Here's a drawing that I did of Beleg, best friend in the Silmarillion, chilling in a tree on a summer's day with the little birdies (not shown)!
(If anyone wishes to dispute this, I can only point you to the line that broke my heart: "Thus ended Beleg Strongbow, truest of friends..." Tolkien himself said that in the Silmarillion! So there.)
(LIES. I can also admit that reasonable arguments could be made for the Best Friend Ever status of several other Silm characters)
(Notice that I very carefully said "in the Silmarillion," not "in the Tolkien legendarium." The historographer would not have been familiar with Samwise Gamgee.)
(Good thing - I have no idea which one is a better friend.)
(And who cares? I like good friends better than competition!)
(Oh, wait that quote said "truest" not "best." My logic resembles Swiss cheese.)
Fun/heartrending fact: On Holy Saturday a couple years ago, I thought I'd get in the mourning mood by reading the longest and saddest chapter in the Silmarillion... for the first time. Thus I first learned of Beleg and his shocking non-sequitur death. I cry over books all the time (okay, so only when they're sad or otherwise moving) but this was the only time I feared I would faint or throw up because of something in a book.
Anyway, this is my only fan art of him so far (no doubt there will be more, as he is now not only my second-favorite character in the Tolkien legendarium, but #2-3 of fictional characters from anywhere), and it's happy because he's such a happy guy, and I want to be happy thinking about him. :)
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it’s 100% true that you don’t have to be productive all the time and you don’t have to meet some arbitrary standard of what counts as “productive” to have worth as a human being but oh god it is so painful to want to be productive yet not be capable of it
and I don’t mean productive like “I’m way ahead of schedule at work” cuz fuck that corny shit but productive in the sense of like. “I completed all the household cleaning tasks I set for today” or “I read/studied/wrote X amount” or “I made all the phone calls I had to make.” Like personal fulfillment and wellness and daily maintenance.
or even leisurely productivity like “I was able to focus on the book I’ve been wanting to read” or “I spent time working on my craft project” or “I wrote notes for my TTRPG campaign”
Like it sucks so bad to be held hostage by my own brain structure such that I struggle to be productive and accomplish my goals even when it’s stuff I actively enjoy and want to do. I just keep sitting here scrolling through my phone and getting distracted and all the while I’m acutely aware that it’s now been 4 hours since I said I’d start cleaning and I haven’t done anything
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Dear self,
Instead of remembering "I need to do such and such...." in the middle of doing something else you've just remembered that you needed to do, perhaps it might be easier to actually complete the job you're doing on the moment and then move onto the next and complete it too before starting anymore...
Might actually find things get done then!
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me: i'm gonna write
also me: spends 3 hours getting my planner ready for next year
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yay for new stationery today i got.. a5 planner binder for our next dnd campaign, translucent sticky flags in cute not-fluorescent colours and they come in little holders that can be stuck to the binder cover, and a couple of those uni propus highlighters. i love u kmart i love u officeworks
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sitting here with Qué Viyera from Totem stuck in my head and being unable to think about anything besides rue and hobb doing a complex trapeze routine to it
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