#tolkien rocks

[elfinfen]

Maeglin for intea ✨ handsome prince with a twilight soul

#commission #tolkien #silmarillion #noldor #elves #elf #gondolin #lomion #maeglin #and his rock #lómion

[queensabriel]

Silmarillion fans be like...

Genuinely and wholeheartedly love this fandom so much <3

#the rock opera is so fucking good I can't handle myself #The Silmarillion #The Lay of Leithian #Tolkien #Arda #tlol rock opera

[sewn-with-lilies-fair]

As a holiday gift, I commissioned Aoife O'Dea to sing Luthien's Lullaby from the Lay of Leithian musical.

There couldn't be a more perfect fit- Aoife, who played Arwen in Watermill Theatre's Lord of the Rings musical last year, and Luthien, Arwen's elven ancestor, using the magic of song to send us off to sleep.

Dreams, on the wings of music hover...

Voice and harp- Aoife O'Dea Original music and lyrics- Skadi English lyrics- @nereb-and-dungalef, @quixoticanarchy, and @sewn-with-lilies-fair

Lyrics under the cut.

Day fades to night, Sunset hides its light ‘til dawn’s unveiling. Stars out of sight Shine over those whose strength is close to failing.

I sing before the lord of darkness, Minstrel in the halls that echo starless. Dreams on the wings of music hover- Sleep, bow your head to peaceful slumber. Sleep…

On gentle wings Mist turns the mountains sapphire as the ocean. Like waves I sing, And from the strands of fate my verse is woven.

Over the night the moon is sailing Onward, to the shores where sleep is waiting. Dreams on the wings of music hover- Wait, bow your head to peaceful slumber. Wait…

Fine threads of rain Upon your window weave a satin curtain. Lay down your pain, And let oblivion relieve your burden.

Hear how the restless wind is sighing- Quiet, for the storm has ceased its crying. Dreams on the wings of music hover- Hush, bow your head to peaceful slumber. Hush…

#happy holidays everyone <3 #lay of leithian #lay of leithian rock opera #lol the rock opera #beren and luthien #silmarillion #tolkien #лэ о лэйтиан #lord of the rings #lord of the rings musical #lotr the musical #watermill theatre #idk what other tags this needs but as long as emerald finds it we're good

[leucisticpuffin]

Findekáno has a long way to go.

#discovery: painting ominous craggy rocks is actually rather fun #fingon #findekano #thangorodrim #silm art #silmarillion art #silmarillion fanart #tolkien #tolkien art #tolkien fanart #middle earth

[serene-faerie]

After watching the Lay of Leithian rock opera, I was inspired to make this poll:

Please reblog this poll for more answers!

#the silmarillion #the silm fandom #silmarillion #silm polls #jrr tolkien #tolkien #tolkien polls #fëanor #the children of húrin #narn i chin hurin #the fall of gondolin #eärendil #fingolfin #celebrimbor #the fall of numenor #akallabeth #turin turambar #lay of leithian rock opera #lol the rock opera

[yukipri]

Stupidly excited about Tales of the Shire, the new Middle-Earth hobbit cozy game.

#tales of the shire #middle-earth #hobbits #hobbit #lotr #cozy games #shire #really i hope this game rocks my socks off #Youtube #Instagram #tolkien

[sunincubeart]

Someone: How long can you draw and mourn the tragic history of the Feanorians?

I: ...yes

Feanor in Hall of Mandos in front of the tapestry with the capture of Maitimo on the rock

#fanart #silmarillion #feanorions #feanor #maedhros #maedhros on the rock #feanor in the mandhos #tolkien #i'm crying #and you too

[mrkida-art]

have you ever drawn fundin, adad of dwalin and balin? /genq

I have actually, I just haven't posted it anywhere (UNTIL NOOOW)

#replies #my art #anon ask #this is from my massive stash of unposted art/wips/sketches lmao #not sure about this design yet though #I wanted to draw a dwarf wearing a monocle while making them sorta punk rock lmao #Fundin #the hobbit #tolkien #lotr #dwarves #the lord of the rings #durin's folk #lord of the rings #longbeards #tolkien dwarves #this is supposed to be a young Fundin so pre any kids involved #art asks #the line of durin #the royal line of durin

[quixoticanarchy]

you know those trucks with the LED headlights that scour your retinas at night like some kind of mobile interrogation room well I think the effect of Morgoth's Silmaril crown should be something like that. the real reason everyone keeps a respectful distance in Angband and always bows before him isn't just about worshipful fear it's also a necessary safety precaution

#silmaril crown - like wearing a ford f150 as a headlamp #morgoth #silmarillion #tolkien #somehow this idea came out of rock opera translation hours but i don't recall why

[adwendoodles]

Animatic of the English version of Luthien's Lullaby from the Lay of Leithian musical!

For now, it shall remain unfinished due to the program I was using constantly crashing and just... making it extremely stressful to continue work on it. I hope you are all able to more or less understand my sketches and enjoy it as it is. I had a lot of fun working on it so maybe someday, with a better animation program, I can try and finish it.

Thanks again to @sewn-with-lilies-fair for letting me use her commission of this song for my animatic.

Ko-Fi Youtube (It has other silm animatics)

#silmarillion #luthien #beren #beren and luthien #lay of leithian #lay of leithian musical #silmarillion animatic #animatic #the silmarilion #tolkien animatic #silmarillion animation #morgoth #luthien's lullaby #lay of leithian musical animatic #i have other ideas for other animatics but im hesitant to work on them until i can fix the krita crashing issue #i even split my file in half and it was STILL too big and kept crashing....!!!! #sighhhhh #anyway hope you guys enjoyed #Youtube #lol the rock opera #lay of leithian rock opera

[shrikeseams]

To be fair, I think there is a strong dichotomy in Silmarillion fandom between people who fundamentally accept the narrative rationale that Beren and Luthien can rightfully claim the silmaril because Fate and Divine Favor UwU, and those of us who... do not buy that.

Either you accept the morals baked into the narrative, or you try to apply real world morality and become an orobouros gnawing your own tail I guess.

#tolkien #i just can't buy it y'all. I just can't. #like. the mass murder is the greater crime! No dispute there! But that rock should not have been in sindarin hands in the first place! #Thingol being a controlling POS doesn't entitle his kid and her boytoy to other people's stuff! #san shoots the breeze

[sewn-with-lilies-fair]

Lay of Leithian: The Rock-Opera

Subtitled Livestream- 13 January, 2024

Two different fates are woven together when Lúthien, an elven princess, falls in love with Beren, a hero of mortal men. To win her hand, Beren is sent on an impossible quest- to cut a legendary gem from the crown of the Dark Lord. So begins this battle between light and darkness, love and duty, in the most enduring tale of Tolkien’s Middle Earth.

Здравствуйте, друзья! Hello, friends!

Want to experience a new Tolkien adaptation? Our little Leithian fandom would like to invite you to one of our livestreams! Come join myself and some other fun Silmarillion fans as we watch this Tolkien rock opera together.

Where: Cytube (video stream) / Discord (live chat) • Links will be reblogged here, 1 hour before the stream When: Saturday, 13th January, 7pm EST / 4pm PST / 1:00 CET Run Time: 1hr, 35m, with a 15 minute intermission Performance Details: Recording TBD; likely to be either the May 2023 live broadcast or the June 2022 pro edit. Language: Russian / Subtitles: English Additional Material: • Lay of Leithian translation • Links and resources

See you soon! 🤘

#did i just reuse the same gif from the last two streams MAYBE #if it ain't broke don't fix it #and i'm very late getting this info out #also sorry to everyone in europe (( i just can't get an earlier time this weekend #ANYWAY come on by and we'll all have a good time #everyone is welcome #tolkien #jrr tolkien #silmarillion #lay of leithian #beren and luthien #it's fun it's free and it's SUBTITLED #lay of leithian rock opera #lol the rock opera

[warthoong]

I'M SORRY I'M DEAD THIS IS ILLEGAL THIS IS ART THIS IS WHAT "A GOOD TOLKIEN ADAPTATION" MEANS

photos by Ekaterina Storm, source

#silmarillion #lol the rock opera #lay of leithian rock opera #tolkien #namo mandos #lúthien #melian

[ilaneya]

my arts for musicals zine! beren and lúthien from “lay of leithian” and finrod and sauron from “finrod zong”

both musicals are based on the same tolkien’s work so i tried to make it look like these illustrations belong in the same book

#silmarillion #lay of leithian #finrod rock opera #tolkien #lúthien #beren #finrod #sauron #ilaneya

[oblivious-idiot]

while rings of power isn’t my favourite tolkien adaptation, young elrond really does hit different

#the scene when he does the rock smashing competition with durin #he looks so good #elrond #rings of power #lord of the rings #tolkien

[rachelillustrates]

My top 7 Faerie stories/worlds atm 🦋

**Note, I am super dupes aware that I haven't read/watched everything, so please feel free to reblog/comment with recommendations!**

Faerie is the pulse of my heart, and my mind/spirit/etc. spends a LOT of time thinking about it, SO here's the most resonant of depictions of the realm/faeries themselves in my current opinion (and why).

(And not in any particular order:)

Elfhame, @hollyblack 's "Folk of the Air" series and all related books

Arda, Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and all related adaptations

"Suitor Armor" by @thepurpah

Studio Ghibli's take on spirits in Japanese folklore

Brian and Wendy Froud's take on Faerie

"Fraggle Rock"

"Tock the Gnome," by myself!

Thoughts:

(Art by Rovina Cai, from "How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories")

I feel very much that Holly Black gets the lushness and richness of Faerie, plus the trickery of it, and that level of dangerous beauty - what attracts humanity to it, etc. How everything is in extremes, too, but also how parts of it echo the human experience - both in terms of courts, but also in terms of the heart, and the emotional impact of intense circumstances and intense feelings.

I am, admittedly, not all caught up yet since I haven't read her earlier works, but of course I recommend starting with "The Cruel Prince" and reading forward from there (the more recent "Stolen Heir Duology" having an extra special place in my esteem)!

(Also special shoutout to the fact that there are Nisse - Gnomes! - in the recent books, AND that her take on Redcaps is absolutely Orcish 💚)

(Also also, cw: Changelings. They can be a triggering/upsetting subject, considering how our concept of them as humans seems to have come about. She does make pretty heavy use of them, but not in the ways that one might expect, and always from a very emotionally-centered space - not a humans-abusing-potential-fae space.)

So, Tolkien - yes, I am including the world of his works in this because even though he considered them religious and specifically-denominational, he took SO MUCH inspiration from folklore and faerie tales (do not even get me started on what got edited out of "The Silmarillion" istg) that Arda is not wholly Christian, from my Faerie-worshiping queer-ass faerie perspective thankyouverymuch. Not to mention what is being done in fandom with the faerie-races, especially the Dwarves and the Hobbits, AND what recent adaptations are opening up with the Orcs!! Obviously, his take on Faerie is a much more literally-grounded reality - they exist in the Earth-based world (as if Faerie has bled into what we expect Earth to be), they have magic (at least the Elves and Dwarves do) but it's both somehow super ethereal and super physical at once. And divinely connected, since the biggest magic in Middle-earth (or any part of Arda) comes from the lesser Gods - the Valar, and the Maiar who serve under them as well as from Big Sky Daddy Eru, but we're not talking about him right now. So that, to me, really speaks to the spiritual nature of Faerie too - which is always always always personally interesting to me, and Jrrt's take on the fae was absolutely foundational in my budding concept of them, before I even really thought about who they are in a conscious way.

I don't know where to recommend starting, since I got into the world through the Jackson films, first, and I wouldn't change my experience for anything because it's given me SO much. But in fandom, shoutout to the works of @conkers-thecosy (read her fics here!) as well as "A Long List of Happy Endings" by vicious_summer and "The Mushroom Mine" series by @chrononautintraining for Dwarf Stuff - and "Splint" by HelenaMarkos for Orc Stuff. Plus, as much as I know it's divisive, "Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" is - again - doing wonders about the Orcs AND doing very well by the Dwarves too, in my opinion, showing them as a fully realized and thriving people (though Dwarf women should still have beards, Amazon!! And there seems to be some confusion around how the name of Durin functions...)!! Available to stream on Prime, here.

"Suitor Armor" takes place in a world that appears very similar to medieval Earth, and as such the worldbuilding itself doesn't feel very specifically Faerie - yet. However, with the main character having significant ties to the fae, and with the story still having space to explore their culture once the tale takes the characters there, I have faith that we are gonna see more of this take on Faerie specifically soon. In the meantime, what we have seen so far - how faerie magic works, how they relate to each other, etc. - rings true for me, and is lovely to behold, especially in the face of the tragedy around their circumstances in the Big Plot.

Free to read here (and coming to bookshelves in 2025!!).

As for Studio Ghibli - Miyazaki's take on the spirits of Japanese folklore - which are absolutely Faerie - was SO formative for me growing up. I don't have anything else to say about that except that he's right!!

I recommend "Princess Mononoke," "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro," particularly. All available to stream on Max right now (but buying physical media is better, and they're very likely available to rent other places, too).

Brian and Wendy Froud's work has, of course, also been absolutely formative for me - especially when I started getting into Faerie properly. Their work doesn't require much commentary either - they're just correct 💗 Nothing I've experienced has ever contradicted what I've read in their books, and I feel like their work really, really gets the energy of the fae and the liminality of their existence. And that there is kindness, and light, as well as danger.

I recommend "Trolls" and "Faeries' Tales," to start with, and of course the quintessential "Faeries" by Brian Froud and Alan Lee, which started it all.

(Also, considering what's below, special honorary shoutout to their work on "The Dark Crystal." Definite overlap there and absolutely counts.)

Obviously there's some crossover with The Muppets here, considering they come from the same studio, BUT if we're looking at just "Fraggle Rock" on its own - absolutely. Though a very different take than those mentioned above, if you're looking for the whimsy and delight at the heart of the fae, the Fraggles have it.

Both the original series and the reboot are currently available to stream on AppleTV.

Okay, and my own! What I'm doing with the world of "Tock the Gnome" is a little bit different - again, we're looking at a realm that isn't free from some of the physical bounds we find on Earth - but in its vast history there is Faerie at its purest, and the characters are on a Big Quest that will be instrumental in restoring the realm to what one would expect of Faerieland (all wrapped up in a body-positive, sapphic-presenting queer romance, btw). My focus is on Gnomes and Orcs, in particular, since the fact that they're also fae is a big part of my message. Recognizing that, as well as recognizing the importance of connectedness between people and the balance of that and personal sovereignty, and how damage to those things might impact the whole of a magical realm.

All pages available to read for free here, across several platforms (with print issues available here).

🦋💗🦋👏👏

#faerie #series recommendations #book recommendations #book reccs #author rec #comic recommendations #holly black #the folk of the air #the cruel prince #lord of the rings #tolkien #the hobbit #rings of power #suitor armor #brian froud #wendy froud #fraggles #fraggle rock #the dark crystal #tock the gnome #inspiration #personal