#shadow of wardor

[northeasternwind]

I know I have been liking your posts from years ago (I apologize if that has bamboozled you), but I need to thank you for the Talibrimbor rot you have given me. I myself am in the works right now of writing an AU or two about them, and your posts are an inspiration to read! <3 Thank you for being such an amazing writer! c:

YOU ARE SO WELCOME PLEASE GOD WRITE ME THE TALIBRIMBOR AND GIVE ME CONTENT AND LOOK AT MY OLD ASS POSTS I NEEDS IT THE PRECIOUS WAHHHH

do you have any idea how many aus we have of these two. do you. we have like three different first age aus, three time travel aus, many second age aus, and kjsdkjsfkdjhf WAHHH

#shadow of wardor #shadow of war #shadow of mordor #talibrimbor #skjdfhskjdfhksdj #HUAAAA #bagginshieldtwit

[dragonfatherofficial]

let’s make Talion real and let him fight every transphobe to the death wearing a trans flag cloak <333

#talion #shadow of wardor #shadow of war #shadow of mordor #trans tolkien #talion is transmasc

[lesbiansforboromir]

Ahh, I’m happy. First episodes of Rings of Power are a few steps above my expectations and I had a really good time watching it, which was all I really wanted to begin with. Numenor hasn’t even arrived onscreen and I’m already pretty invested. 

I was actually surprised by how much I liked the Harfoot plotline, I had expected to find it really irritating and extraneous but it was so delightful to watch I was taken in. I think it was Lenny Henry’s influence, his acting was great and i’m really attached to Sadoc already. I’m STILL not sold on old meteorman Gandalf, mainly because I don’t want to see fuckin Gandalf, but also because he DOES feel very extraneous to the plot they’re driving towards. But the scenes with him are still well acted and seeing how big he is in comparison to Nori is endearing too. Liked being able to decipher the Quenya words for blessed and heat in there, which I assume was him trying to explain stars. 

Oh it’s so humiliating... I do like Lindon 😔 they are using the set really well and the shots are sumptuous and filled with interesting detail. Also good GOD I love elf politics, I love incredibly elevated elven speech that’s just so elaborate that they sound like they’re in a Shakespearean play at all times. (some of the proverbs are a little over the top but still). Yes they SHOULD sound that ridiculous. I am also very much enjoying Elrond’s character and the way they have interpreted his ‘Herald’ position in Gil-Galad’s court. Speech writer and little busy body to be sent to solve problems. I think the promos really did a disservice in calling him ‘politically ambitious’. It’s technically true but on it’s own it doesn’t accurately describe his motives, he’s being invested in his people and wanting to help. He’s a young but very noble elf and full of optimism and love for all things! He’s excited to be of use! Maybe a little too invested! Hah.  

Celebrimbor also I like so much, he’s got this 1920′s dandy vibe, he certainly feels like a jewelsmith to me. His mannerisms are so endearing and sharp, and when he speaks about the things he’s passionate about the actor actually manages to get this feeling of... a glint in his eye? Like he’s generating his own energy talking about it, very autistic of him, I love it. And I especially appreciate this much more emotive and engaged portrayal after the disastrous Shadow of Wardor nonsense. I respect them going for the precise opposite character. He even fucking cares about people beyond elves! Cares about middle-earth in fact! Oh and also! With his excitable dialogue surrounding dwarves, I have been given new hope that we WILL be seeing Narvi in later seasons. Indeed, these two episodes have really solidified in my mind what they’ve done to the timeline. It’s ALL contracted, including a lot of the aspects of characters we expect, their development has been reclaimed for the show to walk us through. We’ll see how that plays out as the years go by but I can see the logic of doing it that way. 

THE DWARVES! Oh my days the dwarves. Every dwarf scene was so gorgeous and Durin’s actor has a way of settling his body into the costume that makes him feel heavy, durable and powerful. I’ve really gone on a 180 about his design. Even this rock breaking contest, which always felt really silly to me, actually is implemented in a way that I really enjoy. Disa is just... I can’t stop thinking about her, Sophia Nomvete matches Durin’s energy so perfectly and the way she uses her eyes is simply entrancing. I just want to watch them all the time. I also really loved the cameo of a bust of the dragon helm of dor lomin being paraded around by Durin’s children. I hope we get more of them too, can’t see enough dwarf children. The idea Durin just has replica heads lying around? Did he make them? Is it a hobby? I’m delighted. 

But I can’t talk about Durin without mentioning his and Elrond’s relationship. A while back I commented on twitter that the way the promo material discussed it, it sounded like Durin was Elrond’s jilted lover and I joked about the idea that Elrond had just... forgotten about how time passes for Durin, causing Durin to feel entirely abandoned and to move on and get married..... WELL! don’t I feel like Apollo struck me with the gift of prophecy. The emotion within the elevator scene alone... the genuine pain in Durin’s voice, the heartbreak on Elrond’s face as he hears it! I lived a life in that time, a life you missed! I was surprised the show was able to drag out real feelings from me this early on. The way Disa is trying to heal this rift between them too. I’m so fond of all of them and I now even more cannot wait for the Elrond/Durin/Disa polycule fanfic. What twists and turns of fate. 

The Southlands gave me slurs for elves so I will be forever grateful to them, although I was looking for something a little more imaginative than pointies. Would have liked something derogatory ABOUT immortality. And damn! We’re really going for racist elves! Love it honestly! I’m pretty shocked that they aren’t veering away from the textual ‘blood will out’ narratives. Elves really be inventing Faramir’s Darkmen/Middlemen/highmen paradigm as we speak. I also love mean elves, I love watching elves be snappy at each other, in general I love the expansion of what it means to be an elf outside of the heroic nobility we’ve only seen up until now. It’s a great elf portrayal! I love the mention of artificers by Arondir, elves usually expecting their bodies to heal on their own, but needing elf therapy to tend to much more fragile souls. As for Arondir and Bronwyn themselves? They are sweet and I do like the way they put their relationship into a historical context, but I want to see more of them enjoying each other’s company. Certainly I like Arondir and Bronwyn as characters on their own but I want to get to know them better.

I think the MAJOR issue I have with this show at the moment is definitely how thick it feels. All the plot threads are good and I can see how they are all going to tie into one another, I can even see how the entire arch will feed into the eventual Akallabeth, but it’s SO MUCH to get through. I’m feeling nervous about there being only 6 episodes left in season 1. I wanted more breathing room between major plot points and whilst I was surprised by the amount of character I was able to glean from such short scenes, I was still left wanting more time to explore the more complex aspects of each of the situations.

I think the southlands suffered from this the most. You are left unsure what to think about morgoth worship, whether it’s active in the village, are the elves right to hold them hostage like this or is it because of their actions that they are turning back to those dark ways? It’s definitely an uncomfortable aspect to work through and I just felt it needed more time and care than it’s gotten at the moment. And it means that, despite how much I like it, I actually still feel like the Harfoot storyline was a thread too far. I would like to know about entwives and such, but I just don’t think the show has the time. 

STILL annoyed about Durin III and Durin IV existing alongside each other. I would like to know how they’ll explain it or if they even will, but for now it’s a niggle that I can’t quite let go of. 

I’m not sure how to feel about the whole Valinor thing, because on the one hand... religious overtures are DEFINITELY the right vibe for it, the more uncomfortable the better, there’s even a slightly offkey singer amongst the choir in the soundtrack for Valinor, and an ominous scary part to the music too, but it’s still... A LOT. I suppose it also enabled them to not show Valinor again and so forth. And honestly I am intrigued by the treatment of returning to Valinor being a reward for exemplary service, it’s kind of inline with canon and creates to me a very strange and intriguing dynamic. BUT... Valinor is so hard to get right, we’ll see if it comes up again. 

I think that’s all I have to say! All in all, as I said, the show was fun and it was absolutely what I was looking for after House of the Dragons reminded me why I fell off of Game of Thrones in the first place. I would just like a little universal meta morality in my fantasy shows.

#the rings of power #the rings of power spoilers #rings of power #rings of power spoilers #rop #erran vs rop #text post #long post

[v1leblood]

just saw the guy in the new assassins creed game teleporting around like its shadow of wardor. im gonna be sick

[ofuruksandnologsarchive]

Orcs gossip like crazy. They are so social that they love to talk about other people's lives. They are just like those neighbor grandmas that meet at a certain place in the middle of a street, almost everyday, to talk about everything about everybody.

Change my mind.

#middle earth shadow of mordor #middle earth shadow of war #shadow of mordor #shadow of wardor #shadow of war #uruk #uruk hai #olog #olog hai #imagines #this is barely an imagine this is a fact #we all know it #we all have seen it

[enterwitty-remark]

Talion often forgets people can't hear or see Celebrimbor. This, of course, leads to a lot of people thinking Talion just talks to himself a lot.

#talion #celebrimbor #au:soft epilogue #shadow of wardor

[enter-witty-remark]

I have glitched into a wall.

There is no escape.

I have no end and yet I can see it so clearly.

I can not leave.

The wall has claimed me.

#talion #shadow of wardor #shadow of war #for reference #i somehow #through the power of a drake #got stuck in one of the fortress walls #i had to exit the game because i couldnt get out

[bluedancingkittykat]

Remember figuring out that Caragors can climb?

#haha good times :) #shadow of wardor #shadow of mordor #shadow of war #my art #mine #lolotr

[electronicdelusionstarlight]

So,

Celebrimbor is the "All Shall Fear me and Rejoice" Elf.

Galadriel is the "All Shall Love me and Despair" Elf.

Eltariel, the Blade of Galadriel, is the "All Shall Fear me and Despair" Elf. (Listen to her lines during the Sauron Boss Fight).

Then, who is the "All Shall Love me and Rejoice" Elf?

#celebrimbor #galadriel #eltariel #shadow of war #shadow of mordor #shadow of wardor #eh #lord of the rings #lotr

[northeasternwind]

Hello again! I wish ask a question, but I am sorry in advance in bugging you lately! My question is this: how do you write Celebrimbor in terms of writing out his personality and how he interacts with other people. I have written out this one fic where it's their first time kiss after Shadow of War, but I don't know if I am writing the great elf lord too brooding or not. Help me out please? Oh, and also, Talion not understanding how to court an elf. At all. I am going to write it out.

HUEHUEHUEHUEHUE

Honestly it's way easier to write Celebrimbor as too nice than too brooding so I wouldn't worry TOO much 😂 I try to remember that he has an acerbic sense of humor but doesn't have any self-doubt or like, navel-gazing about how much he loves his family for instance. Like he has no trouble admitting that he's lost everything and Sauron is the one to blame, he knows exactly how he feels about that. He's not repressing the realization of how much he loved his family or anything.

However, because of the games' writing he's not super demonstrative about either love or friendship. It's up to you to try and decide if that's because the games' writers just didn't feel the need to write all that, or if he really does just kinda assume that his affection is obvious.

As for how he interacts with people ITS HARD BECAUSE LITERALLY ONLY TALION CAN SEE HIM MOST OF THE TIME LMFAO. I got around this by giving Celebrimbor a Thing where 4000 years of being invisible has made him uncomfortable being seen and interacted with by anyone who isn't Talion, so I just make him curt but too proud to be shy to everyone else. It is probably important to remember that he is a lord by birth though, and might have been a king if not for the whole business with his forebears and stuff.

I am suddenly busy so my apologies for the late answer! I hope it helps!

#shadow of mordor #shadow of war #shadow of wardor

[dragonfatherofficial]

#annatar #shadow of wardor

[lesbiansforboromir]

Just saw someone claim that Shadow of Wardor was better at canon than Rings of Power and my eye hasn’t stopped twitching, Tolkien Fandom my beloved oh how you all try my patience sometimes, how you bring me to the brink of propriety and sense, how you make me claw at my cage and attempt to burrow my way into the earth to find more coherence, Shadow of Wardor did more practical damage to the base canon and timeline in 1 (one) single scene than anything I have ever seen or heard Rings of Power do, by absolute leagues. It literally created an impossible timeline within itself, it plucked random names out of the tolkien gateway’s character page and threw them all into a scene without even once considering what they were doing. It’s literally a lotr paint job over the top of a batman game, I’m frothing at the mouth, I want to cry, you have all got to calm down about this goddamn show it’s literally fine, it’s actually good even.

#text post #erran vs rop

[v1leblood]

there is a Lot wrong with the shadow of wardor games but i do think they have the best officially sanctioned design for Annatar we ever got

[ofuruksandnologsarchive]

Smut smut smut!! Uruk and Tark smut please and thank you ❤😘

Tw: Gangbang, bodily fluids, nsfw, +18, reader-insert, gender neutral reader.

——————//——————

" Aah...!"

Too hot to think. Mind going fuzzy. The steady rhythm, the sinful sounds created by you and him echo in your ears. With sweaty hands, you reach out in search of his own, only to have both arms aggressively pulled back by a pair of claws.

"Yeah, just like that, little Tark... Looks like you're enjoying this as much as I am." He laughs when you whine with desire. His grip on your hips is tight as your lover continues to drill into you from behind.

You both have been at this for what felt like hours, having aching with need until you've hit the point of no return. In truth, you had been the one who started this. The warmth, the strange feeling inside your lower belly, the mighty want to be filled over and over. You were horny for the past few days or so without a way to relieve the ache.

Knowing Uruks have sharpened senses, it certainly did not take too long for them to find out that you were the thing that smelled so strange, but so good and why they were way more aggitated than normal. And when they found out, well, the offers poured in like an avalanche.

You weren't prepared to witness just how willing Uruks were ready to sacrifice for but a moment of intimacy with somebody unlike themselves. Even Ologs, though you might think it absurd - they cannot possibly fit at all! -, had approached to offer themselves as potential mates. The choices were endless, unlike their patience. After all, as the tension arose, they struggled to keep calm, and began to fight for your attention.

It took only but an unusual proposal to make them stop.

"This is so boring..." A booming, deep voice yawned, coming from the corner of the room. "When will I finally get the chance to make the human scream?"

"Ah, shut up and wait like everybody else here, ya big glob!"

The Olog glared back at the berserker behind him with a low rumbling growl. His offender, however, did not seem phased, nor recognized his fellow soldier as a threat.

"Like you, we've been waiting for our turns for hours now! Can't do shrak about it, so how 'bout you sit on your arse and wait? You're the next one!" The Uruk huffed, clearly agitated by the ordeal. A few soldiers behind him nodded their heads, agreeing with his words.

The hulking figure grinned as he approached the berserker, shoulders tense as if preparing to rip his comrade to shreds. "Maybe there is something I can do about it..."

"Alright, you two knock it off before you get killed!" A nearby guard that had witnessed the scene sighed. It had been a long day for him, but at least he had gotten the chance to have fun with you earlier. "You know the deal. No fights, or the Overlord feeds you to his caragors."

With the two silenced by that, bystanders noticed that the Uruk pounding deep inside you was nearing his climax. A good thing, for sure, as it meant their turns would soon come. Even better, they would be able to take a closer look at your current state of disarray.

You laid on your back as the Uruk pulled out of you with a pleased groan and spilled his seed all over your thighs and torso, shivering as small shocks of delightful pleasure ran through your body. The white, sticky cum that covered your skin was the result of your strange proposal: they would all have a chance to mate with you, as long as no one was harmed. The Overlord himself had promised you would be provided with protection and a healer, should you require one.

The long hours of being picked up, thrown on a bed and fucked silly were worth it in the end. It was a curious experience to find out who was interested about the idea of fucking you and who was disgusted. A few were experienced, others were virgins. The Kinkiest ones often belonged to the most feared tribes, though you were surprised whem a Warmonger captain requested for you to be in charge.

You were thoroughly fucked, had several dripping cocks inside each and all holes, and cum dripped from between your thighs and ram down the corners of your mouth. Still, your tired body longed for more.

And more you would get. Your belly filled with butterflies as the giant Olog approached to replace your previous lover. With both hands he took his kilt off and palmed his weeping cock, eyes heavy with lust. You gasped at the size of his member, feeling yourself getting excited at the thought of finding a way to fit it deep inside you.

"Now, Tark," the huge figure rumbled as he lightly squeezed his meaty organ, pre-cum falling to the floor in a puddle. "Open your mouth."

#letsbedragonstogether #middle earth shadow of mordor #middle earth shadow of war #shadow of mordor #shadow of wardor #shadow of war #answered #uruk #olog hai #olog #scenarios #scenario #not safe for kiddos #not safe for kids #smut #uruk hai

[enterwitty-remark]

Talion 'wakes up' after the Ring is destroyed and finds out he is somehow, somehow, now semi in charge of Mordor because no one knows what's happening and he has at least lead armies so it can't be that hard

#shadow of wardor #shadow of war #au: together at last #YES I AM SO GOOD AT NAMES

[enter-witty-remark]

Stairs: *exist*

Talion: anyways I'm going to climb this wall

#shadow of war #shadow of mordor #shadow of wardor #talion #sees wall must climb