#galadriel’s hair

[aragornsrockcollection]

Behold! The reason I buy it when characters call Galadriel wise.

Edit: WAIT SHOOT I FORGOT TO CREDIT THE ARTISTS

Feanor is by Bellaberolts

And Gimli is by Jas Sparks

Please forgive me for using your art in my shitty meme.

#tolkien #jrr tolkien #galadriel #feanor #mightiest of the noldor #gimli #gimli son of gloin #dwarves #the noldor #lady of light #galadriel’s hair #over you gold shall have no dominion #lord of the rings #lotr #silm #the silmarillion #kombucha girl #do you ever decide to do something #that is SUCH a waste of time? #that’s me and the shoddy galadriel hair on kombucha girl #done on my phone in pocket procreate #which i can only vaguely work

[sesamenom]

downsides of treelight hair: must either wear a veil at night or deal with treelight in your face

#silm #silmarillion #galadriel #she has different headwears depending on the intensity of her hair #(headcanon that the exact brightness fluctuates depending on the sun/moon) #(but it's still like having a flashlight pointing in your face 24/7) #on really bright hair days she has basically a blackout curtain hat

[starknesskenobi]

Sauron when he finds out Galadriel has been on a blood thirsty quest chasing him to the ends of the earth for hundreds of years: 

#man was twirling his hair and giggling like it was Valentines Day #rings of power #sauron #halbrand #galadriel

[inthiskingdomwewillendure]

Tolkienweek 2022 Day 6: faceless / silhouettes

#tolkienweek2022 #lotredit #lotr #thranduil #arwen #aragorn #galadriel #elrond #tauriel #eowyn #legolas #gandalf #4k #this could also count as hairstyle post #who has the most beautiful hair #i like doing faceless posts

[smoking-old-toby]

when gimli turned up the charm so high for galadriel that it worked on legolas too

#that smooth talking motherfucker #our boi left the woods with 3 galadriel hair strands And an elvenprince boyfriend #gigolas #gimleaf #lotr #smoking old toby

[echo-bleu]

Yesterday I posted more Noldor Hair Headcanons (Part 1 | Part 2 | On AO3 and @alqualonde-s wrote in the tags that she'd like some visuals. As it happens, I have very clear mental images of each hairstyle in the fic, so I did some sketches!

(individual sketches under the cut, terrible ID in alt)

Here we have:

a very sad injured Finrod with his mourning braids

Galadriel wearing the crown braids they devised on the Helcaraxë to protect their ears

Maglor and his far-too-complex mourning braids

Lalwen wearing armour and battle braids

Turgon wearing a formal style, black/kinky hair edition.

I didn't have designs yet for Lalwen and Turgon but I'm happy with these!

I'm not always consistent with my hairstyle headcanons in my art, but as a bonus, some hairstyles I've drawn before:

Finarfin in semi-formal Tirion style

Maedhros in battle styles here and here

Maglor in a slightly silly Fëanorian style

Finrod in fully formal Tirion style

Finrod in semi formal Tirion (or formal Nargothrond style)

Celebrimbor in a mixed late-Fëanorian and dwarven style

Fingolfin and Fingon in semi-formal Tirion styles (with Anairë in a simpler style)

Celegorm with his hunting braids

Elrond in a late-Fëanorian style

Fingon in two formal Tirion styles (but in trad pencil)

Bonus: "Elwing's hair floats around her as she falls."

#silmarillion #tolkien #silm art #tolkien fanart #noldor #noldor hair headcanons #if i am to braid my mystic crown #echo's drawings #echo's fanfiction #finrod #galadriel #lalwen #maglor #turgon

[gwaedhannen]

I'd like to think that when Galadriel got coup'd and removed from power in Eregion, she threw down her crown (or equivalent) and looked right at Celebrimbor as she did.

#silmarillion #the silmarillion #lord of the rings #lotr #tolkien #galadriel #celebrimbor #finrod (implication of) #eregion #character meta #stormthinken #annatar thinks it's the funniest shit ever but can't say a thing #and the left-behind (hostage?) Celeborn cuts his hair and starts wearing black cloaks #I dunno if people have just decided they don't want to use this quasi-canon but I barely ever see the coup in fics

[jpgrina]

Appreciation post for Galadriel's beautiful hair in The Rings of Power (●´ω｀●)

#tropedit #ropedit #galadriel #the rings of power #morfydd clark #lord of the rings #trop #rop #*** #**trop #the wig department did their thing! #i'm so in love with her beautiful hair #esp in 1x08

[kai-janik-art]

Galadriel (2023)

Watercolour A4

#galadriel #artanis #Nerwen #the lady of light #the lady of the Golden Wood #the lady of Lórien #the leader of the Galadhrim #I had a fight with her hair that lasted the whole night #silmarillion fanart #tolkien #lotr fanart #lord of the rings #elves #kai janik

[mortalstrife]

celeborn and galadriel reunion. he’s been imprisoned somewhere and she busted him out

#rings of power #galadriel #celeborn #or clamborn as i like to call him now #he has lost most of his clam armor #but he is still her silver clam #it was only after finishing this that i was like 'wait her hair should be in a braid for fighting right' #but you know what who cares #celeborn/galadriel reunion when!!! #honestly the reveal that they were already married took me out

[bluetiefling]

That is why I will never be at your side.

#tropedit #lotredit #ropedit #galadriel x halbrand #galadriel x sauron #galadriel #halbrand #sauron #the rings of power #lotr rings of power #mygifs #nevahhhh she says... as she leans in real close... looks at his lips...strokes his neck with her dagger like mimicking a lover's touch #and then lingers there staring up at him forever instead of idk stabbing him #almost like she's in CONFLICT yall #what a concept! #a concept too difficult for many tolkien bros and prudes to understand i know #anyway this was very hot and I look forward to these two force skyping each other #'platonically' continuing to invade each other's personal space panting and sniffing each other's hair etc

[anghraine]

It's always interesting (to me) to go back to Tolkien's descriptions of hairstyles among some of the women of LOTR.

Here is the description of Galadriel's gift to Gimli:

Then the Lady unbraided one of her long tresses, and cut off three golden hairs, and laid them in Gimli's hand.

Here is the canonical description of Arwen's hair:

The braids of her dark hair were touched by no frost ... Above her brow her head was covered with a cap of silver lace netted with small gems, glittering white; but her soft grey raiment had no ornament save a girdle of leaves wrought in silver.

Here is the explanation of Gilraen's name:

The meaning of Gilraen as a woman's name is not in doubt. It meant 'one adorned with a tressure set with small gems in its network,' such as the tressure of Arwen ... The women of the Eldar were accustomed to wear such tressures ... Names such as Gilraen, and others of similar meaning, would thus be likely to become first names given to maid-children of the kindred of the "Lords of the Dúnedain". The element raen was the Sindarin form of Q. raina 'netted, enlaced'.

Personally, I think it's interesting that it's Éowyn, a shieldmaiden from a distinctly different culture, who has the loose long hair that fandom often goes for. But I also think the canon aesthetic for Elvish women and those akin to them is really intriguing and could be quite beautiful, but contemporary fandom preferences have definitely obscured Tolkien's affection for braids and pretty hairnets.

#female elves/peredhil/dúnedain in lucrezia coiffures WHEN #anghraine babbles #long post #legendarium blogging #legendarium fanwank #hair #it is genuinely interesting to see what fandom does and does not care about when it comes to Hair Fidelity #this is such a different look from what we usually see! #galadriel #arwen undómiel #gilraen

[books-apples-socks]

i love john silver's curly girl routine

he's scrunching and moussing and perhaps is even in the possession of a denman brush

where did he get it out at sea in the beginning of the 18th century? don't think about it let the waves speak to you

#i think perhaps fortune was always in the cards for him #all he needed was to scam people into thinking a single thread of his hair would make their baldness disappear #galadriel but make it grifter #alas we all must suffer the horror of exestentialist storytelling so it wasn't meant to be #black sails

[glitteringaglarond]

Okay but i'm still thinking about Gimli talking about the glittering caves of Aglarond, and i just realized that gives him a really intriguing connection to Galadriel that he would be so proud to know about.

None of Durin's race would mine those caves for stones or ore, not if diamonds and gold could be got there. Do you cut down groves of blossoming trees in the springtime for firewood? We would tend these glades of flowering stone, not quarry them. With cautious skill, tap by tap – a small chip of rock and no more, perhaps, in a whole anxious day – so we could work, and as the years went by, we should open up new ways, and display far chambers that are still dark, glimpsed only as a void beyond fissures in the rock. And lights, Legolas! We should make lights, such lamps as once shone in Khazad-dûm; and when we wished we would drive away the night that has lain there since the hills were made; and when we desired rest, we would let the night return.'

Gimli here is talking about not only the beauty of the place, but about his desire to preserve it. He doesn't wish to change it, to remove the ancient things therein, he only wishes to bring more of it to light into the waking world.

Does that sound familiar?

In Rivendell there was memory of ancient things; in Lórien the ancient things still lived on in the waking world

Lorien is, through the power of Galadriel, a place where ancient things still lived on in the waking world. And when the Ring is destroyed, her power of preservation is lost and she departs.

But that's okay, because Gimli also has a desire to preserve the ancient beauties of the world, and he does it in a way that is not dependent on the continuation of something as fallible as magic.

Gimli is continuing Galadriel's desire to preserve ancient beauties, and it's something so near and dear to his heart he doesn't even realize that they are working to accomplish the same task.

#lotr newsletter #gimli #galadriel #will i ever stop thinking about and crying over gimli and the caves? probably not #but as per my url... it's very on brand #Also considering after the end of the story he goes on to live there and become lord of the caves #there's a very high chance that Galadriel's hair - as set in imperishable crystal - is set there on display for the rest of time #And what better way for him to honor her than by putting that heirloom on display in the very continuation of her work #my op

[sesamenom]

Hunting of the Dragon

What if the Arkenstone really was a Silmaril? (very late, but inspired by arofili's @funwithfanon prompts from last march!)

click for quality | closeups & details under the cut

Galadriel, Celeborn, and Thranduil are the only people on the right side of the mountains that a) have fought a dragon (mostly in the war of wrath) b) remember the Hunting of the Wolf and c) are mentally stable enough to be trusted around a silmaril (more or less)

so of course they end up having to fight silmaril-raged smaug. (he sat on it and now it's stuck to his bald spot)

since the sindar don't have metal armor galadriel is the only tank, and therefore the person on dragon-stabbing duty.

celeborn is the spearman in charge of keeping smaug from escaping or mauling someone else (and also making sure the silmaril doesn't fall on galadriels head, because at that point it definitely would still burn her)

thranduil is supposed to be doing air control to keep smaug from flying up and torching everyone, but he decided it would be a great idea to jump-dive at the dragon's head.

(version with fire because i couldnt decide which one i liked better)

#silm #silmarillion #lotr #lord of the rings #the hobbit #galadriel #celeborn #thranduil #smaug #elrond would have also been volunteered for dragon-stabbing if only he lived less than a year of travel west of the lonely mountain #daeron is probably in the area but he has never fought a dragon and also would probably have a nauglamir-trauma breakdown #of all of them galadriel is probably the most used to dealing with the silmaril light since she basically has a silmaril for hair #celeborn and thranduil lived in doriath for long enough to at least know what to expect #the dwarves are currently too scattered to be of much help (unless thrain wants to pull an azaghal) #unfortunatley smaug has wings; less respect than glaurung; and far less things to distract him #so a mid battle funeral would be rather ill advised #galadriel is reckless enough to dive at smaugs face #but she is also experienced enough at dragons to know that stabbing it is generally more effective

[heraldofcrow]

*shoves all of my weird-ass, extremely-complicated, white-haired children with too much power into a tiny room*

ALL OF YOU WILL BE FRIENDS AND DO THERAPY TOGETHER NOW OR SO HELP ME GOD—

#sjhsks #this collage gets updated like every two years #there are technically more but it starts to get too muddled and obscure #the fact that they are all of some kind of royal status or high-ranking soldier/knighthood #wtf #and most of them are stabby as hell #and for some i still can’t decide if i wanna simp or adopt #also can i just say #the amount of contextual and/or surface level tragedy in this group of characters could blow up the sun #if they all met i think everything would explode lmao #even crow despite having no clear lore is implied to be from cainhurst which automatically means almost his entire bloodline was wiped out #WHY ARE THEY ALL LIKE THIS #sigh (and half of them look unhinged too) sigh #white-hair blorbos #lady galadriel #queen annalise #king thranduil #prince aemond #lord’s blade ciaran #sephiroth #lady yuria #lady maria #bloody crow #CrowNotes