#môr

[barkyshark]

Short rest

#môr #triton #eldritch knight #blood hunter #dnd #fantasy #oc #sketch #character design #sea monster #merfolk #seafolk #monster girl #dnd art #my art #fantasy art #original character #fighter 5e #dnd 5e #dnd pc #blood hunter 5e #digital art #procreate #art #artists on tumblr

[knightscendant]

what if we were two celestial bodies and we kissed?

(also, hallo I am back!)

#knightscendant #space beings #sci-fi art #Môr #Vesper #knightscendant oc's

[love-song-for-one-that-i-lost]

Sei que não é todo dia, eu gosto de escrever, desenhar, a única coisa que tô sem sensação é ouvir música, parece frio, gelado, como algo perdido.(I know it's not every day, I like to write, draw, the only thing I don't feel is listening to music, it seems cold, icy, like something lost.)

#love #Môr #amor #vida #life

[i-just-watch-the-sea]

Porth Tyn Tywyn, Ynys Môn (Anglesey)

09/08/23

#waves #coast #sea #beach #shore #shoreline #irish sea #anglesey #ynys môn #rhosneigr #porth tyn tywyn #sun #summer #august #awst #haf #yr haul #môr #traeth #op #wales #cymru #gogledd cymru

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Can't include a link in a question but there's a recent tweet by @Collen105 about the Welsh words for "jellyfish". I can't pick which is funnier: 'cont fôr' or 'blobys'! Anyway, which one do you use?

Pysgotyn wibli wobli like god intended

#I jest #cont y môr obviously #linguistics #asks

[pfhwrittes]

https:// www. instagram. com/ reel/ C32m1amClVm/ ?igsh=Y2FzODFydjZrdGhl

This is what I get for not trying to shame tumblr and Instagram into compliance. This one work?? Hoping it's not weird region rules

okay this video is brilliant! (external link will take you to an instagram reel of a welsh comedian morgan rees)

here's a fun fact, i originally learned the welsh for jellyfish was "cont y môr" and well i can see why the schools don't want to teach kids that one! 😅

#pfh answers #anon i love you for sending me welsh things #welsh is a great language #i'll let you google cont y môr to find out why it's now pysgodi wibli wobli in schools

[mogwaei]

Maalkyre "Miroir de Môr" Trevelyan, the Mirror Merchant who sailed too far and found Those Across The Sea

Son of a Rivaini Seer, he is known as the ‘Mirror of the Sea’. What business does he have in Orlais? Well, he heard someone possessed a magical mirror in the court...and of course, what better way to take a looksie than to crash the big party at the palace?

(In my fic “Ouroboros”, I've been sneaking in cameos or mentions of the other "Inquisitors" (cadash, adaar, etc) bc it's fun to envision what they became post-Conclave. Some are dead....but then there’s this Trevelyan, of all people, tangling with the Executors)

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #dragon age dreadwolf #dai #da4 #trevelyan #Maalkyre Miroir de Môr Trevelyan #the executors #dragon age: ouroboros #mogwaei arts #swashbucklin' bastards

[vivstenius]

PUB! PUB! PUB! PUB! PUB!

#GWLAAAAAADDD GWLAAAAAAD PLEIDIOL WYF I'M GWLAD #TRAAAAA MÔR YN FURRRRR I'R BURRR HOFF BAU #O BYDDED I'R HENIAITH BARRRRHAUUU

[reasonsforhope]

"When Francois Beyers first pitched the concept of 3D ocean farming to the Welsh regulators, he had to sketch it on napkins. 

Today the seafood farm is much more than a drawing, but if you walked along the Welsh coastal path near St David’s, all you’d see is a line of buoys. As Beyers puts it: “It’s what’s below that’s important.”

Thick tussles of lustrous seaweed suspend from the buoys, mussels cling to its furry connective ropes and dangling Chinese lantern-esque nets are filled with oysters and scallops. 

“It’s like an underwater garden,” says Beyers, co-founder of the community-owned regenerative ocean farm, Câr-y-Môr. The 3-hectare site is part of a fledgling sector, one of 12 farms in the UK, which key players believe could boost ocean biodiversity, produce sustainable agricultural fertiliser and provide year-round employment in areas that have traditionally been dependent on tourism. 

Created in 2020 by Beyers and six family members, including his father-in-law – an ex-shellfish farmer – the motivation is apparent in the name, which is Welsh for “for the love of the sea”. ...

Pictured: Drone shot of Câr-y-Môr, which is on the site of abandoned mussel farms. Image: Scott Chalmers

Ocean farming comes from the technical term ‘integrated multi-trophic aquaculture’, which means a mixture of different seaweed and shellfish species growing together to mutually benefit each other. But it’s not just a way of growing food with little human input, it also creates ocean habitat. 

“You’re creating a breeding ground for marine animals,” explains Beyers who adds that the site has seen more gannets diving, porpoises and seals – to name a few – since before the farm was established.

Ocean farms like Câr-y-Môr, notes Ross Brown – environmental research fellow at the University of Exeter – have substantial conservation benefits.

“Setting up a seaweed farm creates an exclusion zone so fishermen can’t trawl it,” explains Brown, who has been conducting experiments on the impacts of seaweed and shellfish farms across the UK. 

Brown believes a thriving ocean farming industry could provide solutions to the UK’s fish stock, which is in “a deeply troubling state” according to a report that found half of the key populations to be overfished. “It would create stepping stones where we have safe havens for fish and other organisms,” he adds. 

But UK regulators have adopted a cautious approach, note Brown and Beyers, making it difficult for businesses like Câr-y-Môr to obtain licenses. “It’s been a tough old slog,” says Beyers, whose aim is to change the legislation to make it easier for others to start ocean farms. 

Despite navigating uncharted territories, the business now has 14 full-time employees, and 300 community members, of which nearly 100 have invested in the community-benefit society. For member and funding manager Tracey Gilbert-Falconer, the model brings expertise but most importantly, buy-in from the tight-knit local community. 

“You need to work with the community than forcing yourself in,” she observes. 

And Câr-y-Môr is poised to double its workforce in 2024 thanks to a Defra grant of £1.1 million to promote and develop the Welsh seafood industry as part of the UK Seafood Fund Infrastructure Scheme. This will go towards building a processing hub, set to be operational in April, to produce agricultural fertiliser from seaweed. 

Full of mineral nutrients and phosphorous from the ocean, seaweed use in farming is nothing new, as Gilbert-Falconer notes: “Farmers in Pembrokeshire talk about their grandad going down to the sea and throwing [seaweed] on their farms.” 

But as the war in Ukraine has caused the price of chemical fertiliser to soar, and the sector tries to reduce its environmental impact – of which synthetic fertiliser contributes 5% of total UK emissions – farmers and government are increasingly looking to seaweed. 

The new hub will have capacity to make 65,000 litres of sustainable fertiliser annually with the potential to cover 13,000 acres of farmland. 

But to feed the processing hub, generate profit and reduce their dependency on grants, the co-op needs to increase the ocean farm size from three to 13 hectares. If they obtain licences, Beyers says they should break even in 18 months. 

For now, Beyers reflects on a “humbling” three years but revels in the potential uses of seaweed, from construction material to clothing.  

“I haven’t seen the limit yet,” he smiles."

-via Positive.News, February 19, 2024

#wales #welsh #ocean #marine biology #aquaculture #marine life #marine animals #seaweed #sea scallops #oysters #united kingdom #uk #conservation #conservation news #overfishing #environmental news #farming #sustainable agriculture #sustainability #ocean farming #good news #hope

[arthursfuckinghat]

Alright!! Here's some more fun trivia about the names in Red Dead Redemption 2:

I mentioned it previously but "van der linde" means "from the linden tree" in Dutch (the west germanic language) - so 'Dutch Van Der Linde' just means 'Dutch from the linden tree'.

"Hosea" is a Hebrew name meaning 'salvation' or 'he helps' - In the Hebrew bible, Hosea is seen as a prophet of doom. Quite fitting for how much Hosea predicted the gangs downfall in the game!

John is a commonly occurring name in different versions of the bible, usually meaning 'graced by god' or along those lines - but the last name "Marston" is an English name. It was originally a habitual term but now it's a common last name meaning "a town by a marsh". Huh.

Also mentioned previously, but Arthur Morgan is a notably Welsh name with multiple meanings. "Arthur" derives from the Welsh word for bear (Arth) and "Morgan" is a combination of two Welsh words (Môr and Cant/Gant), which means sea-dweller.

Kieran and Trelawny's horses both have Welsh names too!!

Branwen is also a combination of words, ("bran" and "gwen/gwyn") that means a white or fair crow. Branwen herself was a famous heroine from the tales of the Mabinogion. She was kidnapped by the family she was forcefully married into, her only hope was a white bird she tamed and sent across the seas to alert her family and save her. The choice of name Branwen could be a reflection of how much working with horses had grounded Kieran or acted like a lifeline for him when he needed a place in the gang.

Gwydion is Trelawny's horse, a name also from the Mabinogion! For me it's especially cool because Gwydion was the son of a great goddess of magic - how fitting for Trelawny and his horse! The name itself is a description of a birthplace, Gwydion means "born of the trees". In the story, Gwydion also practiced magic and created his nephew and wife from flowers :)

#thats it for now but I LOVE this shit #the way my heart soared when I saw names from my culture in a game about the american frontier of all things #its so wonderful #ahh!! #mick squeaks #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #arthur morgan #dutch van der linde #hosea matthews #john marston #kieran duffy #josiah trelawny #mick rants #red dead redemption community #diolch!! 🫶

[thewales-family]

The Prince and Princess of Wales visit the Câr-Y-Môr Seaweed Farm, a key partner of Notpla, the sustainable packaging start-up and winner of the 2022 Earthshot Prize for 'Build a Waste-Free World' in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales -September 8th 2023.

📷 : st_davids_rnli on Instagram.

#prince william #prince of wales #princess of wales #british royal family #england #2023 #september 2023 #wales #wales 2023 #câr y mor seaweed farm #notpla #they're so cute #the wales #my edit

[barkyshark]

Môr - Knight of Fathoms

#new full body ref #couldn't resist adding a darker blood hunter variant #môr #eldritch knight #blood hunter #fathomless warlock #triton #fighter 5e #knight #knight core #merfolk #seafolk #fish folk #fantasy #oc #dnd art #fantasy art #original character #character design #monster girl #sea monster #my art #dnd eldritch knight #eldritch art #dnd #dnd pc #blood hunter 5e #mild blood #blood tw #artists on tumblr

[petite-gloom-mail]

whats a welsh song you recommend, i gotta meet my quota for today!

depends on what genres you like but some of my personal favourites:

gwenwyn by alffa

codi/\cysgu by yws gwynedd

llyn llawenydd by papur wal

lan y môr by adwaith

gwefusau coch by mellt

rebel by mellt

mwgwd by lloyd steele

aberystwyth yn y glaw by ysgol sul

wedi blino by adwaith

rownd â rownd by sage todz

babi mam by alffa and iawn fôn

special mention to international velvet by catatonia which had me in a GRIP as a small rebellious welsh kid living in an angry english household

#on music #cymru/cymraeg

[scarlightglimmer]

metamorphosis. [ mĕt′ə-môr′fə-sĭs ] Dramatic change in the form and often the habits of an animal during its development after birth or hatching.

#the magnus archives #michael distortion #helen distortion #tma fanart #tma spoilers #ish #my art #this took me so long i did it to put off another peice. who said that

[ardafanonarch]

The Others: Ringil, Dagmor, Glamdring, Orcrist, Sting

Swords of the First Age, Part 3 of 3

[This is a continuation of the response to this ask]

Ringil

Meaning: From ringe- “cold”. Quenya. (Eldamo).

Maker: Unknown

Owned/wielded by: Fingolfin

Notable for: wounding Morgoth seven times and hewing his foot.

Fate: Unknown.

But Fingolfin gleamed beneath it as a star; for his mail was overlaid with silver, and his blue shield was set with crystals; and he drew his sword Ringil, that glittered like ice. The Silmarillion, ‘Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin’

Discussion

We don’t know a lot about Ringil besides its epic, climactic moment. Who made it? Was it brought from Valinor or made in Beleriand? Did it somehow survive Fingolfin’s fall? Lots of room for the imagination to roam.

Dagmor

Meaning: Uncertain. Possibly “Slayer of Darkness”, combining dag- “slay” and môr “darkness”. Sindarin. (Eldamo).

Maker: Unknown

Owned/wielded by: Beren

Fate: Unknown

Danger he sought and death pursued, and thus escaped the doom he wooed, and deeds of breathless daring wrought alone, of which the rumour brought new hope to many a broken man. They whispered 'Beren,' and began in secret swords to whet, and soft by shrouded hearths at evening oft songs they would sing of Beren's bow, of Dagmor his sword… Lay of Leithian Recommenced, 503-12

This is the only mention of Beren’s sword’s name.

From the Trolls' Lair

There were lots of clothes, too, hanging on the walls—too small for trolls, I am afraid they belonged to victims—and among them were several swords of various makes, shapes, and sizes. Two caught their eyes particularly, because of their beautiful scabbards and jewelled hilts. Gandalf and Thorin each took one of these; and Bilbo took a knife in a leather sheath. It would have made only a tiny pocket-knife for a troll, but it was as good as a short sword for the hobbit. The Hobbit, Chapter 2: Roast Mutton Elrond knew all about runes of every kind. That day he looked at the swords they had brought from the trolls' lair, and he said: ‘These are not troll make. They are old swords, very old swords of the High Elves of the West, my kin. They were made in Gondolin for the Goblin wars. They must have come from a dragon's hoard or goblin plunder, for dragons and goblins destroyed that city many ages ago. This, Thorin, the runes name Orcrist, the Goblin cleaver in the ancient tongue of Gondolin; it was a famous blade. This, Gandalf, was Glamdring, Foehammer that the king of Gondolin once wore. The Hobbit, Chapter 3: A Short Rest

Glamdring

Meaning: Foehammer. Sindarin. Called Beater by the goblins.

Maker: Elves of Gondolin

Notable for: slaying the Great Goblin.

Owned/wielded by: Turgon, Gandalf

Fate: Unknown

Discussion

Glamdring is a significant First Age weapon for having been the sword of Turgon, though no mention of it is made in the “Silmarillion” legends, as with the other “Troll’s lair” blades. (Tolkien never returned to edit or rewrite the narrative version of the story of the fall of Gondolin — other than the unfinished ‘Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin’, which ends with Tuor’s arrival to the Hidden City — after the publication of The Hobbit; he may have intended to incorporate Glamdring and Orcrist into the legends and never got around to it.)

As the only weapon known to have been in Gandalf’s possession in his last standoff with Dúrin’s Bane, Glamdring may have dealt the death blow to the Balrog. It is not known whether Gandalf took Glamdring to the Undying Lands when he departed or left it in Middle-earth.

Orcrist

Meaning: Goblin Cleaver. Sindarin. Called Biter by the goblins.

Maker: Elves of Gondolin

Owned by: Unknown; Thorin Oakenshield (taken from him in Mirkwood)

Fate: Placed by Thranduil on Thorin’s tomb.

It had killed hundreds of goblins in its time, when the fair elves of Gondolin hunted them in the hills or did battle before their walls. They had called it Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver, but thegoblins called it simply Biter. They hated it and hated worse any one that carried it. The Hobbit, Chapter 4: Over Hill and Under Hill Upon his tomb the Elvenking then laid Orcrist, the elvish sword that had been taken from Thorin in captivity. It is said in songs that it gleamed ever in the dark if foes approached, and the fortress of the dwarves could not be taken by surprise. The Hobbit, Chapter 18: The Return Journey

Discussion

Though Elrond says Orcrist was a “famous blade” he does not say to whom it belonged. As Gondolin had no shortage of great warriors and other nobles, there is ample opportunity for the imagination to run wild.

Sting (dagger)

Meaning: Any previous name unknown; named by Bilbo after he killed a spider of Mirkwood.

Maker: Presumably also Elves of Gondolin.

Owned by: Unknown; Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee

Notable for: slaying Shelob.

Fate: Unknown.

Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath. “I will give you a name,” he said to it, “and I shall call you Sting.” The Hobbit, Chapter 8: Flies and Spider

Discussion

Sting, as a dagger, may not have been an especially significant weapon in the First Age, though of course one can always imagine tales for it involving well-known canonical characters! As with Glamdring, we do not know whether Sam took it with him when he sailed or not.

Finally: Elrond surmises that the “Troll’s lair” weapons survived through multiple plunderings over the Ages — but it’s not a sure thing. There’s room to invent other histories for these blades.

Tangent: Glowing Blue

The ability to glow blue in the presence of Orcs seems to have been a feature unique to these three Gondolin-forged blades. Whether or not other Elven weapons had this ability is unknown, though it’s not implausible that they would possess this or other “magical” properties. For those who enjoy coming up with explanations, the “science” behind the blue glow is also left to the imagination.

Research

Note that these websites contain some inaccuracies and incomplete citations and were used to help with finding quotations.

The Tolkien Forum: Weapons

Wikipedia: List of weapons and armour in Middle-earth

Elven Swords by Iain Norman (This one is an interesting and well-researched essay comparing the sword designs in the Jackson films to Tolkien’s canon; accurate info to the best of my knowledge)

Tolkien Gateway

Part 1 | Part 2

#weapons #ringil #fingolfin #beren #glamdring #gandalf #turgon #orcrist #thorin oakenshield #sting #bilbo baggins #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #the lay of leithian #the hobbit #anon

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Hello! I just saw your "welsh word for microwave" post, and 1.) thank you for the information and 2.) now I'm very curious what the three words for jellyfish are, if you care to share?

ABSOLUTELY, FRIEND

These fall into the categories of 'official term', 'slang term' and 'children's term' but NOT respectively:

Sglefren fôr (lit: "the sea skater")

Pysgodyn Wibli Wobli (lit: "wibbly wobbly fish")

Cont y môr (lit: "the cunt of the sea")

Hey can you guess the official term. Can you guess. Guess. Which is the official term, do you reckon. Which one's proper. Can you guess.

Edit: I just remembered this is an option now:

Don't bother reblogging for sample size this is deeply stupid

#linguistics #asks #wales! #closed for cleaning on mondays