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Illustration for the character design challenge with the theme: Middle Earth. I decided to do my favorite elf lady, Lúthien, and her trusted friend Húan.

gratuacuunart:

Painting practice turning into AmrodorAmras. XD

avantegarda:

Thingol and Beren have the same relationship that Granda Joe and Gerry from Derry Girls have


gileonnen:“…   tireless and enduring in body, lithe and swift … [was] Hareth of the Haladin.”

gileonnen:

“…   tireless and enduring in body, lithe and swift … [was] Hareth of the Haladin.”


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seasbird:fem hair commander for the sweetheart @madtomedgar 

seasbird:

fem hair commander for the sweetheart @madtomedgar 


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Point of View and In-Universe Authorship of the “Silmarillion”

This past Thursday, I presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference in the Tolkien Studies area on the authorship of The Silmarillion. I’ve put a transcript of my presentation with some select slides on the Silmarillion Writers’ Guild here: https://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/node/5475 (Please note that Tumblr mucks up our links. You will likely need to copy and paste the URL directly.)

This paper is the first step in a project that’s long been on my radar, but I’ve had my plate full with the SWG site rebuild and quite a few publication opportunities that fell my way and I couldn’t easily pass up. Now that those tasks are clear, I’m resuming my work on the in-universe historiography of the legendarium, beginning with a surprisingly complex but absolutely essential question: Who wrote The Silmarillion?

By that I don’t mean how the published Silmarillion was constructed (for that I wholeheartedly recommend Douglas Charles Kane’s Arda Reconstructed) but which fictional character(s) within the legendarium are actually responsible for writing the historical texts that Christopher used to construct the published Silmarillion. The answer to this question is murky (the scholarship, for instance, claims the narrator is omniscient, Elven, and Numenorean, depending on who you read) because the texts are Tolkienian in every way: a tangle of different drafts that are difficult to date, hard to read, and frequently contradict each other.

This paper is the first foray into the topic, looking just at the texts of Morgoth’s Ring, which is on its own quite a challenging set of texts. I’ve spent the past few months close-reading Morgoth’s Ring and trying to make sense of its bramble patch of drafts, notes, and edits, and this paper is all that work distilled down into a 15-minute talk: barely scratching the surface, in other words, but it’s a start.

leepacejustawesome3: Beren and Luthien plight their troth by KipRasmussen

leepacejustawesome3:

Beren and Luthien plight their troth by KipRasmussen


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The Awakening of the first Elves near Cuiviénen (by Annamare)

The Awakening of the first Elves near Cuiviénen (by Annamare)


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naseilen: The Silmarillion gave me a new perspective.

naseilen:

The Silmarillion gave me a new perspective.


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Teleri Elf (by Tolrone)Teleri Elf (by Tolrone)

Teleri Elf (by Tolrone)


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Mandos (by brunild)

Mandos (by brunild)


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The Firstborn at Lake Cuivienen by aegeri

The Firstborn at Lake Cuivienen by aegeri


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“Thus spake Mandos in prophecy, when the Gods sat in judgement in Valinor, and the rumour of his wor

“Thus spake Mandos in prophecy, when the Gods sat in judgement in Valinor, and the rumour of his words was whispered among all the Elves of the West. When the world is old and the Powers grow weary, then Morgoth, seeing that the guard sleepeth, shall come back through the Door of Night out of the Timeless Void; and he shall destroy the Sun and Moon. But Eärendel shall descend upon him as a white and searing flame and drive him from the airs. Then shall the Last Battle be gathered on the fields of Valinor. In that day Tulkas shall strive with Morgoth, and on his right hand shall be Fionwë, and on his left Túrin Turambar, son of Húrin, coming from the halls of Mandos; and the black sword of Túrin shall deal unto Morgoth his death and final end; and so shall the children of Húrin and all Men be avenged.

Thereafter shall Earth be broken and re-made, and the Silmarils shall be recovered out of Air and Earth and Sea; for Eärendel shall descend and surrender that flame which he hath had in keeping. Then Fëanor shall take the Three Jewels and bear them to Yavanna Palúrien; and she will break them and with their fire rekindle the Two Trees, and a great light shall come forth. And the Mountains of Valinor shall be levelled, so that the Light shall go out over all the world. In that light the Gods will grow young again, and the Elves awake and all their dead arise, and the purpose of Ilúvatar be fulfilled concerning them. But of Men in that day the prophecy of Mandos doth not speak, and no Man it names, save Túrin only, and to him a place is given among the sons of the Valar.”

—J.R.R. Tolkien, The History of Middle-earth V: The Lost Road and Other Writings, “Quenta Silmarillion”

“The appearance of Túrin at the end remains profoundly mysterious…. it is said that Túrin is named among ‘the sons of the Gods’ rather than among the Gods, and also that he comes ‘from the halls of Mandos’ to the final battle; about which I can say no more than that Túrin Turambar, though a mortal Man, did not go, as do the race of Men, to a fate beyond the world.”

—Christopher Tolkien, The History of Middle-earth IV: The Shaping of Middle-earth, “The Quenta”


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A month ago when we first saw that the Elves have short hair in the new show I was like “ew not wtf this is an abomination” but then I cut my own hella long elven hair off irl and now look like Amazon Elrond and am nowlike

And am now accidentally all for the short hair elf thing

I’ve become my own worst enemy in this fandom

penelopevalentine:

official-sauron:

bcfurs:

cakeisnotpie:

desidesidesi:

cortohdow:

glorfy-the-bright-haired-ellon:

elvenkingtranduil:

anonymoussong:

huntinthedwellin98:

un-rare:

let’s stop seeing sex as the biggest thing you can do to show someone you love them

everyone knows that the real way to show someone you love them is to find them a really cool rock. not a diamond. just a neat rock that you think they will enjoy

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Not a rock THE  ARKENSTONE 

Why just one rock
Why not three
Why not the silmarils

#i’m pretty sure there’s an entire book on the topic ‘why not silmarils’  (x)

And one on why not the arkenstone

You’re right. Just get them a ring.

do not get them a ring

Can’t not reblog this again

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