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[anduniela]

no punctuation we read like romans

#OMG #I spitted tea #lol #not fandom

[anduniela]

Thinking about how heavily Tolkien’s eucatastrophe is associated with Valinor and the divine. Manwë’s eagles, Eonwë’s host, Varda’s blessing. It makes me want a Valinor that’s an entire place of sudden blessings at the last possible moment. It’s Fairyland, and that doesn’t mean everything is perfect! It means everything works on fairytale logic. Hunters in the woods of Valinor are perfectly used to wandering silent woods for weeks until their food runs out, at which point an entire herd of deer will jump out of the underbrush. Craftsmen fail time and time again until success comes at random from some strange quarter. The trees bloom when they please and the gifts of the gods come at odd times. Varda fully wandered up to Fëanor, placed a deep and terrifying magic on his shiny nightlights, then left and he saw nothing wrong with this. It’s a deeply weird place, with a culture of last minute miracles.

Then there’s the question of how this... unpredictable material culture would seem to the people of Númenor. They get gifts of plants from the elves across the sea, but the herbs only bloom when someone is on their deathbed. The saplings of Valinorean trees canonically choose where to grow, Gil-Galad got mallorns as a gift and they didn’t thrive until he gave them to Galadriel. The talking eagles on the mountain have been known to help shepherd girls find lost lambs but they ignore everyone else. Just a baffling set of contradictions! No wonder resentment grew.

#tolkien #silmarillion #fandom #valinor #Interesting #Worldbuilding

[anduniela]

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[anduniela]

My favourite idea for an impossible character interaction from Tolkien’s works is Pippin and Fëanor.

Either Fëanor would kill him within ten minutes out of sheer annoyance, or they’d get along terrifyingly well. Pippin wants to know everything and asks endless questions. Fëanor thinks he does know everything (and actually does know a great deal) and now has an insatiable audience who doesn’t know any better than to believe everything he says. Pippin is the kind of Ideas Person who could come up with preposterous ideas for new inventions, and Fëanor is the kind of genuius who could actually make them workable. Everyone in Valinor finds this development unsettling, especially Gandalf.

Yes, Pippin never goes to Valinor, and yes, Fëanor is dead, but that doesn’t stop me from finding the concept hilarious.

#tolkien #fandom #silmarillion #lotr #fanfiction #lol #Crack #feanor #pippin #fic #crack

[anduniela]

My dash has recently been FLOODED with these, so it's really nice to see a version that plays straight into my vision ❤️

Guess I was having fun with Artbreeder like the rest of this fandom now, and @intea​ asked for Fingon. Maedhros kind of happened accidentally, but isnce it was probably the greatest friendship in the SIlmarillion, I’m posting them together.

#tolkien #fandom #silmarillion #fanart

[anduniela]

Gandalf: Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Yes. You can go sing to Mandos and if you’re talented enough, he’ll bring a loved one back to life. It’s actually the plot of my favorite show, Middle Earth’s Got Talent. It’s the bad singers who really make the show worth it. Anyways, we’re at war, a lot of people are going to die, which means this new season is going to be great. 

#tolkien #fandom #silmarillion #lay of leithian #Lol

[anduniela]

‪happy christmas to my favourite story of all time‬

#not tolkien #not fandom #lol

[anduniela]

I’m just thinking of how after the Lay of Leithian was written there were probably countless Elves (and maybe Men too, at some point) writing obviously Leithian-inspired romance novels featuring mysterious Men coming from the forest who managed to steal the heart of the Elven main character

And in particular I’m thinking of Valinorean “teenage” Elves writing about their Luthien Sue self insert with a terrible fake Sindarin name, and also trying to depict mortal love interests while having never seen a mortal and only workin on third hand information that boils down to “dies, round ears, hairier than us” which creates a whole subgenre of fictional Men so hairy they may as well be werewolves and who will infect you with mortality if they bite you

#tolkien #silmarillion #lay of leithian #lol #Fandom #In-universe fandom

[anduniela]

for everyone suffering in zoom academia right now

#tolkien #silmarillion #lol #fanart #zomg

[anduniela]

I wonder how much Quenya evolved in Valinor and how odd it would be to the elves coming or returning from Middle-earth.

@arianaofimladris, don't. It's not been a week yet since i managed NOT to get dragged into this exact discussion.

I know we all talk about Frodo speaking Sindarin in a very correct book-learned way and being completely lost when he meets Legolas, but can we talk about elves being like 'oh I learned Westron this is FINE' and then speaking in the equivalent of Middle English like Chaucer

#fandom #tolkien #silmarillion #languages #i find it hilarious that in a fantasy created by a linguist the language changes make so little sense from a social point of view

[anduniela]

One interesting thing to consider about the Nirnaeth Arnoediad is the effect of fog of war. The two armies never meet up, so Fingon and Turgon’s forces don’t know why Maedhros was delayed - or, for that matter, that he was delayed. And the Fingolfinians have prior experience, with the Helcaraxë, of being abandoned by the Fëanorians even when it would make no tactical sense. On top of that, there’s the example of Celegorm and Curufin betraying Finrod and abandoning him to his death. The Nirnaeth looks like the third in a pattern, maybe like the Fëanorians clearing out anyone else who might have a chance at claiming the kingship.

It is very likely that Turgon concluded that Maedhros intentionally betrayed them, and that he had now lost both his wife and his best friend and now his brother to Fëanorian faithlessness. Unless Thorondor had been scouting far afield, Turgon would have no evidence to the contrary. And the Second Kinslaying would only reinforce this opinion, with the Fëanorians attacking other elves instead of fighting Morgoth - and after that, none of the other elves in Beleriand would have any interest in listening to Fëanorian explanations about the Nirnaeth.

It was probably only later in elven history, when there was more time and more emotional distance to analyze the battle and consult a variety of sources, that people realized it was the result of miscommunication, misinformation, and Ulfang’s betrayal.

#tolkien #fandom #silmarillion #turgon #nirnaeth arnoediad #meta

[anduniela]

A few years ago, when I was living in the housing co-op and looking for a quick cookie recipe, I came across a blog post for something called “Norwegian Christmas butter squares.” I’d never found anything like it before: it created rich, buttery and chewy cookies, like a vastly superior version of the holiday sugar cookies I’d eaten growing up. About a year ago I went looking for the recipe again, and failed to find it. The blog had been taken down, and it sent me into momentary panic. 

Luckily, I remembered enough to find it on the Wayback Machine, and quickly copied it into a file that I’ve saved ever since. I probably make these cookies about once a month, and they last about five days around my voracious husband - they’re fantastic with a cup of bitter coffee or tea. I’m skeptical that there is something distinctively Norwegian about these cookies, but they do seem like the perfect thing to eat on a cold day. 

Norwegian Christmas Butter Squares

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 egg 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 tsp vanilla ½ tsp salt Turbinado/ Raw Sugar for dusting

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chill a 9x13″ baking pan in the freezer. Do not grease the pan.

Using a mixer, blend the butter, egg, sugar, and salt together until it is creamy.  Add the flour and vanilla and mix using your hands until the mixture holds together in large clumps. If it seems overly soft, add a little extra flour. 

Using your hands, press the dough out onto the chilled and ungreased baking sheet until it is even and ¼ inch thick.  Dust the top of the cookies evenly with raw sugar.

Bake at 400 degrees until the edges turn a golden brown, about 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let cool for about five minutes before cutting the cooked dough into squares. Remove the squares from the warm pan using a spatula.

#To bake #recipes #not tolkien #not fandom

[anduniela]

Thanks to @venwe for tagging me :)

rules: answer the questions and tag some people you want to get to know better or catch up with

three ships: I, ugh, am not much of a shipper, but let’s see... Steggy from MCU, Holmes/Watson, though i prefer them as platonic life partners, and, erm... ok, i just soooo much prefer gen.

last song: a Polish translation of ‘Прощание с Польшей' [Farewell to Poland] by Bulat Okudzhava

currently craving: Gin & tonic which I can’t have rn, because i wasn’t farsighted enough to chill the damn thing beforehand.

last movie: If documentaries count then ‘Victorian Farm’ that i had playing in the background while i was sewing a skirt on the weekend

currently reading: SHOULD be reading friend’s fanfic but instead am doing this tag game...

#tag game #not tolkien #not fandom

[anduniela]

So why are Tolkien elves immune to illness but not to poison, as Aredhel’s death by poisoned javelin shows? I suppose their immune systems must simply be maxed out..? So their white blood cells have superpowers but their livers and kidneys do not..? Is anyone here a medical expert and can speculate on how the body of a being would function who’s immune to illness but not poison?

Or has that post already been written? Can someone link me to it? Really interested in acquiring more headcanons about elves and their weird physiology.

(I also find it interesting that elves can be physically harmed by heartbreak and the mental effects of enslavement and trauma (see Gwindor) - arguably both are like a “poison for the mind”, so it’s a parallel.)

#tolkien #silmarillion #fandom #meta #tolkien elves #elves #Elven biology

[anduniela]

“My lord, you called me. I come.”

Faramir & Aragorn

#tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #lotr fanart #fandom #aragorn #faramir

[anduniela]

Re blogging for futue read.

Meta: On Gil-galad, being sent to the Havens and fostering with Círdan

Yes, yes, it’s Gil-galad parentage meta. But! With a different focus this time.

Namely: Círdan and the Havens.

I. Introduction

To make clear where my starting point for all this is: I subscribe to Gil-galad son of Orodreth, and in all honesty one of the reasons I do so is because I like the way it lets me avoid Gil-galad ending up on Balar for large portions of the First Age. I like the fact that I can give him a front-row seat to a lot of the major events of the First Age instead! So I’ve been puzzled by the amount of fic that has Gil-galad son of Orodreth being sent to the Havens, same as the Fingon version.

Now, if it were a matter of people really loving the idea of Gil-galad and Círdan’s relationship and wanting to keep it even with a different Gil-galad backstory, I completely understand that, knock yourselves out… but I am getting the impression that a lot of people view Gil-galad as being sent to the Havens and fostered by Círdan as the default, or think it’s somehow “canon” that they have to incorporate it no matter the parentage. And then they run into problems.

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#tolkien #silmarillion #gil galad #meta #fandom

[anduniela]

My new fave Nienna I guess.

(…)Nienna, dwells alone. She is acquainted with grief, and mourns for every wound that Arda has suffered in the marring of Melkor. So great was her sorrow, as the Music unfolded, that her song turned to lamentation long before its end, and the sound of mourning was woven into the themes of the World before it began. But she does not weep for herself; and those who hearken to her learn pity, and endurance in hope. Her halls are west of West, upon the borders of the world “

#tolkien #silmarillion #fanart #nienna