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feanors-silmarils · 2 months
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Glorfindel: *to Maeglin* Why are you always such a sour face?
Maeglin: It’s my natural state
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vildo · 1 month
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Fëanor: no one’s dying on my watch
Fëanor: go die somewhere I can’t see you
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sesamenom · 4 months
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six geese a-laying, FIVE GOLDEN RINGS! four calling birds, three french hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree
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on the day 5 poll for what to do with the rings, "THROW IT AWAY" won at 30.9% as of drawing this, so great choice everybody! The authorities (manwe's pet geese) have been alerted and the rings have been disposed of.
now, for a totally unrelated question......
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minecraftbookshelf · 1 year
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The AU In Which All the Marriages Are Arranged
This AU has a tag now and it is the title of this post
Some points:
The timeline is stretched out a bit. Joel and Lizzie's marriage is going to be a few hundred years before Flower Husbands
I will have actual fic at some point, there will be snippets on here in the interim.
I'm so sorry @astraldraco there will be More Gay but i have more solid plot concepts for Lizzie and Joel so that one will be first, at least as far as fic is concerned. (Also I'm primarily a gen writer and Seablings have my heart)
Scott and Shrub got demoted. They are no longer rulers. They're both perfectly okay with this. They still have family and (in Shrub's case) a home so they're doing quite well.
Shrub will be there. There was an inter-dimensional incident and now she's an accidental ambassador.
I am honestly torn between Tol Elves and Winged Elves bc honestly, wings big enough to be plausible for tol elves would be just...Too Big. (yes I know it doesn't actually matter but I've spent too much time discussing Winged People Mechanics with @writergreentypes and now that's just how it is. Elytra get handwaved tho)
Pixlriffs deserves a vacation, he will not be getting one anytime soon.
I've never done a taglist before but I've been blown away by the interest in the notes of my original little post so let me know if that's something ya'll would be interested in.
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remusjohnslupin · 2 months
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Hey, Tolkien fandom!
Do you guys ever just sit there, as peaceful as a hobbit in the Shire, lost in your own thoughts in a beautiful place, thinking about how blessed we all are to have read J.R.R Tolkien's writing, to have received the blessing of Christopher Tolkien's continuation of his father's work, and to have seen Peter Jackson's glorious adaptation of it all? Your chest expands whenever you think about the Battles of Beleriand (for good or ill), Beren and Lúthien's journey and how their love changed the course of Middle-earth, Theoden's speech when they were about to save Minas Tirith. Right?
But then...
You remember that Rings of Power exists. That it's a thing that's been made.
That's just sad. And an outright desecration.
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aniseandspearmint · 2 years
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tbh what kills me about this whole Rings of Power mess is that, if they had just done this RIGHT they would have had a home run hit. Every Tolkien fan I know would have watched it and made art and fic and bought merchandise and urged their friends and family to watch it! It would be the lotr movies again. It would have hit like the first couple of MCU movies were. It would have been ADORED.
But they chose to cheap out on EVERYTHING and to CHANGE everything to make it ‘sexy’, chose to have their stuntworkers perform dangerous stunts with not enough safety equipment, chose to take beloved characters like Elrond and Galadriel and Celebrimbor and twist them into barely recognizable caricatures... I would be here all day if i tried to list all the things wrong in the short clips we’ve gotten.
It’s gonna fail, and they paved the road themselves. We could have had it all, but instead we got Amazon.
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ur-local-ghostie · 2 years
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“Yes, I am aware I have committed terrible crimes but please keep in mind i’m also very beautiful and i think that cancels out the bad.”
—Celegorm, probably
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mhevarujta · 10 months
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Sauron and Galadriel in The Rings of Power
There's been a lot of talk about Sauron and Galadriel's arc in the show. I've seen reactions vary from 'this is a cheap fanfic and completely against anything Tolkien would ever do' to 'they are in love with each other' depending on the audience and what they desire from the show.
Then there is the MC's recent interview, leading to fans speculating on whether Sauron will try to bring Galadriel to his side again etc. 
My own approach of this show is finding a silver lining of examining as its own thing and examining the characters arcs having in mind broader themes and the fact that his is a condensed timeline, so the entire arc of a character will be basically dealth in about 5 seasons when in the book it spans several ages.
With this in mind, this is the way I perceived what is being done with Sauron and Galadriel: I genuinely don't believe that the writers are going for a romance or for some version of badboy Sauron who becomes darker because he was rejected by Galadriel. I don't even believe that he starts with a genuine chance of redemption as Halbrand on the raft.Since the beginning, Sauron was quite willing to let any companion die. The first time he allows Galadriel to board the raft, she is the sole other survivor and he had let her fend for herself.  The second time, after they had talked, he had already seen her as potentially useful. I've seen the argument that Mairon may feel things that Sauron doesn't, but I don't think that the duality of Mairon/Sauron is prominent at all, if it even exists. 
For one thing, throughout it all he is always presented as someone who tells the aspects of the truth that suited him and that could sway her and those around him to the perception of events and to the course of action that suited him. Moreover, by this point in the show's canon he HAS experienced Morgoth's downfall and his experiments to have power over flesh have happened after his failed attempt at redemption.His choice has already been made.  I feel that he cares for Galadriel because he sees a conflict in her. He doesn't know of the specifics of Galadriel's journey, but he perceives that in a way they are similar... and they are, but it's a juxtaposition that they create.  Galadriel does not go to Aman in 1x01 because she didn't feel peace and didn't want to pursue a version of it for herself while the world was in turmoil. Based on Sauron's own arc in the Silmarillion, after Morgoth's defeat he MIGHT have genuinely repented for a while, but it was because of the fear his master's fall awoke in him. Sauron did not go to Aman because he was afraid of judgement.  In the show Galadriel was afraid of failing her own sense of duty and necessity in a way. But based on what we know... he? He was afraid of uncertainty. To seek redemption, he basically needed impunity in advance if he was to even put in the effort. 
Galadriel's conflict is something he can use. It's something that he can also relate to on an emotional level (but not in terms of its moral context). Her utility, the way he can channel that to manipulate AND the fact that she's beautiful strong and resilient are all factors that capture his interest.  I feel that to an extent he lusted for her, as we know Morgoth had for Luthien.  Nevertheless, what leads to him wanting her by his side is that 'feeling' he addresses in 1x06. Some interpret that  as a romantic confession. Personally I feel he was speaking of control.When fighting by her side he had someone to pull him back and limit him in a way he could not manage himself. If he had that when Morgoth fell he might have managed to be redeemed.  But his tendancies prevail. 
Where one could consider what he felt as a need for companionship and of genuinely having people close to them, for Sauron it's accompanied by an idea of order and control; of binding it to his very being. He twists it into a corrupted notion that just clicks when he meets Celebrimbor and the idea of an object of power comes and clicks with it. He wants that feeling of certainty AND his own twist on power, which beats any purity that feeling that awakened in him might have had, and which is why he sells to Galadriel the idea of them ruling together, even though with control he'd have over her through the ring would basically cancel out any chance she had at setting limits. But it's the feeling and the illusion of it all that matters to him and with regard of himself only. 
Even as he presents them as the saviors of middle earth, she asks something along the lines of 'save or rule?' Sauron not seeing the difference between the two and seing his own dominance and vision as salvation is exactly why he is lost and at the point of no return. It also clearly separates the two. Galadriel WAS tempted in both the book and the show, and in the show she's clearly drowning in her rage and desire for vengeance (I feel that her hunting of Sauron in the show is inspired by that line about her wanting to follow Feanor and thwart him), but ultimately their goals and worldviews are very different, which is why she CAN pull herself back every single time. She has a sense of self and of others that he never had and it's why she can choose to 'remain Galadriel' and not lose everything that makes her who she is because of a desire of power that most people have in one way or the other.Of course, the moment Sauron is rejected, he is very much willing to let her die. I feel this was a pretty big indication concerning how the writers see these two and the fact that, while Sauron may still see uses for her and have his eyes set upon her, there's no chance of the show exploring them as actual love-interests or even allies.
 Then why build this arc in the first place? Because of the themes and the juxtaposition, as I mentioned earlier. Even if we look at their names, there's something interesting there. We have the Dark Lord and the Lady of Light; the Lord of Gifts and the Lady of Gifts; Artano and Artanis; the Lord of the Rings and the Lady of the Ring; the Black Master and the Mistress of Magic; the Black One/Master and the White Lady; the Shadow in the Forest and the Lady of Golden Wood. I don't know, I just feel that the idea of exploring this comes from the right place and was done quite well in season 1. Of course some may disagree and that's their prerogative.
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symphonyofsilence · 10 months
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The only new Middle-earth adaptation I could be persuaded to watch would be Rick & Morty but it's Fëanor & Celebrimbor.
They invent the portal guns in an attempt to get Fëanor out of the Halls of Mandos but run into so many wacky shits that the Halls would turn into a safe point for them that they'd try to return to every time.
Mandos & everyone else doesn't care about anything as long as it keeps Fëanor away for a few hours.
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Third OC (Original Character): Marko Stjepan Mitrović/Aiarnāro Elnethīnye
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The Red Flames danced upon the sea, Where lies an unyielding and fierce soul, Aearnor, his mother-name many knew by.
His eyes were the fury of a thousand suns, Burning brighter with passion and desire, Strides through the cities of the deathless darkness.
He was as more seductive as the harlots, Cunning as the tyrants, fierce as the warriors, And more handsome as many of mortal men.
Black tresses with silvery white streaks, Pale skin he has, adorned with the golden hues Clad in robes of the blood red and pure black.
A Peredhel born with the vampire blood, Light and shadows he belonged in both, He's clever with a mind sharp as a blade.
Fairest of all men, his beauty matched Ganymede's Admired by many, feared by some, His old soul was burned by the fires of resuscitation.
The Shrewdness of ages in his eyes, The passion of man in his heart, And the wholeness of a being in his spirit.
Overview:
Marko Stjepan Mitrović was the youngest twin son of Halatirnë II (Previous OC) by a Human-Vampire Count Šimun Mitrović of Vinkovci and twin brother of Aiardil Alatarāto (Aeardil Galadrod—First OC), the biological son of Lord Hrávahyalmo Altaluimë (Next OC). [Note: Their birth was the result of the real-life rare occurrence called Heteropaternal Superfecundation, which involved the fertilization of two eggs by two sperms from different fathers.] He was the only Peredhel (if not) who had his vampire lineage and the last scion of the last generation of the Mitrović Family since 1999. Marko now appeared in the Elemmírion Series on Wattpad. (Still ongoing)
Description of the artwork: The original form of Aiarnāro/Marko was described as waist-length, raven-haired with silver streaks (Same as his mother Halatirnë II), clad in blood-red robes, his skin was as pale as either alabaster or porcelain. He holds the Elder wand, which was wielded by Albus Dumbledore (Formerly), Lord Voldemort (briefly), and Harry Potter (after the Battle of Hogwarts). The background was supposed to be black and red gradient and a giant red fires/flames behind him.
Names: His name "Marko Stjepan" was the common Ataressë (Father-name) given by his father Šimun. Aiarnāro (Aearnor/Eärnáro) was his rare Amilessë (Mother-name) means "Sea of Fires/Flames" given by Halatirnë II herself, while his epessë (Aftername) was Undómielo "Evenstar", Elnethīnye "Star of the Evening" or Hesperus "Evening Star".
Bloodline: ½ Elda (Telerin);¼ Human; ¼ Vampire
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hiril-thuringwethil · 2 years
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Reading the Silmarillion like
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Adar: Have you ever heard of Daeron, Dírhaval, Glirhuin?
Arondir: Yes.
Adar: Morons.
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vildo · 3 months
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One elf to burn them all
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There's this place in the Turin article on Tolkien Gateway where it references "the weak Orodreth" and I was just kind of:
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stilltrails · 1 year
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also i know celegorm and curufin were evil for what they did to Finrod, but Finrod was a colonizer so...he had it coming lol. 
like i really don’t blame them or feel bad for Finrod. He took the lands of how many humans and dwarves? That’s karma. 
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No, you live in a society.
I live in an extended cut of The Lord of the Rings AND The Hobbit where Maglor pops in out of nowhere to be the disturbed homeless man with actually good crack-induced opinions who occasionally crashes in Rivendell’s benches.
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