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tarninausta · 2 years

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But long ago he rode away, And where he dwelleth none can say; For into darkness fell his star In Mordor where the shadows are. - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

EREINION GIL-GALAD for @tolkienofcolourweek day 6: time

[ID: A picspam, consisting of 24 images. The dominant colour is dark blue.

1: The night sky / 2: A bay, with bioluminescent algae lighting up the water / 3: A black person with silver makeup covering about a half of their face / 4: Text on dark blue ground reading “gil-galad was an elven king / of him the harpers sadly sing” / 5: A closeup on the arm of a person dressed in silky blue fabric and wearing multiple bracelets / 6: A light blue flower / 7: The dark blue sky / 8: A blue dress with small white gems functioning as a belt and as decoration / 9: Text reading “the last whose realm was fair and free / between the mountains and the sea” on blue background / 10: Crashing waves / 11: A silver crown / 12: sculpted, blue faces hung on a white wall / 13: The blade of a spear / 14: Blue and silver embroidery / 15: Blue armour / 16: Text reading “His sword was long, his lance was keen / his shining helm afar was seen” / 17: Blue feathers / 18: The lover half of a black person’s face, with smears of blue colour / 19: An intricately decorated iron window screen / 20: Blue coins / 21: Text on blue ground, rading “The countless stars of heaven’s field / were mirrored in his silver shield / 22: Mountaintops / 23: The back of a black person / 24: A silver lamp on a blue ceiling decorated with stars /End ID]

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miriel-therindes · 2 years

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...but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.

E o w y n for @tolkienweek day one: favourite character

#tolkienweek #tuserosie #userbalins #oneringnet #eowyn edit #eowyn #tolkien #lotr #tolkien edit #tolkienedit #lotr edit #lotredit #mine #posters #humans edit #150

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tarninausta · 2 years

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That is grievous,’ she said. ‘And yet it is good beyond all that I dared hope in the dark days, when it seemed that the House of Eorl was sunk in honour less than any shepherd’s cot.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of The King

KHULAN CHULUUN as EOWYN ✧ @tolkienofcolourweek day 4: pride in identity + growing up

[ID: A picspam consisting of 24 images, featuring the mongolian actress Khulan Chuluun as Eowyn.

1: Khulan Chuluun looking over her shoulder. She has dark hair in two braids, brown skin, and is wearing a fur hat and a red jacket. / 2: Golden embroidery / 3: Text reading “Eowyn I am, Eomund’s daughter” on black background / 4: Horses standing on a grassy plain / 5: grassland in the mist / 6: The richly adorned ceiling of a mongolian ger / 7: Khulan Chuluun, facing front / 8: Mountains rising behind grassland / 9: A person in a red outfit and traditional mongolian hairdo / 10: Text on black background, reading “her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on'' / 11: The wings of a bird in flight / 12: A map of Rohan / 13: White lilies / 14: A person in a red gown with an embroidered collar, with dark hair that’s partially braided / 15: Text reading “But am I not of the House of Eorl, a shieldmaiden and not a dry-nurse?” on black background / 16: The mount of the Witch-King of Angmar, as shown in the Peter Jackson movies, in flight / 17: A white horse / 18: A round, red and gold shield / 19: A statue of a mongolian warrior on horseback / 20: A person in a red jacket set with fur standing next to a horse / 21: Grassland in the mist / 22: Text reading “who knows what she spoke in the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night?” / 23: Red flowers / 24: Khulan Chuluun, facing front while her hair is being braided / End ID]

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tarninausta · 2 years

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It is said and sung that Lúthien wearing that necklace and that immortal jewel was the vision of greatest beauty and glory that has ever been outside the realm of Valinor - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, “Of the Ruin of Doriath”

Then Dior arose, and about his neck he clasped the Nauglamír; and now he appeared as the fairest of all the children of the world - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, “Of the Ruin of Doriath”

But Elwing with the Silmaril upon her breast had cast herself into the sea - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, “Of Earendil and the War of Wrath”

@halfelvenweek day 1: doriathrim ✧ bearers of the silmaril in the line of luthien

[ID: An edit consisting of three parts each made up of six pictures

1: A drawn map of the constellations / 2: Imaan Hammam, a north african model with black curls and brown skin, in a blue dress / 3: The sky with pink curls / 4: Text reading “Luthien" / 5: White flowers in the dark / 6: a person in a pink dress with birds and flowers embroidered on it

1: A person with brown skin, freckles and short-cropped dark hair / 2: Lightning in the dark sky / 3: Text reading “Dior” / 4: Water lilies in a pond / 5: A pond in a cave / 6: Black stones

1: Stars on a black background / 2: A woman with brown skin, freckles, and long dark hair / 3: A painted wing / 4: Text reading “Elwing” / 5: A person in a white dress falling into dark water / 6: A garden with a creek and a bridge arching over it

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tarninausta · 2 years

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And behold! There Luthien walked before his eyes in Rivendell, clad in a mantle of silver and blue, fair as the twilight in Elvenhome.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King”, Appendix A

trans Arwen ⭐ queer tolkien headcanons (4/?)

[ID: A picspam consisting of 12 images in pink, blue, and white.

1: Stars, from space / 2: A woman with brown skin behind a pink veil with golden embroidery / 3: A window in a pink wall / 4: Text reading “Arwen” and “noble maiden” / 5: A peacock with white and golden feathers / 6: A fountain with clear blue water / 7: A woman wearing a pink outfit consisting of shirt, skirt, and a veil and scarf / 8: A golden star garland / 9: Text reading “Undomiel” and “evenstar” / 10: A doorway in a wall built from blue patterned tiles / 11: A crumpled piece of turquoise, translucent fabric with a golden trim / 12: A meadow of pink flowers /End ID]

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tarninausta · 2 years

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In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing. Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night, And swaying branches bear The Elven-stars as jewels white Amid their branching hair. Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.

ARIEN and ILMARE + SAM’S SONG ✧ @tolkienofcolourweek day 2: music

[ID: An edit consisting of 24 images total, split into sets of six images that are mainly golden and black in turns. The edit is meant to focus on the sun and Arien in the golden sets and on the stars and Ilmare in the black ones.

1: The sun rising above trees / 2: an east asian woman, wearing hanfu. She’s cradling a paper lantern / 3: text reading “above all shadows rides the sun” / 4: The sun rising above clouds / 5: The sky at sunrise / 6: A sun motif made from golden mosaique

7: the model Maria Borges, a black woman, with glittering silver makeup around her eyes / 8: stars in space / 9: Stars over a mountain / 10: Text reading “and stars forever dwell / 11: Someone dressed in grey glittering tulle lying on a bench / 12: Stars over the sea

13: The sun rising over a mountaintop / 14: Golden light on water / 15: Text reading “i will not say the day is done” / 16: The east asian woman from image two, hanging a lantern in a tree / 17: Details from an iron gate, showing a sun symbol in gold / 18: Sunlight seen through grasses

19: Stars over the sea / 20: Black tulle decorated with stars / 21: Shooting stars / 22: Text reading “Nor bid the stars farewell” / 23: Glittering light on a dark sea / 24: Maria Borges with the same glittering makeup as in image 7 / End ID]

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miriel-therindes · 2 years

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All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

A r a g o r n for anon ⭐

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tarninausta · 2 years

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@finweanladiesweek day 3:

GALADRIEL

[ID: A picspam consisting of 12 images, mainly in white and gold.

1: A person with brown skin, freckles, dark eyes and short blond hair / 2: A billowing golden dress / 3: The sky, in warm colours / 4: Text reading “Artanis” and “Daughter of Arafinwe” on white background / 5: A golden ring with a white gem in it / 6: Honeycombs / 7: A forest creek in autumn / 8: The same person as before, head leaning left / 9: Text reafing “Nerwen” and “Princess of the Noldor” on white background / 10: Yellow gems / 11: Golden feathers / 12: A person in a white cape and silver plate armour riding a white horse / End ID]

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tarninausta · 2 years

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In the middle of the table, against the woven cloths upon the wall, there was a chair under a canopy, and there sat a lady fair to look upon, and so like was she in form of womanhood to Elrond that Frodo guessed that she was one of his close kindred. Young she was and yet not so. The braids of her dark hair were touched by no frost, her white arms and clear face were flawless and smooth, and the light of stars was in her bright eyes, grey as a cloudless night; yet queenly she looked, and thought and knowledge were in her glance, as of one who has known many things that the years bring. Above her brow her head was covered with a cap of silver lace netted with small gems, glittering white; but her soft grey raiment had no ornament save a girdle of leaves wrought in silver.

⭐ happy (belated) birthday @arwenindomiel / @mrmalcolmslist ⭐

[ID: 1: a person with brown skin, wearing a silver earring / 2: the hem of a white dress, embroidered with silver thread / 3: pillars / 4: Text reading “Arwen” on dark background / 5: A candle inside a metal lantern / 6: Light-skinned legs tangled in white fabric / 7: a hand, seen through white translucent fabic laced with silver threads / 8: Aragorn and Arwen as seen in the Peter Jackson movies, embracing in a dark forest / 9: Text reading “You are, I think, an evening star, of all the stars the fairest” / 10: A person with straight black hair and brown skin, back to the viewer, facing the sea / 11: A painting of a white dress with star embroidery / 12: white roses in the dark / 13: a starry sky / 14: Someone wearing an earring, seen through a white veil / 15: A metal window screen shaped like a flower, in a white wall / 16: Text reading “she walks in starlight in another world” / 17: A girl with brown skin and black hair / 18: Someone wearing a light grey dress with a matching stole and silver jewelry, their hands claspe in their lap / 19: A white swan / 20: White flowers in dark hair / 21: Text reading “Undomiel” / 22: A person wrapped in a sheet of white translucent fabric billowing around them / 23: A forest in the dark, with pale grass covering the floor / 24: A black-haired person wearing a head ornament made of gold and white gems / End ID]

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tarninausta · 2 years

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Arakano was the tallest of the brothers and the most impetuous, but his name was never changed to Sindarin form, for he perished in the first battle of Fingolfin's host with the Orks, the Battle of the Lammoth (but the Sindarin form Argon was often later given as a name by Noldor and Sindar in memory of his valour).

-J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Peoples of Middle-Earth”

[ID: A picspam consisting of 12 images, main colours are blue, purple and black.

1: Lightning in a purple sky / 2: An east asian man in blue robes holding a sword / 3: Text, which says “Argon, quenya Arakano, the third son and youngest child of Prince Nolofinwe and his wife Princess Anaire” / 4: A forest / 5: A man in blue hanfu, riding a horse / 6: Black roof tiles / 7: Blue feathers / 8: The night sky / 9: Purple hanfu with blue embroidery / 10: Text, which says “was also called the rash, for he was quick to anger and quick to act - which ultimately lead to his death” / 11: Blue flowers / 12: A man on his knees, surrounded by arrows / End ID]

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tarninausta · 2 years

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Her feet were light as bird on wing,

her laughter lighter than the spring;

the slender willow, the bowing reed,

the fragance of a flowering mead,

the light upon the leaves of trees,

the voice of water more than these

her beauty was and blissfulness,

her glory and her loveliness;

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lay of Leithian

DILRABA DILMURAT as LUTHIEN TINUVIEL ⁕ @tolkienofcolourweek day 5: life and death

[ID: A 24-image edit for Luthien. It consists of four sets of six images, with each of the four having its own colour. The first two are in shades of purple, the latter in shades of green.

1: Small purple blossoms on a forest clearing / 2: Dilraba Dilmurat, an Uyghur-Chinese actress with black hair and light skin, in a black and purple robe / 3: text reading “Luthien” / 4: A neon sign reading “Jewel Thief” / 5: A woman with dark hair and light skin, screaming in despair / 6: the night sky / 7: A forest lake / 8: A grey cloak with floral embroidery / 9: Dilraba Dilmurat in light purple hanfu / 10: Text reading “so fair a maid no more shall be” / 11: A bird wing / 12: Two hands reaching for one another / 13: A hand lightly stroking turquoise flowers / 14: A blue-green gemstone / 15: Text reading “from down to dusk, from sun to sea” / 16: Dilraba Dilmurat, wearing a blue-green veil / 17: A forest shrouded in mist / 18: Stars in a colourful sky / 19: A person in hanfu dancing in front of a window / 20: White flowers / 21: Green leaves / 22: Text reading “Tinuviel” / 23: A small pond / 24: A person in light green hanfu / End ID]

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tarninausta · 2 years

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@arwenindomiel‘s tolkien south asian week day 4 | men + portraits | eowyn

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

[ID: A set of four graphics for Eowyn. The main colour is orange.

1: A woman wearing an orange gown (an Anarkali). She has light brown skin and dark brown hair and is put in front of a pale orange background. Behind her are three frames, two containing separate images (an old pakistani painting of a woman in a white dress, the other a photograph of men riding holding spears), the third framing the woman’s head. The image also contains text reading “Eowyn” in capital letters as well as “Lady of Rohan, fair and cold like a morning in spring” and “ a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel “, both being LotR quotes describing Eowyn

2: Horses on a grassy plain. There’s text reading “ As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in her eyes. [...] but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings” This is another LotR quote

3: A woman gazing through an intricately carved window. This image too contains a quote, reading “Alone Eowyn stood before the doors of the house at the stair's head; the sword was set upright before her, and her hands were laid upon the hilt. She was clad now in mail and shone like silver in the sun

4: The last graphic has the same layout as image 1. This time, the woman in the Anarkali stands with her back turned, and the images in the two frames show an oriel in a white stone building, and a pakistani traditional painting of a man on a horse, holding a spear. The text on this graphic reads “Eowyn” again, “A lady high and valiant, and has herself won renown”, and “who knows what she spoke in the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking”

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tarninausta · 2 years

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@arwenindomiel's tolkien south asian week day 1: ainur + monochrome • MELIAN

Melian was the name of a Maia who served both Vána and Estë; she dwelt long in Lórien, tending the trees that flower in the gardens of Irmo, ere she came to Middle-earth. Nightingales sang about her wherever she went. - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, "Of the Maiar"

[ ID: An edit for Melian, consisting of six images mainly in red and orange.

A south asian woman with her hair in a braid. She's wearing a red and orange gown and golden jewelry. This image contains text reading "Melian the maia"

A rainforest. The green is recolored to be red

A nightingale singing in a tree. Like the previous image, this has been recoloured to be mainly red

The same woman as in image one, with a veil now. This image contains text reading "and among his people there were none more beautiful, nor more wise, nor more skilled in songs of enchantment", which is a quote from The Silmarillion

That woman again, now once more without the veil. The text on this image reads "Melian the maia", like in image one

A series of gateways built from red stones

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tarninausta · 2 years

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You move me, Gimli,’ said Legolas. 'I have never heard you speak like this before. Almost you make me regret that I have not seen these caves. Come! Let us make this bargain - if we both return safe out of the perils that await us, we will journey for a while together. You shall visit Fangorn with me, and then I will come with you to see Helm’s Deep.’

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, “The Road to Isengard”

Then Legolas repaid his promise to Gimli and went with him to the Glittering Caves; and when they returned he was silent, and would say only that Gimli alone could find fit words to speak of them. ‘And never before has a Dwarf claimed a victory over an Elf in a contest of words,’ said he. ‘Now therefore let us go to Fangorn and set the score right!’

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, “Many Partings”

Then Legolas built a grey ship in Ithilien, and sailed down Anduin and so over Sea; and with him, it is said, went Gimli the Dwarf.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, Appendix B

LEGOLAS and GIMLI for @tolkienofcolourweek day 3: cross-cultural ties

[ID: A set of six graphics.

1: Text reading “Legolas & Gimli” set over an image of light green branches against the sky

2: An image of a black person with open, curly hair, in a circular frame. The text under the image reads “prince of greenwood the great, lord of ithilien, hero of the war of the ring, companion to gimli"

3: An image of a person with light brown skin and black hair and beard in a circular frame. The text beneath it reads “of the line of durin, lord of the glittering caves, hero of the war of the ring, companion to legolas”

4: Text reading “Legolas & Gimli” set over an image of a cave with fluorescent lights in the stone

5: Text reading “Legolas & Gimli” set over an image of the sea

6: An image of a statue of two hands holding each other, in a circular frame. The text beneath it reads “Legolas took Gimli, Glóin’s son, because of their great friendship, greater than any that has been between Elf and Dwarf.”

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tarninausta · 2 years

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@arwenindomiel‘s tolkien south asian week day 2 | minimalism + elves + tragic heroine | ELWING THE FAIR

Too late the ships of Círdan and Gil-galad the High King came hasting to the aid of the Elves of Sirion; and Elwing was gone, and her sons. Then such few of that people as did not perish in the assault joined themselves to Gil-galad, and went with him to Balar; and they told that Elros and Elrond were taken captive, but Elwing with the Silmaril upon her breast had cast herself into the sea.

- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, “Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath“

[ ID: An edit for Elwing, consisting of four graphics. Each has an image set on a white background with a red frame, and contains text reading “Elwing”

1: Hamel Patel, an indian model with black hair and brown skin. SHe’s wearing a white sari with black detailing and is walking away from the viewer, looking over her shoulder

2: The overgrown ruin of an ancient indian building

3: Green treetops

4: A white bird with a black head, in flight

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miriel-therindes · 2 years

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Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.

The S i l m a r i l l i o n by J. R. R. Tolkien + minimalist

@fictionnet event 07: cover redesign

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