#silmarillion
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.
Painting practice turning into AmrodorAmras. XD
Thingol and Beren have the same relationship that Granda Joe and Gerry from Derry Girls have
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.
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
glorfy-the-bright-haired-ellon:
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
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