#and what is going on with the elves

[jhontography]

i like watching The Witcher but since i haven’t read the books i have literally no idea what is going on in the show 90% of the time 

#by the time a new seasons is released i dont remember the last one sdssdas and idk the show somehow doesnt really make a good job explaining #- explaining stuff to me - a casual audience #ciri literally just said she's half elf and i was like really???? didnt remember that #also i dont remember what powers she had exactly #and what is going on with the elves #so im just watching this and enjoying jaskier's nonstop blabbering and geralt's... view #and yennefer doing her magic things #and yarpen's scottish accent #the witcher

[jaythenugget]

in some distant universe my dragon age lavellan and astarion are kissing on the lips

#khiel go get that vampirussy #astarion thinks he can manipulate him but jokes on him khiel is aware and falling for it on purpose #hashtag icanfixhim #what if we kissed before cazador's rotting corpse and we were both elves #ex-druid x a bloodstained killer is real #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #dragon age #bg3 tav #dnd #astarion #bg3 astarion #oc art #dnd art

[altho-arto]

ADVISORS! plural !! Oooh Kabru is definitely staying in the kingdom with the toudens and marcille im 99.9999% sure of it now that chapter 97 is out

I want a hundred chapters of the post-canon silly Kabru&Marcille sitcom "we are trying to rule this kingdom but SOMEONE is not helping" Kingdom shenanigans 💚 (the someone is usually Laios. the older races' diplomats and ex-shadow governors are not helping tho)

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#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi manga spoilers #kabru #marcille donato #my art #uuh farcille and labru mentions too i guess #man now that the dungeon trouble is over kabru can befriend laios and go to that lunch date they talked about ! #he will be studying whats wrong w him for years to come....fantastic.. (hope mithrun and his crew visit to keep him sane) #but more importantly i just wonder how a convo about being raised among elves while not being 'pure' elves themselves would go. #how big would marcille's mommy issues be? her circumstances are less dire than kabru's adoption but damn im sure she has wild anecdotes to

[erynalasse]

I wonder when the Noldor looked around at their dwindling numbers and realized that they were dying faster than they could ever keep up with.

#tolkien #silmarillion #I actually have a lot of feelings about this #because the noldor that come over from Valinor are pretty much all you get for the first age’s long war #birth rates are also in the basement if they exist at all #elves don’t have children during war #even if the siege of Angband is peaceful enough to relax that custom #I still don’t think you would have many children #elves have known war before - we know they did before the great journey #but it’s also got to be sobering to realize that your casualty rates are literally unsustainable #(like so #the house of finwë probably isn’t a representative sample of casualty rates #but damn the big picture still can’t be good #we have one grandchild of finwë who survives to the second age out of fifteen and that’s a very very bad rate) #what does that DO to a people group #to go from immortal and undying #to accepting that your whole clan is getting whittled down chunk by chunk #when did they start realizing that even if they beat Morgoth #they wouldn’t recognize the survivors

[theveryworstthing]

He stares at the drawing with polite confusion.

"Very...interesting interpretation of an elf. The addition of the tendrils is...interesting."

"You said interesting twice. And what are you talking about? Interpretation? Addition? This is like, a spot on life drawing of Dahra'ah. You see her every day, how can you not tell it's her? Are you serious or is this some sort of joke? Because if i wanted passive aggressive digs at my art I would have just gone back home."

"I-no, no, no! Calm down Tess. I-Exactly, I see her every day. She's basically just a tall human woman with pointy ears, not some kind of...creature."

"Hey! Rude! We're all 'creatures' here buddy. And what the fuck do you mean 'tall human woman'? She's a 'humanoid' sure, but-"

"I mean, that's what she looks like. That's how she shows up in photographs. Her picture is up on the wall Right. There."

"..."

"..."

"That's not her."

"What?"

The young portrait artist looks back and forth from the painting to the drawing. She can see it, the way the two figures could be different renditions of the same person, but the woman in the photograph was...off. Dulled. No markings or claws, no elegant tendrils, very little of the ethereal vibes that bordered on creepy with which Dah carried herself. Just a bland but very pretty human lady with pointy ears.

Something is wrong.

"Do you have sec to come to the studio with me Roland? I think we need to compare notes."

over on patreon DonutBronut wanted 'elves of increasingly inhuman varieties' and Kona Goodhart wanted 'indecent rococo' and while this isn't all rococo fashion it has the Vibes.

at first i just wanted to draw some slightly funky elves but then i got the idea for a fantasy scenario where everyone but elves see elves as tall pretty humans instead of the weird fae-humanoids they really are and the elves just roll with it. like, they're not actively deceiving anyone, it's just a fact of life that they show up weird in pictures and most mirrored surfaces and humans perceive them different. which is fine until some human with their dang third eye cracked open is hired to do a portrait and things get Complicated.

these ladies were fun to draw because even though i could have truly gone buck wild i decided to go for something a little more subtle (also i drew a monster elf before and i didn't want to retread that territory). y'all know i love a good changeling, so these are like a species of changeling that evolved to raise their own young after establishing communities outside the veil and breeding with the locals. which is something i've done before with the Mainlanders yes, but also consider? leave me alone.

#elves #body horror #bare chest #kinda #it's debatable what's going on there!

[ambrosiagourmet]

Marcille didn’t use illegal magic to resurrect Falin bc she just loves Falin that much, she was able to resurrect Falin bc she already knew illegal magic bc she doesn’t respect elf cops.

#she literally majored in illegal magic #what Falin’s death pulled out of her was the willingness to reveal this to the group. imo. #it’s a very similar arc to Laios it’s about vulnerability. she doesn’t corrupt herself she reveals herself #not that it’s nothing that she does this for Falin. esp since a running theme in the early chapters for Marcille is knowledge vs action #she KNOWS how to do a lot of things but she hasn’t taken action on many of them. and she has already started to confront that #by the time they reach the dragon. her character arc doesn’t start there it starts w like. the mandrake #ANYWAY Falin is important I just think that framing it as like ‘look how far she’ll go this is FORBIDDEN’ kind of misses the point #that the elves and gnomes and dwarves have suppressed this knowledge. THEY have failed Marcille. they set her up for failure #don’t by into their lies!!! burying the truth isn’t helping! rah rah!

[zeb-z]

Cellbit comparing himself to Frodo from LOTR for like ten minutes in a desperate analogy to let Bad know he’s being blackmailed by the federation, then at the end of it all going “yknow, Frodo is gay. Like really gay. Absolutely gay” he’s so real for that

#when Cellbit goes FRODO IS GAY so deafeningly loud that Missa and Bad just stop and look at him. he’s so real #Cellbit spends several min making it clear he’s supposed to be Frodo then being like and Frodo is so gay like hella gay he was so fuckin gay #like we are all so aware cellbo. this was never in question. you’re being forced to work for the federation and you’re fruity as all hell #and MISSA who’s just there and has noooo idea what’s going on like Frodo? giving info about elves to the eye? but the eye can’t know he’s - #-making up information? huh?????? #mcyt #qsmp #cellbit #bbh #z speaks

[shadowtraveled]

this is a largely meaningless observation but, based on the fleki uniform demonstration comic, mithrun seems to wear the default style of the canary uniform, probably because he has no desire to personalize it or preference for how to do so, etc. when he does seem to pick his own clothes, though, they don’t look super in-line with what we’re shown of elven clothing styles in his region: high collars look like they’re fairly popular with elves in general, but out of uniform he tends to be a lot more covered up than everyone else—long sleeves, long pants, boots rather than sandals, and he dresses that way both prior to getting eaten and after the events of the series. anyway it’s kind of cute that after everything that happened to him, someone cared enough to remember what his clothing preferences used to be.

#sorry my head is full of him #dungeon meshi spoilers #just mentioned. just a bit #dungeon meshi #mithrun #he’s like a case study in the problems that would Of Course arise in a society with the standards and values we frequently see in elves #in fantasy which is very refreshing because again What is with fantasy writers writing their elven societies Like That and going no they can #be weird elitists they’re hot and they’re kind of right. and leaving it at that. i mean i know why that happens but. anyway #if elves are going to be elfing in that way it’s so much more interesting to see how that manifests and affects individuals within that #culture. this was a large part of essek’s appeal to me also lmfaondns and it is why i can’t stop giving my dnd characters elf ancestry. if #you’re going to make them be fucked up let me think about the consequences !!!! but anyway yeah no mithrun gets to be on my mind 24/7 #because he Is the consequences. and it’s very good but also i am so so sad

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Greenwood forest is a legitamate Cryptid forest.

And as amusing it would be for the silvans to be in control of the weirdness, i think it’d be 10 thousand times more amusing for them to just vibe with it.

Some weird humanoid figure is seen wondering through the woods on the east side? Cool, make a note of it and be sure to avoid that stretch at this time of year.

You hear haunting whistles echo through the trees? Don’t answer. The silvans don’t whistle.

No one calls peoples’ names while they’re in the woods. If you hear your name called, run.

Don’t wonder off into the flower fields by yourself during the spring. The last elf who did disappeared, and a elf-like flower display lay up against the tree the next day. It’s safe to do in groups though.

Greenwood is weird, but it’s their forest. So while the orcs and spiders aren’t technically the most dangerous thing in these woods, they are intruders and the silvans want them out.

#lord of the rings #silmarillion #lotr #the hobbit #lotr elves #thranduil #legolas #mirkwood #greenwood the great #silvans #Greenwood the Cryptid forest #greenwood is weird #it’s elvs are weirder #other elves can sense that there’s Something going on with them but they don’t know what

[sneezingbabysloth]

it’s a crime I’ve never drawn Thranduil before (WIP)

#maturing means going from Legolas to Thranduil #thranduil #hobbit #the hobbit #lotr #wip #lotr art #thranduil art #I never know what to tag #elves #tolkien #just one chance pl #yes i was too intimidated to draw his crown what about it

[sesamenom]

Ar-Pharazon from the Reverse Gondolin AU and as Witch-King of Numenor - thanks to @who-needs-words for helping develop this idea!

#silm #silmarillion #second age #ar pharazon #reverse gondolin au #(well more like the aftermath of gondolin reversal) #this au has consumed my life #on the plus side inspiration for feanor is finally reemerging from under the metaphorical couch so i might get something finwion-y done soo #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa so much to draw so little time #seriously though golden nazgul is such a cool idea #whatever the mordor equivalent for the angband trio is (sauron pharazon and shelob maybe?) is going to look so cool in black and gold #black/gold black hole shelob!! #and prince elrond is super finwiony looking #also he has his wings & glowiness out a lot more so that'll be fun #but yeah basically in the au Prince Elrond realized via foresight what was happening/going to happen in numenor #so he went there and disowned ar pharazon (by extension removing him from the throne) and crowned tar miriel rightful Ruling Queen #then later when sauron showed up he came back kicked sauron out and outlawed the death cult #but between that time sauron secretly recruited ar pharazon by promising him kingship in exchange for his support #and anyways ar pharazon survived all the way to the TA as the Witch King #(mr. angmar here gets to be second in command of the nazgul sorry) #-imagine this guy showing up to be all 'bagginssss' though #the witch king of numenor is somehow even more dramatic #also the whole 'no living man can kill me' is. a bit different coming from a guy who has many enemies in the form of #a) his cousin the Ruling Queen of Numenor #b) his uncle the choice-of-elves-peredhel #c) a bunch of Faithful in the Halls #the dead guys aren't too much of a problem #but i wonder if he heard that prophecy and worried a whole lot more about the Ruling Queens #or Prince Elrond who in the au has very definitely embraced his maia-ness #and then imagine his surprise hearing 'but no living man am i' and it coming from. a random human lady.

[donnyclaws]

Not posting abt tiger crawl home as much bc I'm having fun with my little scratchings and updates but it's so going somewhere rn

#text snippet is from endalla specifically <3 i really like writing them #like it's nice i think i've taken the pressure off to kinda make my stories n stuff presentable and understandable or even Out #it's probably the first time i've written stuff for this where coming back to it a month later and it still feels like the best way to #present it. it's way more indulgent and based on what feels Right gut wise and word wise which rules. my story for meeee ect ect #anyways daemon elves angels magic and Probably chimera other forms r getting axed spring cleaninggg #suicide mention #4 damian's snippet bc that's what's going on there #anyway you'll just have 2 trust that it'll be out eventually (and hatchfiend) but i'm not in any kind of rush #tiger crawl home #art tag #victor #glorio #endalla #damian #also just went back 2 a regular messy sketchbook and notebook thank god

[redbootsindoriath]

Fëanorian Week 2023, Day 5: Curufin (or Celebrimbor, rather)

I have a similar problem with Curufin as I do with Caranthir: he’s just kind of there a lot of the time and kind of the only description of him is that he’s a mini version of Fëanor (and I was already going to be drawing Fëanor).  The one very notable thing he did was be father to Celebrimbor, who did plenty of notable things, including having a striking and vivid death (as opposed to Curufin who just got killed without detail or ceremony during the same battle as the other two C’s).  Therefore Celebrimbor gets to steal his dad’s day of Fëanorian Week.  Sorry, Curufin stans.

#feanorianweek #curufin #(at least he's mentioned...) #celebrimbor #the man the myth the legends #my trash #and long would mandos hold him #just go read the book #/end classification tags #i blame the crucifix-like pose on the fact that i drew this during holy week #somebody is gonna be like ''oh it's because he's a savior of the elves and he united unlikely people groups to a common mindset etc etc!'' #no i just had a lot of that imagery going on and went ''hmm'' #the original version i mentioned earlier was more gory than this one and also a bit less careful about what was and wasn't shown so...yeah #i never even finished it

[soapoey]

Its all like the most unserious shit in existence on earth but the way reddit men talk about dwarfs vs elves type shit always makes me grit my teeth. Type of person who would generate a chad vs incel dichotomy about the textures of the spots of sand on a deserted island on theyve been stranded on for 2 years

#i dont even particularly like elves over dwarfs #i dont even like high fantasy. i dont think of these things #like its unserious but they take it serious.but if it bugs me im taking it even more serious !!! #whats going on ! #& what of the humble halfling ? hum?

[v-arbellanaris]

i dont think im done talking abt this, actually. i'm going to try and explain how stupid this whole thing is because there's always SOMEONE going on about how if it wasn't for the circles, and the parallels of the circles to real-life atrocities, "the mage-templar debate" would be a two-sided issue.

actually, it's not.

the "mage-templar debate" is not an issue of ethics even before addressing the conditions of the circle, because you have other options.

the basic premise of the argument is "mages are inherently a danger to themselves and everyone around them. is locking them up to reduce the harm they pose to the general population the correct ethical decision?" but the entire concept is already bullshit even before you address the conditions of the circle, which is where most people claim the civil rights movement comparisons come from.

because. CANONICALLY. you have other options. you have options within the context of the games to reduce the "threat" or "danger" of magic. there's no cases of mass abominations in rivain. there's no cases of mass abominations (as we know understand & abominations anyway) amongst the avvar. there's no cases of mass abominations in tevinter. from the get-go the idea that "mages have to be locked up for their and everyone's safety" is already bullshit, before you even touch the issue of the circles. even before you get to the conditions of the circle, the very existence of mages in rivain and nevarra and the avvar and tevinter already renders the argument null and void.

from it's very inception, the entire premise -- mages are inherently a danger to themselves and everyone around them -- is proven to be a belief, not a fact.

#if you wanna argue rivain and the avvar or whatever are dai-canon additions. tevinter has existed LITERALLY since fucking. #stolen throne. like please shut up lmaooooo #from the get-go it was clear that the belief that mages are inherently dangerous is bullshit #and LATER it got two-sides'd. it was ALWAYS a civil rights issue in the context of the game from the get go #COMPARABLE to the issue of civil rights of elves in the game #dao never fucking shied away from the incisive analysis #da2's narrative structure FORCED a two-sidesing bc of the nature of hawke's role as the protagonist #and dai was just imperialist apologist nonsense #and giving the mages ‟dangerous magical powers‟ to ‟justify‟ their treatment in-game is literally just bioware going ''what if there was a #of oppressed people (oppressed based on a set of erroneous beliefs) but the bigots were RIGHT'' #AND YOU'RE JUST GOING ALONG WITH IT??? #it's not the hot take you think it is lmaoooo #dragon age #my da meta #anti chantry

[tanoraqui]

a fascinating, impactful thing about Elrond and Elros’s Choices to be Elf and Man respectively is that no way did they not start out Pretty Fucking Codependent. Since the age of 6, it’s been just the two of them surrounded by kinslayers, and then just the two of them surrounded by Gil-galad’s people and the Host of the West who don’t understand their many, many complicated feelings about the kinslayers. Like their parents before them, they are the only two half-elves alive in the world, completely alone but for each other. And their primary models for healthy relationships are Elwing “I will not let you suffer the wrath of the Valar alone” Dioriel, Eärendil “[I’m exhausted and want to leave but] My wife may Choose for both of us - immortality? Alright, babe” Tuorion, and Maglor “this is a terrible idea but I will not let you take further blood on your hands and Eternal Darkness on your soul alone” Fëanorion. There’s no way for them to have not been Pretty Fucking Codependent!

Yet still, still, for the love of boldness and fortitude and the mystery beyond the edge of the world, Elros chose to be a mortal Man; and for the love of wisdom and grace and the beauty of the world, Elrond chose to be an Elf forever in Arda; and as price, they both accepted that they would be sundered from one another until the end of all known time.

#elrond #elros #[softly but with fervor] i mean FUCK #the silmarillion #lotr #peredhil #obv reasons for choosing are written here for poetry more than character analysis BUT we do VERY MUCH in this house #hold to the idea that neither elrond nor elros chose out of anything like 'well my experience with elves has thus far sucked' #nor even 'i feel in love with someone' #but rather out of understanding eagerness and truly matched temperaments for their respective paths #we also hold that elrond made it like 5 years M A X I M U M in being-built lindon before gil-galad was like 'do you wanna just...go...' #and elrond was like 'YES THANK YOU it's not permanent if i don't go MORE west right?' and immediately built and sailed a boat to numenor #and in general split much of his time between the shores until elros's death and even after (though much less so) #was this supposed to be what they did? [wobbles hand] ehhhh... #was ulmo clearly tacitly endorsing it? yeah #elrond carefully never sailed off the western coast of the island it was fine. he was just visiting