#earendil and vingilot

[echo-bleu]

Eärendil the Mariner

Who deserves a pirate outfit more than Eärendil?

The background is largely inspired by one of Philip Sue's paintings. It was fun to draw a flat earth!

In other news, I love drawing ships but that was the worst angle possible to figure out. In my head, the Silmaril is at the prow in some kind of glass/mirror lantern that amplifies its light.

I wanted him to look soft, and little wry maybe, rather than fierce. I'm sure he's fierce aplenty but I mostly headcanon him as tired. His fate breaks my heart. Also, it doesn't really show here but my Eärendil is blind from overexposure to the Silmaril (and half-human fragile eyes).

I always waver between giving him locs or a shorter Mannish haircut, but his hair is really too kinky for the shoulder-length, Aragorn-style cut, so locs it is!

IDs in alt text.

#silmarillion #tolkien #fanart #earendil #the silmarillion #silm #lotr #echo's drawings #disabled tolkien characters #not sure if he should be part of the tag since he doesn't have a visible disability here #but on the other hand he's still disabled to me #vingilot #vingilote #ardamire #earendil the mariner #silm art #tolkien fanart

[southaway]

Reunion

Nolofinwë Week Day Seven: Elrond Sailing to Valinor

Hey, I have feelings.

I have this head cannon that as Círdan's ship carried Elrond to Valinor on the sea Vingilot sailed above in the sky. I think Eärendil guided his son home, I think he heralded his arrival to the Undying Lands. I think when Elwing saw her husband's star so low, and close, and bright she knew that finally after over 6,000 years she was going to see one of her sons again, I think Celebrian knew she was going to see her husband again.

I think Elrond and Elros and their legacies were the happy ending to The Silmarillion with all its grief.

Okay I'm done. Back to being completely normal.

(Also, I absolutely borrowed from @thelien-art's very good Elrond design)

#elrond #earendil #vingilot #tolkien #middle earth #nolofinweanweek #nolofinweanweek2023 #silmarillion #lord of the rings #digital art

[vinyatar]

Now when first Vingilot was set to sail in the seas of heaven, it rose unlooked for, glittering and bright; and the people of Middle-earth beheld it from afar and wondered, and they took it for a sign, and called it Gil-Estel, the Star of High Hope. And when this new star was seen at evening, Maedhros spoke to Maglor his brother, and he said: ‘Surely that is a Silmaril that shines now in the West?’

a moment of transformation / a moment of realizing you've lost the space race

music ref (0:00~4:30), visual ref (rocket launch)

#tolkien #silmarillion #earendil #earendil in space #maedhros #maglor #vingilot

[tolkienillustrations]

Eärendil and Elwing sail to the uttermost West by Alan Lee

#LOTR #Silmarillion #Earendil #Elwing #Vingilot #Belegaer #Alan Lee #this is one of the murals from the set of Rivendell #the inscription above the painting is the same as the title of the painting #I wish I could find a higher resolution version of this :(

[silmarillion-ways-to-die]

#silmarils #silmamemes #earendil #elwing #vingilot #the silmarillion #silmarillion #silmarillion incorrect quotes #tolkien #jrr tolkien #lord of the rings #lotr #lotr rop #lotr trop #fantasy #the hobbit #lotr memes #tolkien memes #tolkien tumblr #silmarillion memes

[sesamenom]

i'll sail the world just you and me up in the darkness i am free a thousand stars i'll ever see and still you are the one for me

Earendil & Elwing reuniting on Vingilot

#silm #silmarillion #earendil #elwing #vingilot #featuring: a spray of stars; star-spray; and earendil's star

[cconfusionh]

✨✨Eärendil the mariner✨✨

a painting I made while messing around lol, I like it more than expected :)

#lotr #my art #the silmarillion #the silm #silmarillion fanart #tolkien fanart #earendil #elwing #vingilot #lotr fanart

[nothinghereisworking]

Away From All Danger

He sailed 'cross Belegaer To find Valinor The blessèd Eärendil Stepped foot on the shore To plead with the Valar To muster their might And aid Middle-earth In their terrible fight Their course was debated A choice they must make Of Eldar or Mortal Which fate would they take They set Vingilot With the Silmaril on high The blessèd Eärendil To e'er sail the sky

#earendil #elwing #vingilot #tolkien fanart #bad paint art #artist: cuarthol #season's greetings #filk

[mgcoco]

Wow, Elrond has so many parents! 💙

#elrond #maglor #maedhros #maglors wife #elwing #earendil #vingilote #silmarillion #lord of the rings #tolkien #ok i have no HCs of Maglor's spouse lol #idk who I would even begin to imagine #so the cardboard cutout is a stand in for now hahaha #perhaps his brothers made it as a joke and it's just sitting in his closet back in valinor

[gwaedhannen]

🐉 for the Silm asks!

Love your writing and ideas so much!

-@outofangband

🐉 A lot of figures in the Silm have weird Eldritch powers or possibly biology. Tell us about your headcanons for one.

That line about how Elwing doesn't go on Starship Vingilot since she can't endure the cold of the void? Outdated information. (Also it's never explained why Eärendil can bear it, though I guess the implication is the Silmaril protects him.) It maybe takes a few centuries of practice with some friendly maiar of Varda, but she's eventually able to use her Melian Inheritance (TM) to protect herself. She doesn't join him often (four years on Seaship Vingilot was more than enough), but for those with sufficient sight (and/or a really good telescope), the Evening Star can sometimes be seen to have an orbiting planet/moon.

#silmarillion #the silmarillion #tolkien #elwing #earendil #elwing/earendil #vingilot #still very normal about these two :) #ask game #outofangband #stormthinken

[light-of-the-two-trees]

I was scrolling aimlessly and then I came across this—

#in which the Tolkien fandom breaks containment and leaks into science-names (again) #this was not on my 2023 bingo card #then again the article says that the star was discovered last year so I might be the last one to find out about it *shrugs* #anyway I did a double take at this so now I need to put it here #the silmarillion #silm #earendil #legendarium tag #also the star has a companion #points if they end up naming the other one elwing or vingilot #astronomy #science #james webb space telescope

[tanoraqui]

“Son of Man” from Tarzan but it’s the people of Gondolin fondly singing to Eärendil as he runs around the city like the hyperactive, has-only-known-peace preschooler he is

#the silmarillion #earendil #fall of gondolin #alternatley just the most DEVASTATING animatic wherein the first verse or so is carefree childhood in gondolin #but then it keeps going through the fall; through growing up in refuge and marrying elwing and having kids #and sailing sailing #unexpected swan wife with gem #valinor… #on the final ‘son of man look to the sky / lift your spirit set it free’ he’s steering vingilot through the sky #‘someday you’ll walk tall with pride’ slaying ancalagon #‘son of man a man in time you’ll be’ no he’s not he’s an elf now; he’s a star #on the plus side his parents ARE /BOTH/ also here #bc ulmo was like ‘I have done SO MUCH and I ask for ONE THING’ #and manwe was like ‘I explicitly told you not to do any of that’ and ulmo (clutching tuor like a favorite teddy bear) was like #‘SO MUCH…FOR SO LITTLE…’ #and that’s why tuor got the life of an eldar thank you for coming to my ted talk

[southaway]

Eärendil Slaying Ancalagon

The thing is, I don’t think Ancalagon was expecting to be attacked from above.

#earendil #ancalagon #silmarillion #tolkien #middle earth #LOTR #vingilot #digital art

[vinyatar]

Star-ship Vingilot (continuation of Eärendil in space)

inspirations: the ISS cupola, LOGH's Perceval, and EVE's Prophecy

#vingilot #earendil #earendil in space #tolkien #silmarillion #the six-sided window allows light to pour out in the shape of his emblem #the light can be condensed at the top into a laser :)

[tolkienillustrations]

The War of Wrath by damrodsindol

#Silmarillion #Tolkien #Ancalagon #Earendil #Vingilot #War of Wrath #Dragons #Eagles #damrodsindol

[acceptsonlynttnightwing]

Did anyone else notice this line in the Silmaril?

"But they took Vingilot and hallowed it, and bore away through Valinor to the uttermost rim of the world; and there is passed through the Door of Night and was lifted up even into the oceans of heaven."

Sound familiar at all?

"and Varda hallowed the Silmarils, so that therefore no mortal flesh, not hands unclean, not anything of evil will might touch them but it was scorched and withered."

While the Silmarils were cool by themselves, maybe it was Varda who gave them their frankly insane powers (hurting Morgoth, allowing Carcharoth to bypas Melian's Girdle, reaching Valinor, etc)?

#Silmarils #the silmarilion #vingilot #Varda #Feanor #earendil the mariner #might just be reading too much into this #but still #the only other things said to be hallowed are: #the lamps #Valinor the Deathless #the trees #the sun and moon #the water of Tarn Aeluin (capable of curing illness despite only be hallowed bu Melian - an Ainur) #and Meneltarma (a mountain at the capital of Numenor - it was the only part of the island to survive the Drowning) #clearly being hallowed adds SOME power