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Palette - Feanor

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celegorm and curufin smileemoji

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#annatar #celebrimbor #the silmarillion

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The road goes ever on and on…

…and Thorin Oakenshield will pass into legend.

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Elladan & Elrohir I love twins, did I ever mention that?

Sorry, it’s really rough but I needed to vent… D:

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'Speak of neither to me!' said Andreth. 'I desire neither. I was young and I looked on his flame, and now I am old and lost. He was young and his flame leaped towards me, but he turned away, and he is young still. Do candles pity moths?' 'Or moths candles, when the wind blows them out?' said Finrod. 'Adaneth, I tell thee, Aikanar the Sharp-flame loved thee. For thy sake now he will never take the hand of any bride of his own kindred, but live alone to the end, remembering the morning in the hills of Dorthonion. " J.R.R.Tolkien, Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth, History of Middle Eart Vol. X, Morgoth's Ring

Andreth and Aegnor for the Tolkien Advent Calendar!

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Cursing your dash with dark!Boromir

He overpowered Frodo at Amon Hen, claimed the Ring, and returned to Minas Tirith to raise an army against Mordor

He's so full of hubris he doesn't even draw his sword before he's killed and the Ring retaken by the enemy, WOMP WOMP

"Beautiful and terrible as the dawn;" on his return to Minas Tirith, here's how he appears to Faramir, who pieces together what his older brother has done with growing horror

Last bit of sanity before being totally consumed! NIGHT NIGHT, SLEEP TIGHT, mwah! :-*

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make a girl smile today.

give her a sword.

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make a girl smile today.

give her a sword.

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Nimloth (of Doriath)

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I’ve talked about this aplenty in private conversations before, but my biggest beef with how Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit movies alter the final conflict, so that Bard is the one arguing for peace and Thranduil gunning for war, besides the character assassination committed against Thranduil, is that it makes no sense given their respective positions.

Thranduil and the Elves of Mirkwood have their difficulties for certain, but by and large they seem to be getting by. Aside from the half-assed plotline about the jewelry of Thranduil’s wife (a plot-point poorly explained even in the films that invented it), the Elves have little reason for great interest in Erebor’s treasure. They’re producing enough to trade heavily with Laketown, as well as to have regular feasting and partying. At no point is there any suggestion they’re going without or that the Elves of the kingdom are displeased with Thranduil’s rule; rather, Tolkien goes out of his way to emphasize how beloved Thranduil is by his people. In short, there are very few, if any, signs of discontent among them, aside from their struggles against the growing corruption of the forest.

When the Elves march to Erebor, it’s with the idea of picking over what might be left after Thorin’s quest, not to rob him of the Arkenstone or start a larger conflict over treasure they have no real claim to. Furthermore, whatever they might recover from Erebor will have very little impact on them. It won’t heal the forest, it won’t stop Sauron’s shadow from spreading, and it won’t change their material day-to-day noticeably. It’s a “would be nice to have” kind of thing, not a “need.”

There is no reason for Thranduil to be be willing to kill to get Erebor’s treasure, except to make Bard a flawless hero by comparison and cast a more villainous/morally gray shadow on Thranduil, in keeping with the PJ films’ take on both of them.

Bard, by contrast, comes from a people who just lost everything. Their leader is dead, their entire town has just burned down and sunk into the lake, and, having fled for their lives, they are unlikely to have grabbed many valuables on the way out. In fact, the state of the people of Laketown is so grim that Thranduil diverts his march to Erebor for the sole purpose of offering succor to the refugees, giving them supplies and helping them build temporary structures for shelter before continuing on to the Lonely Mountain.  

For Bard and the others of Laketown, that money would make an enormous difference. That money is funds to rebuild Laketown, or to refit Dale so it can be inhabited again. That money can help them trade for food when the supplies given to them by the Elves run out. That money can buy them clothes–as Laketown sinks in winter–and we know there are children and elderly among them. Bard sees that money not only as what is owed to them based onThorn’s promise, or purely on a moral sense since it was Thorin’s Company that rousted Smaug and set his sights on Laketown resulting in its destruction, but as the future of his people.

At the point of the Battle of Five Armies, Bard and his people are homeless refugees with nowhere to go and little left to trade. They are desperate. That may not have fully set it yet, but Bard has enough foresight to know they need a solution quickly. Men, after all, are mortal–they don’t have centuries to rebuild and get their lives on track again.

Based on this alone and even setting aside mischaracterizations of either character, the idea that it’s Thranduil who will go to war for Erebor’s gems and Bard who is arguing restraint makes absolutely no sense.

#this thiiiiis ughhhh I hated the plot of those movies so much #how do you have such a perfect cast such good budget and decide to do this bullshit?

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gimli

#gilmli #oh yeah!! #for some reason people tend to forget he's a dwarf prince and if none of them were wearing bling while at the fellowship was because it #was supposed to be 1)just a meeting and 2) they were on a mission trekking across middle earth. of course they wouldn't be wearing their #most expensive robes #lotr

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side by side

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'leave me still, beneath the earth'

a gold foiled piece i drew for around gallery's show 'laws of nature' ◡̈

if u're in singapore, u can check out the amazing artwork in the show and maybe even pick up a copy of the works on display or other goods while u're at it!

thank u so much to around gallery for inviting me and for printing my piece!

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#maeglin #eärendil #the silmarillion #tha fall of gondolin #OHHHHHH THSI IS AWESOME

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Lúthien stands before Morgoth art by Dan Pilla.

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Day 1: Maedhros (Maitimo)

This was an old artwork I never finished but I’m still very proud of his hair and circlet! Figured I should join though I am very late.

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