I'm crying????
Also currently crazy about the idea that Melian (who is at least partly affiliated to Irmo Lorien) sometimes visits her descendants in dreams. Not terribly often, it would seem — there are too many of them — but if she happens to be aware of something she might warn of, or at times, to give advice...
Newly orphaned children around Gondor and Arnor, and where their peoples mingled with others, sometimes dream of a woman with eyes like stars and a motherly manner who holds them close and whispers that everything will be alright.
I enjoy drawing in this style 🥰
all i want from life is to be goldberry of withywindle, living in the old forest with my weird little husband tom bombadil
Finrod's dagger was canonically forged by Fëanor which means that on top of Celebrimbor using Fëanor's hammer to forge the Three Elven Rings, Fëanor's work is contained within the Three Elven Rings- and the dagger itself tells the story of Fëanor's greatest work and some of Valinor's history...
AND The Three Elven Rings represent the three Silmarils and their final resting places: Nenya representing Maglor's Silmaril resting in the ocean, Narya representing Maedhros' Silmaril resting in a fiery chasm, and Vilya representing Eärendil's Silmaril, resting in the sky.
Fëanor is quite literally weaving everyone together... like his mother Miriel.
jrr tolkien: I write literally every kind of character jrrt: this is Beren, he's a wifeguy jrrt: Tom Bombadil, a total mystery but also a wifeguy jrrt: Treebeard, former wifeguy jrrt: Samwise Gamgee, future wifeguy jrrt:... jrrt: Turin Turambar, wifeguy gone terribly wrong
"A king is he that can hold his own, or else his title is vain" says Maedhros and it reveals something interesting about how he sees kinship and his role as leader.
A king is he that does not delegate and when wants something done, goes himself. He leads by example, he negotiates (attempts to, at least) with Morgoth, he places himself at the northern border of Beleriand, and the text tells us that he is even "very willing" that Morgoth's force falls heavier on him. He is ever watchful, he goes personally into battle, and is at the frontline, doing deeds of surpassing valour.
And when he is king no more, when Himring has fallen, and what little hope they had of defeating Morogth has vanished, he has his oath. He loathes what the oath makes him do, this the text says plainly, but the fact remains that he does it all the same.
He clings to the oath, terrified of what could happen if he breaks it. In his last conversation with Maglor, he appears to be more concerned to be an oathbreaker, than anything else, convinced that the doom of an oathbreaker is worse than that of a kinslayer. Because a king that breaks his oaths, is no king at all.
He is trapped in the condrum that the 'heroic' mentality poses. Until the bitter end. When faced with the very fact that the oath was void, his entire worldview, his certainties crumble, and his life has no meaning anymore.
(insp)
on a scale of one to spontaneous combustion, how pissed off would you be if your rightful property was
Stolen
Stolen
Claimed by another
Stolen
Stolen
Passed down as an heirloom
Wilfully kept from you
Passed down as an heirloom
Wilfully kept from you
Actively removed from your vicinity
Used as collateral in an underrepresented diplomatic negotiation
Sent to space.
Human, who just met an elf for the first time: What are your three best qualities? Finrod: I’m hot, I have soft hair, and sometimes I cry because I love my friends.
man i wish romance was real and not just something Tolkien made up for his books
Findis: We must do something to stop Naro and Nolo or you would have good chances to become the only son in the family!
Finarfin: You know, I'm in hurry right now, but when I'll be walking past them I'll give them very accusing look.
Findis:
Finarfin: Yes, exactly like this one.