#lake cuivienen

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Hc in my au:

Thranduil doesn’t speak Quenya, but he does speak Primitive Quendian bc he was literally there when that was still the language used, so while he doesn’t understand exactly what people are saying when they speak in quenya, he does get the gist of it using context clues.

The thing is, no one realizes it, so sometimes some noldor elves are talking in quenya, talking shit in front of him, thinking he can’t understand them, but he can. He’s been wanting to drop that little tit bit of information forever, but he can only do it once, so it has to have the largest impact as possible.

Naturally, he replys to something galadriel said in quenya in sindarin, knowing exactly what the conversation was about, in the middle of a banquet, and he could see half the elves present go through the 5 stages of grief right then and there as galadriel reboots her systems.

#thranduil #lord of the rings #lotr #lotr elves #the hobbit #silmarillion #quenya #primitive quendian #lake cuivienen #pre orome days #4 silvan sibs au #shamelessly pushing my ‘miriel and thranduil are twins agenda’ #house of edireth

[marysmirages]

Lake Cuivienen (Children of the Stars) 2021

#cuivienen #lake cuivienen #elf #eldar #the silmarillion #silmarillion #starlight #jrrtolkien #tolkien #marysmirages #firstborn #art #illustration #painting #drawing #eru iluvatar

[thelien-art]

Miriel Therinde

I´m curently working on a background for her as I feel like I need a new computer background and Tumblr header but here she is finished by just herself :)

#i was thinking of doing a tapestry of all of feanros deeds but decided against it so it will be a tapestry of lake cuivienen #tolkien #jrr tolkien #silmarillion #miriel #miriel therinde #feanor s mom #:) #tolkien art #silm art #digital art #my art #btw anyone who knows how to use nightshade can you please help me cuz i tried with this one #but no matter how many times i tried i always ended with a black image for it

[valacirya]

I’ve always wondered why the Vanyar weren’t restless like the Noldor and Teleri, and why they were so content to stay in Valinor when Tolkien explicitly states that it was against the elves’ nature and Eru’s plan to be there. 

So what if for the Vanyar, Middle Earth never felt like home? While the Noldor and Teleri are content living in Cuivienen, we see in Nature of Middle Earth that Imin and the Vanyar Minyar wandered in search of more companions. 

“At length Imin said: “It is time now that we should go on and seek more companions”. But most of the others were content. So Imin and Iminyë and their twelve companions set out, and they walked long by day and by twilight in all the country about the Lake, near which all the Quendi had awakened – for which reason it is called Cuiviénen. But they never found any more companions: for the tale of the First Elves was complete.”

What if the companions they were looking for were the Ainur? And when they found them, the longing in their souls was fulfilled because there was a pre-ordained bond between them. In the few mentions we get of the Vanyar, it’s clear that they’re different from the Noldor and Teleri, much more akin to the Maiar.   

“And the Maiar and the Vanyar stood beside them and wept.”

“It was told by the Vanyar who held vigil with the Valar.”

“Only the Vanyar remained in constant association with the Valar.”

“Of the whole history of Ëa from its beginning to the End that shall be; but these things are not certainly known even to the Vanyar.”

“The host of the Valar were arrayed in forms young and fair and terrible, and the mountains rang beneath their feet.”

Maybe Eru didn’t give the Vanyar that restlessness and desire to change the world for the same reason why the Valar don’t seem to have it: they were too powerful. After all, look what their descendants were able to accomplish. The only two elves who ever injured and/or humiliated Morgoth were Luthien daughter of Melian and Fingolfin son of Indis. 

#the vanyar are eldritch faerie #only their mixed descendants can go to middle earth #just like how the istari had to be disguised and greatly reduced in power #vanyar #valar

[avantegarda]

Top Five Shows on Tirion's Equivalent of Broadway

Well folks, I've got a bottle of white zinfandel and a big bowl of banana ice cream so I guess now I will tell you which plays being performed on Valinor's ancient stages are any good. Please note that I have been reading a ton of Aristophanes lately, which has destroyed my brain and sense of humor.

Morning By The Lake

This comedy, about the earliest elves to awaken by Cuivienen, is notable for two reasons: one, the fact that the first twenty minutes include no spoken lines, and two, the controversy it caused in the Years of the Trees. Critics decried the play as disrespectful of their ancestor's struggles, while many who had actually lived by Cuivienen (including all three High Kings) found it hilarious. Orome, Lord of Forests, once played himself, to mixed reviews.

Bad For Business

Another controversial play, though not because of its subject matter. Rather, Bad For Business is questionable due to being written by Maglor Feanorion himself. Despite its undeniably problematic composer, the play remains iconic for its innovative use of songs to move the plot forward, and the charming romance between an heiress-turned-barmaid and a troublemaking brewer. This play is almost never performed in Alqualonde.

The Lady And The Vagabond

One of the few surviving plays from Gondolin, originally by Lord Salgant of the House of the Harp, though much of the original script has been lost. In Gondolin's later years, it was the most popular play in the city, due to its loving satire of Princess Idril and her mortal husband. Certain details were changed, most notably in making both protagonists elves, but the parallels are clear. The heroine is a noblewoman obsessed with planning ahead, and her love interest is the country-bumpkin son of an old family friend... need we say more?

The Great Deceiver

This tear-jerking tragedy follows a young widow and her son traveling through the wilds of Beleriand in the First Age. Along the way they encounter a mysterious, wise-seeming man who promises to guide them home--and only the audience knows their guide is, in fact, Sauron himself.

Holiday In Armenelos

HIA hit the height of its popularity in the early Second Age, when tourism to Numenor was widespread. The action follows two sheltered Vanyarin women visiting relatives in Armenelos, and stumbling into near-constant cultural misunderstandings. During the later years of Numenor, many theatergoers boycotted the play, and it was only recently revived.

#tolkien #silmarillion #help why did i have so much fun writing this

[thelordofgifs]

Obscure Tolkien Blorbo: Round 1

Silmariën vs Tata

Silmariën:

The eldest child of Tar-Elendil, the fourth King of Númenor.

She missed out being a Ruling Queen by *one* generation!! But she inherited the Ring of Barahir and other heirlooms and the Lords of Andunie descended from her :)

Tata:

One of the first Elves to awaken.

Second elf to wake up, and the first of the Tatyar (the Avarin ethnic group that includes the Noldor.) Honestly the least-characterised of the three elvish ancestors in my headcanons, but she’s still my girl. Probably the first elf to actually be interested in her surroundings, naming trees and grasses and lake fish while Imin was droning at the stars. The least reckless Tatya you’re ever likely to meet, and has the scars to prove why. The first elf to see the darkness rising in the east, and the first to sharpen a spear against it. Again, the old man says she’s male and has a satellite wife named Tatie, but that’s boring so I made her a lady. Headcanon that when Finwe heads off to Aman, she stays at Cuivienen to guard their rear. She’s still out there, somewhere, slinking through the night to battle the darkness, and though her form has changed much the point of her spear is always pointed at evil.

Round 1 masterpost

#obscure tolkien blorbo #silmarien #tata #queue

[raointean]

Day 2 - Elves

“Ada?” Arondir turned to call to his father from his vantage point on the hilltop above.

Kelepe hurried up the hill to his son’s side. “Is there danger?”

Arondir shook his head, but he still looked concerned. “The sky seems to grow pale here and some of the stars are… gone.”

Kelepe squinted towards the horizon. He saw the vast, roiling, grey mass of hills they had still to cross. He saw the glint of stars in little rivers and lakes. To the south ran Rathlóriel and to the north, the hills marched ever on, seemingly endless.

The horizon did seem a little lighter. Some of the stars that were usually in the sky at that time were gone, but perhaps they had just lost track of time.

“Perhaps it is the Sea,” Kelepe murmured. “I thought that it was far south and west of here, but I have never crossed the mountains before.”

Arondir’s face brightened some. “That would make sense. All of the stars reflected in so much water would certainly lighten the sky!” He shot off again down the hillside, cheerful as a thrush. 

Kelepe’s fears were not entirely relieved however. He locked eyes with his wife, Ūbathō and knew that she shared the same worries. Both of them remembered when the Enemy lived nearby and his monsters terrorized the people of Cuivienen and, later, Eriador. The temperature, the ground, the sky; nothing had been safe.

Their little twelve-elf caravan continued on for a few minutes, but in that time, the world grew noticeably lighter. The ground changed from near-black to a misty grey and the stars winked out one by one. “Arondir!” he called. “Find us a hiding place. Quickly!”

Not three minutes later, they were all bundled within a cave, Kelepe and his father, Ndangwetha, guarding the west entrance. They watched in silent terror as the horizon turned blazing orange. It was as if the whole world was ablaze, and yet, there was no smoke.

“Perhaps it is a fire-demon,” Kelepe breathed.

“Maybe,” Ndangwetha whispered back. “Although I have never seen fire without shadow. It is certainly no balrog.”

The cave fell silent once again. They huddled in the shadows as the mysterious light pushed its long fingers in through the opening. The sky outside, now entirely starless, turned a color that none of them had ever seen before, even by the light of a fire. As terrifying as it was, Kelepe could not help but wonder at its beauty.

At last, the light withdrew from the cave. The shadows lengthened until, finally, the world was again enveloped in darkness. Kelepe was the first to venture out of their hiding place and, when he was not immediately snatched away by a fire-demon, the others followed him.

“Ada, look! The stars have returned!” Arondir pointed to the sky, crowing joyously.

Sure enough, the tapestries of Elbareth glittered above them once again and Kelepe breathed a sigh of relief. The danger was passed. It was time to go on.

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“The sun rose in the east after that, of course. We thought the fire-demon had come back to finish us off so we found another cave and waited. My grandfather did not let us leave for a week!”

Theo was near tears from laughter. Arondir steadied him as he stumbled on the road. “You were afraid of the sun!?”

“We had never seen it before,” Arondir said defensively. “Your people awoke with the sun and have never known a time without it. Of course it would seem ridiculous to you!”

Theo’s laughter calmed and he wiped his eyes. “I suppose it makes sense, but still.”

Arondir only smiled fondly. Theo had been in a foul mood ever since Orodruin’s eruption; he was only glad to be able to raise the boy’s spirits.

#racesofringsofpowerweek2023 #lord of the rings: rings of power #arondir #theo #various ocs #the first sunrise #silvan elves #silmarillion lore

[chiliadicorum]

15, 18 for silm asks

#15 (favorite ted nasmith painting) this was quite a hard choice i have to admit

At Lake Cuivienen

there's too much nostalgia when i see this painting for me to not list it as a favorite. It's the first one of his I ever saw, it's the artwork on my first copy of the silm and it's what drew me to pick up the book...this just hits a special spot in my heart every time i see it

there's so many to pick from!!!

#18 (what's the hardest name or word for you to pronounce?) i think I'll have to go back to when tolkien's world was still new to me. Pronunciation tends to come easily to me and I can't really recall names that are/were a stumbling block. Telperinquar I recall being one of the harder ones to figure out how to say, and then for it to roll off the tongue smoothly.

No different answer. Araw. The Sindarin name for Orome. I "know" how it sounds but I still can't really get it out of my mouth!

#as per my fashion i take forever to answer prompts i asked for #thank you! #first-son-of-finwe #silmarillion #gwed asks #ted nasmith #silm asks

[aregebidan]

Continuing the recurring theme of things in Chapter 6 maybe being extra messed up from certain people's perspectives, it's established that "fair-seeming were all the words and deeds of Melkor" in the time immediately following his release and that "both the Valar and the Eldar had profit from his aid and counsel, if they sought it," which is-- okay, so do the Eldar know that the guy who mysteriously appears in Valinor and is generally helpful but still closely monitored by some of the Valar is that same guy who was terrorizing them for who knows how many years in Cuivienen? Do they even know he's a Vala? Do they know the others agreed to release him? Did they know that the whole trial/second chance thing was even going to be happening??

The text, or at least the published Silm, never explicitly says they know he's the same person behind the disappearances at the lake, and the Valar set a guard over Cuivienen to protect them, which also prevented them from witnessing the actual siege of Utumno. We don't even know if they were aware of Melkor's identity and Valarin status at Cuivienen. So I'm just over here imagining Finwe, still haunted by the terror he felt before the Valar came, still dreaming of his loved ones being snatched away by shadow, then sensing something incredibly unsettling about this "new resident" under the watch of the Valar but unable to figure out why he has this feeling. And if the trial was hidden from the Eldar, how long would it take for him to put two and two together? Would he have told his family, or would Feanor have beat him to the conclusion, hence his uncommonly intense distrust of Melkor in general? How much did they all know?

#this is. not the most coherent thing i've been written #but with the omniscent perspective in the silm it's so easy to forget that not everyone necessarily knows everything and remembering that- #-is rearranging my entire view of this story #silmarillion #tolkien #i could be completely wrong and they could have known everything! it's just that i Have No Memory Of Canon at this point

[ossoraca]

muses get distracted from sunbathing and start to fool around by a poolside or lake. 

Aicarmo sat beside Cuivienen, looking out at the water thoughtfully. People said that they would be moving soon and even he had moments of quiet reflection. Yawning, he lay down on the grass, enjoying the feeling of it on his bare skin.

[tolkien-feels]

Okay so if Sam's kids invented Ring Toss and Elboron invented Hide and Seek (and Elfwine and Eldarian + the girls helped popularize it), I need to know what games the other kids invented. But try as I might I can't think of what the other kids might have invented.

At first I thought maybe Faramir Took and Son-of-Merry Brandybuck invented tag because of how their fathers chased off the ruffians who invaded the Shire, but as we all know Tag is a time-honored game that has existed since before Orome found the Firstborn at Lake Cuivienen, so that can't be it.

What game do you think they invented, because apparently my game-inventing-headcanons have run dry

Okay, I'm terrible with children's games because I was an extremely boring child, so while I love the idea, I'm afraid I can't be of any help. But I'm very interested in anything my followers might have to say!

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

I think it’s rather interesting to think about the issue of succession within the finweon line of elves (and all heirs in general) when everysingel king/queen/noble from lake cuivienen didn’t inherit their title, they made themselves king, they made themselves nobility.

Like, what was it like for the -we’s to journey from “just one of the elves” to the high king of their respective elves?

Do you ever think finwe looks at his sons fighting for succession and thinks “maybe you should actually do something on your own to become king instead of relying on my death and your birth.”?

Because all elves were created on equal footing at the lake, and somehow they ended up dividing themselves into commoners, nobility, and royalty.

And then somehow they got the idea to pass down their titles to their children.

Honestly, finwe not being able to navigate the succession issue between Nolofinwe and Feanor makes a whole lot more sense when you consider the fact that he never had to fight to be the heir. Because for him, he worked to become king based on his own merit in opposition to literally every other elf.

The -we’s kids and the children of every other noble from the cuivienen era were born with possibility at their fingertips, were born with a silver spoon in their mouth, were born special.

But finwe, ingwe, elwe, olwe, and all those who climbed the ladder from the lake made themselves special.

#they’s not to say feanor and nolofinwe etc didn’t have ambition or skills #but how much of what they have accomplished is because of who they were born to? #would they have been king even if they weren’t their father’s sons. #the first gen of elves really was the closest to equal opportunity possibilities as the elves have ever gotton #the -we’s fighting for kingship vs their sons being born into it #idk this just really interests me #lord of the rings #lotr #lotr elves #silmarillion #finwe #ingwe #elwe #olwe #lake cuivienen #feanor #nolofinwe

[jorahssquire]

The Awakening of the Elves at Cuivienen Lake by Rearda

[maekar76]

The Silmarillion, illustrated by Ted Nasmith

#the silmarillion #jrr tolkien #the first age #Lake Cuivienen #Gondolin #Morgoth Punishes Hurin #Morgoth #Hurin #Balrog #Luthien #Maedhros #thangorodrim #the three jewels #the silmarils #The Lord of the Rings #LOTR

[iamjaynaemarie]

Elwë (Elu Thingol), his brother Elmo and Lewë—the last leaders of the Teleri to leave Lake Cuiviénen— are over heard by Orothôn, Galadhon and Denethor (son of Lenwë) discussing leaving the forest that will one day become known as Mirkwood and follow the others beyond the mountains to Aman to Eldamar.

#book i #tkwr trilogy #the kingdom of the woodland realm trilogy #orothôn #elwe #lenwe #finwe #olwe #eldamar #eldalie #lake cuivienen #first age #the first elves

[avantegarda]

Congratulations on 2000 followers! I’m so sorry but after reading the play summaries I’m going to have to ask for a scene from Morning by the Lake!!!!

why would you apologize for asking this, this is exactly what i wanted to write.

(if you're not familiar with my Elf Broadway headcanons, Morning By The Lake is a hit comedy about the first elves to awaken by Cuivienen. it is extremely silly)

(what we present here is the scene where Orome first encounters his new friends)

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Orome: Do not be afraid, my friends! I assure you, I have nothing to do with the dark power that has been hunting you. I am Orome, lord of forests and a friend to nature.

Imin: Oh, good, someone with authority. Can you settle a bet for us? Are mushrooms a plant, an animal, or neither?

Orome: Ehm... neither, I suppose. They exist as a sort of living decay. Possibly an invention of Melkor, though the ones that are not poisonous can make a decent meal...

Enel: I knew it! Pay up, you lot.

(Amid much grumbling, the other two elves hand Enel an assortment of nuts and berries)

Orome: If you have already invented gambling, you're much more advanced than my brethren expected. They'll be delighted to hear of this.

Tata: Brethren, you say?

Orome: Indeed, my fellow Valar. They reside in the far West, and have been eagerly awaiting your arrival.

Imin: Our arrival? Were we meant to be arriving somewhere? Why, we've been here all along.

#tight two thousand #my writing #tolkien