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very important to me that the fëanorians all have eyes like these:

fallen angel eyes, siren eyes, or whatever people call them… perhaps ‘the fëanorian stare’ in-universe, the way we have the kubrick stare.

#tolkien #silmarillion #maglor #hhhhhh

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OLD SILMARILLION FANS FROM CIRCA SILMARILLION FANDOM TUMBLR 2015

I NEED HELP

i'm looking for an artist from around that timeframe.

if i'm not mistaken the phrase "lawnmower maedhros" was originally coined around their art.

they depicted post-thangorodrim maedhros as having short, choppy hair, numerous facial scars, a missing ear tip, and a crooked, broken nose. they also made him incredibly strong and imposing looking, and i believe he also had a patch of grey hair.

does anybody know the artist i'm talking about? i'm desperate here. i can't find anything.

edit: i found the artist's tumblr username, it was "eehn". though it appears tumblr took issue with their portrayal of maedhros, or some other aspect of their art, because i can only find traces of their art on internet archive sites, and half of those images have tumblr community guideline take down censors.

that is a crying shame. their art of maedhros inspired an entire wave of "lawnmower maedhros" concepts, that were all inspired by their original design.

this is quite literally the only surviving piece i could find:

#maedhros #sadly I don't know the artist #but this is fantastic!

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A persons fanfic tells you a lot about them, i , a fanfic writer, realize in terror

#hmm

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Hi, I love your comics, they are so funny! Who is your favourite character in the Silmarillion? May I see a comic about them?

Maglor is my favorite! This is 100% because of Elrond and Elros (and has nothing to do with my bad habit of obsessing over fictional bards.) Here he is teaching Elrond how to do math!

#tolkien #silmarillion #maglor #maedhros #thanks for the ask! #comic

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Day 5: Tears Unnumbered

A letter from the private archives of Lord Elrond of Rivendell, now kept in the Royal Archives of Arnor.

My d[e]ar[es]t R[uk]o (name uncertain), I have high hopes for the battle to come so tr[y] [n]ot to fret too much (I know it […] like asking A[rie]n not to rise [b]ut try for me.) Here is a token of my [word illegible] to keep you safe (?). With [word illegilble], Fin[no]

Despite the obvious damage, this letter dated to the second half of the First Age is remarkably preserved from time thanks to countless layers of Elven enchantments. All the damage seems to have been inflicted during the lifetime of the person who received this letter (Elf Ruko), probably due to poor conditions of storage. The spots and smudges let the historians think they may be tears, for the paper shows no other sign of water damage, and some words are worn out by what may be frequent touch.

We may make the educated guess that this letter was re-read by the elf called Ruko after the battle as they mourned their friend Finno and was an object of high personal value. The historians of the First Age agree that the battle mentioned in this letter is likely to be the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the battles of Tears Unnumbered, as it fits in the timeframe this letter is dated from.

Despite its briefness, this letter is a precious and rare testimony of a close friendship between two soldiers, showing that, despite the state of semi-constant war of the First Age, there was an efficient messenger service between the Elven strongholds.

We know not how this letter ended in the keeping of Lord Elrond of Rivendell, nor why he put such care in its preservation, but this is one of the last written primary sources we have from the First Age and we can only be grateful it survived to this day to offer us a brief glimpse of two unknown, long dead Elves.

#tolkien #silmarillion #maedhros #fingon #I am sobbing on the floor. good job

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already inflicted this on the discord server and decided to make everyone suffer here too

assigning silmarillion elves bad driving habits

feanor: speeds, unless you tailgate, in which case he will slow down until you back off. if he has to stop in the middle of the high way, that's your fault for entering a battle of wills with feanor

fingolfin: tailgates

finarfin: does 5 below the speed limit in the outside lane

maedhros: chronic backseat driver

fingon: incapable of using turn signal unless he has explicitly been reminded by maedhros in the past 15 minutes

maglor: plays music so loudly he cannot hear sirens if an emergency vehicle needs to pass

celegorm: explicitly ignores those special speed limits around schools (either they learn or they die)

curufin: has modified the shit out of his car so the engines are super loud because he thinks it makes him look cool

caranthir: knows the location of every speed and red light camera in tirion. abuses this knowledge.

celebrimbor: on his phone

nerdanel: thinks stop signs are a suggestion (see also: red flags)

finrod: incapable of recognizing when he is too drunk to drive. very insistent he gives his drunk friends a drive home because they're to drunk to drive and he wants them to be SAFE

turgon: tells everyone to get an electric car while not actually having one himself

#tolkien #silmarillion #10/10 character analysis all around! #I fear to get in a car with any of them

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An important note: Elrond is very much in his "angsty teenager" arc.

today on Fic Ideas I Will Never Write:

Gil-Galad is a random elf who happens to look exactly like Fingon. He's successfully conned his way into becoming High King of the Noldor, and lives in fear of someone discovering his secret.

Elrond is 100% part of the Noldorin royal family, and wants out of the line of succession by any means necessary. He is also very good at forging documents.

They embark on a ridiculously over-the-top, entirely illegal adventure to get Gil into the royal family.

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today on Fic Ideas I Will Never Write:

Gil-Galad is a random elf who happens to look exactly like Fingon. He's successfully conned his way into becoming High King of the Noldor, and lives in fear of someone discovering his secret.

Elrond is 100% part of the Noldorin royal family, and wants out of the line of succession by any means necessary. He is also very good at forging documents.

They embark on a ridiculously over-the-top, entirely illegal adventure to get Gil into the royal family.

#tolkien #silmarillion #elrond #gil-galad

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In a modern AU would he have short or long hair?

His hair looks like peppermint candies anyway

#tolkien #silmarillion #maedhros #he looks so beautiful and ethereal both ways

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canada x lotr brainworms from the month of march have set in and so I bring to you... lord of the rings ice hockey au:

• aragorn legolas and gimli are this mvp undefeated attacking string

• they're also kind of unbearable, aragorn is captain and is dating arwen aka the best figureskater to come out of BC in living memory

• boromir and faramir are the top line defence partnership, but their dad (the coach) is awful and faramir really wants to quit

• eowyn is the keeper. with enough padding on nobody knows she's a girl, which is good because there hasn't been a girl's league in town since her uncle stopped coaching because his old injuries got too bad

• the plot (such as there is one) is that the club is out of funds and so they start running little league for the hobbits to pay the bills

• shit gets way too real with denethor and the title race, theoden steps in to coach the final

• they use the prize money to set up a queer inclusive league so that eowyn can finally play defence like she wanted and faramir can finally come out as trans like she wanted and together they can welcome frodo and sam to the league proper

• running background bets are on whether legolas and gimli are hooking up after practice or not and which one of them aragorn is going to snap and kill one day

#tolkien #lord of the rings #!!!!! #I know nothing about hockey but would read a 200k story about this

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#tolkien #silmarillion #lord of the rings #glorfindel #elrond #comic

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Assume they have access to ikea furniture

#lord of the rings #aragorn #this man is absolutely capable of building ikea furniture #(Boromir is better at it though)

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I love how the entrance to Rivendell is shown in the Hobbit movies– the path is clearly enchanted; the geography is wonky, and the passage only shows up when Thorin & co really need to escape danger.

I feel like this is just how Rivendell works– there are no set pathways in and out of the valley, strange corridors and hidden passages to it just show up when and where they're needed. People who have been to Rivendell before can usually find their way back pretty easily, but even they usually can't explain exactly how they got there. Only the residents of Rivendell can reliably lead others to the valley– and Galadriel, because she's Galadriel. It usually takes Gandalf a while to find the path. He's convinced Elrond just like messing with him.

This is very much Elrond channeling his inner Melian. Doriath was extremely hard to get into, but in the normal fairy way where you just get lost in the woods endlessly if you're not welcome, and the forest parts for you if you are. Elrond saw that and decided to spice things up a little for his realm. You know, some impossible rock formations, a few very strange trees, landscaping that is vaguely beyond mortal comprehension, all that.

Rivendell's residents think it's great. Most outsiders think it's a little creepy.

#tolkien #lord of the rings #elrond #I love this idea! #I think the Shire is similarly hard to get into #but not because of magic #the hobbits just want everyone to Leave Them Alone and this affects their city planning

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Elves with glasses!

I just think there should be more of them. Here's Elrond and Maedhros!

#tolkien #silmarillion #lord of the rings #elrond #maedhros

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Patroclus did not attend the wedding.

I will never stop being obsessed with the Argonautica stating that Achilles and Medea marry in the afterlife. Absolutely Wild could not have thought of a more unhinged match. Apollonius you were so based for that

#achilles and patroclus #medea #mythology

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#tolkien #lord of the rings #aragorn #boromir #comic

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Teenage Fingon and Maedhros!

I came up with a whole story (practically an entire fic idea lol 😅) for this illustration. It takes place during an extended family vacation in some snowy mountaintops in Aman, (can you imagine not Only the shenanigans the extended finwean family would get up to but also the drama involved with having everyone basically camping under one log cabin roof LMAO), and Fingon, who absolutely idolizes his older cousin Mae, finally musters up the courage to, while on a skiing adventure just the two of them, to come out as trans and Maedhros is just like: *vibrates with excitement* "this is the best news ever i'm gonna teach you everything I know about being a dude" and henceforth the two were inseparable buddies 🥹

I imagine Mae as the first person that Fingon feels comfortable coming out to in this fic idea... and Mae's immediate and enthusiastic encouragement and acceptance is at least partly why Fingon remains his loyal friend for the remainder of their days :')

#tolkien #silmarillion #maedhros #fingon #Fingon copying Mae’s pose! Mae with an undercut! The curly little shoes! I'm in love #amazing art