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[absynthe--minded]

for Tolkien related asks, do you prefer Beren and Luthien or Andreth and Aegnor?

Gonna have to be really honest here - it depends on what I’m looking for in a story. There are a lot of elements in Beren and Lúthien that I love - the big setpieces like showdowns with Sauron, Lúthien crashing that banquet in the Lay, “Your oath will devour you” in the Annals - but I think it’s probably due to the way the story’s written that I can’t connect as rapidly with the characters. I had to read PhilosopherAtLarge’s Leithian Script (which I highly recommend, seriously, it’s incredible even if it starts off Strange As Fuck) before I really started to connect with Beren in particular because despite the tragedies he suffered and the events that shaped his life he’s not lent a lot of personality in most of the more well-known renditions of his tale. (The Tale of Tinúviel, though, is the exception to the rule in more ways than one - Beren is way more alive-feeling in this version, though I think that’s because of the little details like his struggles with the cat-skin and how he fell asleep under Morgoth’s throne.)

Aegnor and Andreth have a much more earthy story? But at the same time Andreth is such a vibrantly characterized woman that it’s hard not to connect with her. She gets way more dialogue than her nephew, for one thing, and she’s one of the few characters (along with Túrin) to really take a specific elf to task for behavior she finds upsetting and reprehensible. I think it’s interesting, actually, that in both cases we have a woman who’s way more of a presence in-narrative than a man - Lúthien is the protagonist of her tale in ways Beren doesn’t even begin to approach, and we find out a lot more about her than her lover, and Andreth is a spitfire and the only woman ever to be named one of ‘the Wise’ while Aegnor might as well be a wet paper towel with a stick figure drawn on it.

They’re both great, if ever someone wrote an AU that was Lúthien/Andreth I think the world might end from the sheer awesome and I would die because I’m gay as fuck and I need that pairing like air.

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[janiedean]

feanoriel ha risposto al tuo post “HE SHIPS JB oh dear boys dont ship things like you are that fucking...”

dear anon GRRM is a man and he had invented Braime but ok I guess

WOOOOOPSSSSSS

#feanoriel #janie replies #IKR

[stormxpadme]

@feanoriel​ replied to your post:

I don’t know when and how fandom collectively...

consider: Legolas populated the Ithilien. probably he spent a lot of time with Eowyn and Faramir and we’re ignoring this!

Well, let's just say most of fandom ignores it? I mean, me, I wrote a million words fanfiction series about the time after the war and Aragorn's and Legolas' life until Aragorn's death, so, surprise, surprise, Legolas' relationship with Faramir is a big issue in that.

#feanoriel #Stormy babbles #stormys fanfics #also lol wtf is wrong with the xkit tumblr reply function #eh yeah in any case #i have a lot of feels about legolas and faramir okay #lord of the rings #and all tolkien lore #another one of the big five #that one actually hasn't let me down yet #I should be careful #spoiler alert they don't get along well first #because legolas isn't getting along well with anyone at that point #but by part 14 and 15 they're really good friends

[natsumi52488]

*hugs you real tight* would you please send this to the first 10 people in your dash? Make sure someone gets a hug today and stay safe!

Thank you dear

PS: noi dobbiamo accontentarci di abbracci virtuali o daddy Conte si arrabbia :P

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[thelioninmybed]

I think the poem would fit really well with Maglor's own perspective on himself, even if it doesn't match the reality of the situation quite as well. It kind of sounds like him drunk and maudlin, poking bitter fun at himself.

That is a very good point!

As I said, I think calling Maglor a monster is dismissive and ignores much of the nuance of the situation, but it is 100% a thing that he would do. Whether through death or through self-imposed exile, Maglor gives up on himself.

Atonement is hard, and Maglor tries and tries (the twins, the begging to turn back before the end) but he never quite commits and it’s never quite enough. It’s easier (we all know it is) to call yourself a monster and give up on ever being more. 

(I still think the punchline to the poem - that we’re not listening to a poem about a siren’s song but to the song itself -  is a little bit unfair to him though. Pretty sure Maglor never killed and ate anyone. Pretty sure.)

#Maglor #poetry #I'm not gonna do the replies to the previous post #much love to Simaethae and actualmermaid #but I'm gonna try to keep this discourse off my dash #Feanoriel if you sincerely want a conversation then please PM me

[anthropologyarda]

Hello! There's a way to learn the Adunaic? Because I'm doing some research about, but I cannot find any informations .-. If you could help me, I'm going to be very happy :)

Tolkien never finished his work on the Adunaic language, so you can’t technically learn his version. But some fans have reconstructed more complete versions of Adunaic based on his writing, and you can learn those.

The best source on Tolkien’s Adunaic is Ardalambion’s page on Adunaic. They also have the best wordlist I know of. This is the source I use most frequently.

Another grammar guide I’ve often consulted is this one. This version is no longer available on the website, because the author actually wrote an updated version and published a book.

If you want a neo-Adunaic course, then there’s a downloadable pdf with lessons here.

You can also find clips of the way Adunaic may have sounded here.

Realelvish.net has some constructed neo-Adunaic wordlists, name lists, and phrasebooks.

I wrote a guide for writers making Adunaic character names.

On tumblr, @beruthielthequeen has some vocabulary and poetry in neo-Adunaic.

If anyone else has good resources, please feel free to add them to the list via reblog or comment!

#feanoriel #curator replies #Adunaic #languages and linguistics #my writing

[galadhremmin]

Was just reading through your posts on court jesters in Middle Earth and wanted to say it’s a fantastic idea 😃!

thank you @melkors-4th-silmaril ! Answering publicly because I still hope the (even sort of canonical! There are in fact mentions of them existing in middle earth, just no appearances 😁) idea inspires fic. A few #put court jesters in the silm 2k21 from a few months ago;

https://galadhremmin.tumblr.com/post/644767494821789696/ok-an-element-that-has-clearly-been-missing-from

https://galadhremmin.tumblr.com/post/644825413706727424/consider-one-of-the-ten-loyal-companions-to-go-on

https://galadhremmin.tumblr.com/post/644835073841152000/look-i-see-people-tag-my-finrods-court-jester#notes

https://galadhremmin.tumblr.com/post/653346812998172672/how-about-more-with-the-court-jester

#put court jesters into the silm 2021

[gringolet]

now the feanoriel drama is hilarious, absolutely, but i think i forgot too quickly about someone complaining in the arthuriana tag that it was too full of sjws, me reblogging it to laugh at how silly this statement was, and then a completely different person replying from an unironic drarry blog in the year 2021 to tell me i was taking the original post too seriously

like the mystery element.... who were they..... were they friends? lovers? or was mx drarry simply a concerned bystander going onto a blog they didnt follow in a fandom they dont care about to make baffling comments..... drarry-king if u are listening please come do an interview on my podcast

[chillyravenart]

feanoriel replied to your post “Full offense but ASOIAF's popularity was a mistake. It's a...”

especially when everybody on this hellsite seems to be graduated in medieval history when it comes about ASOIAF. LOL

@feanoriel lmaooo as well as Philosophy, Ethics and Women’s Studies. Tumblr University FTW!

#feanoriel #wish people would divert that energy to something else

[simone-boccanegra]

feanoriel replied to your photo: Hagen I was thinking about making him bald (like...

he’s a nice dude <3

I wish they cast young-ish singers more often. Hagen is only about a year older than Siegfried. What exactly about him makes directors go “middle-aged, frustrated guy in a badly tailored suit”? At least make him goth or something.

Seriously, every Regie Hagen has an ill-fitting suit. Usually grey. 

#feanoriel

[absynthe--minded]

“You make me want things I can’t have.” 48, Feanor/Nerdanel if you want to!

(This is short but I’m satisfied with it - I hope you like it! Prompt me?)

48.

“You make me want things I can’t have.”

His words are earnest, and intense, and his eyes are dark and sparking with desire. She leans forward on the table and smirks at him.

“You’re the only one saying you can’t have it,” she tells him; one hand is tracing patterns in the dust, and her mouth is quirked up in a daring smile. “And I’ve never known you to deprive yourself of anything.”

“I practice self-discipline,” Fëanáro informs her loftily, though he watches her as she moves, eyes devouring her curves. “It’s not the same thing.”

“You,” Nerdanel says, reaching up to tap him on the nose, “are a very odd nér, Curufinwë Fëanáro.”

“Why?”

“Because you know what you want, you can have what you want, and yet you refuse to reach out and take it.”

Her voice is a whisper. She slides up onto the table and closer to his arms. He’s blushing; her smirk widens, slicing up the side of her face.

“Kiss me, Fëanáro,” she says. It’s an order, and one he gladly obeys.

#replies #feanoriel #silmarillion #ask meme #absynthe's fanfiction

[janiedean]

feanoriel ha risposto al tuo post “i just realised the implications of you being an italian person who (i...”

anon, people complain about JKR but Silvana de Mari is MY childhood betrayal trauma

I’M SORRY

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[stormxpadme]

@himrings-main

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@feanoriel​ replied to your post: ...

with or without regard to gigolas, it has become popular among certain people (in a way that is deeply suspicious to me for many reasons we don’t have time for here) to think it’s edgy to consider elves as a whole as idiots and useless and dumb, and i think legolas is a character who has faced a lot of that from people and it sucks

I feel a little calmed down now, actually. Like, don't get me wrong, I'm very big on memes myself, and I really don't mind the occasional shitpost. But I just like really would love it if especially the LOTR elves would be treated less like completely incompetent idiots.

#himrings-main #Stormy babbles #more babbling #and headcanons #adding tags because do not want in the main tag #lord of the rings #and all tolkien lore #another one of the big five #that one actually hasn't let me down yet #I should be careful

[octopuscato]

feanoriel replied to your post “TFW protestants laugh about confession and “AHAHAH Catholics, amirite?...”

oooooooooff as an ex Catholic i agree. also sadly we've a weird sense of inferiority towards Protestants ... completely unjustified in my opinion

Do we? I hadn’t noticed, really. My impression is pretty much that all the denominations have a rather severe superiority complex.

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #lordhellebore answers #feanoriel #christianity #faith

[thelioninmybed]

feanoriel replied to your post “Does anyone else think that the Margaret Atwood poem Siren Song is a...”

'monstrosity' isn't a word that could be applied to Maglor

It’s an unhelpfully flattening and dismissive word to use in discussions of the text, I agree, and it’s not one I would have used if I hadn’t been making a comparison with a literal monster. But I do think it’s one people in-universe have cause to apply - just ask Doriath and Sirion, the Teleri and the soldiers of Eonwe’s host. 

simaethae replied to your post “Does anyone else think that the Margaret Atwood poem Siren Song is a...”

characters using their sincere emotions in performative ways is always so good tho ::happy sigh:: anyway i totally get where anon is coming from with that vibe but counterpoint, when Maglor tries this it never actually works

Oh you. (how’s that porn coming along?)

Yeah, I should have addressed the vibe as well as the textual meaning, cause it does FEEL Maglor as hell. Please write another Maglor/Elwing where she tries to seduce her with sad poetry and it’s all really embarrassing. 

#feanoriel #simaethae #replies

[galadhremmin]

Look I see people tag my finrod's court jester post with AU and I understand but I'm just going to point you to @feanoriel's reply my other silmarillion court jester post; it's canon, they did have court jesters. Tolkien was just too much of a coward to write them into the dramatic narrative, and so it seems is every fanfic author up to this point. In the back of every single beloved tragic scene that involves Kings and Princes there's an unnamed court jester making annoying comments and jingling his bells just out of sight, change my mind.

Maglor's court jester follows him along the shore while he plays the Noldolantë and it is really very annoying.

#hard to be dramatic when you're someone's punchline forever #maglor #finrod