#if mordor is a corpse beleriand is a construct. sparkle on :))

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

if the horror of mordor is that it’s a fundamentally dead place, the horror of beleriand under melkor is that it’s alive. every wild thing, every plant, the land itself, all of it can be bent and shaped to the will of that which wants you gone. woods with vines to choke and trap and strangle, bogs replete with depthless pools and paths that lead nowhere and clouds of mosquitoes that can turn your blood to poison. leave a wound in the open air and by nightfall infection will have set in. goats and sheep are born shrivelled and eyeless. springs that if drunk from will bloat your belly and waste you away to nothing. deer watching with too many eyes, boars running mad and foaming even after they’re felled. just endless possibilities for fear and havoc and destruction, and all of it is intended…there is no comfort in the randomness of nature when nature hates you personally

#if mordor is a corpse beleriand is a construct. sparkle on :)) #brought to you by me #every day i wake up + i get on my little soapbox #the professor's world #the silmarillion #beleriand #melkor #give me some good old-fashioned tolkien nature horror