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spinningalbinoturtle · 9 months

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Disability Headcanons for Lord of the Rings

Seems the disability representation in LotR has been getting a lot of love on this app recently so gonna add some more❤️

Frodo

Obvs things from the books PTSD, chronic pain, chronic fatigue

And also he’s autistic

He’s a wheelchair user post-quest but he’ll sometimes just use a cane around the house

I also think he has some other disabilities from the quest, some mobility issues from Shelob, some visual impairment from staring at the eye of Sauron, difficulty with certain foods from starving so long

But he gets therapy from Tom Bombadil and Gandalf

Sam found some great plants to help with his strength and eating habits

Is one of the first hobbits to realize that in addition to being pleasant pipeweed also has some medicinal properties

I feel like the Shire has more traditional healer types which would include something like a bonesetter (kind of like a PT) and he gets some good exercises from them

Sam

Also autistic and ADHD

Has some self esteem issues from his dad-Frodo has made it his personal goal to undue this

Gets headaches often after the quest because he got hit in the head so many times

While Sam generally takes care of Frodo more (just because he has more things that need care) Frodo is always there to take care of Sam when he has a migraine or is feeling down

Pippin

Pippin has severe ADHD

He uses a cane sometimes for his troll injuries

As he gets older they tend to bug him more so Frodo teaches him his PT exercises and encourages him to use a chair

Merry

Most think he is the only neurotypical one but this is not true he is just better at masking

Has some chronic pain in his arm

Eowyn

Depression, anxiety, to the heights

Also has some chronic arm pain

Her and Faramir both have issues but they help each other with them

Her coping skills include going for a long ride, painting, and stabbing bushels of straw with her sword

Makes a support group for women with mental illness

Also spreads SA and sexual harassment awareness in Gondor and Rohan

Bilbo

ADHD king

Has dementia in his old age

“Like butter stretched over too much toast”

Bad bitch syndrome

Starts a “magical addicts anonymous” which is attended by dwarves who had the rings.

#frodo baggins #samwise x frodo #sam gamgee #lotr #faramir x eowyn #eowyn #merry brandybuck #pippin took #bilbo baggins #disabled arda

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the-quiet-fire-of-defiance · 2 years

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Day 7 Tolkien Colour Week (Intersectionality): Caranthir

I would have loved to spend more time on this, but I’ve had the week from hell and just wanted to post something before @tolkienofcolourweek finishes. This Caranthir is nb and uses he/him pronouns. He has a condition called Sturge-Weber syndrome which caused a port wine stain birthmark, problems with his right eye, seizures, learning disability and left-sided weakness. Because of this, he sometimes uses a walker. The weakness in his left hand somewhat limits what he can do with it, as he doesn’t have much grip strength. When Maedhros lost his hand, Caranthir was able to use his own experiences to help Maedhros learn how to do basic tasks again.

I partially traced this off of a photo of Shaneel Lal, a Fijian-Indian + iTaukei New Zealander and leading queer rights activist.

#caranthir #silmarillion #tocweek2022 #disabled arda #mine

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leam1983 · 1 year

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Um, Alakazam?

Sarah's caught ACG's review of Hogwarts Legacy, and she's positively vibrating with anticipation. As for me, I've always been a Diet Potterhead, someone who appreciates the world-building but who feels the visceral need others feel to imagine themselves with the Sorting Hat atop their noggin to be a little overblown.

It's like Arda. Would I want to live in Middle-Earth or the Shire? Fuck no, there's no handrails anywhere and a mostly-Medieval society has nothing in place for us disabled folks. Telling me "Yeah, but there's dragons n' shit!" does nothing for me. Instead, Middle-Earth and Hogwarts are places I enjoy observing as an external witness to their goings-on. Considering, my Legacy 'sona isn't likely to be my own extension, but just someone whose story I want to see unfold.

It's the same reason why Sarah went and reread the entire series, and why I'm happy just sitting by the sidelines, waiting for Grand Theft Broomstick to come out.

#hogwarts legacy #grand theft broomstick #harry potter #lotr #arda #thoughts #thoughts as a disabled nerd

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disabled-tolkien · 1 year

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My other headcanon for Morwen, besides autism of course, is that she had epilepsy as a child and that she has extensive scarring on her side and one of her legs after Dagor Bragollach. This resulted in nerve damage, diminished sensations and mobility issues. And though her seizures were mostly gone by the time of this, the resulting stress caused her to experience them again. Mostly absence seizures

(Contrary to common belief, absence seizures are not just a disorder in children)

-@outofangband

Those are excellent headcanons! Epilepsy actually ties in nicely with Morwen's narrative given that (cw for historical ableism) many cultures once considered epilepsy to be a sign that the person was a witch; and of course, Morwen is accused multiple times of witchcraft

#morwen #silmarillion #headcanons #disabled arda #*epilepsy #cw ableism #outofangband #i love your asks you always have such great ideas

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tolkienofcolourweek · 11 months

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Tolkien of Colour Week 2023, 31 July - 6 August

Any form of content is welcome 🙂 Tag @tolkienofcolourweek in your post and #tocweek2023. My main is @brighter-arda-main, if I dont like your post within 48 hours please message me.

This year there is a Ao3 collection!

The prompts below are only suggestions, you do not have to use them. There are two sets of prompts - Peoples | Themes. You can use both sets of prompts or just one.

Day 1: Ainur | Faith, Hope, Festivals

Day 2: Elves | Home, Lands, Journeys

Day 3: Men | Ancestors/Descendants, Tradition, Stories

Day 4: Dwarves | Music, Artwork, Clothing

Day 5: Hobbits | Family, Friendship, Romance

Day 6: Mixed | Community, Language, Belonging

Day 7: Freeform | Intersectionality, Sexuality, Gender, Intersex, Disability

Happy creating!

#tocweek2023 #the hobbit #lotr #silmarillion #lord of the rings #mepoc #tolkien #tolkien events

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goodeguy · 14 days

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humanstuck group too

2/3 of these hoomans are now complete!

humanstuck headcanons: - vris is transfem and hispanic, her guardian is a gambling arachnologist who descends from a notorious wealthy spanish pirate - tavy was born with his disability, his guardian is a bartender of a small town in texas, he is hispanic - soll is bi with braces, a computer programmer from tenneesee, has 2 gay guardians who work as beekeepers, he is asian and black - arda and her guardian work as maids of dr. s.c.ratch's estate, with arda doing gardening and digging, finding her interest in archeology (+ the estate being near a cemetery), she is asian

and happy 413 everyone!!!

#homestuck #homestuck art #homestuck fanart #413 #humanstuck #homestuck au #vriska serket #homestuck vriska #tavros nitram #homestuck tavros #sollux captor #homestuck sollux #aradia megido #homestuck aradia #ms paint #ms paint art

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ettelenethelien · 2 months

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Ironically, I feel like the elves would have the most accessible cities in all of Arda, despite having the least disabilities.

See, there is nothing the Noldor like more than a good challenge, and building a city that is wholly navigable by the warrior who lost his legs checks all the boxes.

#peoples of Arda #Noldor #tolkien #Silm #my post

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tanoraqui · 11 months

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I absolutely love your AUs! Your world building is terrific

-@outofangband

I love and appreciate that this message is, I can only assume, prompted by my most recent post about the Silmarillion Superhero AU, which is objectively crack in general and that particular post was especially so, what with declaring Maglor to be basically the Music Meister (B:TBatB).

HERE'S MORE FREE WORLDBUILDING FOR THAT WORLD:

(kinda retcon to previous statements) the Great Music and Songs of Power work the same way they do in Arda proper, or maybe a little more practically than that (though I suspect First Age Elves regularly got up to much more overt acts of power than we see in LotR). This occupies the same...worldbuilding environmental niche? as "magic" in a Marvel/DC superhero world. Like, "Song" and "spell" are used synonymously.

Correspondingly, like Scarlet Witch is technically a mutant with the mutation "is really good at magic", Maglor and Finrod both got the Light-empowered ability to be really good at Music

They don't have the exact same power. Though the most notable distinction might be more a matter of personality: Finrod is more innately talented at manipulating minds and emotions, and Maglor is more innately talented at manipulating the physical environment. However, when the House of Fëanor officially turned to Villainy, Maglor started leaning more into the manipulating hearts and minds, because that's more sinister, and Finrod was like, "cool, I see what you're doing there" and started practicing more with the sort of Songs that produce effects similar to telekinesis (or healing! Finrod's a good healer)

So, you know shit is getting Really Real if they switch back

They also both have the potential to affect the course Great Music on a level localized to currently-happening or about-to-happen events, because that's my favorite theory as to what was really going on in the Battle of Finrod and Sauron – fighting over not the minds or actions of individuals but how this story was going to go, loyalty, strength and joy or betrayal and tragedy! But that's, well, battling-a-Maiar-for-your-life-and-your-team's level of effort. Fall-unconscious-for-at-least-a-day-afterward effort.

In another recent train of thought:

People with elaborate spreadsheets on “how to kill and/or disable all my family members if necessary”: Maedhros, Fingolfin, Curufin, Finarfin (less elaborate, but he does have a spreadsheet, because he loves them but doesn't trust most of them anymore)

Has thought about it systematically but not written anything down, and the thoughts were more “how could I personally take each person down, dead or alive”: Celegorm

Has thought about it systematically but not written anything down, and the thoughts were exclusively non-lethal, “what could I Sing to quickly pacify (calm, knock out, and/or otherwise harmlessly disable) each person”: Finrod

In charge of the UN office that keeps an entire database of this sort of information for every known superhuman on the planet, but doesn't personally track it: Círdan

Maedhros is basically personally engaged in an escalating quiet war with...the US government, basically. Wherein sometimes they reasonably need to summon him to testify before Congress about his many legally dubious business and other practices, or more often he comes personally to schmooze, lobby, and offer campaign contributions...all of which he's very good at, what with the superhuman charisma. And they're perfectly aware of that danger!

So there's an entire R&D lab in the Department of Defense dedicated to trying to create security measures to counter the powers of...well, superpowered people overall, of course, very much including the House of Finwë. But also: Maedhros specifically.

Maedhros would take this as a personal challenge anyway, not to mention a thing to be evaded for entirely practical reasons. But it's emotionally heavier than that because the entire House of Finwë has trauma about being powerless, because when Ungoliant came in her cloud of Darkness, they were all utterly, painfully powerless. Like all the energy had been stolen from their limbs and all the breath from their lungs, along with (temporarily) the Light. And we all know how that went.

So Maedhros is like, "we are playing a fun little one-upmanship game :)" and then every time they spring something new on him, he does his best to steal it immediately and send it to Curufin or whoever else is necessary to reverse engineer it and devise a countermeasure

One time the DoD got their hands on a live Void Spider, a true Ungoliant spawn, and somehow caged it and started getting usable Darkness from it. Some general, and the scientists working for him, was very please when Maedhros condescendingly tried on the new required-security power-blocking cuff and visibly paled, and made a quick excuse for backing out of the White House meeting he was about to attend. They would've been less please if they'd known that the instant he was back in his car and driving away, he called Fingolfin - directly to his cell phone, not even pussyfooting around by calling Fingon instead - and said, "We have a problem."

They were even less pleased when (predictably tbh) the Spider broke out of containment and a mixed band of heroes and villains had to save Washington DC from being consumed by nothingness, but obviously the US government brought that on themselves.

#the silmarillion #my fic #outofangband #maglor #finrod #maedhros #feanor and feanor's kin #superheroes #silm super au

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maglors-anion-gap · 2 years

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Trans Tolkien Blog Recommendations

By popular request, I am putting together a list of anyone who:

is any gender (trans or cis)

makes or reblogs trans tolkien content

is a safe blogger for trans fans

makes a good-faith effort to keep transphobes off their blogs

To join, the sole requirement is that you do not allow transphobes. Take a quick look at new followers, block transphobes when you encounter them, listen to trans folks when we say something is transphobic. This is non-negotiable: trans tolkien fans are the audience for this list, and transphobe-free spaces are the priority.

Note: this list is under a readmore so it should always open to the most updated version.

@maglors-anion-gap (he/they)

trans tolkien

fic (Lorinand_Lost on AO3), meta, headcanons

@arofili (they/them)

fic (starlightwalking on AO3), graphics, meta, headcanons

trans tolkien

aro tolkien

also @surpassingvalour and @nblegolas

runs @tolkienremix @aspecardaweek @finweanladiesweek @tolkiengenweek (all trans-friendly events)

@welcometolotr (they/them)

tolkien-only

art and writing

@mad-hermit (she/they)

tolkien reblogs

trans tolkien

PoC tolkien

@russingon (he/they)

trans tolkien

fic

@outofangband (any pronouns)

trans tolkien, intersex tolkien

Children of Húrin

maedhros in/after Angband

fic, meta, worldbuilding, heavy duty canon research

@the-quiet-fire-of-defiance (they/them)

trans tolkien

disabled tolkien @from-song-unmarred

@maglor-sightings

@bellejolras (she/they)

media analysis

reblogs

@brighter-arda (she/her/ia)

PoC tolkien art

@thatfeanorian (she/they)

trans tolkien

fic

russingon, finweans

@endillos (she/her)

edits and reblogs

luthien, peredhel, finweans

some really spectacular PoC tolkien content

@jaz-the-bard (she/they)

mostly silm

fic and musical composition

@ambarto (they/them)

meta and fic

geography of Arda

@luthien (she/her)

multifandom

edits and fic

@thedaughterofshadows (they/them)

fic and headcanons

@maedhrus (she/her)

multifandom

edits and fic

@mai-sau (he/him)

art and edits

general tolkien @clown-champion

@astral-aromance (he/they)

trans tolkien

writing and headcanons

tolkien-inspired jewelry making

@houndsofvalinor-art (they/them)

art and art reblogs

@mxmia (they/them)

reblogs

fic

@writerman (he/him)

Trans thranduil

Fic

@undercat-overdog-overdog (she/her)

fic (undercat on AO3)

silvergifting

@disorganisedautodidact (any pronouns)

tolkien reblogs

@xmarchwarden-of-lothlorienx (he/him)

fic

reader inserts

@sigaldry-of-thu (he/him)

trans tolkien

religion in tolkien's works

meta

gil-galad

@thishasalwaysbeenmyname (he/him)

trans tolkien

new to trans tolkien fandom! welcome!

@secretlythranduil (any pronouns)

fic and prompts

reblogs

@wrathematics (ey/em)

art and writing

@gaycodedvillainy (main)

@legolas-is-a-himbo (they/them)

multifandom

writing and reblogs

@fingonastaldo (he/him)

tolkien and aesthetic

@remornia (reblogs and warcraft)

@polutrope (she/they)

Fic (AO3: polutropos), prompts and reblogs

Sindar, daemags

@erynalasse (she/her/)

Meta and reblogs

Trans tolkien

@silmaryllis (they/them)

Main @icvarus

Fic and reblogs

@runawaymun (she/her)

Meta and headcanons

Games, imagines, PoVs

@mallornin (she/they)

diverse tolkien content

meta, headcanon, and writing reblogs

fic and original content

main @nerysvevo

#trans tolkien #tolkien #silm #lotr

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swanmaids · 1 year

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Some fandom confessions/takes in no particular order! One of my oldest Silm hc's, since the first time I read the book, is that the Noldor are Chinese because little child me just went 'Oh? Dark-haired clever people from an ancient civilization who craft marvellous inventions and who are constantly ready to throw down over anything? Yeah, that sounds like us!' I'm not a fan of "Tom Bombadil was secretly X all along," I think the character concept works precisely because of the mystery and the way he represents a connection to something older than the figures and events of Middle-earth history, a relationship with the very land itself. Boromir and Frodo are both gay and ace, to me <3 While i don't think it's a defining factor in their dynamic, I like to think that Denethor had a wee bit of a hatecrush on Aragorn when they were both young men in Gondor, which Aragorn picked up on but never did anything with. My (definitely hot) take on the Silmarils is that the House of Fëanor's property rights to the jewels does not give them carte blanche in perpetuity to violate the basic rights of everyone else, and that furthermore the oath never attempts to give them that justification, it's just a declaration of intent and premeditation. I love the hc that Thranduil is someone with a visual impairment but I like to further hc that it's not from an injury but rather he was born with low vision.

Love it!!! 10/10!!!

Agree completely. He's outside of the character's concept of Arda, that's theeee point!

I see the vision, I like the vision. Boromir king of preferring the sword to women etc etc

I SEE THE VISION, I LIKE THE VISION!

Yes, thank youuuuuuuuu. Idk why "don't kill people for things" is so controversial but like ok.

I love that hc too! I hadn't considered it him being disabled from birth before, but now I'm thinking about it, l like it!

#ask game

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ilmarin · 2 years

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Alatairë

characters: Galadriel, Sauron / Mairon / Halbrand

content notes: warning for implied/referenced suicide, but no explicit violence, sauron being deceptive as always. shipping-wise, there is definitely a Galadriel/Sauron | Mairon dynamic in this fic, but it’s on the lighter side. set after the storm, but before Elendil rescues them at the end of episode 2, 1.8k words.

summary: Mairon and Galadriel talk, as night falls on the Sundering Seas.

Read on AO3

She is sitting upright, the long fall of her golden hair now a silvery tinge under the moonlight, her left hand stiffly clutching one of the wooden beams protruding from their pitiful makeshift raft, as it bobs along, small and insignificant amidst the vastness of Ulmo’s domain.

“Didn’t you think it futile?" He asks idly, breaking the silence that had befallen them with the twilight. "Or perhaps, you were not thinking at all.”

The tumult of the earlier storm has mercifully abated, but the flimsy, ragged tunic he is in remains drenched, and the flesh of this mortal raiment he has donned feels the sharp, biting chill of the sea-winds. It is not enough to disable him of course, but it is just a little more uncomfortable than he would prefer. He is a being at home with the blazing heat of a furnace, with flame and the hard strike of iron, not the treacherous fluidity of the waters of Arda. It both draws in and repulses him; for it is where the echo of the Music of the Ainur lives, but is also fundamentally at odds with his nature.

She starts, turning to face him over the curve of her shoulder, but her countenance is still, as cool and stiff as marble. “I am afraid I do not take your meaning.”

“In your words, rather than rest in glory—you wanted to return to Middle Earth,” Mairon replies. “Your kind ostensibly has far greater endurance than mine.” Internally, he cannot help a flicker of amusement at the irony—but he will give nothing away, that he is anything other than this battered mortal guise. “But surely, given how far out we are, it must have occurred to you that swimming the length of the great seas would still be nigh impossible, even before you leapt from your ship. So, was it a rash choice you made, moving before thought?”

Her blue eyes flick away from his gaze, towards the brooding dark of the seas beyond. She lifts her chin. “I do not think this is a question to which I owe you an answer.”

The moment she had named herself, he had known, of course. Galadriel, or Artanis, as she had been in Valinor. Kin to Fëanor, that same Noldorin pride burning in their veins, except that her hair is as bright and shining as Fëanor's had been night-dark. Bright, like her brother's had been, even in the dungeons of Tol-in-Gaurhoth, as were all who hailed from the Golden House of Finarfin.

“A curious thing to say Elf, given that I saved your life—and at considerable risk to myself,” He replies nonchalantly. Above, the stars are rising, now and then obscured by the passing clouds. “And would not have had to, if you had not deserted your ship.”

It is not all a lie. The waters of the Sundering Seas are Ulmo’s to command, and he is not so prideful to presume that this humble, rougher mortal body that he has constructed for himself has perfectly hidden the brilliant majesty that is an Ainu’s true being from their kin, from the far-reaching senses of Ossë and Uinen.

Something in her expression shifts. She has some skill at concealing her innermost thoughts, but not even the eyes and intuition of the Eldar are keener than that of the Ainur.

“I am in your debt for that.” It is something like a mixture of guilt and shame, he thinks, that is in the line of her eyes and jaw. Then, “It was my duty to return to Middle Earth. The ship would not turn back.” She pushes a wet lock of hair out of her eyes. “That is all.”

Even now, with the clouds partially obscuring Tilion’s passage across the heavens above, her hair shines, silvery-gold like the dews in the long-gone wells of Varda. Up close, he can understand why Fëanor had been lost in obsessive fascination, why the Eldar had proclaimed that her tresses had ensnared within them the light of the Two Trees of Valinor. Why Fëanor had been inspired to wrought the very Silmarils that his old master had sought with such fervour.

“That is not much of an answer, Elf.” In other ages, he has unravelled and charmed the minds of others to get them to divulge their innermost thoughts, but it would be unwise and a waste of an opportunity here, with one of the Eldar. And with one who had pursued him for centuries, at that. All the same, he cannot help it, goading her. The Children of Ilúvatar have always frustrated him, in their fickle-mindedness, irrationality and refusal to submit themselves to the order of powers greater than themselves. “Perhaps, you truly wished to die. To let the waters take you, before my companions and I came across you. To be at ease in oblivion."

It would not after all, be unprecedented in the self-destructiveness of her close kin. Vows sworn in madness, vows unable to be fulfilled—and the bright, shining light of a Silmaril hurled into a fiery chasm alongside its vow-taker.

“Do not ascribe to me such cowardice,” Galadriel hisses, at once soft and furious. Her hair is disheveled, a shining golden-silver tangle that he cannot tear his eyes away from, the white of her robe limp against the firm strength of her lean form, and the flash of anger that has risen up seems to have temporarily driven away what weariness she felt. “I leapt from my ship because duty demanded I do so. But nor am I so arrogant to think that I am one to defy the will of the powers that govern the world. I accepted it. That either I would reach land—or, if my actions were truly folly as the Valar saw it—then, by Ulmo’s hand I would be delivered to the Halls of Mandos to be judged as all are.”

The ferocity of her righteousness, her bold claim of fearlessness in the face of judgment, the impudent likeness of the light of Laurelin and Telperion in her hair—it stirs something sharp and mocking within him. Stirs up the distasteful memory of Eönwë and his unmoved pronouncement to return across the sea, that the only absolution lay in debasing himself at the feet of Manwë.

The still-gathering power regenerating under his borrowed skin trembles. With the urge to make itself known, to make her realise exactly what he is. But he restrains it with a firm hand. He has woven this disguise well, suppressed his power within it to conceal it as best as he can from the ever-seeing gaze of Manwë and Varda after fleeing from the wastes of the north—and he will not waste it.

"'If the Valar judged it', you say. Then, what do you make of our meeting?” He allows a note of mockery to enter his tone. Being rougher in speech and manners would be perfectly in keeping with the current form of a low man that he wears. “The will of the so-called gods too?”

It is what Men would call the Valar. But all the same, it feels strange referring to them as such, when he can remember the breaking of the very first silence, of his own part in the melody that had sung the world into existence, of the time where he had simply been one of the Ainur in the Timeless Halls, existing in the light of The One. On another level, it is not a question merely asked for the sake of appearances, either. Even now, he wonders if he is being watched by the Valar and their servants, and what designs they might be weaving.

She stares at him in silence for a moment, her gaze unblinking, one hand absent-mindedly tracing the hilt of the all-too familiar dagger at her waist. “I have not yet decided.” Something in her expression softens. “But I will apologise for my earlier curtness. You saved me, and to be two is better than to be alone. I will not forget it, when we make landfall. Nor will I forget what you have told me, of what has become of your home.”

“Optimistic, are you?" There is something fascinating about it all, her lack of wariness simply because he wears the face of a mortal man. That she has sought him with a burning rage as hot as the furnaces of Aulë, but truly does not recognise the majesty and dread of his true being that he has temporarily cloaked in flesh and bone, even when it is right next to her. “As far as I can see, we are marooned out here, at the mercy of the currents, with neither food nor freshwater, passing time before our likely impending deaths. A little premature to look beyond that, isn't it?”

“There is always hope yet."

He shrugs. It is easy, after a while, to play the role of an embittered low man, to channel his own bitterness and allow her to read into it what she presumes. "Well, not in my experience, Elf."

"Be that as it may, what would it serve us now, to believe otherwise? You may not feel it, but you have survived, have you not?"

She is certainly an intriguing mix, burning with a hot, destructive fury—yet, with glimmers of calm wisdom in her being. Perhaps that is what has set her apart from Fëanor and his sons, why she has not yet been consumed by her own fire. Or perhaps it is still up in the air; perhaps she still will.

"Alright. You may have a point." He raises a brow. "So, what are we to do now?"

"You should rest,” she says, with a calm generosity that is genuine, the earlier tempest within her now somehow restrained— and all the more amusing to him, for she knows not what he truly is. “I will keep watch. I do not tire as easily, and I will be able to discern any passing ships more easily.”

“Very well.” He leans back. The inky darkness of the night sky and its constellations stare down.

He does not really need to sleep, in truth, not even in this form. The day’s ordeal has not tired him, not truly. But it would a mortal man—and so, he feigns it.

Closes his eyes, allows himself to sink into and embrace the imagined reality of the mortal body he has constructed, allows himself to drift off with the rocking of the ocean, the smell of salt and rough finish of wood underneath his fingers, under the watchful gaze of the enemy who knows him not.

Notes:

1. Alatairë: The Quenya name for the Sundering Seas.

2. Mairon: Sauron’s original name, when he was a maia of Aulë, meaning ‘the Admirable’. Quite a difference from Sauron / ‘The Abhorred’, huh? I reckon that’s how he’d think of himself at this point in Rings of Power—Mairon, the skilled maia and smith, who loved order and who could heal the world— especially if he has decided he is in a semi-repentant state, even if only in a possibly self-serving way. I definitely like the ambiguity we get in the show in that it’s hard for us to read his intentions for sure.

#galadriel #sauron #halbrand #rings of power #haladriel #the rings of power #writing #fanfic #long post #?#uhhhh is that their ship name #rings of power spoilers

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silver-stargazing · 2 years

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Disability Pride Month must be smiling at me this year because I finally discovered the kind of epilepsy representation I’ve always been looking for: epileptics in comics and graphic novels created by people with seizures and/or epilepsy.

Anyway, please read Mis(h)adra by Iasmin Omar Ata if you get the chance. The story follows Isaac, an Arab-American in college, as he manages his epilepsy and deals with a lot of related issues such as drinking at parties, repeatedly missing class because of seizures, not having a support system, and trying to get medication refills when you can’t technically prove to your doctor that you have epilepsy.

The book is also just visually stunning and I’ve truly never seen better visual representation for epilepsy. I especially loved the running theme of representing the ongoing threat of auras and seizures as knives constantly hanging around Isaac.

[Image ID: A 3 panel excerpt from Mis(h)arda:

Panel 1: Isaac, a man who is the main figure in all three panels, is sitting at a classroom desk, staring distantly while three knives with eyes circle around him. Three speech bubbles, one for the off-screen teacher and the other two for two off-screen students, are behind him, the teacher’s speech is heavily obscured by the knives. Teacher says, “You all have the study guide already so if you stick to that you’ll be (...) But just so you (...) there will be multiple choice (...) questions.” First student says, “They say he has a drug problem or something and almost failed out.” Second student says, “No way!”

Panel 2: Isaac has an annoyed look on his face and tries to wave away the knives. Teacher and First student are still off-screen, their speech bubbles appear behind Issac with Teacher’s bubble still partially obscured. Teacher says, “There will be a decent amount of questions about the chapter on gender politics in the countries of the (...) so make sure you don’t skip (...) one.” First student says, “Yeah, he might be the only one in our class to not walk at graduation.”

Panel 3: Close-up view of Isaac as he watches the knives disappear. He is visibly sweating and appears frustrated. Second student says (off-screen), “Makes sense. I mean, look at him. He always looks like he’s on something.”

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As a general warning, there is a pretty big TW for eye trauma. Isaac also experiences a lot of ableism and racism from the medical community, which can be triggering.

#actually epileptic #epilepsy #epilepsy representation #mishadra #mis(h)adra #stargazer rambles #this book was absolutely fantastic #also: sorry I'm trying to do better with including image descriptors

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the-quiet-fire-of-defiance · 2 years

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Day 2 @tolkienofcolourweek (Music - Language - Stories): Daeron

I have many headcanons about Daeron in the later Ages, including that he spent a long period of time as a captive of Sauron. This left him blind and mute, among other disabilities.

Main lines traced from this image.

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[Image: a white sketch on a black background. A dark skinned elf is sitting in a wheelchair and playing a concert harp. He has short, spiky silver hair. His eye socket is completely shaded white. His mouth is a long white line with smaller white lines criss-crossing it in a zigzag pattern. A partially obscured scar on the back of his neck is also drawn in white (the mark is the Eye of Sauron). White music notes trail out of the bottom of the harp and across the floor. Other, larger music notes are faint in the background of the image.]

#tocweek2022 #daeron #silmarillion #disabled arda #mine

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wanderingarcherviola · 2 years

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IC STATS TAG

BOLD All that apply

ITALIC Leaning or formerly

WEALTH

$ Financial : wealthy / moderate / poor / in poverty

$ Medical : fit / moderate / sickly (malnutrition)/ disabled / disadvantaged / non applicable

$ Class or Caste : upper / middle / working / lower / slave / non applicable

$ Education : qualified / unqualified / studying / other

$ Criminal Record : yes, for major crimes / yes, for minor crimes / no / has committed crimes, but has not been caught yet

FAMILY

☀︎ Children : has a child or children / has no children / wants children / verse dependent

☀︎ Relationship with Family : close with sibling(s) / not close with sibling(s) / has no siblings (that she knows of) / sibling(s) is deceased /

☀︎ Affiliation : orphaned / adopted / disowned / raised by birth parents/ not applicable

TRAITS / TENDENCIES

▲ extroverted / introverted / in between

▲ disorganized / organized / in between

▲ close-minded / open-minded / in between

▲ calm / anxious / in between

▲ disagreeable / agreeable / in between

▲ cautious / reckless / in between

▲ patient / impatient / in between

▲ outspoken / reserved / in between

▲ leader / follower / in between

▲ empathetic / unempathetic / in between

▲ optimistic / pessimistic / in between

▲ traditional / modern / in between

▲ hard-working / lazy / in between

▲ cultured / uncultured / in between

▲ loyal / disloyal / in between

▲ faithful / skeptical / in between

BELIEFS

★ Faith : monotheist / polytheist / atheist / agnostic / it’s complicated

★ Belief in Ghosts or Spirits : yes / no / don’t know / don’t care

★ Belief in an Afterlife : yes / no (not one for orcs) / don’t know / don’t care

★ Belief in Reincarnation : yes / no / don’t know / don’t care

★ Religious : orthodox / secular / in between / not religious

★ Philosophical : yes / no

SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION

❥ Sexuality : heterosexual / homosexual / bisexual / asexual / pansexual / demisexual

❥ Sex : sex repulsed / sex neutral / sex favorable (older veraes) / naive and clueless /

❥ Romance: romance repulsed / romance neutral / romance favorable / naive and clueless

❥ Sexually (older verses only) : adventurous / experienced / naive /inexperienced /curious / inhibited

❥ Potential Sexual Partners : male / female / agender / nonbinary / other / none / all

❥ Potential Romantic Partners : male / female / agender / nonbinary / other / none / all

ABILITIES

≡ Combat Skills : excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

≡ Literacy Skills : excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

≡ Artistic Skills : excellent/ good / moderate / poor / none

≡ Technical Skills : excellent / good / moderate / poor / none

HABITS

♠︎ Drinking Alcohol : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess

♠︎ Smoking : trying to quit / never / sometimes / frequently / to excess

♠︎ Other Narcotics : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess

♠︎ Medicinal Drugs : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess

♠︎ Indulgent Food : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess

♠︎ Splurge Spending : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess

♠︎ Gambling : never / sometimes / frequently / to excess

Tagged by : @vanifinwe-feanorian

I tag: @orcristwielder , @hidden-lord-of-arda , @thegreatstrongbow

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squirrelwrangler · 6 months

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Let's talk about Service to the Dead. And because I couldn't decide which part of chapter three I wanted hone in on, I'm going to bounce around the entire chapter for a slightly longer director's commentary. Don't feel like covering the entire chapter, but here's some odd thoughts:

Opening on the Beren fight scene was a nice strong opening, good job me. Also while I never outright said it, having ghost Aegnor and Gorlim watching the fight from the tree branches above was exactly supposed to make the reader think of vultures. Because that is the black comedy of this fic- Aegnor and Gorlim watching and waiting for Beren to die. But instead I use the metaphor of watching a puppet show. But Aegnor needs another option because I can't have Gorlim and Aegnor think of the same thing. So what's a Noldor equivalent? And Noldor are just every annoying obnoxious Victorian British scientist so the Greek philosopher street debate/bitter thesis defenses/street preacher but for grammar minutia.

Gorlim's inconstantly fading sensory issues as a constant thread, and for this chapter I was hammering home the loss of smell and how that would have helped to find the body at the end.

In the next scene I wrestled around with the hidden cabin and the geographic layout and how that led to Aegnor floating up phasing through the cliff/hillside. A lot of the ghost physics is cumbersome to write because I can't use modern technological turns of phrase. The cabin being dark and the two ghosts not turning on a light source because they can't. But also having the flies there was a direct mental link for myself to Aegnor's final speech at the end of the chapter when he talks about being a bug trapped in a bowl.

The evacuation from Dorthonion was something I thought about- and who stayed behind that wasn't just Barahir's designated group. Mount St. Helens was something that instantly came to mind because of my family who lives in Seattle and the year I lived up there too. But also that since almost my entire life I live or have lived in the hurricane zones of the coasts of North America and have lived through several hurricanes - I am very familiar with how natural disaster evacuations are piecemeal. So - Old Duras, the dead outlaw, the lost Easterling family. That each are distinct in their reasons and background. That Eilinel and Sícrum went missing in the scramble and that their physical disabilities were factors. I was keen to take the time to tangent off into that physically disabilities (that weren't just chopped off hands) existed and weren't limited to Noldor nobility and our one most exemplar mortal hero. The Easterling father and son are sent-up for Chapter 4 and the next Mad Noldor Ghost that repeats and escalates off of what happened in Chapter 2.

Beren running into and being saved by the mad trees is the Two Towers Ents and Hurons reference imagery it seems to be.

Radiation mutant hares and other wildlife was added for the creepy horror imagery and also because Morgoth's Ring does really imply Morgoth's evil taint on Arda Marred is element decay.

And Aegnor's impassioned long spiel at the end- the most fun to write, I loved that. And hammering home what delighted me in the Athrabeth - that Elven immortality is not actually immortality and that they see it reversed with the mortals. That they are zombies/trapped ghosts stuck in Arda and cannot escape to the afterlife like mortals do. That Gorlim's central character as the ghost that is stuck and cannot pass on and thus is tormented by this unnaturalness, loneliness, and partiality of experience is not unique to him; it is the condition of the elves as well and Aegnor feels this trapped nature most keenly because he wants more than anyone else to escape Arda to follow Andreth. That the world itself, Arda, is just a barrow and Aegnor is a barrowwight. He's haunting his grave and can't- nor emotionally won't- progress from it but is still wallowing in how inescapable his fate of elven 'immortality aka stuck inside Arda unlike mortality's gift' seems to be. That he's trying to be productive and proactive in this whole Maia of Mandos gig, but it doesn't actually address or solve his Andreth-shaped grief and regrets, he's just spinning that hamster wheel.

Which that quality of morass is why Gorlim's realization of the Andreth truth was delayed either though he has all the pieces to the mystery that was vexing him thanks to picking up on the tiny clues Aegnor kept dropping.

Also, there's the Numa Numa Song/Dragostea din tei reference again of which you'd only know if you knew what the Moldovan lyrics to that song were about. Which I picked as a funny reference easter egg for a pop love song. But also because 2004 when that song came out was the same year that I read HoME and learned about Aegnor/Andreth and fell into the OTP rabbithole. I was listening to it and other songs from that album at the same time I was reading A/A fics. Bet y'all never guessed there was a deeper personal meaning. And it turns out that those lyrics do match up- I'm an outlaw, I remember your eyes, you did not take me with you (initial reject was my fault), linden trees....

#meme replies #fic meme #service to the dead

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