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It’s gonna be Aragorn’s coronation day!

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this does not apply if you wear exclusively leggings. Those things tear all the time you need like a million on standby

#my mom saved lots of her pants when she was young instead of throwing them out when the trends changed #so did her bff and my aunts #i am the only close enough girl who likes the style of them #i have too many pants #i have four pants which I brought for me new #all ither pants are hand me downs #and they are way better than the ones in the shops #it’s ridiculous #someone tell fashion industry to start making the pants as good as they were #i order my pants in winter spring/autumn and spring pants #they are waaaaaay too many #i am aware #they are all pretty #they are all comfy #and i love them #my stuff

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Hear Me Out.

So we all know Jirt has a vendetta against me I headcanon Curufin as being a very meticulous gift giver. He likes to give meaningful gifts, something someone may not expect or even appreciate in the moment, but years down the line they fully realize just how much thought he’s put into said gift. While this makes Curvo a favorite for receiving gifts from, this also means he has several weeks a year dedicated to agonizing over what kind of gift he should give. He can’t do the same thing twice. It has to be unique, it has to be thoughtful, and the birthday person needs to LOVE IT OR ELSE.

Well, Maglor’s birthday happens to be coming up.

Curufin, of course, knows that everybody and their dog is going to give Maglor either instruments, or something related to music. And of course, why not? He’s not Macalaurë for no reason. But this gets heavily in the way of new gifts. He can’t just make a new harp and call it a day, and he’s also made replacement strings for Maglor’s instruments already. He’s no good at composing, jewelry seems too impersonal, and he’s just realized that he really doesn’t know what Maglor actually likes.

Thus, Curufin starts freaking out.

Like hell he’s going to tell his brother, “hey. I don’t actually know what you like that isn’t music. Please tell me what to get you.” That would be like public humiliation. Instead, he continues to freak out for the next two days, until he gets an idea— an extremely stupid idea, but it’s the only one he has, so he gets to work. It combines his love for metals with Maglor’s love for music, gingerly set in an intricately carved wooden box. The song is just as carefully chosen: not a song that Maglor has composed, but the one which inspired him to pick up composing in the first place.

And as he makes sure the wind up mechanism works propery, he admires his creation: music in a box. Curufin can’t say he’s entirely happy with it, or that he’s even sure Maglor would like it beyond a need to be polite, but he has a reputation to keep up.

Thankfully, the birthday passes as soon as it arrived, and Maglor seemed pleased (and possibly even entranced) by the music that he had stuffed in a box. Curufin benefits most from this, of course: he could just stamp down new songs, make bigger and grander boxes with longer combs for more notes, and bam, brand new birthday present.

TLDR: Curufin invented the music box because he was out of ideas for birthday gifts for Maglor.

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the nuisance of our language is stunning

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Because folks liked my latest pigeon comic so much, here's another pigeon piece!

I made this a couple years ago for a sadly now defunct publication called Pipe Wrench. I hope this piece helps spread more pigeon love.

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so if demons are sticklers for contracts, demand high payment for their services, and have firm/specific rules regarding summoning rituals (aka the hiring process & availability of their labor)—what i'm hearing is demons are fully unionized

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Y'all ever open a book on a new subject, read a little bit, and have to put it back so you can process the way in which your mind was just expanded?

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reblog to bonk prev with yr forehead like a cat

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i took elvish in school and i fucking hated it. the teacher was like 700 years old and he'd like take us on field trips to sit on the banks of babbling brooks and watch the fall of sunlight through the leaves. my friends in spanish class were like conjugating verbs and shit and meanwhile i was in an old-growth forest being overcome with awe at the sight of a majestic stag. like uhh yeah mr autumnheart when are we gonna learn like any grammar "listen to the murmur of the wind in the treetops, and you shall find the grammar you seek" like fuck dude your pedagogy leaves much to be desired

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Shiny princes :)

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i'm so gullible i see literally any redhead covered in blood and i'm immediately like 👀 Maedhros? 👀👀 my king Maedhros? my love Maedhros?? and i'm only right like. 70% of the time. what do you mean there's other bloodsoaked redheads who allowed this

#previous tags #😔 #the rest are posers #maedhros #silm #30% margin of error is too big #we need to get rid off all the other bloodsoaked redheads in media

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Day 11 of asking the Silmarillion fandom to call Fëanáro by his Quenya name

Previous arguments:

He died before they started Sindarizing their names, he probably never canonically approved of a Singarin variation of his name. It was understandable enough as it was in Quenya to Cirdan and his people

He died young, by using his Quenya name you are constantly reminding yourself and others how young he died

While there was a small chance of Fëanáro Sindarizing his name given how hard he disapproved of people changing his mother name he would not appreciate his name being changed at all either.

Thingol’s ban is cultural discrimination and erasure. Not ignoring the ban and using Sindarin names for characters who did not choose to Sindarize their name is participating in the cultural erasure. Please don’t participate in cultural erasure even if it’s fictional. Ignore the ban.

If we accept he put it in place because he didn’t want to hear the language in which the orders to attack the Teleri were given then we have to ignore that Teleri also speak Quenya. The ban is illogical in this case. Ignoring the ban and calling Fëanáro by his Quenya name is the right thing to do.

Fëanáro, according to HoME (The War of the Jewels) knew Valarin better than any other elf. He appreciated languages. I am sure he would have appreciated Sindarin. I am equally sure he would have not appreciated his language being banned at all. (Respect languages correctly with our Language Lord!)

He is a Noldorin king and he died before the practice of sticking finwë to your name again became a thing. Let’s not make his name seem shorter by Sindarization.

Using Fëanáro’s Quenya name is a wonderful way to introduce your friends to the linguistic side of the silmarillion fandom.

We are already using completely different alphabet system to spell Fëanáro’s name. Let’s not push it

Fëanáro is not that harder to spell from its Sindarin variation

(Takes a deep breath—I can do it, I can do Sindarin propaganda)

11. Why would the Sindar want lord Fëanáro to have Sindarized version of his name? They hate him and his sons and people. Why let these kinslayers use their beautiful language?

#tolkien #silmarillion #feanor #actually it’s #feanaro #fëanáro #please call him fëanáro #time to get the big guns out #aka propaganda time #i will start with the hardest part #a week of things I don’t believe in if I can manage #i think i can do it for three days #let’s see how this goes #ignore I went mia for four days #not important #thingol #figured the guy deserves to be tagged at this point

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combat finrod is something that actually existed i just keep forgetting he wasn’t just smelling pretty flowers all the time

soooorryyyyyyy for my crappy style i;m just not sure about drawing

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Caranthir may have reached his hug limit for the next century, but he’ll always make an exception for Maglor

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