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Then suddenly he beheld his sister Éowyn as she lay, and he knew her. He stood a moment as a man who is pierced in the midst of a cry by an arrow through the heart; and then his face went deathly white, and a cold fury rose in him, so that all speech failed him for a while. A fey mood took him.

#me on Saturday

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Nogrod was one of two Dwarven cities in the Ered Luin, the other being Belegost, that prospered during the First Age. Nogrod lay near Mount Dolmed. It was home to the Dwarves of Nogrod. And it was also the home to the great Dwarven smiths Gamil Zirak and Telchar...

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yay another new year’s gift

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Top 10 Favorite Movies ➞ FishRagnarsson@fishragnarsson) ↳ #1 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) dir. peter jackson

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I feel like haughty feanorians is a pretty common characterization, but if fingon was that close of a friend of maedhros I think he would have to be equally haughty. Pretentious pretty boy eldest sons that talk shit behind people's back

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turkish spindle gang make some noise (imagine having to wind your singles off your spindle before you can start plying, couldn't be us)

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Tolkien really just paused in the middle of the hobbit chase to describe a sunrise so raw you could feel the clammy dawn of a sleepless night sticking between your fingers? When your face is cold and your blood is up and the world is sharp and you are sharp and dawn is spilling pink onto the highway or the train station ceiling or the hills of Rohan? It is a sensation not even California weed can match.

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Sauron sacrifices a branch of Nimloth, the white tree of Numenor, in the Temple for Morgoth.

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🏹 Legolas 🏹

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have to say Fëanor did hit the mark with “through sorrow to find joy, or freedom at the least” like yeah man I’d live by that!

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🦀 Maglor-spotting 🦀

Another possible sighting?

I have posted before about coming across the Celtic name Maglorix, whence comes the later Welsh name Meilyr. Well, how’s this:

Meilyr Brydydd ap Mabon (fl. 1100–1137) is the earliest of the Welsh Poets of the Princes or Y Gogynfeirdd (The Less Early Poets) whose work has survived.

Meilyr was the court poet of Gruffudd ap Cynan (ca. 1055–1137), king of Gwynedd. He composed a notable awdl farwnad (elegy) on the death of his patron and a marwysgafn on his own approaching end, noted for its intensity and depth of feeling.

(That’s it. That’s the whole Wiki article.)

Bard? Bard to princes? Notable for elegies, laments, and death-songs? Lived in Gwynedd, which is next to the sea?

I think we found him!

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I've recently seen a video about hypothetical carnivorous horses, and I was just thinking- What if horses in Angband weren't normal, docile herbivores? What if they were twisted, corrupted things, all too-sharp teeth peeled back in an almost cruel grin? Melkor bent all sorts of creatures to his will, breaking and reshaping them into whatever malicious war ustensils he wanted. That's how Orcs came into being; the aftermath of prolonged torment, mutilation and corruption of Elves. It's implied that's what happened to many other beings. So why wouldn't he do that to horses as well? Surely, having a mount that bites and tears through the flesh of the enemies, a mount that grows thirsty at the sight of blood, is more useful -and admittedly more aesthetically pleasing- to a Dark Lord.

Anyway, here are some amazing works included in the video I saw:

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Where has the horse gone? Where is the rider? Where is the giver of gold? Where is the feasting? Where are the joys of the hall?

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"hey Bill! small world, huh. the last time we saw each other, must have been... yeah, Sirion, good memory. yeahhhhh, I was pretty jewel-mad back then. kind of killed anything that moved. not proud of it but hey, kooky times... how's your son? still--still has that brain injury, gotcha. from my sword. sorry about that one."

I was playing with some silly ideas about how awkward Rivendell must be for the retirees who live there, as a politically neutral space where former enemies have to be civil with each other, but the concept gets dark really fast

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I do think it’s strange that Maedhros of all people is a character that gets woobified so hard because the MOST compelling thing about him isn’t his heroism, it’s the fact that he was heroic and the BECAME A VILLAIN. I’m not even going to say became an anti hero because I don’t think that’s accurate, I mean he became a straight up villain. Destroying what was basically a refugee camp, attacking the army fighting against morgoth when half of his identity post thangorodrim was once based around fighting Morgoth. I’m not the first person to mention the irony of the fact that maedhros is the only person to ever escape Angband without being in thrall to Morgoth, and then years later his actions are absolutely aiding morgoths cause rather than the cause of the remaining Noldor.

And that is what sets this character apart. His downfall. Part of that downfall is his earlier heroism but what makes this character so well written in the first place is that the seeds of that downfall start early at Alqualonde. It’s tragic but it isn’t surprising.

I changing this character around so that somehow his later actions are excusable or against his will or that deep down he has actually been a hero this whole time is very strange because if that’s the case then how is he any different than fingon or turgon or thingol? In fact if that’s the case then he’s more boring than these characters because he’s not nearly as outwardly noble.

He becomes a villain and as the shadows of that villainy were apparent early on, the shadow of his heroism is still apparent later on as well and that’s the tragedy. He could have turned around at any point, he could have still saved himself. But he doesn’t and it’s horribly tragic and as a story, it’s absolutely brilliant character work.

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