. Now the cool salt air came up from the sea, bringing wakefulness. In over four hundred years, Elros still had not become used to the blazing sun over Númenor.

The air was still bright, and lit the wings of the white seabirds as they streamed homewards into the uttermost west, crying strange and mournful above the sighing waves.

“They fly to the quays of Avallónë,” said Elros, “Gulls’ cries! Do they call for you to sail after?”

“Aye, one day,” said Elrond sleepily. “Time will come. Do you wish it too?”

“Aye, but I think the longing for things forever unknown is sweet when unfulfilled. Don’t you?”

Elrond laughed softly. “Thanks to you, yes, I have learned it is so.”

Elros reached out for the pipe. “My eyes cannot follow the birds to Eressëa any longer. Only in dreams.”

“I am sorry. Or, is it better in dreams?”

“Perhaps it is better in dreams. In waking, all the birds are too small.”

He stopped and frowned. He had not meant to say that, but his pipe was good, the evening was sweet, and his company was as old as he.

Elrond opened one eye and gave him a keen look before softening. “I know.”

There was companionable silence, upon wayward paths of thought.

“Elros!” Elrond poked him between the ribs. “Elros!”

“Yes?”

“Say, you could probably get a better look at the seabirds — or they could get a better look at you, without setting their feet on mortal lands — from the sky.”

This time Elros opened one eye, suspiciously.

“What.”

“Remember?” Elrond rolled over on his side and rested his chin on one hand, eyes lit with dreams, an aggravating recollection of a reflection — all unlined eyes and smooth rosy cheeks and thick silken black hair. “If you took the old hang-glider over Forostar like we and Urwendë and the children used to, who knows what you might yet meet?”

“You brainless little scallop.” Elros levered himself up on one elbow. “I am four hundred and ninety-six years old. My fingers—” he flexed them, “can no longer grip, and my joints —” he puffed pointedly on the pipe, “—are seized with rheumatism. I am too old to go hang-gliding. Or for that matter, pearl-hunting, or spark-diving, or isle-rafting, or whatever silly elf thing you were going to bring up next. If I wanted to die immediately, Eru willing, I would be sure to take your advice.”

“Ah, I see!” said Elrond, raising an eyebrow though his voice was strangled with laughter. “Do you not think drowning in the bay while chasing birds and stars is a fitting way to go out? You could declare it another tradition, for all the Kings of Westernesse hereafter. Like what you said about the—”

“I said a lot of things when I was young.” Elros stretched, handed Elrond the pipe, and settled himself in the grass. “Now I pray to die right here, and I should like to reach five hundred before I do. And—I have not been hang-gliding in nearly three hundred years, for I only went with Urwendë.”

And at that, Elrond simply nodded, and lay back again.

“Very well,” he said, only a little too gently.

The lighthouse of the haven came alight, and began to spin slowly, a clear flame throbbing on the sea’s edge. Elros thought back, far back, before wives and kingdoms, where it was dim.

“Elrond!” He whispered. “Elrond!”

“Yes?”

“Can you remember for me? In Sirion, the night Before, I promised Mama I would do something for her the next day. But I cannot recall what.”

“I remember,” said Elrond, gravely now. “You promised her you would show her the shell city you had built in the cove. But it was not for the next day. You said you would show her some time, whenever you were finished.”

Elros stared up into the sky, and felt a pang.

“Oh. Some time. Some time!”

The birds’ cries echoed fainter, Eärendil’s star burned deeper, the moonlight dissolved in the water at the edge of the world, where the doors of night were opening. The spark of white Avallónë flickered a moment, beyond the sea.

“If you wish, brother,” Elrond said finally. “We could go up in a balloon.”

It took a moment for the words to sink in. Then Elros sat bolt upright with a start.

“What!” he said, rubbing his back and wincing. “You have a hot air balloon?”

“Come, would I have offered what I do not have?”

“A balloon! Here! What if I died while you were waiting to tell me! Tyelpe finally got them to work? Do they go very high? What did—”

“Indeed he did, after all these centuries!” This time, Elrond looked as old as he really was, sitting up cross-legged and grinning around the pipe in glee. “A gift, of the silence of the skies, from the hither lands to Elenna that lies starwards — he had one sent to the lighthouse, with his regards, if you want it.”

“Want it! I can’t believe I spent decades doing the cartography of this island on the ground, only to get this now when I am past due to sail out from harbor. The trials of mortality! Ask him to send more for the children, will you?”

“I promise I shall. And Elros, I do not know how high or far it can go. Shall we be the ones to try it? That is,” Elrond added thoughtfully, a gleam leaping to his eye, “if your old bones are up for it. You know, the sun gets terrible hot and the winds can knock the basket about a—”

“Oh shut up, shut up old man, of course we shall be the ones to try it,” grumbled Elros, holding out his hand and waiting to be pulled to his feet — Elrond was already standing, hand out, vital as memory. “If we hurry, we might lift off in time to meet the seabirds flying back when Papa sets in the dawn.”

#starspray #elros #elrond #numenor #the silmarillion #my fic #memes and assorted tumblrosity #with mentions of #elwing #earendil #first queen of numenor #celebrimbor #tilion #idk if you even remember prompting this it took me so long to unlazy enough to start it (even though it didn't take long to WRITE lol) #but it was a great one! #for vague clarification...i def think numenoreans only get super old when they live 'too long' but i always hc'd elros DID live too long #and also that e&e would refer to their parents either by name or by children's terms since they never knew them as adults #the tale of earendel

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tagged by @thelioninmybed  who i love v much

1) How many works in progress do you currently have?

sdiufhdgiu um does ‘wip’ only apply to ones that have words on a doc....if that, then like 6, but several more just in my head

2) Do you/would you write fanfiction?

i do! before the fics i’ve written for tolkien i hadn’t written any in quite a long while tho

3) Do you prefer paper books or ebooks?

paper books for most things, but ebooks for being able to carry 20 in my purse

4) When did you start writing?

IDK a super long time ago. I did storytelling long before i started writing though so i forget when it blended. 12?

5) Do you have someone you trust that you share your work with?

I have always never shown anyone my wips ever, which doesn’t mean i will never consider the possibility

6) Where is your favourite place to write?

Either in bed or somewhere without wifi, preferably outdoors

7) Favorite childhood book?

Alice in Wonderland! And LOTR lol.

8) Writing for fun or publication?

Fun definitely, I really enjoy it, which is bad for my productivity because I will just have fun tinkering with my favorite scenes

9) Pen and paper or computer?

Computer for stories

10) Have you ever taken any writing classes?

A fiction one in college which I despised with a fire of a thousand exploding suns, and a nonfiction one in high school which was probably the best class I’ve ever taken

11) What inspires you to write?

Frustration with other people not catering to my specific tastes. Also vanity.

Who hasn’t been tagged? why do i always forget everyone I know when i do tagging memes @bamboocounting @gurguliare @garden-ghoul @vinyatar @actualmermaid @lunavagantt @rose-of-the-bright-sea @roadgoeson @uirgiliana @nyolofinwe

#memes and assorted tumblrosity