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Men of Middle-earth Edit Series: Appendix D

Continued from Appendix C. This section will contain information on the Easterlings, Southrons, the Nazgûl, the mortal characters who appear in The Lost Road, and other miscellaneous Men who didn’t fit well into another category.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Appendix A: House of Éorl Appendix B: Misc. Númenóreans, Misc. Dúnedain Appendix C: Middle Men, Northmen Appendix D: Easterlings, Southrons, Nazgûl, The Lost Road, Misc. Men (you are here!)

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Note: We don’t know what any of the canonical Easterling and Haradrim words mean, so I’ve made up translations for their names and given myself a bank of word-parts with which to create OC names. I adopted a lot of names in this section from various adaptations; an asterisk* next to a word indicates that it appears in an adaptation (such as LOTRO or MERP), but not within Tolkien’s canon. These people would have possessed many languages, not just the jumble of word-parts I’ve assembled here, and of course would also include many, many more sub-cultures than I can depict, but I’m doing my best with the extremely limited information we have. None of this is canon unless explicitly stated.

EASTERLING GLOSSARY -(a)r || pluralizer || made up meaning (*Khundolar, *Jangovar, *Sûhalar) ban || “strength” || real element (Ban father of Blodren), made up meaning blod || “pride” || real element (Blodren), made up meaning brod || “great” || real element (Brodda), made up meaning chaya || “wind” || made up meaning (*Chayasír) da || “-ness” || real element (Brodda; “greatness”), made up meaning dola || “horse” || made up meaning (*Khundolar) dra || “beauty, beautiful” || entirely made up ekh || “wild” || entirely made up gan || “master” || real element (Lorgan), made up meaning gûr || “wisdom” || entirely made up hala || “axe” || made up meaning (*Sûhalar) -i || pluralizer || entirely made up; Veradja dialect -iag || “workers” || real element (Variag), made up meaning -ja || “language, speech” || made up meaning (*Veradja); Veradja dialect jango || “victory” || made up meaning (*Jangovar) kha || “power, powerful” || real element (Khamûl; Khand), made up meaning khor || “black” || entirely made up khund || “noble, nobility” || made up meaning (*Khundolar) kul || “song” || entirely made up lor || “fierce” || real element (Lorgan), made up meaning lund || “dark” || entirely made up mûl || “lord” || real element (Khamûl), made up meaning nab || “friend” || entirely made up -nd || “land of” || real element (Khand), made up meaning; Veradja dialect peg || “sword” || entirely made up rad || “light” || entirely made up ren || “one who is” || real element (Blodren), made up meaning sír || “to love” || made up meaning (*Chayasír) sû || “fire” || made up meaning (*Sûhalar) tan || “gentle” || entirely made up tavu || “sea” || entirely made up thû || “king” || one of Sauron’s early names, here made into his name among the Easterlings va || “sail” || made up meaning (*Jangovar) var || “money” || real element, made up meaning (Variag); Veradja dialect verad || “moon” || made up meaning (*Veradja) zakh || “mountain” || entirely made up

SOUTHRON GLOSSARY ashū || “south” || entirely made up boz || “open” || made up meaning (*Bozisha) can(na) || “oasis” || made up meaning (*Sud Sicanna) dala || “night” || made up meaning (*Dalamyr) (f)az || “land” || entirely made up ghyr || “worm” || entirely made up hash(a) || “silence” || made up meaning (*Hasharin) -i || pluralizer || entirely made up inkā || “north” || derived from canonical Inkā-nūsh, “north-spy” mahûd || “troll” || meaning guessed from context (*Mahûd Men) mak || “oliphaunt” || derived from canonical mûmak, “war oliphaunt” mir, myr || “desert” || made up meaning (*Miraz, Dalamyr); spelling varies by dialect mû || “war” || derived from canonical mûmak, “war oliphaunt” nūsh || “spy” || derived from canonical Inkā-nūsh, “north-spy” póac || “jungle” || made up meaning (*Tûl Póac) rin || pluralizer || made up meaning (*Hasharin) raz || “blue” || made up meaning (*Miraz) rûv || “wealth” || entirely made up sar || “magic” || entirely made up sica || “great, greatness” || (*Sud Sicanna) sud || “city” || made up meaning (*Sud Sicanna) tûl || “town” || made up meaning (*Tûl Póac) vek || “lord” || entirely made up yetta || “heart” || entirely made up zish(a) || “plains” || made up meaning (*Bozisha)

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EASTERLINGS AND SOUTHRONS

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First Age Easterlings ft. Tanrad Ídhron (OC), Ban, Tandra (OC), Blodren, Brodda, Lorgan; First Age Easterlings article The story here is mostly canonical. I’ve done my best to give these Easterlings a sympathetic portrayal, emphasizing their diversity and humanity, but that is difficult when all the named Easterlings have negative portrayals in canon. We’ll get more to other Easterling groups (the Khundolar and Chayasír) in a future edit. Tanrad is an OC; his story is covered in a little more detail in the edit I made about his wife Arasdil (also an OC). I gave Bór and Ulfang and their kids names in their original tongue, because they would certainly not have had Sindarin names when they came to Beleriand, and were definitely given those particular Sindarin names after their deaths, because no one would call their ally a name that means “ugly beard.” The story of Ban and Blodren is covered in my edit about the Gaurwaith; you can find out about the alterations to that story here. Brodda and Lorgan’s tales are mostly canonical, with some embellishment. We don’t know the manner of Lorgan’s death; I made that up. The Easterlings supposedly fought on Morgoth’s side in the War of Wrath, but I don’t buy that every single one of them did, especially since there had to have been people who were more chill and people who had mixed Hadorian-Easterling ancestry at this point, so I had some of them escape to join the other army. Elros’ position in the War of Wrath is a headcanon.

Bór the Faithful ft. Kulren Bór, Nabren Díbór (OC), Kultan Borlad, Kulnab Borlach, Kulrad Borthand 95% of this is headcanon, as we know very little about the lives of Bór and his sons aside from their loyalty to Maedhros. I’ve given them all names in their own tongue (they’re alliterative...sorry) because they wouldn’t have been called Bór__ from the jump. Some of the Easterling women were said to be “proud and barbaric” so I had Bór’s wife be a warrior also. We know that Bór died in the Nírnaeth, and that his sons killed Ulfast and Ulwarth before they themselves were killed, and that’s pretty much it for the canon info. Everything else I made up. I tried to justify the meanings of their Sindarin names by their roles/personalities/fates, and I thought Maglor putting them into song, since he would have known them personally, was a fitting way for those names to be applied to them posthumously. Ekhda = wildness; ekhren = wild one: this is basically the concept of a berserker.

Ulfang the Black ft. Pegmûl Ulfang, Lorrad Emerul (OC), Khagan Uldor, Lundda Ulfast, Mûlda Ulwarth Like the previous edit, this is almost entirely headcanon. We do know that Ulfang died before the Battle, leaving Uldor to lead his people into treachery; likewise, we know how Ulfang’s sons died. I made up pretty much everything else. Again, I’ve tried to portray these people sympathetically; they’re definitely not the good guys, but they did have reasons for doing what they did. Also I gave them all new names in their own tongue, because just like Bór and his sons, they wouldn’t have been called Ul__ (“ugly __”) from birth, especially not since they were named before encountering anyone who spoke Sindarin.

Easterlings (of the Land of the Sun) ft. the Easterling subgroups of: the Wainriders, the Balchoth, and the tribes known as the Khundolar, Jangovar, Sûhalar, and Chayasír (LOTRO) So, SO much of this headcanon, though a great portion of it is canon as well! And there’s a lot of LOTRO details thrown in for good measure, though again I have not played that game and am getting all my info on it from Tolkien Gateway. Let’s begin: Túvon is a proto-Sauron character who interacted with Men shortly after they Awoke, not wholly evil but whose arc would have turned against Men if Tolkien hadn’t scrapped him as a character and replaced him with Thû the Necromancer, who himself also replaced Tevildo, Prince of Cats. Since the Thû’s development leads into the creation of Sauron, but Túvon feels like a different sort of character, I have decided to distinguish between them and make Túvon into a lesser servant of Morgoth who also meddles with the Easterlings after the First Age. Everything about him after the first paragraph is entirely headcanon, and even that first part should be taken with a heaping grain of salt. Since there’s not really a great place for Sauron’s name of “Thû” to be reincorporated in his main storyline, I’ve made it instead his moniker among the Easterlings. Most of the places I mention are actually canonical locations! (Though a lot of this is taken from BoLT and not mentioned elsewhere.) Hildórien is where Men Awoke; the Land of the Sun is a name for the lands east of Rhovanion, aka Rhûn (which just means “east,” so I think that’s a name applied by western peoples and not what its inhabitants called their lands); Kalormë is the second-highest mountain in Arda (after Taniquetil) and sits amid the mountain range known alternately as the Mountains of the Wind and the Walls of the Sun (eta: I was wrong, Mtns of Wind are a different place); Palisor is the middle-most region of Middle-earth, aka the western edge of Rhûn / the eastern edge of Rhovanion; the Inland Sea is the Sea of Rhûn, which I’ve given the Easterling name “Tavukhor” (Black Sea) (eta: nope the Inland Sea is somewhere else; but I still call the Sea of Rhun Tavukhor); Sauron is said to have an “eastern stronghold” that the Blue Wizards failed to discover, so I made that a Dark Castle in Khundoland. Khundoland is just the name I made up for the homeland of the Khundolar. I didn’t actually intend for it to have the suffix -land; I just replaced the -ar suffix with the -nd suffix I had decided meant “land” (see Kha+nd, “land of power”) and it happened to turn into a sort of cognate to English, lol. The summaries of Sauron’s attacks against the West that involved his Easterling subjects are mostly canonical, with embellishment and an attempt to at least explain the Easterlings’ actions. Again, I’ve tried to make them sympathetic; they might be servants of Evil, but they’re just people working under a cruel overlord. Some are evil themselves, others aren’t, others just don’t care. It’s complicated. The Wainriders and Balchoth are described as a “confederacy of Easterlings,” so I took that to mean they’re from many different tribes united under Sauron’s banner. However, since I’d established the Khundolar as both Sauron’s main army and as horse-riders, I thought it made sense for them to make up the bulk of those forces. Their women are said to be trained in arms, though they stayed home to protect their villages; I altered this so that women were also warriors in the wagon-riding hosts. From LOTRO, I took the names of four major Easterling tribes: the Khundolar, the Jangovar, the Sûhalar, and the Chayasír. (There are doubtless more, but I had names to use with those four, and I can’t go over every single subculture that would’ve existed in Arda...at least not without anything to build off of!!) In the game (again, according to Tolkien Gateway, not my personal experience), the Khundolar attack Rohan and fight in the Battle of the Morannon; from that I developed the idea that they were horse-mounted warriors like the Rohirrim, and then you can see how I built more upon them as Sauron’s main Easterling servants. The Jangovar in the game attack Dale and Erebor, so I decided that they were probably closely situated to that area: thus, I picked the Sea of Rhûn to be their base, and made them sailors also. (This also happened to fit in nicely with my headcanon for the Nazgûl Kullund, an OC I’ll explore in a later edit.) The Sûhalar are “shorter in stature and armed with axes, to their point where some mistake them for dwarves”: from that quote, I decided that, like dwarves, they would dwell in mountains (also where I’d decided Túvon lived, so I put them together), and who knows maybe they’re part-dwarf in ancestry too, idk. They fought at Pelennor Fields. Finally, the Chayasír are, in the game, the only group who don’t fight with Sauron. They don’t particularly like him and stay out of the War. I decided that they were closest in kin to the Khundolar, Sauron’s strongest supporters, and that one of Sauron’s earliest moves in the East was to divide the two groups so they’d be easier to control, which worked when it came to the Khundolar if not the Chayasír (who were probably the less populous group to begin with). I also decided that the Khundolar-Chayasír people would be where Bór and Ulfang’s people originated from. Anyway, in LOTRO, an “unknown calamity” takes place in their part of Rhûn on the same day that the One Ring is destroyed, and the Chayasír refugees flee to the lands around Dale and the Iron Hills. Those folk are not happy about this, since they’d just won a war against the Jangovar, but while the Chayasír don’t see themselves as being related to the Jangovar, it’s hard to convince the people of Dale of that. None of the refugees will say what exactly happened in Rhûn, just that it’s absolutely impossible for them to go back. This whole situation is quite interesting to me: I decided it was a final curse of Sauron upon them and their lands that forced them to leave, in retribution for “betraying” him; it could be many other things, but this one has an element of mystery and magic to it which could explain why they’re reluctant to talk about it. Plus, zombies! I decided Aragorn in his kingliness would intervene on their behalf, and I moved them to the Desolation of Smaug, which is a shitty piece of land no one else wanted, but they’ll be okay in the long run. This is in contrast to the other three tribes of Easterlings, who kind of come together after their leader is vanquished, and pull themselves together much faster. Sometimes saying “fuck you” to evil is worse for you than if you’d gone along with it...but I imagine the Chayasír are proud they refused Sauron’s service. They’re probably cool people with a strong moral code. Idk. I didn’t actually go much into that in the edit, as you can see.

Veradi of Khand ft. the people of Khand and its capital city Zakhrad (my creation), the Variags We know very little about Khand from canon, so this is almost entirely headcanon. We do know that Khand and Rhûn had a bit of a rivalry before the Variags joined forces with the Wainriders, and that there were Variags at Pelennor Fields, but literally everything else is made up. I took the word “Veradja” (the name of their language) from MERP, but the meaning I gave to it is my own. I did take inspiration from the little summary about the Variags in LOTRO when crafting this story, but nothing super specific. Gûrban the Nazgûl will appear again in a future edit :) In our world, “Variag” is a word of Slavic origin meaning “mercenary,” so I decided to import that meaning into Middle-earth and have the Variags be just a specific military group from Khand and not the catch-all term for everyone who lived there. Since we have next to no information on these people, I had a lot of fun coming up with traditions and intrigue—and it’s very exciting to have a specifically known region outside of the vague “east” of Rhûn and “south” of Harad! To me this suggests a sovereign nation, and the nature of the term Variag implies that they aren’t really bound to Sauron’s will the same way his other Mannish servants are, so it was really great to be able to explore a non-Dúnedainic civilization that isn’t Evil with a capital E. Of course, this is all guesswork and headcanon, so don’t give Tolkien too much credit!

Haradrim ft. the Haradrim subgroups of: the Kingdom of Rûvashû (my creation), the Kingdom of Yettafaz (my creation), the Miraz of Tûl Póac (MERP), Cultists of the Blue Wizards, the Bozisha (MERP) of Lostladen, the Kingdom of Abrakhân (LOTR Strategy Battle Game), the Hasharin and their leader Dalamyr (LOTR SBG), Troll-men, Suladân (LOTR SBG) the Black Serpent of Sud Sicanna (MERP) Like with the East, MUCH of this is headcanon! We don’t even know much about Harad’s geography, and almost all of the names here were pilfered from Tolkien Gateway’s notes on various adaptations (mostly games I haven’t played). I painstakingly integrated those word parts into my made up conlang, adapted them into my verse, and only THEN did I realize upon looking at the main the main article for the MERP game that the game designers had done much of that for me...but whatever, I’m using the names but completely throwing out their ideas because fuck it. And only the Far Harad stuff had the potential to be useful, anyway; the Near Harad info was painfully Gondorian-based and not at all what I was interested in. Sar-Myrin is a (mis)translation of “Tar-Mairon” into cobbled-together version of the Haradrim tongue; they heard “Tar-” and thought “Sar” (magic) which wasn’t really inaccurate, and then Myr (desert) rin (pl.) = myrin = deserts, thus Mage of the Deserts. The Númenóreans and their descendants had much more interaction with Harad than they did Rhûn, so much of the story here is focused on those conflicts; I’ve done my best to make the Haradrim sympathetic despite their service to Sauron. Most of what the Númenóreans did in Harad is canon, though much embellished. I made up everything about the Southron Nazgûl; their kingdoms of Rûvashû and Yettafaz are entirely my own creation, though I borrowed the titles “High Sorcerer” and “Forsaken Reaver” from LOTRO. We do know that there were Southrons who moved to the woods and mountains to escape Sauron, but the names Tûl Póac and Miraz are Middle-earth Role Playing (MERP). The bit about the evening star is a nod to a detail from BoLT where Eärendil and Voronwë, flying in Vingilótë, see “tree-men” and “pygmies” in the south. I’ve referenced the Black Númenóreans Herumor and Fuinur in previous edits, but here I gave them an origin story and a name to their kingdom: Abrakhân, a name I stole from the LOTR Strategy Battle Game; since I translated Abrakhân as “faithful brother” I thought it a fitting title for my headcanon that Fuinur and Herumor were brothers. The Harashin were also taken from the LOTR SBG, as is the character Dalamyr. The bit about the Haradrim using the Nazgûl’s Black Breath to poison their arrows is actually canon! I’ve also talked about Karasalêth and Zâinazimril (aka Berúthiel) in other edits, but here’s the story from their side of things. Aside from Eärnil I’s death being arranged and not accidental, everything about him, Círyandil, and Círyaher is canon, as is the bit about the Corsairs, who I covered in another edit. We know that (though Rómestámo’s name refers to the East and not the South?) the Blue Wizards were more successful in Harad than they were in Rhûn, so I gave them a greater focus here than in the Easterling edit. The names Veksari and Sarazzin are my own creations. Lostladen is a canonical location that we know very little about; Bozisha is a name I stole from MERP and repurposed for my own needs. Inkā-nūsh (or Incánus) is a canonical name for Gandalf that he earned traveling in the South. I skipped over a lot of the minor conflicts during the reign of the Stewards, mostly because this was getting very long and they weren’t that interesting and the majority of them were by the Corsairs who I’d already covered. “Mahûd men” is a name for half-trolls (who were canonically at Pelennor Fields) that I stole from the LOTR SBG, as is the name Suladân in reference to the canonical figure of the Black Serpent. In the Fourth Age, it is canon that Haradrim emissaries went to Gondor, and Tolkien mused that perhaps the Blue Wizards didn’t return to Valinor and that they had a lasting influence in the form of “magic cults” in the South, though those last ideas are dubiously canonical at best.

Hashavis Kuilizîth ft. Hashavis Kuilizîth (OC) A late addition for B2MeM22; this is Berúthiel’s mother. Everything here is headcanon or covered in another edit’s notes. Her name in the Haradrim tongue is “hasha” (quiet) + “vis” (lady); I tweaked the pre-established word part “vek” (lord) to get “vis.” Her name in Adûnaic is “kuiliz” (quiet), which is derived from Primitive Elvish “kuilez” (quiet), + “îth,” a canonical feminine suffix.

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NAZGÛL

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Nazgûl ft. Tar-Míriel (Witch-king of Angmar), Khamûl, Eärmerco (OC), Rôthi Lustahondë (OC), Vekmû (OC), Sarnūsh (OC), Kullund (OC), Gûrban (OC), Aiwareiks (OC) We know, canonically, that Khamûl is an Easterling, and that three of the Nazgûl were once Númenóreans, including the Witch-king. The deeds of the Nazgûl over time are canon in broad strokes, but not in details; everything about my OCs is made up, and I’ve covered many of their stories in other edits. Tar-Míriel as the Witch-king is one of my favorite headcanons; if you want a bit more detailed take on her origin story, check out this fic I wrote.

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THE LOST ROAD & OTHER MISCELLANEOUS MEN

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Heden ft. Heden, Gyda (OC), Beorn Hedensson, Eoh, Mildwyn (OC), Ottor Wǽfre I chose to adapt the story of Eriol into my personal canon, with some alterations, but not the story of Ælfwine. This is largely because Ælfwine came as a revision of Eriol, and Eriol’s text stands mostly on its own. The core story here is “mortal man comes to Tol Eressëa and learns of the Elder Days,” but I changed some of what comes next. However, this first edit is about what comes before. Heden is described as “the leather and fur clad,” and I extrapolated that to get his professions. We know Eoh lived on the coast, but Eriol was not born there, so therefore Eoh must have moved inland, and since we know Beorn killed him that means his brother must have come with him. The duke and his lands are taken from Eriol’s story, but the duke as the father of Eoh’s wife is my idea. There are two versions of Eoh’s death, one where he is killed by his brother Beorn and one where he is killed in the last sack of the city. I decided to combine the two by having Beorn inciting the violence, though his reasons for doing so are my invention. We don’t know why there was war in the duke’s city other than who their enemies were, so it’s possible that Beorn was involved. The fate of Eriol’s mother is also taken directly from his story; I imagine that aside from starvation, she was treated poorly by her people, who blamed her and her father for failing to defend the city. Eriol’s enslavement and escape are also part of his story, though he does not dwell on that time, so neither do I.

Eriol ft. Ottor Wǽfre Eriol, Cwén, Hengest and Horsa, Naimi Éadgifu, Vorindo Heorrenda I decided in adapting Eriol’s story that he did not, in fact, come from our world: instead he is a Man of Middle-earth in later Ages (the Sixth? Seventh? idk), and it’s still definitely MIDDLE-earth, not Earth. Thus, though the text gives the island the name of Heligoland (a real place off the coast of Germany), I left it vague, keeping only nonspecific terms like the North and Western Seas. We don’t know how Cwén died, so I filled in that gap; we also don’t know how old her sons were when Eriol left for the sea, or who cared for them with their mother dead and their father absent. (I also headcanon them as twins, so uh...very Elrond and Elros vibes tbh.) So, not wanting to abandon them entirely, I gave them to Cwén’s family to be raised. Eriol’s not getting any Dad of the Year awards, but I don’t like the thought of him leaving his kids to the wolves. Ausir claims that the ancient sailor Eriol meets is Ulmo himself. The “westernmost island” where Eriol meets Ulmo is not specified in the text, but I thought it would be neat if it was Tol Morwen, which is the westernmost island on maps of Middle-earth after Númenor. The summary of the stories Eriol hears on Tol Eressëa is lifted directly from the Book of Lost Tales (both parts I and II). I changed the figure of Rúmil to that of Evromord, as Tolkien was planning on if he’d got around to revising this story more, largely because it felt strange to me that Rúmil would be on Tol Eressëa instead of in Tirion. I changed the name Vairë to Vairilmë to better distinguish between the Vala and the elf; I modeled her name after Vardilmë, the daughter of Vardamir. I changed the narrator of Turambar’s tale from Eltas to Ausir because it didn’t make sense to me that Eltas, a mortal from the First Age, would be somehow living on Tol Eressëa at all, let alone after all this time. I also called Littleheart by his Quenya name Ilverion. You’ll get more on all these elven characters in later edits. I was vague about Meril’s magic ability to make Eriol young again, as I’m not sure how I feel about the concept of limpë; it was also important to me to remind everyone that mortality cannot be permanently escaped: Eriol regained his youth, but he would in time grow old again. We know very little about Naimi: just her relation to Vairilmë, her marriage to Eriol, and her name Éadgifu. I gave Heorrenda the Quenya name Vorindo because of course his mother would also name him in her tongue. The end of Eriol’s tale gets confusing, as Tolkien never finished the story, so I did my best to finish it myself. Meril does warn Eriol against leaving Tol Eressëa (probably because its magic was keeping him alive and hale, even as he aged?), but he ignores her. We don’t know how Naimi felt about all that. In the original version of the story, Eriol returns to bring Men to Valinor in “the Faring Forth” (kind of like a continuation of the Great Journey?) and there’s some kind of great battle that happens (the War of Wrath??), but that was scrapped in the Ælfwine version, and I decided I liked that better. Heorrenda does go with his father and finishes the Golden Book. The whole point of Eriol’s story was originally to provide a mythological origin for England: Hengest and Horsa are the legendary Anglo-Saxons who sort of found England (it’s complicated and they probably weren’t real), and Tolkien meant for Tol Eressëa to become England! But as I mentioned earlier, that’s not in line with my headcanons, so I kept things vague. One last fun fact: apparently Heorrenda was a name Jirt liked to use as the name of the Beowulf-poet, which implies that he was a contemporary of Beowulf!

The Last Ship ft. Lissa Fíriel, Círdan, Celeborn, Galdor of the Havens This story is adapted from Tolkien’s poem “The Last Ship.” Since we know Círdan sails to Valinor on the very last (official) ship from Middle-earth, and that Celeborn comes with him, they were obvious candidates for the elves on this ship; I added in Galdor of the Havens to round things out. I gave Fíriel the original name of Lissa, because in this poem “Fíriel” feels like a name the elves give her (referencing her mortality) rather than her actual name. I added a bit of feelings/backstory to why everything is happening the way it did; the poem itself really focuses mostly on Fíriel’s encounter with the elves from her perspective.

The First Men ft. Ermon, Elmir, Nuin This story is adapted from the Silm chapter “Of Men” and from Gilfanon’s Tale. I decided Nuin was part of the Hwenti Avari, and also that they were nonbinary :) The name meanings of Ermon and Elmir are my own translations. I altered this story a bit to make Túvon (Tu) the bad guy, and I edited him out from the beginning. In the original text, the bad guy was actually Fangli (Fankil), but since they are both proto-Sauron figures I decided the change didn’t really matter all that much.

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My Peoples of Arda Edit Series continues with the Elves of Arda Series!

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12/11/17

I’ve had the absolute best weekend since being out in Seattle. The journey I’m on and the growth I’ve made within myself has been insane and I am so proud and grateful to live the life I live. I’ve done so much to reflect and to learn about how I’m perceived and how I’ve perceived others, and through that, I’ve come to learn and understand how important perception is in this world - how big of a weight it can be if you are unknowingly insecure or close-minded to things and/or people. I’ve learned that throughout my whole life, I’ve had a lot of insecurities when it came to men. No matter why that may be, I’ve been challenged and put out of my comfort zone by working with a great majority of men in my job and also just allowing more men into my circle than I ever would have before coming to terms with my gender identity. I’ve gotten drinks with a male coworker, I’ve gone to a rave with a male coworker, I’ve had heart to hearts with male coworkers, and I’ve bro-ed it out with trans men. I’ve allowed men into my circle more than I ever have before, and it hasn’t been an easy shift, but it’s been such an enlightening one. I am happy to have grown in this way. Being a trans man has opened my eyes to seeing that there are a lot of good guys out there...cis guys who hold the same kinda beliefs and morals...cis guys who are funny, and sweet, and sensitive and caring...cis guys who are authentic and intellectual. And though it sounds ignorant to say, I’ve never viewed any other cis man in that light outside of my brother, Corey. With all this learning, it makes it less scary to transition, because I know my previous fear in having others perceive me differently, losing openness and connection because of a shift in my gender, basically came from my own insecurity with being intimidated and unimpressed with cis men as a whole. That was on me, and maybe somewhat in the fact that I never really felt a connect with any man, or maybe I didn’t allow myself to. I am so happy mohave grown in this way, because now I’m able to embrace the journey and the changes and shifts I might face, without having it viewed in a regular light. And this all links back to my weekend. Friday night I got invited out by a guy a work with in the OR. Though I was nervous and hesitant, I headed on over right as I got out of work, and threw myself into a group of 15+ people who I didn’t know outside of the guy who invited me. I shook off the nerves and was myself, made some new friends, drank, laughed, and embraced the beauty of new connection. As the night went on and as the night came to an end, me, Lee, and this girl I really hit it off with started making the trek to walk back to our cars. I watched how this girl was with Lee, and how sensitive he was. I loved how open she felt she could be with him, and how the three of us were able to take off and explore the city at 3am, just one guy, one girl, and one closeted trans dude. I was so happy. My soul was so content, and that night, I found peace in the fact that my perceptions about cis men have always been wrong, and how my fear of being perceived as something different were my own projections onto myself. I can still be the fun loving, caring dude I’ve always been, and I can still be that soft caring and open guy. My outward appearance will not change my personality and that’s something I have to trust in myself. Saturday night, I met my trans guy friend, Blake, out for dinner and some drinks. Though it sounds super normal and uneventful, it was actually the most influential and notable moments of my journey to becoming a man. We started out the night talking about his new relationship and my extension here in Seattle. We also talked about how he’s moving to Tennessee in February and then he casually started up the questions of where I’m at in my transition. The last time we spoke, I had passed some names by him and he told me I needed to “try them on” in the mirror. To say them to myself till one felt like it fit. I’ve done this and hadn’t found much success...I’ve felt like I’ve needed people to say it to me because I’m feeling awkward calling myself a different name than I have been referring to myself for 24 years. I told him I still really liked Calvin, and that I think I could rock Calvin if I just got my confidence up. He told me that he loved it, that he saw it, and was super supportive. I felt happy just knowing how excited he was for the progress of me being pretty certain on one name. We drove into downtown Seattle and talked the whole way there - me explaining that I think I’m going to tell my parents over Christmas break and my thoughts, feelings, and concerns about being trans. He told me everything I was saying to him were almost the exact things he said to his trans friend Adam a year ago before Blake left Brooke and took on his male identity. We had very similar thoughts and feelings, and it’s been really nice being his friend and walking through this journey with me. I’ve gotta thank his ex for something, because I’ve been absolutely smitten knowing he’s someone I can count on for support and understanding. We got to the pub, ate and drank beer, and decided to go the the Garage to play pool. `He told me the first time he ever used the mens bathroom was with Adam because Adam encouraged him to do it. He asked me if I felt ready and I said no. We went into separate bathrooms for the first part of the night but I felt very understood for him to ask. When we talked about names, he told me I should start introducing myself to new people as Calvin. Shortly after, these two really ice people invited me and Blake out on a Christmas Pub Crawl. One of the girls was super friendly and asked for our names. Blake introduced himself as Blake and I introduced myself as...”I’m uhhhhhhh Cal......Caa....Carissa” (merp) But I tried. I could see Blake out of the corner of my eye kinda being like yes do it do it, but I couldn’t. I wasn’t ready. And that’s okay. The fact that I even felt the urge to use my new name, gives me an immense amount of hope and so much excitement. Later on, Blake called me Calvin....and we bro-ed it out all night, drinking beer and playing pool. I never want to forget how it felt to have him call me Calvin for the first time. My soul just felt free...I felt fully accepted and respected...my soul felt free and pure. I’ve never felt so light and I don’t think I can express in words alone, how genuinely amazing I felt to be there with him in his company, learning, growing, laughing, unconditionally supporting one another. For the first time since being out here, I felt like I 100% had a friend and I had someone who truly saw me as Calvin. Later on into the night and many many beers later, we landed ourselves at a club and danced the night away. I decided, spontaneously, that I wanted to pee, and I wanted to do so in the mens bathroom. Being seen as a man, being taken seriously as a man, and being called Calvin and referred to as he/him all night, was honestly the push I needed to feel free and released from my shackles. When I told him I wanted to use the Mens restroom, his face lit up, he grabbed me by the hand, and lead me into the mens bathroom. I felt super comfortable, despite the general awkwardness of it being my first time in a mens bathroom, and was happy for Blakes support. It was also a good fucking thing he was there, because I started peeking and people watching without even noticing and he was like come on Bro lets go.....gave me the push to not be an awkward creep making it super obvious this was my first time. We both B-lined it to the stalls and as I shut the door behind me Blake said, “Calvin, wait for me when you’re done okay dude?” I smiled and said I would and was literally on top of the world having my first time using the mens bathroom be with someone who fully supports me and just wants me to start living my truth, but at my own pace. I don’t think he understands and I don’t think I could ever thank him enough for being my main man through this. I truly respect and value his company more than anything and honestly mark this in the books as one of the best weekends of my life. It was just such a tipping stone, and such a genuinely great weekend for my soul. I have never been happier and I have never been more certain in my newly chosen name and how I know I want to be as a man and as a person. I so look forward to more nights with him and though I’m pissed he’s fucking leaving to go to Tennessee, I have full confidence in the fact that he is a lifetime friend and someone I can always go to for anything. This journey has been amazing and I wouldn’t change any of it for anything. I am so blessed to have the people in my life who support me and love me as I am. I want to remember this past weekend forever. Here’s to a new chapter and officially-unofficially going forward in my life as Calvin Khorey Pelletier. My life is a beautiful thing and I am so happy I get to live, breathe, and be me.

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burkhanlig · 7 years

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MUN STUFF. remember to repost, not reblog.

tagged by: @brokenxstarlight ( thanks sweetheart :) )

tagging: @nenindis, @sorceryofxstorm, @beyondforests, @warriorswithin, @curufinwefeanaro, whoever else.

NAME: Rodrigo GENDER: male EYE COLOR: brown HAIR COLOR: dark brown. RELATIONSHIP STATUS: single ZODIAC: taurus (but actually I don’t believe in zodiac) FAVORITE COLOR: cerulean. FAVORITE SEASON: winter FAVORITE PLACE: Patagonia, Argentina FAVORITE HOLIDAY: Carnivals FAVORITE VIDEO GAME: Diablo II LAST SHOW YOU WATCHED: Vikings I think... WHAT’S YOUR HONEST OPINION ABOUT YOUR MUSE?: Margöz is like a friend to me. I think I have put a lot of my own personality on him, imagining myself as how I would act if I were president of Argentina or something like that. I even tattooed my skin with the Rhûnic banner on my back because of him and all the effort and love that I put on him. I don’t think this is the final version of him, and there’s a lot to be developed yet. And sometimes I even repent of created him, this is absolutely true, crazy as it may seem, but I started to roleplay 15 years ago with ICE MERP, and I thought I would find something similar in social networking and this is absolutely the opposite: I was looking for adventure threads and having a ruler as a muse is kind of difficult. That’s why I also created other muses, like Yumrûk, for example. WOULD YOU DATE YOUR MUSE?: No. WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE KINDS OF THREADS?: I like adventure/quests threads above all. If there’s a master in the middle, even better. I found some grace in other threads like angst ones. Never been a fan of the romantic/erotic thing. ARE YOU A SELECTIVE ROLEPLAYER?: Yes. And I have no shame in saying it. There are characters that simply can’t add anything to my experience. I would never refuse a thread, but sometimes I feel I write because I’m forcing myself to do it. DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE MUSE?: Margöz is my only muse now, so he is my favorite. I have other creations like Markîz his wife, Tigkîz their daughter or Yumrûk, his best friend. Also played as Eärendil for a long time in the Facebook community, but they are all B side characters in comparision with Margöz. So yeah, he is my favorite. WHAT MADE YOU DECIDE TO JOIN THE FANDOM?: I have been a Tolkien fan since I was 10 years old. I saw a lot of movement in Facebook with the first The Hobbit movie, and saw a lot of OCs hanging around, and I thought, “why not? After all I have read it all.” The things that attract me the most are those we least know, so an Easterling would be perfect. I made great friends there, but almost all are gone now, that’s why I decided to join on the Tumblr community. DO YOU SEE YOURSELF STAYING WITH THE FANDOM FOR A LONG TIME?: I do. Honestly, I have dedicated a big part of my life to roleplaying and Tolkien’s work. And even when sometimes I get lost in other things or fandoms, I always return to Middle-Earth.

#♦ || Even dragons need a break once in awhile (ᴍᴇᴍᴇs) ||#; munday

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jyum · 7 years

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- ̗ ̀fan account ̖ ́- #TURBULENCEinLA

let’s start this yo okay so i met up with @poeticyoungjae (mina) and @soft-jaebum (mia) at the venue around 1ish?? i got there last because i took forever to get ready and then my sister and i hit traffic :/ but it was all good

i honestly thought the line was going to be suuuper long to get our wristbands (hence why we got there early) but it wasn’t! there was no line at all so we got our wristbands and we were set!

we then ended up going to ktown to go to this kpop store and it was so fun the car ride was the best thing because we were bumping to got7 and when boomx3 came out we pulled down our windows and we were getting lit! (i bought this cute jaebum ring thingy for my phone from the kpop store and IT’S MY FAVORITE THING EVER)

by the time we got back to venue it was like 4ish and we just walked around and bought stuff from the fansites and got all the cute banners and stuff they were passing out

we were just hanging out when we hear someone talking from the mic and i guess that was the cue that the doors were gonna open soon so i booked it up the stairs (idk why if our the venue was all seated so we had a guaranteed spot ???)

so we’re all out here doing fan chants calling the members names AND ONE OF THE MEMBERS (I HAVE A STRONG FEELING IT WAS JACKSON OR BAMBAM) OPENS THE CURTAINS FROM THE VENUE RECORDING FROM THEIR IPHONE AND EVERYONE IS JUST LOSING THEIR MARBLES (they did it a couple times)

so that got everyone even extra pumped so we’re waiting and they finally open the doors (by this time, we had met up with @cu june) so it’s me, mina, mia and june and we’re all walking in arms linked so we can get our tickets scanned

we get our tickets scanned and we have to separate because mina had center, june had left center but mia and i were on left so it was kind of :( but it was all good

mia and i walk to our seats and i honestly didn’t think i was going to be that freaking close??? (i was row e seat 39) like i was sh*tting bricks because i was hella close (mia was 2 rows behind me if any one is curious)

so i’m sitting by myself waiting for people to sit next to me so i can make friends and oh my god everyone around me was so sweet (none of them had or used tumblr so we added each other on snap but i love them all so much and we actually planned to meet up if we go to the next got7 concert/fan meet)

so we’re all talking getting pumped and people just start screaming and my friends and i were like ??? whats going on AND WE COULD SEE BAMBAM WITH HIS SNOWFLAKE HAIR AND I THINK IT WAS JACKSON FROM THE CURTAINS

THATS WHEN IT GOT REAL BECAUSE THE LIGHTS DIMMED AND THE CONCERT WAS STARTING

they started with ‘let me’ (I WAS SINGING MY HEART OUT EVERYONE AROUND ME WAS LAUGHING) and then it was ‘boomx3′ (DOUBLE B) and then ‘just right’ those were the first 3 songs they performed

after ‘let me’ they introduced themselves AND LET ME TELL YOU, WHEN JAEBUMS SAID “hi guys i’m jb” I-I ALMOST D-E-D JUST 4 WORDS AND I ALMOST K.O

i got the cutest jinson interactions i’ll post them later but bless i think i’m passed my markjin phase hello jinson i’m ready to be loyal

okay okay so they did the questions where they get the sticky notes with questions on it and ask another member the question and honestly!!! i can’t really remember-JUST MOTHERPHUCKING KIDDING I REMEMBER SOMETHING

JAEBUM WAS TALKING DURING AND IDK IF THE VIDEO GOT CUT BUT I REWATCHED ONE OF MY VIDEOS AND IT WAS QUIET EVERYONE WAS TRYING TO HEAR JAEBUM EVERYONE WAS BEING GREAT EXCEPT FOR MY ASS IDK WHAT HAPPENED BUT I JUST START SCREAMING “JAEBUM YOUR ENGLISH IS GOOD YES YES *screams*” (HE LOOKED AT MY PHONE Y’ALL I JUST WATCHED ANOTHER VIDEO AND MY DUMBASS WAS SCREAMING THAT I LOVED HIM SO HARD AND HE WAS STARING AIDNAJSNJSJDJSJSJ)

okay moving on if you read my tags i love disney so much when mark asked what their favorite disney movie was i obviously lost my marbles and wow jinyoungs favorite disney movie is toy story bless hIM

yugbam danced to juju on dat beat AND BOY WAS GETTING IT AYE AYE

watching them play the guess this song game was one of the best things to watch jaebum kept having to do the squats while flapping his arms like a baby bird and there was one point where they put their ears to the speakers to guess the song like wow they was getting wild they was here trying to pop an ear drum (youngjae won and i loved hearing him sing a part of the song he guessed bLESS)

tHERE WAS ONE TIME WHERE JAEBUM WANTED TO GUESS A SONG AND HE RAISED HIS HAND SO QUICK BUT THE TINIEST AND SOFTEST “jaebum” CAME OUT OF HIS MOUTH IT WAS THE CUTEST FREAKING THING I LOVE HIM and then the rest of the members teased him about it it was cute

jaebum and yugbam had to sing their parts on helium and freaking bambam started singing watch me whip and do the stanky leg and yugyeom sounded so cute he sounded like a minion

they played the behind the scenes from the filming of hard carry and came back on stage with ‘fly’ but okay so we all have seats and we can stand but we have to stay at our seats but there were these groups of girls that ran to the front of the stage so everyone else thought it was okay too so they kind of blocked the way and my friends and i were trying so hard to stay at our seats but ended up getting frustrated because couldn’t see crap so ended up moving a little up (don’t worry we didn��t stay there when we were suppose to be seated like most people we would go back to our seats)

‘FLY’ WAS SUCH A HYPE STAGE YOUNGJAES VOCALS WERE FREAKING AMAZING AND THEY WERE DANCING SO HARD YUGYEOM DIDN’T COME TO PLAY MY BOY WAS GETTING IT EVERYONE WAS DOING FUCKING AMAZING AHHHH I LOVE THAT STAGE

after it was ‘if you do’ and jaebum came out with his emo side and had his hood on (i hope he was doing it for the effect i hope it wasn’t bad or anything pls pls pls i hope he wasn’t upset or anything okay no bad thoughts arianna stop) but yeah my boy came out looking good and was going HARD AND 2JAES VOCALS AND MARKSONBAMS RAP

that stage was amazing tambien i just remember saying “FUCK IT UP” throughout the whole thing

they started their goodbyes and oh my god i was so :-( merp but i was so happy when youngjae sang for elliot yamin he sang for him and then he got up from his seat and was so hyped for youngjae ahhhh i’m so happy for him our sunny

jaebum said his speech and wow i seriously love him with everything my 🌎"thank you for coming *my screams covering up what he said after* peace” and THEN MARKS SPEECH REALLY HAD ME HE WAS LIKE CHOKING UP AND GOD I’M SO HAPPY HE WAS HOME THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING HIM BE HOME (idk who i’m thanking but JUST THANK YOU)

jacksons speech really got to me like i know i’ve been saying this but (not to be a sap) his speech was something i really needed to hear oh my god i’m going to cry BUT JUST UGH I LOVE JACKSON WANG

they “finished” up with ‘hard carry’ and honestly i thought it was for real done like idk why i forgot about ‘homerun’ but they came back on stage AND HAD THEIR ENCORE STAGE ‘HOMERUN’

THIS STAGE WAS ANOTHER ONE OF MY FAVS IT WAS LIKE MY TOP 3 1. boomx3 2. homerun 3. fly

OKAY BUT I KNEW THEY CAME CLOSE TO INTERACT WITH THE FANS BUT I DIDNT THINK IT WAS GONNA BE THAT CLOSE I WAS SO CLOSE TO JINYOUNG HE WAS GIVING SO MUCH FANSERVICE YUGYEOM ALSO HE WAS OUT HERE BEING THE CUTEST THING (i also got cute jinson moments here)

jaebum didn’t come to my side :/ its cool i see him no i’m kidding but i have a close up of each member except my babe BUT IT’S ALL GOOD BECAUSE HE MADE IT UP AT THE HI TOUCH (i know this very long and theres probably going to be more but pls bare with also thank you for reading so far :-)

they finished up ‘homerun’ and they did their bows and it was such a heart warming feeling like i really saw them perform i was and still am so happy like i didn’t even cry i was just so happy i couldn’t stop smiling :-) i could just feel all my love and their love and it was just a big aroma of love and i loved it

^^^ i was going based off my memory and videos but i forgot about when they played the hacky sack game oops

okay so when jaebums partner was introducing herself her name was kat (like a gato) and she did like claw with her hand and jaebum was confused he was kat? and she was like yeah kat and did the claw thing and once he understood he was like oh kat and did the claw thing too aiandjsjdjsjsjs CUTEST THING

and once again youngjaes partners name was arianna (or ariana) and every time they said her name i would scream so freaking loud (i think she was one of the girls that they surprised in the buzzfeed video but i’m not sure)

jinyoung is hella good at that hacky sack game when he was done i kept screaming “messi who?? messi WHO?”

and lastly MARK CARRIED HIS PARTNER BECAUSE THEY WON AND I SWEAR IT REMINDED ME OF A DRAMA HUG WHERE THEY’RE IN SLOW MOTION AND HUG DRAMATICALLY IT WAS SO CUTE AND JACKSON WAS BEING THE BIGGEST GENTLEMEN (like always) TO HIS PARTNER HOLDING HER COAT AND PUTTING IT ON AND THEN PUTTING IT BACK ON HER

oh and bambam called his partner queen and noona and aishsinajsjsjsjs i love him

OKAY HI TOUCH TIME so they’re finishing up the photo op and now i’m reunited with mina and june so its mina, mia, june, 2 other friends we made there and me! we kind of wanted to go last for the hi touch but apparently some fans went twice for the hi touch :/

i guess they didn’t leave the venue and just went back in line and got to high five them again so security was getting pretty strict and somewhat rude

so before anything else could happen we got into line (we ended up losing june) and the line started moving fast

the line up was jackson, jaebum, youngjae, mark, yugyeom, bams, and jinyoung

so ya girl was coming up with what to say to them and the line is moving hella fast!! so mia was first then mina then me and our other 2 friends

i get to jackson and he’s leaning on the table and i high five him and tell him “please be healthy i love you” aidnajjsjsjs he gives me his little turtle like smile and i freaking almost d-e-d but jaebum was after so i pulled through

something happened and mark was not letting go of minas hand so i was with jaebum for like a cool minute so he has like his hand in a low high five position and i’m resting my hand on his and i’m telling i love him and to stay healthy and thanking him and he’s nodding and smiling and staring into my soul like hard core and oh my god i thought this was it this was the end for me it felt like i was going up to heaven

his hair was covering his eyes but i could see his eyes and FLIP I LOVE HIM SO MUCH JAEBUM I LOVE YOU

its youngjae next and i sorta blacked out with jaebum because i was there pretty long and youngjae is the cutest thing ever i high five him and tell him i love him and thanked him and then mark!

i don’t know what happened to me but i was chill with mark so i start “welcome home mark… mark you look so good in turtle necks i love you” HE WAS NODDING SO CUTELY AND WHEN I SAID THE TURTLE NECK THING THING HE RAISED HIS EYEBROWS AND DID THAT CUTE CHUCKLE HE DOES AND I ALMOST K.O AGAIN

then it was the maknaes and i told them i loved them and thanked them (i forgot what i wanted to tell them because of everything that happened :/) and finally it was the prince himself jinyoung

jinyoungs english is so good everyone he practices so hard to improve his english each time they come to the states so i knew what i had to say “jinyoung i love you so much your english is amazing thank you for practicing so hard we all appreciate it” he was nodding and smiling and said thank you aidnajfjsjsjs in my head i was like boy don’t thank me thank yourself you’re out here Doing that THANK YOU

and that was it i walked down the stage and mina and mia were a little ahead of me and once i got outside the venue mina was holding my hand and I BROKE DOWN

I WAS ON THE FLOOR CRYING HOLDING MINAS HAND AND I JUST COULDNT BELIEVE I SAW THEM I LOVE THEM SO MUCH THEY WORK SO HARD FOR ALL US AHGASES AND I JUST WISH I COULD GIVE THEM MORE THAN THANK YOUS AND I LOVE YOUS BECAUSE THEY JUST DESERVE IT ALL I LOVE MY ANGELITOS

after my little moment i had to leave because my sis was already at the venue ready to dip so i said bye to everyone and i had my little dramatic ‘looking out at the stars through the window’ moment while we were driving home

BUT MINA AND MIA SAW MARK GETTING ESCORTED OUT THE VENUE TO HIS CAR AIDNAJFNSJNSJSJS low-key jelly

but yeah that was my fan meet experience if you read all this: thank you so much i love you and i should be posting most of my videos and picture tomorrow while i’m at school (it’ll probably be in my queue)

ON ONE LAST NOTE: JAEBUMS HAND IS SO SOFT HIS LITTLE CHEETO PUFF FINGERS ARE SOFT SO SOFT aidnajdjsjsjs

#I LOVE THEM SO MUCH GOT7 MIS ANGELITOS I LOVE THEM SO MUCH MY 🌎#got7 #170129 #turbulence in la

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