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Hopeless, Hopeful

While traditionally they used to mean "hopeless love" now yellow tulips represent the oposite, becoming a symbol for happiness, cheerfulness and hope.

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Caranthir and Haleth, hopelessly in love!

just Caranthir and spider lilies + just Haleth and sacahuance flowers

in my mini poll black locust and acacia got the same amout of votes, but the yellow tulips won by one point and I think that was very apropiate for this particular couple!

#the silmarillion #caranthir #haleth

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One of my favorite approaches to painting is to select a 'domestic' scene, many times hinted at within a narrative but not directly described by an author. This is one such example with Bilbo writing his will for Frodo and contemplating keeping the One Ring. Frodo's Inheritance 11" x 14" Oil on panel private collection

#donato giancola’s art is always absolutely mindblowing #I love the double layering of the shadows and the light refraction #the texture of bilbo’s hands #agkskdkssh #so good! #lotr #bilbo baggins

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General Taishakuten boutta pounce..

#i cannot stop thinking about the way Asura looks at him #the way Asura watches when Taisha is speaking #the way -- multiple times -- we've seen images of Taisha existing and Asura watching him adoringly. #I think these idiots truly invented love #i just wish they'd figure out communication while they're at it #prev tags #onmyoji #taishura #taishakuten #asura

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Taishakuten and Asura's autumn date lol

#onmyoji #taishura #taishakuten #asura #I really really really want taisha’s outer robe #the patterning and color is so gorgeous

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Asura/Taishakuten 

Parent fighting!

#eeeeeee #this is so cute! #onmyoji #taishura #taishakuten #asura

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#gorgeous! #nature #clouds #photography

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#👀👀 #i mean #yes? definitely? #svsss #liu qingge #liushen

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Atlantis: The Lost Empire // LiuShen

#🤣🤣 #I did the same scene but with jiuyuan #fantastic #svsss #liushen #liu qingge #shen yuan #atlantis

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saw a thread of "these fuck ass images" and i made it my dearest ship's problem

#🤣🤣 #mdzs #zhancheng #jiang cheng #lan wangji

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Walk with me through the woods 

Mason Strehl | Instagram

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Pride and Prejudice 1995 text posts, part 1 of ?

More: Sense and Sensibility 1995 text posts | Northanger Abbey 2007 text posts | Emma. 2020 text posts

#pride and prejudice #jane austen

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Are you saying they’re not?

#🤣🤣 #quotes #writing

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keeping these tags for posterity

#this sword being for Maedhros Feanorian The Tall a man who was 8 feet tall on a good day who was crazy enough to use this zweihander#in his non dominant hand#being stolen by his squishy half elf ward-son kidnappee and then floating around Numenor not unlike Excalibur#becaue Nobody can lift this fucking thing without stabbing their feet#finally coming to chad Amandil and just by virtue or whatever Elendil's Dad is the only one in like 2000 years who can hold this thing#I find this deeply funny if the thing to help defeat Sauron is Maedhros the Kinslayer's Impossible Sword#to be fair if you were an orc and this Fae Terror stood at Himring where the snow is at his waist holding a four foot sword with one hand#and naught but the glint of the steely determination of undiluted eldest daughter energy and attitude of 'If Sauron isn't going to kill me#you sure as hell aren't going to' It would be a pretty good deterrent is all I'm saying

What are your opinions on Narsil being Maedhros’s sword, then Elros’s and making its way to Elendil’s line?

Wait no wait hang on this is really funny... Narsil was Maedhros' sword and Elros stole it but it's like... five feet long and was completely unwieldable and languished in vaults for millenia UNTIL 7'11 Elendil picked it up like 'finally a sword made for ME' and this explains the question of 'how did they find all the shards of this damn sword in the middle of a fetid battlefield' they didn't... but the amount of shards they DID find was enough to reforge into a normal size damn sword. I'm consuming this concept into my internal canon.

#🤣🤣 #lotr #the silmarillion #narsil #anduril #maedhros #elros #elendil #weaponry #swords #lotr meta #silm headcanons

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oh! forgot to add the second part concerning if you’d have enough steel to make another whole blade: this post has been my headcanon for a while :D and honestly? it explains so much lol

whenever I watch Forged in Fire it gets me thinking about the shards of Narsil (because obviously) and it makes me wonder: how do they reforge the sword?? CAN they actually reforge the sword??? obviously they can't do it like the movie (slap the sections on an anvil and hammer them, I knew this the first time I watched RotK)

it's definitely possible to take hardened steel and forge another blade, they do that all the time on the show. but what about a blade that's snapped? San Mai? canister Damascus? (that would take s o m a n y canisters but a Damascus Andúril would look awesome) (do elven smiths even have powdered steel?)

I assume you'd have to add some steel regardless of technique, surely there isn't enough steel in the shards to make an entirely new sword. but does adding steel compromise whatever power/virtue/blessing the sword possesses? (DOES it still possess any power/virtue/blessing after getting curb stomped by Sauron?)

help me smiths of Tumblr you're my only hope

#lotr #weaponry #swords #narsil #anduril #lotr meta

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You are the royal translator. Due to your mistake, the hero from a faraway land defeated the princess and married the dragon. Now there is a hero demanding his reward, an angry princess, an oblivious king, an infatuated dragon, and you who must find a way to get out of this mess alive.

#writing prompt #creative writing

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Glad to see I’m not the only sword nerd thinking about this! I’d love to see some damascus marbling in ME blades, but Man At Arms goes with an interesting Japanese tile-stacking:

whenever I watch Forged in Fire it gets me thinking about the shards of Narsil (because obviously) and it makes me wonder: how do they reforge the sword?? CAN they actually reforge the sword??? obviously they can't do it like the movie (slap the sections on an anvil and hammer them, I knew this the first time I watched RotK)

it's definitely possible to take hardened steel and forge another blade, they do that all the time on the show. but what about a blade that's snapped? San Mai? canister Damascus? (that would take s o m a n y canisters but a Damascus Andúril would look awesome) (do elven smiths even have powdered steel?)

I assume you'd have to add some steel regardless of technique, surely there isn't enough steel in the shards to make an entirely new sword. but does adding steel compromise whatever power/virtue/blessing the sword possesses? (DOES it still possess any power/virtue/blessing after getting curb stomped by Sauron?)

help me smiths of Tumblr you're my only hope

#weaponry #swords #lotr #narsil #anduril #i would suggest watching their other episodes #the ulfberht ep is my favorite #goes into crucible steel #Youtube

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Heirlooms of the Númenoreans: Aranrúth and Narsil

Swords of the First Age, Part 2 of 3

[This is a continuation of the response to this ask.]

Aranrúth

Meaning: King’s Ire. Sindarin.

Maker: Unknown. (See discussion.)

Owned/wielded by: Thingol, [Dior?], Elwing, Elros, the Kings of Númenor. (See discussion.)

Fate: Did not survive the downfall of Númenor (Unfinished Tales, ‘A Description of Númenor’, note 2).

Aranrúth. ‘King’s Ire’, the name of Thingol’s sword. Aranrúth survived the ruin of Doriath and was possessed by the Kings of Númenor. Index of The Silmarillion

‘I ask then for a sword of worth,’ said Beleg; ‘for the Orcs come now too thick and close for a bow only, and such blade as I have is no match for their armour.’ ‘Choose from all that I have,’ said Thingol, ‘save only Aranrúth, my own.’ The Silmarillion, ‘Of Túrin Turambar’

Discussion

We do not know who made Aranrúth. We do, however, know that the Sindar’s first weapons were forged by the Dwarves:

Therefore Thingol took thought for arms, which before his people had not needed, and these at first the Naugrim smithied for him; for they were greatly skilled in such work, though none among them surpassed the craftsmen of Nogrod, of whom Telchar the smith was greatest in renown. The Silmarillion, ‘Of the Sindar’

So potentially Aranrúth was forged by Dwarves, perhaps even Telchar.

There is another curious passage about Thingol’s armouries in The Children of Húrin:

Now Thingol had in Menegroth deep armouries filled with great wealth of weapons: metal wrought like fishes' mail and shining like water in the moon; swords and axes, shields and helms, wrought by Telchar himself or by his master Gamil Zirak the old, or by elven-wrights more skilful still. For some things he had received in gift that came out of Valinor and were wrought by Fëanor in his mastery, than whom no craftsman was greater in all the days of the world. The Children of Húrin, ‘The Departure of Túrin’

Dwarven smiths, including Telchar and Gamil Zirak, are mentioned again; but according to this passage, at least, Thingol also possessed Noldorin weaponry, including objects wrought by Fëanor himself!

And, of course, we know Eöl, formerly Thingol’s subject, was a weaponsmith so it’s not like none of the Sindar possessed this skill. We also do not know when it was forged, save that Thingol definitely possessed it by the time Anglachel passed to Beleg. In sum, there are myriad possibilities for the maker of Aranrúth.

Was Aranrúth ever used in combat? Yes: While we do not see Thingol fight much in the Silmarillion, he was involved in combat in the First Battle (The Silmarillion, ‘Of the Sindar’). In an unwritten Canto of Lay of Leithian, Tolkien wrote the outline of a battle between Thingol’s army and Orcs who were searching for Lúthien on the borders of Doriath. It is said that “Thingol himself slays Boldog,” the Orc captain, in their victory (The Lays of Beleriand, The Lay of Leithian, ‘The Unwritten Cantos’ 12). So Thingol did engage in combat, and it’s reasonable to assume Aranrúth was his weapon in these battles.

Unfinished Tales (‘A Description of Númenor’, footnote 2) tells us:

The King’s sword was indeed Aranrúth, the sword of Elu Thingol of Doriath in Beleriand, that had descended to Elros from Elwing his mother.

This is one of those places with frustratingly, and tantalisingly, few details and gaps in the narrative. First of all, we do not know how Aranrúth passed from Thingol to Elwing (presumably via Dior, but not confirmed). Second, we don’t know how Aranrúth was saved from both the sack of Doriath and the sack of Sirion. This is complicated by the fact that Elwing was a child at the time of the former, and Elros her son was a child at the time of the latter. Surely an adult would have been involved in the transportation and transferral of this mighty weapon, but who? This is where you’ll find some interesting possibilities explored by fans: Was Oropher perhaps involved, the Iathren father of Thranduil never written into the Silmarillion? Or Galadriel, whose whereabouts at this time are inconclusive? Did Gil-galad find it in Sirion and pass it on to Elros later? Or did Maglor bring it with him out of Sirion and pass it on to his foster Elros? Up to you! Canon does not tell us.

Finally, all we know of Aranrúth’s fate is that it did not survive the Downfall. But if Ar-Pharazôn had it on him when he went ashore in Valinor, might it have been buried with him?

Narsil

Meaning: Red and White Flame (according to LotR index). Quenya.

Maker: Telchar

Owned/wielded by: Unknown; Elendil, who wielded it in the War of the Last Alliance; shards borne by Isildur, Valandil and his line; reforged as Andúril and wielded by Aragorn in the War of the Ring.

Notable for: cutting the Ring from Sauron’s hand.

Fate: broken in the War of the Last Alliance; shards borne by Elendil’s heirs through the Third Age and eventually reforged as Andúril.

But at the last the siege was so strait that Sauron himself came forth; and he wrestled with Gil-galad and Elendil, and they both were slain, and the sword of Elendil broke under him as he fell. But Sauron also was thrown down, and with the hilt-shard of Narsil Isildur cut the Ruling Ring from the hand of Sauron and took it for his own. The Silmarillion, ‘Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age' 'Here I set it,' he said, 'but I command you not to touch it, nor to permit any other to lay hand on it. In this elvish sheath dwells the Blade that was Broken and has been made again. Telchar first wrought it in the deeps of time. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, ‘Chapter 6: The King of the Golden Hall’

Discussion

Narsil is a fascinating sword of the “First Age” because the only reason we know it even existed that early is Aragorn’s one mention of Telchar in The Two Towers, quoted above. The problem is, Elendil is the first confirmed owner of Narsil — at the end of the Second Age! This leaves over three-and-a-half millennia of history unaccounted for. Nothing in canon tells us how Narsil got from the smithies of Nogrod to Elendil. (Until I did this research, even I was certain that Elros was confirmed to have owned Narsil; not so.)

This mention has led fans to do some imaginative mental gymnastics devising a history for the famous Blade that was Broken. One popular interpretation is that Elros received Narsil from Maedhros, and this is not without basis in canon. For one, we know that Elros was fostered by Maglor and presumably knew Maedhros also (in some versions, it is in fact Maedhros who fosters the half-elven twins). There is also a canonical link between Maedhros and Telchar, recounted in the Narn i hîn Húrin in Unfinished Tales (the story was not reproduced in the Children of Húrin): when Maedhros saves the life of Azaghâl lord of Belegost in an Orc raid on the Dwarf road, Azaghâl gives him the Dragon-helm of Dor-lómin — another work of Telchar — as guerdon. Could Azaghâl have given him Narsil at the same time? Of course, there are plenty of other ways Maedhros might have received Narsil besides, this is just one of the more direct links.

There are also countless other ways Narsil could have come to Elendil. Another equally plausible explanation would be that it was one of the weapons in Thingol’s armouries, saved, like Aranrúth, from the sack of Doriath. And we don’t even know that Narsil was ever in Númenor! Could it have been Elrond’s sword, that he gave to his cousin many-times-removed when he came to Middle-earth? There are many, many tantalising possibilities.

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#oooh #this is interesting #weaponry #swords #lotr #the silmarillion #thingol #elendil #elros #beleg #aranruth #narsil