#out of silmarils

[first-son-of-finwe]

Apparently there’s a bit in Morgoth’s Ring that says “Aulë named Fëanor the greatest of the Eldar” and excuse me a moment

You’re telling me that the whole “Greatest of the Eldar” thing….was SPECIFICALLY Aulë?!

Because if so, this vala is just….so normal about this elf. Never mind “lover of Fëanor” and the general “leave him alone guys, oh my god” at the darkening. Now we also have this.

Other Valar: You can’t just name one elf “greatest of the Eldar” because he happens to be good at your favourite skill! What about hunting, weaving, singing, poetry? Do none of our skills count??

Aulë: Well yes, good point. But have you considered….that he is MY special boy, therefore he is the greatest?

Other Valar: …..

Aulë: I thought not.

#out of silmarils #feanor #aule #just get married already guys

[nailsinmywall]

the 7 sons of fëanor

(part of the Maglor Zine which you can get for free here)

#POV: you are holding a silmaril #silmarillion #maedhros #maglor #celegorm #maedhros is best when he is a little bit out of frame❤️ #wwyd if these guys turned up at your doorstep? run for your life #evil people (affectionately) #caranthir #curufin #ambarussa #sons of feanor #silmart #originally done as part of my trade with @feanorianswelcome ! i sat down and reworked it a bit afterwards

[sesamenom]

Quick hand sketch that turned into elrond with athelas water

I always forget to draw him with it but I headcanon him having pretty bad burn scars on his right arm/side from the kinslaying

#silm #silmarillion #lotr #elrond #also hc that elros burned his left hand pulling elrond out of the fires #which is why elrond became a healer in the first place #even up to the third age he still has to rinse it w athelas water once in a while #bc maedhros' fire-fea may or may not have been making the fire a lot worse than it would have been naturally #hes not /actively/ influencing the fire but him just being there is not exactly helping the situation #elrond only really heals Shadow-wounds by the late TA #bc they have other healers for smaller stuff that dont necessarily need the attention of a part-maiarin legendary healer #and in the war of the ring theres enough people that he needs to focus on tending to the most grievously wounded #kind of like those super specialized surgeons #but hes actually better w burns #the first thing he healed was elros' burnt hand (with some help from maglors song he regained almost full use of it) #later he helped soothe maglor's silmaril burns #but during the war hes needed the most for treating the Shadow because hes like one of two people in the world who can properly use athelas #aragorn taking frodo to rivendell was basically like those cases when a patient gets helicoptered to a specific hospital #to see a specific surgeon about a really rare/difficult/dangerous procedure

[quixoticanarchy]

you know those trucks with the LED headlights that scour your retinas at night like some kind of mobile interrogation room well I think the effect of Morgoth's Silmaril crown should be something like that. the real reason everyone keeps a respectful distance in Angband and always bows before him isn't just about worshipful fear it's also a necessary safety precaution

#silmaril crown - like wearing a ford f150 as a headlamp #morgoth #silmarillion #tolkien #somehow this idea came out of rock opera translation hours but i don't recall why

[fistfuloflightning]

You promised— He always liked to think that Earendil hated him. It made it easier, somehow. To push back the grief and the guilt and the filthiness that clung to his bones. But his nephew was constantly in his presence, laughing and chattering like a little bird. And Maeglin hated himself all the more for what he had done.

Day 4: Earendil & Maeglin for @nolofinweanweek

#nolofinweanweek #nolofinweanweek2023 #the silmarillion #maeglin #earendil #gondolin #my art #tolkien art #decided to use my origin design for maeglin this time #a happier moment before shit went down #i love the idea of earendil calling him uncle and dragging maeglin away from his forges and mines to explore the markets #… #damn it #theres another au rattling around #maeglin escapes angband with a silmaril and returns to gondolin #morgoth sends out his army earlier than expected and gondolin falls without maeglin’s betrayal #he flees the city with the orphaned earendil and the silmaril and they seek asylum with the feanorians/the feanorians hunt them down #maeglin makes himself indispensable with his knowledge of galvorn and becomes their weapons master while raising earendil #single dad maeglin teaching earendil how to forge weapons and to fight #the feanorians sneaking in to throw out advice #knowing me it’d probably end up including maemae lmao #bc maedhros finds competence sexy 😏

[koyunsoncizeri]

Feanor, wearing the Silmarils for the first time.

Watercolor (scanner broke :I photo of the work)

#i like this skin color for him #brings his eyes out more #silmarillion #the silmarillion #jrr tolkien #feanorians #feanor #feanaro #feanoro #silmarils #silm art #tolkien tag

[lordgrimwing]

losing my mind over the fact that

The Silmarils being precious beyond compare and actually making people unwilling to give them up is canon! Or, well, technically the canon that the Silmarils can enthrall people. Same thing.

I'm so tickled that this headcanon is actually canon, and you don't need to take my word for it, here's the pertinent quote:

"And Melkor, seeing that Fëanor wavered, and knowing that the Silmarils held his heart in thrall, said at last ..."

who cares what Melkor said, the Silmarils make people their thralls!!

The question is, have they had this ability since their creation, or only since the Valar hallowed them?

#slowly ceding my soul to the silmarillion #page 71 #the silmarillion #the silmarils #feanor #feanor makes such a point out of how awful the valar are for wanting the elves as thralls #it's terrible that he is the one who gets enthralled #how about finwe and feanor's sons. are they enthralled? #how much time do you need to spend with the silmarils to fall under their power? #does there need to be as aspect of ownership for it to work? #so many questions #grimwing gripes

[saurons-pr-department]

I think ignoring religious themes when speaking about possession of the Silmarils in favour of getting bogged down in modern property law is missing the point

#silmarillion #silmarils #i think i get why people do it #at least some times #but i do think focusing on them as pure everyday objects instead of holy ones is just cutting out a chunk of what's going on

[vorbarrsultana]

Don't close the doors, take me, While I still know you, Truth! Having fulfilled His Design, not knowing it's price, I thank you for opening up to me!

Maxim Rakovsky as Finrod Felagund | Finrod Rock Opera

#tolkien #the silmarillion #finrod rock opera #finrod zong #finrod #maxim rakovsky #musicalgifs #listen LISTEN #maxim is 100 % my favorite finrod #the fairest and most tragic of them all #i know we all love sunshiny finrod but there's something about his finrod who is like a silmaril (as someone pointed out in yt comments) - #pure light caught into glass of dignity - that makes me go: yes that's MY finrod #and i love that maxim's finrod never loses composure during his duel with sauron #and the steely notes in his voice are !!!!!! #(yes you can tell that /солнце взошло над лесною страной/ from april 2nd concert still lives rent free in my head) #and then AND THEN HE LOOKS SO HEARTBREAKINGLY YOUNG WHEN HE SINGS “THE TRUTH” #HE'S NOT KING FELAGUND HE'S JUST FINROD WHO HAS NOTHING BUT ESTEL - IMPOSIBBLE HOPE THAT DYING FOR BEREN WOULD BE ENOUGH #i'm just...... #a) i love maxim b) let him play finrod in leithian too i want to see the difference #(because maxim's raistlins from vita (we saw little but still) and etherius productions are very different!)

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

I have a lack of sympathy for Thingol, Dior, and Elwing and here’s why:

Ngl, i’d feel more sympathy for dior, elwing, thingol, etc if they didn’t all collectively decide a shiny rock, that they had absolutely no claim over and kept from their rightfull owners, over their own people.

Sons of feanor: hey, can we have our father’s greatest creation, that morgoth killed out grandfather for, back?

Thingol, Dior, Elwing: yeah, about that... see, it’s very shiny and i like it very much so imma just... keep it.

Sons of feanor: but it literally does not belong to you??? Stealing it doesn’t make it yours? And it’s literally one of the only things we have left of our trees of light? And once more our father created it? And it was stolen from him? You should really just give it back?

Thingol, Dior, Elwing: but it’s mine now. I have it.

Sons of feanor: you are aware that we have sworn an oath, a soul binding oath, that forces us to kill and get rid of any one and anything in our way to get them back, right? Like, we don’t want to, but we will due to this oath.

Thingol, Dior, Elwing: so?

Sons of feanor: we will literally resort to kinslaying to get these jewels back due to the oath, never mind that it literally does not belong to you and is our father’s creation, holds the light of our trees, and caused the death of our grandfather. Listen, we are trying to resolve this peacefully, bc we also do not want to resort to kinslaying, so give us OUR thing back. You are not beholden to an oath. Not that that should matter. Literally GIVE US OUR SHIT BACK.

Thingol, Dior, Elwing: nah

Sons of feanor: oh my fucking god *kinslays* we fucking warned you you dumbass! *kinslays again* all you had to do was give us our thing back, it literally does not belong to you. *kinslays* we fucking told you about the oath, but did you listen? No! Do you even care about your own people? Like, what is this shit?

Thingol, Dior, Elwing: *dies* *cries about how it’s unfair*

(Look, do i acknowledge and understand that what the feanorians did with the kinslaying is wrong? Yeah. Do i also acknowledge and understand that Thingol, Dior, and Elwing could have avoided all of this if they had just given the jewels that they had not right to back? Absolutely. Even ignoring how they had no right to the silmarils in the first place, as leaders of their people, they did not do right by their people by putting a shiny rock over their people (especially considering they were not under oath) especially considering they were given the option to resolve it peacefully and were given warning)

(To be completely honest, Thingol, Dior, and Elwing continuously acting as if they had a right to the silmarils is very much like how the museums dig up ancient tombs, pilfers the treasures, take it all to their land and display it, all without a second thought to the people and descendants of the rightful owners, and disregard the cultural value for the original people, and thenget bitchy when the people of the country and culture want their history ancestors possessions back)

The only one i’ll give lenience to is elwing bc she was young, had not parental guidance, and withholding the jewel was probably also partly driven by spite, but Thingol and Dior have no leg to stand on what so ever.

Lastly, i’d like to state that this is what I think, this is my opinion and you are absolutely free and welcome to have your own. If you have a different opinion, feel free to post it on your own time and in your own post.

#silmarils #silmarillion #thingol dior and elwing had no right to it #sons of feanor #they gave them a warning #they tried to resolve it peacefully #they were literally tied by the oath #it takes 2 to tango #they literally would have ignored doriath and sirion if they were given their shit back #should they have kinslayed? no #could it have been avoided if thingol dior and elwing got their head out of their ass? yes #those three were adults and they had a responsibility to their people #i did not tag the three seperatly because I acknowledge that people who look through their tags probably don’t want to see this stuff #and i’m not here to start a war #why did thingol even want the silmarils in the first place? #it was obviously a made-to-fail quest for beren and he doesn’t care about the jewels themselves so why did he decide to keep them? #they were leaders but did the one thing leaders should not do #the sons of feanor fucked up with the oath absolutely #but lets not pretend that everyone else was an innocent victim forced to go along with it and incapable of making their own decisions

[kradogsrats]

thinking again today about Beren going to the nethermost hall of Angband to take one of the three Silmarils from Morgoth's crown for Luthien as demanded by her father and Callum going to (the top of?) the Starscraper to take (one of?) the three quasar diamonds from the Corona of the Heavens for Rayla as demanded to rescue her parents

#that didn't work out great for beren btw #pride overcame him after successfully freeing one silmaril and he attempted to take another #he lost both the silmaril and his hand #the small number of weirdly precise parallels between tdp and the silmarillion drives me insane #like yeah both scenarios are fairly straightforward orpheus and eurydice derivatives #but then you get to the shit like three jewels formed from heavenly light set in a crown and i'm like *narrows eyes* #and don't even get me started on laurelion and telperion/laruelin #i should probably find all my silmarillion posts and tag them for archiving #tdp silmarillion

[first-son-of-finwe]

Tiny LOTR detail that is cute: when the battle of Helms Deep begins, Aragorn yells “LADDERS!” in Sindarin to warn everyone about the ladders. To which Gimli immediately responds, “good !”

Which means Gimli understood him without translation, which means he’s definitely learned at least a bit of Sindarin by now. Which is CUTE.

#out of silmarils #lotr #gigolas

[thelien-art]

if you're still taking requests for rarepairs can I ask for Nienor/Mablung?

I think Nienor is a very underrated character... there´s so much going on in her life, how does she hold on so long!? And her end!? With Glaurung?? Amazing! Mablung too is underrated but not in the same way, he´s an interesting character, to say the least. I like his friendship with Beleg.

#feed me rarepairs even if i dont ship them #they are my life bread #i do like the idea of them being together when i think more about it #but like i want it to be bitter sweet #i really dont think of mablung that much #the thing i like the most about him is when he takes out to hunt the silmaril down even though its in a wolfs stomach #thats some strong personality there #i have more moments where i think about nienor and especially her family #aka her dad and brother like not a lot but much #she usually follows on an after thought #tolkien #silmarillion #jrr tolkien #children of hurin #the children of hurin #coh #nienor #mablung #nienor niniel #digital art #silm art #my art

[shitty-tolkien-aus]

Twilight AU where the incredibly hot otherworldly teens who never interact with others, are freakishly fast, and some of whom are dating each other are...

The sons of Feanor.

#feanorians #sons of feanor #silmarillon #free to use #except its a reverse of twilight in terms of their politics with other vampires #''oh yeah we don't eat people (anymore) but I've killed a bunch of people. I'll kill you if you break my brother's heart.'' #''The Volturi leave us alone because they know better than to fuck with Feanor.'' #probably vampire!Feanor invented the Silmarils which allow vampires to live without blood just so he work on projects longer in a row #and then Nerdanel pointed out that they could stop killing people

[deadqueernoldor]

Nghhh chewing on finweans and realizing how self-sacraficial is so deeply instilled in that family, and that that particular trait is prevalent in each generation.

Finwe knew he couldnt win against Morgoth, but he could try and protect his grandchildren. He fought regardless.

Fingolfin knew he couldnt twin against Morgoth in 1-on-1. He fought regardless.

Finrod knew he would die on his quest for Beren, and still fought the wolf to save his friend. He did.

Celebrimbor knew he could protect others by dying, protecting the knowledge about the rings. He did.

It stands to reason that Elladan, Elrohir or Arwen, would have come upon a similar fate.

#sometimes it just hits me with a sledgehammer like that family (esp the feanorian side) is portrayed as selfish a lot #(instert 'justice for caranthir for tslling Angrod to fucking stick with the people who arent hiding in Menegroth from Morgoth'-agenda) #(insert 'feanor was a selfish prick by abandoning the others in aman and forcing his sons to re-swear the oath upon his death' rant) #but i still think they are actually more opputunistic when you REALLY want to put a word ending with -istic there #feanor saw the opportunity to leave aman. fuck the brother he never liked. feanor only needs the people who'll be loyal to his family anyway #curufin saw the opportunity to get support form those of nagothrongld after he and celegorm had to flee like cowards from the dragons #which. for two people who i think have immense pride in their battle skill and strength must have been a HUGE ego blow #celegorm saw the opportunity to either: fuck over doriath and thingol by keeping luthien as political leverage (i dont think he's have #forced himself on her intimately. so fuck that. idc man. leave that shit away from me. he's an asshole but not a rapist imo anyway) #or: get a silmaril out of this mess SOMEHOW. #maedhros saw the opportunity of a possibly successful assault on angband after the silmaril quest of B+L and immediately began warplanning #and realistically speaking you cant tell me that maedhros didn't see the opportunity to casually drop the fact that it was HIS brothers and #HIMSELF holding basically all the eastern lands of beleriand in safety by closing off the Gap of Maglor while... where have you heard vague #rumours of turgon and ⅓ of the nolofinwean people maybe possibly not having died after suddenly disappearing? yeah. thought so. #just the opportunity to make slight political jibes available to shut anyone up about them being selfish #this is a weird post idk where this is going i stopped thinkig halfway though the second sentence #somehow that tag rant veered from self-sacraficial to opportunistic. didnt have that on my bingo card

[victorie552]

Hey, you know who was the most influential unnamed person in the whole Silmarillion?

That guy that took Silmaril to Dior* after Luthien and Beren’s death.

He had the Silmaril. He could do anything with it - run with it, eat it, take it outside the Girdle...

How do we know that Silmaril was meant to go to Dior* and not, say, Sons of Feanor?

*Edit: In a totally unexpected (...yeah) turn of events, I actually remembered this wrong! After Luthien and Beren’s death The Guy took the Nauglamir (?) with Silmaril in it to Doriath to give it to DIOR, not Thingol. Thingol was dead at that point. Thanks to everyone for pointing it out! (not changing the tags, let them be a reminder for me to read Silmarillion again)

#god I hope I remember that right #I don't have a book next to me and I'm too lazy to go and get it #I mean It's never said what Luthien and Beren wanted to do with Silmaril #just that it probably shortened their lives #unnessessary mysterious that #maybe they wanted to send it to SoF after their deaths? #if they wanted Silmaril to be a family jewel Dior was right there why send it to Thingol #or maybe Tolkien just didn't know how to get Silmaril from Point A to Point B #that's a valid option too #it just came to me out of nowhere #silm awakens the conspiracy theorist inside me it's like the 3rd time #silm #silmaril #silmarillion #Thingol #Beren and Luthien #sons of Feanor #ok the last 3 tags are just for clout here #have a nice day #sorry if it was discussed and resolved before I'm not that deep into fandom