#the silmarillion silmarilion

[mae-it-be-an-evening-dhros]

If The Silmarillion was a Jane Austen novel, I think it'd be called Immortality & Immorality

#the silmarillion #silmarillion #the silmarillion fandom #silmarillion meme #silm #silm shitpost #incorrect silmarilion #tolkien

[millenariumhappinesstheorem]

Every once in awhile, I dream about a Silm adaptation where the first episode begins with just... a black screen. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing for a little longer. And then the first threads of a symphony, growing more and more complex as the stars slowly come into focus. It's a POV shot of an elf awakening on the shores of Cuivienen. :)

#silmarillion #silm #silmarilion adaptation

[spacesunderstairs]

Sometimes when I think about how the Silmarillion is the story of "the great and good", I remember that Galadriel's uncles got into a fist fight at a family function over which one of them daddy loved more. It's comforting to know we're all a little white trash, deep down.

#silmarillion memes #the silmarilion #silmarillion thoughts #silmarillion

[windrelyn]

@feanorianweek 2024

Day 1 - Maedhros (and Fingon) - "Loyalty"

#tolkien #silmarillion #feanorianweek #maedhros #fingon #maedhros x fingon #elves #silm art #fan art #middle earth #my art #the silmarilion #feanorians #feanorianweek 2024

[firinaira]

Maitimo with Elros

Do not use without my permission, please

#firinaira #maedhros #maitimo #elrond and elros #elros #elrond #kidnap fam #art #elves #tolkien #fantasy #silmarilion #the silmarillion #the silm fandom #the silm #digital art #tolkien art #tolkien tag #sons of feanor #feanorians art #feanorians #elf #elf art #silm #noldor #silmarillion #silm art #silmarillion fanart

[morgancrystal]

Monster Slayers Part I - Turin

#turin turambar #the children of hurin #tw: suidice #tw: death #silmarillion #silmarilion fanart #for some reason it didn't dawn on me until 20 hours into this that i'd have to put a trigger warning #this was supposed to be a rather victorious uplifting series and I have failed Turin spectacularly

[cclumsyart]

Finrod in Helcaraxë

For Scribbles & Drabbles 2023 - @fall-for-tolkien

#finrod #finrod fanart #finrod felagund #finrod painting #silmarillion #silmarilion fanart #silm art #the silmarilion fanart #procreate #scribbles and drabbles

[drunkshogun]

Feanor and the Kestrel

#Feanor #Silmarillion #Silm #Silmarilion #Tolkien #Tolkien's legendarium #tolkien's elf #tolkien legendarium #feanorian #feanaro #middle earth

[koyunsoncizeri]

Back from the dead with a Feanor for @elanna-elrondiel 's DTIYS !!!!! Go check her art account her feanor is delicioussss nom nom

#the silmarilion #feanor #feanaro #curufinwe #silmarillion #jrr tolkien #feanorians #art #digital art #portrait art

[maeofthenoldor]

Maglor: *on the phone* Just snap his kneecaps and he’ll talk, I’m at a parent teacher conference.

Maglor: Anyways, you said Elrond is enjoying finger painting! That's great

#maglor #tolkien #silmarillion #incorrect tolkien quotes #incorrect lotr quotes #the silmarilion #kidnap fam #elrond

[knights-of-beleriand]

Luthien Tinuviel and Huan

I hope you like it ❤️

#luthien #luthien tinuviel #Luthien cosplay #Tinuviel #Huan #cosplay #tolkien #lotr #middle earth #lotr cosplay #silmarillion #lotrdaily #the lord of the rings #the lord of the rings cosplay #silmarilion cosplay #elf #elf cosplay #elf core #royalcore #princess core #dnd #larp #high fantasy #high elf #epic fantasy #fantasy core #fantasy cosplay #bookcore #book cosplay #arda

[eldamaranquendi]

Lord Elrond by Sarah Weizhen Xu

#tolkien #jrrt #jrrtolkien #jrr tolkien #the silmarilion #silmarillion #the hobbit #hobbit #the lord of the ring #lord of the rings #lotr #elrond #Hugo Weaving

[ladyofthestarlight]

Siblings

Maedhros, Maglor and Valaros daughter of feanor OC

#silmarillion oc #art #my art #the silmarilion #silm art #silmart #silmarillion #the silmarillion #the silm #silm #maedhros art #maedhros #maglor art #maglor #oc #elf oc #silm oc #Valaros #daughter of feanor #sons of feanor #feanor #feanorians

[imfromthemiddlekingdom]

Maybe it’s because I’m a fundamentally spiteful and resentful person but whenever I read Beren and Lúthien I cannot help but despise how selfish and self fulfilling they are without any benefit to the people around them.

Lúthien is, according to Thingol’s claim of being King to all of Beleriand, Princess to the entire continent. Surely, no matter how politically disinterested she is in Menegroth’s court and how contently she is to dance her days away under her mothers protection, her father claiming the entirety of the land under his dominion means she surely has some responsibility to the people living in it? She is THE princess, her mother is a goddess and her father, for better or worse, is a king. She should have some sort of responsibility to her people, even if we discount the Noldor in Beleriand there are still many Sindar outside the girdle that she should, in practice, hold responsibility over as their princess.

We know she is powerful, perhaps the most powerful non Maia entity in the whole of middle earth during the first age, yet she has never shown any interest (not necessarily a fault if she does not design to enter the war at all and only stay in her bubble, it’s not a flaw not to fight if you chose to stay out of it entirely but it is more so when you do have the power to do something but only use said power to benefit yourself) in defending, or even aiding in the free people of Beleriand. I don’t think I would have as much of a problem as I do with her IF she didn’t choose to use her ridiculous plot armor to only further her own interest whilst having the narrative paint her as a hero and a saint. If the narrative allowed her to be shallow and vain and all in all uninterested in anything but herself it would be different and I would like her so much more for it. But Tolkien wrote her as a heroine, wrote her as a selfless being who is perfect and flawless who has a hound of Valinor by her side to aid her in her “righteous” quest of true love.

It’s jarring to me to read about how “selfless” and “brave and self sacrificial” she is when she challenges Sauron and sung Melkor to sleep when it benefits no one but herself. It’s frustrating how people paint her as someone who is entirely in the right for her actions when in the larger legendarium it is very obviously out of place for such a victory to be had. Sure, you may say that the Doom lay over the Noldor, kinslayers and not, but even the Men who came later who have no Doom beyond Erus gift have it as easy and as fantastical as them.

Lúthien is a Demi-goddess. Not only that she is also a leader of her people no matter if she likes it or not. She has a responsibility to those living under her fathers protection (the griddle) and less so to those outside living on his claimed lands. She has the power to back up her authority if need be as shown during the entirety of her story yet she chooses not to use any of it if it is not to benefit herself. She has the power to sing the greatest of the Ainur to sleep, to sing Melkor the mighty to sleep, to send Sauron his lieutenant fleeing, yet she uses none of it to help others who her father has claimed under his protection. 

“Oh but the Noldors goals were selfish in origin too! They only crossed the ice/sailed to defeat Morgoth and reclaim the Silmarils!” Yes that’s true but their actions in holding back Morgoths forces were also beneficial to all people living in Beleriand. The siege allowed for centuries of tentative peace and allowed mortals with shorter lives to live in relative normality under the shadows of Angband. What did Thingol do in the meantime? Turn away refugees during the aftermath of the Bragollach? Be so isolationist that his own people chose to go with Turgon to Gondolin instead of seeking shelter with his Maia Wife’s protection? What did Lúthien do whilst the Noldor were bleeding and dying for the forces of Morgoth to be kept at bay? Dancing in her glade and doing fuck all with her extremely over powered abilities that could have been the thing needed to turn the tide of war if we discounted the doom?

If the narrative allowed her to be what she is, self serving, selfish and in the end extremely in love, I would not be so much of a hater for anything related to her. But instead because she is a self insert of Tolkiens wife she is idolized and put on a pedestal. That I could not stomach.

“Oh but Fei! Without her stealing a twice stolen jewel the Union would’ve never been planned and because of her bravery in storming Angband Maedhros was given hope that he was slowly losing!” Yes. Exactly. But look where that went. Menegroth didn’t join because of C&C’s actions and Nargothrond barely sent any troops due to it. And boy do I have things to say about people not setting aside their differences to fight against a common foe but I won’t bore you with my own ramblings about how egotistical fantasy elves are and how they can’t be arsed to set aside their own hurts for the good of all for a campaign today.

Beren isn’t any better ngl. As someone who’s people have been targeted and murdered en mass, displaced and had their homes stolen from them, I should be able to relate to Beren. But I never could. I never saw him as anything but a person who ran from his own responsibilities to his tribe when he saw a pretty lady and then sacrificed his best ally to get what he wanted without thinking of how it would’ve affected anyone else other than him. He knowingly accepted a doomed quest, a quest that should’ve otherwise killed him if not for plot armor and in turn killed all his allies that his ancestors cultivated and adored. His own feelings took precedence over an entire kingdom. No matter how eager Finrod was to assist him, he still weighed his own happiness against an entire kingdom of people and found it more important and that I could not stand.

Maybe it’s cultural. Maybe it’s because of my culture that such selfishness and self righteousness never sat right with me. Coupled on with how the narrative justifies twice stolen artifacts as the thief’s since they “won” it and since it was hallowed it never belonged to Feanors sons anyways because I guess a higher being thought their judgment had any right to be extended to the people they abandoned, never sat right in my mind. I really don’t care how fans justify the works of someone’s hands being no longer theirs because of holy judgement. A council of higher power who never did anything to help the ones their kindred wronged beyond a cursory “they’ve changed and repented and therefore we would do no more than to warn him of his own folly” has no right in dictating how said beings own works should be inherited or how said beings magnum opus should or should not be held by worthy hands. If they had no hand in creating it they have no right to dictate who is worthy and who is not. Lúthien and Beren stealing a stolen work does not give them rights to it. No matter how much people would like to argue that “oh the Silmarils would’ve rejected the sons of Feanor anyways so why not let prettiest elf maiden ever to have it instead of those dastardly kinslayers!!!” It does not belong to the person who stole it no matter how justified it may have been in their minds. Morgoth probably thought his theft of the Silmarils was justified too, and pretty sure if you asked him he would’ve had a very convincing argument on how since the light of the two trees was created by his kin and Feanor only found a vessel to hold it, it technically is still the light of the two trees and therefore it belongs to the Valar instead of the first born of Eru.

“Oh but Fei! She kept it as a compensation for C&C keeping her without her consent and Celegorm trying to force her to marry him!” You do realize for compensation to be valid for a crime committed against another the perpetrators must be aware that said compensation is taking place right? If let’s say, Celegorm somehow managed to be less oath bound along with the other SoF and decided that yes, his actions towards her was monstrous and out of line and decided that the Silmaril was his way of apologizing it would be a different story. It cannot be a compensation without both parties being aware of it! Why do you think my county and Japan still haven’t made up and have rocky international relationships despite how many times they’ve individually apologized? Nothing in the text suggest that Lúthien claimed the Silmaril as her compensation against Celegorm and Curufin. Nothing in the text suggest that the SoF ever decided that, yes, they should do something to smooth over hurts caused by themselves with the Silmaril. So all arguments of “it belongs to them because of xyz and is compensation” is void and non cannon.

Why can’t people let Lúthien be selfish and self serving? Why can’t they look at this elf maiden who is quite grown may I remind you, and think ah yes, she puts her love above everything else and that is a flaw but she is still a good person. Without putting her on a pedestal of sainthood?

But then again I am a hard core Feanorian supporter and I really don’t like the Ainur and anything that has anything to do with them so I am biased.

#the silmarillion #lay of leithian #luthien #Beren #Lúthien and Beren #sons of feanor #the silmarilion #the Silmarils #Morgoth #Sauron #curufin #I’m just extremely salty about this fairytale love story in the middle of a tragedy #Celegorm

[windrelyn]

@feanorianweek 2024

Day 4 - Caranthir and Ambarussa - "Fireflies"

It's based on an old fanfic of mine. But in it, Caranthir went to the forest with little Curufin instead of the twins.

#tolkien #silmarillion #feanorianweek #caranthir #amrod #amras #ambarussa #elves #my art #middle earth #fanart #silm art #feanorianweek2024 #the silmarilion

[firinaira]

Before the last step...

Do not use without my permission, please

#firinaira #maedhros #maitimo #russandol #feanorians #feanorians art #sons of feanor #silmarillion #the silm fandom #the silm #silm #silmarilion #tolkien art #tolkien tag #tolkien #elves #fantasy #digital art #art #the first house #nelyafinwe maitimo #house of feanor #noldor #digital drawing #digital illustration #illustration #fanart #rop #the rings of power #lotr