#silmarillion elves

[neldeathstar]

Two tired wanderers...

... fall asleep in the shadow of a tree on a bed of flowers, having a dream….✨

Finrod and Turgon 💖

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[cirrdan]

Just

#dark lords #my fav husbands art #sauron x melkor #tolkien universe #lotr #the silmarillion #tolkien stuff #tolkien fandom #digital art #melkor #mairon #sauron #silmart #tolkien elves #silmarillion #melkor&sauron #lordoftherings #silm #silmarillion elves #angbang

[foedhrass]

From left to right: a Teleri OC, Aegnor, Amras, Annatar, Caranthir, Gil-galad.

From left to right: Irmo, Eöl, a Nandor OC, Maeglin, a Mirkwood OC, Thranduil

And of course Thingol.

Welcome and thank you to all new followers! The Thingol cloak post brought you here, but I have several more Middle-earth cosplays, most of them own designs for Silmarillion characters.

#silmcosplay #the silmarillion #silmarillion elves #silmarillion #Tolkien Silmarillion #tolkien #silmarillion cosplay #cosplay #tolkien cosplay #middle-earth #lord of the rings #lotr cosplay #aegnor #amras #eol the dark elf #Maeglin #irmo lorien #Annatar #thingol #Gilgalad #thranduil

[feydrawings]

Happy Halloween 🎃 🦇👻!

Since the destiny of the Feanorians after their deaths is unknown (Feanor is said to be in Mandos, but such a thing is never specified for his sons) I decided to speculate a little about it. In Morgoth's Ring we are told that elves can reject Mandos call and remain in middle earth as spirits, and I wonder if such a thing didn't also happen to the Feanorians (either for their oath, like it happened to the mortal Men in the Pact of the Undead, or because they refuse to subject to the judgment of the Valar out of personal pride). Since the Wild Hunt appears to be a thing in the middle earth (Morgoth mimicking Orome in the shape of the Black Hunter, the Dead riding after Aragorn on his journey towards the Pelennor field, etc), i like to think that even after his death, Celegorm continued to keep his hunter occupation. He now stalks the night as a shadow, the sound of his phantom horn chilling the blood in the veins of everyone who's the misfortune to hear it...

(unfortunately due to the poor scanner quality, I've to cut the top of the painting. I hope to fix it in future)

#silmarillion #tolkien #silmarillion art #halloween #feanorians #sons of feanor #celegorm #tyelkormo #turkafinwe #tyelko #house of feanor #noldor #the silmarillion #silm art #silmart #silmarillion elves #tolkien elves #wraith #ghost #ghosts #spooky season #spook #spectral #*mine: art #watercolor

[yashmel]

Some random sketch i made today. Still love this universe, yep, after all these years...

#silmarillion #elves #silmarillion elves #glorfindel

[maraharme]

Would you have a drawing of Celeborn and Galadriel when they got married or a sweet moment with them in Lothlorien raalm?

Finally, I can already show you my first attempts at drawing in the Procreate program 🙈

I have already written a warning that new works may be 'slightly' different from the old ones. But this is just an attempt to show something new, I'm not going to give up my style, I like it too. But I saw this art exactly like this, where Galadriel and Celeborn are walking through the winter forest and waiting for the birth of their first child, daughter Celebrian 💕

I hope I didn't disappoint 🙊

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[kkshka]

Unknown elf in the woods

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[doodlinglisy]

Winter Dance

Mablung and Beleg for @thegreatstrongbow I hope you will like it! Happy Holidays :) @officialtolkiensecretsanta

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[anipologist]

Since I spend far more time than strictly necessary thinking about the song duel between Finrod and Sauron I keeping coming back to one detail...

SAURON SHOULD HAVE FIGURED HIM OUT AS SOON AS THE DISGUISES FAILED.

"Then Sauron stripped from them their disguise, and they stood before him naked and afraid"

Sauron, Morgoth's lieutenant, and one of his spymasters somehow doesn't manage to recognize the golden-haired, incredibly powerful, shapeshifting elf that just had the nerve to fight one of the Ainur with a SONG. Nor does he make the logical jump that a group of elves that is very adamant that the Arafinweans not the Feanorians are ruling Nargothrond might have something to do with the missing king.

And Sauron is not stupid...he is a lot a things but we know he is highly intelligent. He is a deceiver himself, he is good at uncovering secrets and he made some excellent and crucial logical points not ten minutes earlier while leading the company into condemning themselves as not orcs. (The final test of course being the cursed vow that they would not repeat....more on that later).

And it's not accidental,

"Yet not all unavailing were the spells of Felagund; for Thû neither their names nor purpose knew."

So what does that mean exactly, Finrod like the rest had been stripped of all disguise? There are literally two golden-haired elf princes left at this point (and no offense to Orodreth but any with a shred of intelligence knows that this isn't him), the fact that there is a man among them offers further clues as should their association of Nargothrond. Finally, based off the way the duel is described

"For Felagund strove with Sauron in songs of power, and the power of the King was very great"

Sauron should have alarm bells of one of those Finwean brats going off in his head. And Sauron just breezes past every clue without even recognizing them as clues. It's not just that he can't put the clues together but the remnant of Finrod's secrets kept and trust unbroken is actively working to make him not recognize that the clues are there there at all. The closest that he gets is that "he perceived that he was a Noldo of great might and wisdom".

But never that he should recognize the Noldo of great might and wisdom and that the fact that he doesn't is very suspicious.

Granted I already loved Finrod...but the fact that he not only manages to keep his secrets and those of his followers as he is falling apart over the kinslaying and literally collapsing on the floor but sets it up so that Sauron thinks he has won, that the field is his and their secrets are his for the taking is extremely impressive.

He loses the battle to keep their disguises and they are imprisoned but the rest of his song...it all rings true. They do resist, the chain snaps and Beren is freed. And all that against a Maia described as "a sorcerer of dreadful power, master of shadows and of phantoms, misshaping what he touched, twisting what he ruled, lord of werewolves; [whose] dominion was torment."

*Regardless of what most Tolkien adaptions would have you believe, golden-haired elves appear to be in extremely short supply outside of Valinor. The house of Finarfin, Thranduil and Glorfindel being some of the few in Beleriand/Middle Earth through three ages of the sun. By the time Finrod is taken, Angrod & Aegnor are dead, Glorfindel is in Gondolin (and it's unlikely that Sauron would have known/cared about him then...though he will later), Thranduil may or may not be born yet and is aggressively not Noldo, and Galadriel is a woman. That leaves Finrod and Orodreth as likely suspects.

**The Oath

There are several layers here. Honestly this reads like early Christians being asked to sacrifice to the Roman Emperor. And given that Sauron later starts actual human-sacrifice to Morgoth I feel like that is intentional on Tolkien's part. Even the method of execution feels very "thrown to the lions-ish" just with werewolves. You cannot even pretend certain things like publicly disavowing God without making yourself an apostate. Even in the field of espionage and undercover work there comes a point when you have to draw a line, to say this far and no farther can I go to keep my cover. Given the importance of oaths and curses and how binding they are they CANNOT take that oath.

They cannot even feign to take it without irrevocably changing themselves and putting themselves even further into Sauron's power. Notably, and while he does take them prisoner and torture them their minds remain free and it seems clear that every single one, from the youngest unnamed one to Edrahil makes a conscious choice to take being eaten alive (Tolkien doesn't really dwell on the horror aspect of this but if you think about it longer than three seconds it gets really dark and those unnamed elves are every bit equal in courage to more lauded heroes like Glorfindel and Fingon) over betraying their king, Beren and the city they that has cast them all aside.

Anyways, this is one of those oaths that as Tolkien would say "none should take" even if the consequences lead to being wolf-kibble.

*(quotes are from the Silmarillion and the Lay of Leithian)

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[mae-it-be-an-evening-dhros]

I feel like there'd be a fair few parallels between Elven culture in the Silm and the Regency Era...

The vibes are complimentary.

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[sorisooyaa]

Míriel Þerindë

Silver was her hair and dark were her eyes, but her hands were more skilled to fineness than any hands even of the Noldor. By her was the craft of needles devised; and were but one fragment of the broideries of Míriel to be seen in Middle-earth it would be held dearer than a king's realm, for the richness of her devices and the fire of their colours were as manifold and as bright as the glory of leaf and flower and wing in the fields of Yavanna.

Morgoth's Ring, HoME Vol 10, Part 3, Chapter 6, Of the Silmarils and the Darkening of Valinor

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[neldeathstar]

Maeglin and Gothmog...

(HC)

Maeglin was fascinated by the Balrog the first time he saw him in the woods, back then with Glorfindel, Ecthelion and Salgant. This evil, majestic beauty attracted him and never let him go. He knew that he's different since the day he was born. Being traumatised by his parents, he tried his best to fit into the society of his kin but he always stayed an outcast, he never truly became one of them. All this pain suddenly vanished into excitment when he saw the creatures of Angband and the urge to meet them, no matter how it would end, got stronger everytime he saw them from distance…if he just could touch him for only one time..if his fire would devour him, Maeglin wouldn't care…he just wants to feel alive for at least one time in his young but sad life…

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[cirrdan]

Thingol, Melian and Luthien>

#and some comics #silmarillion #thingol #melian #luthien #tolkien universe #the silmarillion #tolkien stuff #digital art #silm memes #silm incorrect quotes #tolkien fandom #lotr #beren and luthien #silmart #silmarillion elves

[foedhrass]

My Nandor OC Kelundir sneaking ahead to scout the narrow path.

I absolutely love this photo by @lymira during our cosplay vacation this year, and the landscape was phenomenal!

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[feydrawings]

the silver prince and the white lady of the Noldor

She [Aredhel] was younger in the years of the Eldar than her brothers; and when she was grown to full stature and beauty she was tall and strong, and loved much to ride and hunt in the forests. There she was often in the company of the sons of Fëanor, her kin; but to none was her heart’s love given. -- JRR Tolkien, the Silmarillion, of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalie

we know that Celegorm and Aredhel never married, and that she never gave ‘her heart’s love’ to him, but I like to think that they’d a special bond neverthless ( maybe not romantic, but a bond all the same). he, after all, is the one we know that she was particularly fond and that she searched for his company after she left Gondolin, and that it was him who helped her and Maeglin to escape from Eol. they may not be canon, but they occupy a special place in my heart, wherever as partners or simply as friends ! 

Media: watercolor and ink on paper

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[veresart]

Gil-galad 🕊

#silmarillion #gil galad #silmarillion elves #silmarillion fanart #silmarillion art #tolkien #portrait