#Greenwood

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Au in which Thranduil invited Galadriel and the elves of LothLorion, and Elrond and the elves of I lardis to a celebration in the third age before the darkness got really bad.

And Galadriel took a number of her Silvans with her, in adition to the her husband and sinda elves, and one of the silvans elves was from before Galadriel ever even came across the silvans and the silvan sees the silvans of Mirkwood celebrate and perform traditional silvan dances that the silvan misses, now that they are under Galadriel’s rule.

And Thranduil notices the silvan’s longing tells them “you can join, if you want to. We’re all silvans here.” And the silvan just books it to the dance and starts participating in it, first at the edges, but at the encouragement of the other silvans dancing, they slowely drift towards the thick of it.

And while they stand out from the other silvans in their LothLorien attire, they are smiling brighter and feeling more accepted than they have in centuries.

#lord of the rings #lotr #lotr elves #the hobbit #thranduil #silvans #mirkwood #wood elves #greenwood #silvans dance

[mermazeablaze]

I thought some of my Tumblr mutuals would be interested to see this article.

Viola Ford Fletcher, aged 109, just published a memoir 'Don't Let Them Bury My Story' about her experience during the Greenwood/Tulsa Massacre. It will be available for purchase August 15th.

"Her memoir, “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story,” is a call to action for readers to pursue truth, justice and reconciliation no matter how long it takes. Written with graphic details of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that she witnessed at age seven, Fletcher said she hoped to preserve a narrative of events that was nearly lost to a lack of acknowledgement from mainstream historians and political leaders.

The questions I had then remain to this day,” Fletcher writes in the book. “How could you just give a mob of violent, crazed, racist people a bunch of deadly weapons and allow them — no, encourage them — to go out and kill innocent Black folks and demolish a whole community?”

“As it turns out, we were victims of a lie,” she writes.

Fletcher notes in her memoir just how much history she has lived through — from several virus outbreaks preceding the coronavirus pandemic, to the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2008 to every war and international conflict of the last seven decades. She has watched the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. lead the national Civil Rights Movement, seen the historic election of former President Barack Obama and witnessed the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement."

#Tulsa Race Massacre #Tulsa Race Riot #Greenwood #Black Wall Street #1921 #Oklahoma #Viola Ford Fletcher #Don't Let Them Bury My Story #Book #Memoir #Novel #Library #History #Black Lives Matter #BLM

[chicotfp]

Made for amazing Michelle as a thank you gift for her Buy me a coffee donation. Thank you so much for your support!🥰❤

#thranduil #lee pace #the hobbit #lotr #lord of the rings #tolkien #elves #mirkwood #Greenwood #photomanipulation #when your ada is the king #and you behaved as irresponsible spoiled brat #so now you are on patrolling duty in the most boring part of the forest for the next 50 years probably

[windrelyn]

I miss them-

#tolkien #lord of the rings #silmarillion #oropher #thranduil #elves #middle earth #my art #greenwood #mirkwood #sindar #lotr #fanart #father and son

[galadrielspeaks]

you know what? thranduil deserves to drink a smidge too much wine and have a bit of a superiority complex and to be a tiny bit of a bitch. like you gotta give it to him, he’s king of a successful kingdom without the help of any sort of Ring of Power. he deserves to bring up how he's managed to defend his kingdom (that is literally right smack dab in the middle of SO much bullshit) for centuries without any help from a ring whenever he gets the chance.

#thranduil what motivates you? pure raw spite and a deep empathy only obtained by those that have witnessed The Horrors and come out alive #thranduil #lord of the rings #greenwood #mirkwood #also i get a little nervous posting anything even close to meta / analysis on lotr so sorry if something isn't quite correct pls be kind #🫶

[growingingreenwood]

Random headcanon that the other elvish realms think that the Greenwood Elves have SOME-FUCKING-HOW developed **significantly** superior hearing compared to the rest of the elvish cultures/races. When I say 'significantly' I mean so significantly that it genuinely scares them a little bit.

A lot a bit.

It seems to them that the Greenwood Elves are capable of hearing and understanding even whispered conversations from MILES AND MILES AND MILES AWAY. Even when the distance is so great elvish eyes cannot even see a dark spec on the horizon, Greenwood Elves can still successfully eavesdrop on what is happening.

The other realms have, of course, come up with many of their own theories as to why and how they're capable of such things. Including but not limited to: Evolution that happened after most of the Noldor left for Valinor to help them survive the Dark Scary Times, a permanent enchantment of Melians that can be genetically passed down to one's offspring, an Extremely Elaborate Lie, a side effect of one of the plants that they eat, a sign that they've made a deal with Melkor to be his spies (this theory is banned from being openly spoken about in Imladris, if it is, you get 1 single warning before Elrond yeets you out of the valley his damn self. You are not welcome back for at least 100 years, and you have to apologize before you're allowed back in.)

There is, of course, an incredibly simple and straightforward reason for this perceived 'super-hearing' which is: The elves don't hear things, the trees do and just relay the information (or at least the gist or important bits) back to the elves. They can hear what you say from 1000 miles away because there's trees literally everywhere.

But since the other realms don't speak to/with the trees in the same capacity as the Greenwood Elves, the thought that this is possible literally never occurs to them. And the Greenwood Elves think the entire situation is too funny to ever explain it.

#tolkien #tolkien headcanons #greenwood #mirkwood #lotr #greenwood headcanons #silvan elves #silvan elf headcanons #haleighs greenwood #the silmarillion

[angleshades]

They must live outside class, without relations or money; they must work, and stick to each other till death. But England belonged to them. That, besides companionship, was their reward. Her air and sky were theirs...

The Woodcutters by James Hamilton Mackenzie (1875-1926), Williamson Art Gallery & Museum

artuk.org

#woodcutters #a happier year #greenwood #happy ever after #maurice hall #alec scudder #maurice #maurice 1987 #em forster #merchant ivory

[richwall101]

Bob Dylan plays at the back of the SNCC (Student Non-Violent Co-ordination Committee) Building in Greenwood Mississippi in 1963

#Bob Dylan #Greenwood #Mississippi #US

[meluiloth]

Mirkwood

✦--✦ Images are from Pinterest ✦--✦

#mirkwood #aesthetic #moodboard #greenwood #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #the silmarillion #lotr aesthetic #lotr moodboard

[odinsblog]

Don’t whitewash history

#greenwood #tulsa #racism #black wall street #black history #oklahoma #tiktok #blacklivesmatter

[frenchcurious]

La Edith & Ernest Mills House située à Greenwood, Indiana. Conçue par l'architecte Henry Cooler en 1957. Les photos du haut montrent la maison restaurée et actuelle, les photos du bas sont celles de la famille Mills et de leurs amis dans leur quotidien de 1955 à 1965. Photo = The Mills Family. - source MCM Daily.

#henry cooler #greenwood #indiana #usa

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

The thing about Thranduil and Legolas and their family is that, if it weren’t for their royal obligations, they would be in the wind 80% of the time, they’d wonder so far and wide it’d make Gandalf’s title of the gray pilgrim look like child’s play.

The only reason any of them stay in one place for more than a millennia at all is if they have people to take care off.

Many people and elves are under the impression that silvans are isolate and stationary, but the truth is that they are a largely free spirited group of elves that will come and go as they please, it’s just that Greenwood (later known as Mirkwood) happens to be their home base, and they later needed to put most of their effort into defending it.

#legolas #thranduil #lord of the rings #lotr #lotr elves #the hobbit #silvans #mirkwood #oropher #greenwood #wood elves #thranduil and legolas love traveling #headcanon obviously #lotr headcanons

[coopsgirl]

This day in Middle Earth history:

April 6, TA 3019 (I missed this one!): Meeting of Celeborn and Thranduil

This is the day of the Elven new year and when they met in Mirkwood, they renamed it Eryn Lasgalen, Wood of Greenleaves as it was now cleansed of Sauron's evil and would begin to heal.

"Thranduil took all the northern region as far as the mountains that rise in the forest for his realm; and Celeborn took all the southern wood below the Narrows, and named it East Lorien; all the wide forest was given to the Beornings and the Woodmen. But after the passing of Galadriel in a few years Celeborn grew weary of his realm and went to Imladris to dwell with the sons of Elrond. In the Greenwood the Silvan elves remained untroubled, but in Lorien there lingered sadly only a few of its former people, and there was no longer light or song in Caras Galadhon."

I love that that Silvan elves stayed in their forest and were happy after it had been polluted and corrupted for two-thousand years. They earned it!

#thranduil #celeborn #lotr #lord of the rings #tolkien #war of the ring #middle earth #mirkwood #greenwood #wood of green leaves #elvenking #lee pace

[itsthranduilbitch]

I woke up this morning missing Thranduil, so I made some gifs just in case you miss him too.

You’re welcome.

#Hello there again #it's Thranduil bitch #Thranduil #King Thranduil #Elvenking #Mirkwood #Greenwood #Tolkien #the hobbit the battle of the five armies #tbotfa #Thanduil being a diva

[windrelyn]

Their first meeting

The Prince of Greenwood and the Herald of Lindon ❤️

Thank you for 2222 followers!!!

#elrond #thranduil #elronduil #tolkien #silmarillion #lord of the rings #middle earth #elves #my art #fanart #lotr #elrond peredhel #greenwood #Lindon #silm art #the silmarillion #lotr art #illustration #thranduil x elrond #The prince and the herald

[galadrielspeaks]

just thinking about thranduil and how he categorises his life and how the events of his life affects the way he rules his kingdom…. how so much of his development was defined by huge cataclysmic tragedies… thinking about how his youth is defined as before Doriath and his adulthood is defined as After Doriath… how when he became a prince he probably held on to his more idealistic beliefs only to be sternly reminded of the fickleness of life during war….. how the entire kingdom of the woodland realm probably has a Before Dagorlad and an After. how could you not after losing your king and the majority of your people? it is incredibly telling how these events of Thranduil’s past has affected his rule and everything about him down to his parenting. he understands he’s alone. that’s tragic. but he also understands his kingdom is alone. he’s a lonely king. there's no one higher than him, no one to seek advice from. he understands he is the final defender of a kingdom and he is fighting an inherited war, he has first hand witnessed the tragedies of this war and has been directly critically affected by it, he is just as much a victim of Sauron as his people. his nobility offers him zero protection, at any point he could lose everything, and yet he remains empathetic. he remains kind. he remains generous. he obviously sees the worth in fighting, he refuses to give up fully. he is (reasonably!) incredibly cautious which some call him an isolationist or consider him fickle for, during events like his refusal of gandalf’s invitation to the White Council but it becomes incredibly clear why he is like this when it’s put into context of his past. he has trusted allies before, he has seen what has happened. to join an organisation full of ring bearer’s as the sole leader of a nation with no ring to protect his people is almost an insult. they would not and do not understand what it takes to lead in that situation. Thranduil and all of his people are living in the after of the war of the last alliance. why would they join another? Thranduil has put his people first. He recognises that they themselves are the only ones who understand just how at risk they are. and yet with all of this in mind it should noted that he allies himself with men (who historically have experienced and understand the dangerous climate of their respective nations) and creates trade routes with them to provide for his people and also provides aid to them. and it is noted in the text that Legolas has been raised incredibly happily, and he is well-adjusted. throughout fighting a seemingly losing war thranduil found it implicitly important to raise his son with joy and hope. i like to believe he understands the importance of childhood whimsy and enchantment and worked to instill and maintain his child’s innocence. he raised his son as trauma-free as he could (saying this bc we do not know if his mother is dead or sailed or not but either way to be without the mother is traumatic but besides that Legolas appears to be generally mentally healthy). despite knowing first hand just how cruel and painful life is he did not feel the need to raise his child to be prepared and worried about very real threats. rather he raised his child happily, and simply worked to give his son the skills he needed to survive and to defend himself. usually military father's who have expreienced a great deal of trauma and haven't processed it correctly tend to succumb to the urge to raise their children to understand the cruelty of the world, and loathe their children for their innocence. i think that in thranduil not doing this with legolas, we can infer that he has taken time to healthily process his experiences. I believe that Thranduil is an incredibly important figure in the Lord of the Rings because he is truly an incredible example of someone who learns from their mistakes, learns from tradegy, who learns from life. i think that Thranduil never wanted to be a King, it is a responsibility that fell into his lap unwillingly and that is why he is a successful and well-loved ruler.

#didn’t really get into the war of five army’s bc i just don’t know enough about it #but yeah #just some random thoughts i had inbetween lectures today #also the military thing comes from experience i am a military brat i Know #i can write soooo much on how Legolas’ behaviour is a direct representation of Thranduil’s character like it’s just so telling #also i personally believe that thranduil’s wife died but since that isn’t canon i didn’t include it in this but yeah i think that has a lot #to do with a Lot about him #but that’s more headcanony so i held off on diving too into it #also sorry if any of this is a bad take this is off the top of my head inbetween classes i’m not double checking things rn #thranduil #woodland realm #mirkwood #greenwood #long post #meta