#two trees of valinor

[whiteladyofithilien]

I truly think that the greatest of all of Samwise Gamgee's great deeds is the mortal blows to Shelob. Shelob the spawn of Ungoliant. Ungoliant who destroyed the trees in Valinor at Morgoth's bidding. This deed ranks above even Gandalf's slaying of the Balrog as far as sheer badassery goes.

Here is this little Hobbit who's spent his life gardening and just admiring elves as a thing in songs and far above him doing a deed so great that any elf lord in all the history of Arda would bow to him for it. The orcs thought there was a mighty elf warrior in the passage and they weren't too far off. Any ancient hero of elven lore would have ranked slaying the spawn of Ungoliant as one if not the greatest of his achievements.

There may be no more amazing deed of heroism in all the trilogy than this. Shelob the last descendant of the most foul of all creatures brought down by Samwise Gamgee. It's even more epic than Eowyn and Merry slaying the Witch-King for this is a remnant of a far more ancient evil. An evil that never was anything but evil. No tragic seduction by the Dark Lord here. Just the spawn of the light eating wholly evil giant spider who terrified even Morgoth.

#samwise gamgee #samwise the brave #lotr #lord of the rings #shelob #ungoliant #cirith ungol #morgoth #two trees of valinor #valinor #trees of light #lights of valinor #silmarils #Silmarillion #sauron #witch king #witch king of angmar #eowyn #merry brandybuck #gandalf #Balrog #earendil #light of earendil #elves #tolkien #tolkien elves #i do not desire the speech of living men

[fistfuloflightning]

white light amid the darkness

Day 1: Noontide of Valinor - prompts by @nolofinweanweek

#the silmarillion #aredhel #two trees of valinor #laurelin #telperion #nolofinweanweek #nolofinweanweek2023 #my art #tolkien art #something something aredhel having a premonition abt nan dungortheb/nan elmoth

[erotetica]

Thinkin abt Laurelin’s fruits being chinese lantern fruit, and Telperion’s flowers being pitcher plants…

#tolkien #two trees of valinor #headcanon #yes this is abt the russingon illustration. there’s a window. #something something the leaves are very shiny and they reflect the light sourced in the fruits/flowers #maybe also reflective sap veins running thru the bark…..

[curiouselleth]

Unable to See the Starlight (ao3)

Gone. Gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone gone GONE. It was GONE and there was no saving it - no return from this darkness, such a lack of light it was seemingly to be a physical force in itself, silencing voices, cries echoing in the dark and shadows in every corner and hall. The trees bearing no fruit or flower but only bringing forth cries and cries and such sorrow it bent oneself over and inward inward inward until one became a husk, as the dead inside as the twisted trunks and dried leaves that once poured forth light.

Every attempt, in that all too brief time of the last mingling and waning failed. crushed flowers, smashed fruits, infertile seeds, and nothing. No weak shining, not a glimmer of light, nor hope.

So many had tried in that hour, gathering flowers and fruits in skirts, cloaks, and robes, followers of Nesa and Vána, Irmo and Manwë and Varda, climbing up into the weakening branches, heedless of the danger and desperate to do something - anything - to try to save them, to save the light. Aulë and Vairë, all their followers, all kinds of smiths, sculptors, weavers, artists, masons and glassblowers, all tried in vain to preserve the little we had left. All not trying to help Yavanna, Varda, and Estë sought some way, if not trying to preserve the light, struggling to find some way, any way, to help. Gathering water and leftover food left forgotten in the banquet hall, bringing blankets and tea to the ones in shock, trying to bring some meager comfort to those in the throes of grief, or trying to claw back some semblance of governance amongst the panic.

The weavers working in threads, silks, and satins, or tapestry and dyes. All crumbled or dulled.

Glassblowers and stonecutters and jewelers trying to create works as captivating as the stolen gems of Feanor, grim, as it had never been when some fancied themselves a match for Feanor and tried to create their own radiant stones.

The smiths working in metal, reflective and harsh, first promising but ultimately cold and dark.

Sculptors perhaps the closest to a vessel to preserve them - fine, delicate forms built of all things, wood, clay, glass and crystal.

All failed, all the valar. Those who tried to heal the trees and those who tried to plant the flowers and fruits.

Only one true flower, and one true fruit remained. It was decided that Aulë was to try to make a work, not to preserve the flower and fruit to plant new trees, but vessels to sustain them in light and memory. A great work, a long, hard work.

After the last two were taken by the valar, a child found a way to preserve them. The light faded, but a child of one who tried to save a flower had placed the flower on the table, and a book carelessly on top. Hours, perhaps days, perhaps minutes later - without it it was simply too hard to tell, and too painful to mark the hours - it was found. Pressed flat and dry, dead but not decaying. She showed her friends who gathered more, and slowly, slowly, these pressed flowers, and later dried seeds, they remained. With the rest of us. Not to last forever, not anymore. We know better now. But to last a bit longer, to bear us to the new ages of the world where all is changed.

#writing #my writing #ficlet #my fic #fanfic #fanfiction #silm #the silm #silmarillion #the silmarillion #tolkien #jrr tolkien #valinor #the two trees #the two trees of valinor #two trees #two trees of valinor #valar #manwe #varda #elves #aule #yavanna #vana #este #vaire #nessa #irmo #nienna

[dougielombax]

I wonder what happened to Ezellohar after Morgoth and Ungoliant destroyed the Two Trees of Valinor?

We know they each spawned a fruit what would become the sun and the moon.

But what happened to the remnants.

Afterwards I mean?

Did they keep them there?

Did they then become the Two Stumps?

#dougie rambles #personal stuff #speculation #the silmarillion #valinor #two trees of valinor #two trees #Ezellohar #trees #tree #sun #moon #morgoth #melkor #ungoliant #jrr tolkien #middle earth #literature #tolkien

[hewalksinstarlight]

Silmarillion AU: The Ballet

Yavanna raised up two trees of silver and of gold, whose light illuminated Valinor. But Melkor, jealous of their beauty, seduced the evil spirit Ungoliant and she drank the light of the trees until they were drained and withered and died, and all of Valinor fell into darkness. Then Nienna lay upon the withered mound of the two trees, and wept.

Hee Seo as Yavanna, Xin Ying as Ungoliant, Sergei Polunin as Melkor, Gillian Murphy as Nienna

#silmedit #silmarillion #ballet au #two trees of valinor #darkening of valinor #ungoliant #melkor #nienna #yavanna #hee seo #xin ying #sergei polunin #gillian muphy

[zeifong]

Mark yonder, how the long laburnum drips its jocund spilth of fire, its honey of wild flame!

#noldor #silmarillion #Laurelin #two trees of valinor #valinor #tolkien elves #elves #lord of the rings #jrr tolkien

[comcumfeia10]

please help me find this - it's consuming all my waking hours!

So far I've been looking for a couple of weeks, but still haven't found the fanfiction I've been looking for! It's a legolasxOFC (I know what you're thinking - don't judge what I like XD) that I'm pretty sure is exclusively on fanfic.net where Legolas has the spirit of Telperion and the OC has the spirit of Laurelin. I can't remember much about how it starts but I know in the end they think that the Battle of the Black Gate has been lost and Leoglas has to use some potion that Galadriel (or Gandalf) gave him to kill them both so Sauron wouldn't get the light of the Two Trees. At first I thought it might be A Bard's Tale (amazing read) but I was sadly wrong. In the beginning, I don't think the OC could fight much but towards the end, there's a scene where she and Legolas are sparring and he tells her she HAS to win bc there were a bunch of misogynistic assholes. There was also a bet on the fight (if that makes any difference).

#legolas #ofc #oc #lotr #lord of the rings #fanfic #help #help me find this #help me find this fanfic #fandom #fanfic.net #ao3 #pls pls pls #reblog to spread the word #this is consuming my life #let me rest #reading #reader #two trees of valinor #silver and gold

[gehen]

The Darkening of Valinor: Tears of Nienna.

"And Nienna arose and went up onto Ezellohar, and cast back her grey hood, and with her tears washed away the defilements of Ungoliant...". © J.R.R.Tolkien "The Silmarillion"

Finished.

#art #tolkien #fanart #ainur #middle earth #silmarillion #valar #watercolour illustration #nienna #the darkening of valinor #two trees of valinor #ezellohar

[bilbo-babe]

#the Roots of Hithaeglir #Elrond Peredhel #Gil-Galad #Misty Mountains #the Lone Elf #one of the lost Silmarils #two trees of Valinor #mineral Mithril

[ayaosguqin]

Feanor was fascinated by the light of the two trees .At times he liked to walk along the path and gaze upon their wondrous light and from this came the need for preserving part of their wonder in his own creation and thus ,the Silmarils were created.

#feanor #fëanor #curufinwe #tolkien #silmarillion #lotr #lord of the rings #j r r tolkien #digital art #artist on tumblr #silm art #tolkien elves #feanaro #two trees #telperion #laurelin #valinor

[maironsmaid]

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

~ Maglor / Finrod (or as I call them Macarato)

#FINALLY DONE WITH THESE TWO LOVEBIRDS #OMGGGGGG hdhfjsjs #soooo exited about this ngl #also this maybe showed me that i should really learn how to render metal and crystals etc lmao #fuck shiny things #not really though bc in this house we love jewellery #it's a rubber #silmarillion #elves #noldor #maglor #sons of feanor #finrod felagund #Finrod/Maglor #Macarato #valinor #years of the trees #tolkien elves #j r r tolkien

[velvet4510]

#jrr tolkien #lotr books #the silmarillion #tolkien legendarium #first age #valinor #the valar #yavanna #feanor #noldor #yavanna kementari #silmarils #lotr poll #two trees #morgoth

[soothingmoonlight]

The Fëanorian shawl that I ordered just arrived and I absolutely love it!

#silmarillion #tolkien #feanor #curufinwe #curufinwe feanaro #spirit of fire #house of feanor #feanorians #house of feanor sigil #silmarils #the silmarils #the two trees #the two trees of valinor #silk and cotton shawl #silk shawl #cotton shawl #shawls #my posts

[curiouselleth]

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Underage Additional Tags: Valinor, The Two Trees, death of the two trees Summary:

It is said that the last flower of Telperion and the last fruit of Laurelin were set into vessels and became the Sun and Moon. But what happened to all the other flowers and fruits of the Two Trees? This is written like a short memoir by one of the elves that lived through it.

#my writing #writing #fanfic #fanfiction #silmarillion #the silmarillion #silm #the silm #valinor #darkening of valinor #the darkening of valinor #the two trees #tolkien #jrr tolkien #the two trees of valinor #two trees of valinor #laurelin #telperion

[aragornsrockcollection]

I can’t remember if I ever posted this before but I absolutely think about it all the time:

So the history of Tolkien’s world is absolutely riddled with threes, especially in regards to elves and the light of the trees (which is thematically tied to the time of the elves the way the sun and moon are tied to the time of men). There are some earlier threes, like the three Valar who contributed most to the creation of the physical world, (Manwe, Ulmo and Aule), and he corresponding three elements they represent (Air, Water, and Earth/fire). (One day I’m going to edit and release my rambling thoughts on the elemental symbolism in the Silmarillion and then they’ll all be sorry).

There are also three main races in Middle Earth, the Elves (who first had three awaken), then the Dwarves (who had seven, a number unrelated to three, but that makes sense since they are the adopted children so being ever so slightly out of tune with the rest makes sense) and then finally the Men, (who had nine originally awaken, aka three times three).

Then there are the groups of powerful artifacts that reflect those elements, first the Silmarils, which are fated to be lost to the sky, the fires of the earth, and the ocean. These obviously contain the light of the two trees, which is the light of creation. And then of course the three Elven Rings which parallel the Silmarils, not containing the light of the trees, but based in those same three elements and crafted by Feanor’s grandson: Vilya the ring of air, Nenya the ring of water, and Narya the ring of fire.

But here’s the thing parallel story beats also tend to happen in threes. A great example being “significant character held captive by the enemy in tower/tall place is rescued by a loved one who finds them by singing a song and having them answer” which happens first with Maedhros and Fingon, then Beren and Luthien, then Frodo and Sam.

So… where’s the third instance of three powerful artifacts based in the elements of creation in the story? It feels super weird that there isn’t a third instance of this.

My completely out there answer to this problem I just created is there is about to be.

Because one character just received three of something with the light of the trees in it, and has stated that he is going to make objects that sound extremely similar to the Silmarils with them;

Gimli is about to make the Silmarils 3.0 with Galadriel’s hair.

So let’s go back to the years of the trees real quick. Feanor asks for Galadriel’s hair, which she refuses to give him. He asks three times. Why does he want it? Well, we can assume it’s because the light of the Two Trees is said to be captured in Galadriel’s hair, and Feanor is obviously interested in figuring out how to capture the light of the Trees in physical objects, because he’s about to undertake the forging of the Silmarils, which are literally just physical objects with the light of the Two Trees in them. In at least one version Tolkien wrote that Feanor was inspired to make the Silmarils by Galadriel’s hair.

It isn’t a leap to think Feanor believes studying her hair can help him figure out how to make the Silmarils, or even that he originally intended to USE her hair to make the Silmarils. He obviously figures it out without whatever knowledge he would have gained from it, and he captures the light and puts it into imperishable crystal that according to the translation of elven history we are technically reading, no one else knows how to make.

But the elves don’t know the secrets of the dwarves. Who the hell knows if they have created a similar material. We do know that when Gimli is asked by Galadriel what he will do with her hair if she gifts it to him, he says he will encase it in imperishable crystal.

Which… to me… sounds like he’s about to make some imperishable crystal with the light of the trees in it. And that is basically a goddamn Silmaril. That is what a Silmaril is. HE JUST DESCRIBED A SILMARIL. Gimli is planning on making Friendship Silmarils.

And it makes sense that the last iteration of three powerful objects in the vein of the Silmarils would happen in the dawning of the age of men, because the significant number for Men is three times three. This would be the third instance of three powerful artifacts being made- three times three.

Also just going to point out that breaking into Valinor without permission is explicitly shown to be made possible with a Silmaril. And Gimli is the first dwarf to go to Valinor. Hmmm. That’s interesting.

I personally believe he’s the first dwarf to ever want to go to Valinor, and similar to Tuor, the Valar just straight up hadn’t set up a rule against it yet and that’s how he gets in. But crafting three Silmaril-esc items and bringing them to the Valar has so many juicy possibilities for what it would do for the world, especially the elves of Valinor, who at their strongest relied on the light of the trees that would be reflected in these objects.

Needless to say, whatever Gimli makes will be super powerful, but in the theme of Tolkien’s work, not as powerful as the objects they are reflections of. Power trickling down through the ages and being increasingly watered down is a constant in this world.

Also this is obviously a stretch. But I do think about it.

All.

The.

Goddamn.

Time.

#tolkien #the silmarillion #jirt #lotr #silmarillion #jrr tolkien #silm #feanor #gimli is my favorite #Gimli #Gimli son of Gloin #the two trees #the Silmarils #Galadriel #the song is cyclical #Valinor #the elven rings #rule of three #I have so many ideas about this