Here’s an OC for @determamfidd ! This took over 5 hours to do, and I would actually give him a body, but I am too fucking tired to do that.

Aaaanyway, I bestow up you, our favourite honey badger-turned-elf, Laindawar. We haven’t had much of him in your story yet, but I still love his character, and your idea to give Legolas some siblings.

I’m not too fond of how I’ve done his hair, as I haven’t really properly painted hair before, but I suppose it’s too bad for a first try.

But, I’m not gonna complain anymore, and instead, just say how much I love all your work! Keep ‘em coming, babe!

this is YOUR FIRST TIME DOING HAIR??? FIRST TIME??? oh my GOD, it’s amazing, he’s absolutely ABSOLUTELY AMAZING holy crap

thank you, thank you so so sos ooo much! that is an incredible amount of work, and it is gorgeous, he’s wonderful. LOOK. AT THOSE. EYES. That expression is 110% pure Laindawar, flatly unimpressed and two seconds away from ignoring you. AND I LOVE HIS HAIR. LOVE IT.

a while ago you said something that all of the elven bros (legolas, laindawar, laerophen) were older than what the usual age for elves to marry at. so, what i wanted to ask is how old do you think they would be in human years if that makes any sense. so, as an example, if legolas as an elf is 2,000 and something or whatever (i don’t know his age), then he would about 34 in human years?? i’m sure if that makes anymore sense, sorry!.

god, I don’t know if there really IS a comparison to be made to human ages here, Nonnie. There is effectively no end to an Elf’s life, if they are not killed or do not become weary of living, and so there’s no real thing as a human equivalent of 30′s, 40′s, middle-aged, old-age, etc.

That said, we do know from Tolkien that most Elves are married at around 100 years of age. So that’s why that line is there.

We also know that some Elves are OOOOLD. But doesn’t mean that they are frail or their life is drawing to a close, like it would for a human? Their bodies simply do not age. So yeah.

As Elves go, Legolas is young-ish. Arwen is older than him. But Tauriel was meant to be only 600? But she’s an Elf that is 600, not a ‘twenty-something’ human, nnngh.

I don’t want to make you feel like I’m totally negative towards the idea, or that I’m being a snob about it. I’m glad you asked me, Nonnie, even though I feel like am not explaining this well! But I find it really hard to think of Elves and immortality and all that jazz being at all similar to the assumptions we make of mortal age brackets.

IDK, I can’t see Legolas (or any Elf, for that matter) having an equivalence to a human age, considering their agelessness. To me there’s just Elves, and older Elves and younger Elves… and the difference is: Young Elves aren’t as tired – or as wise. Older Elves CAN GROW BEARDS (hey Cirdan!) and get weary of unchanging life.

Other people who know Elves better than me might have some notions to put here, and I’d be glad to hear em! But that’s my little understanding of it, Nonnie, I’m sorry if it isn’t helpful *sheepish sort of look, pushes the cookies over*

linguisticparadox:

“‘Well, well!’ said a voice. ‘Just look! Bilbo the hobbit on a pony, my dear! Isn’t it delicious!’”

And later: “’Mind Bilbo doesn’t eat all the cakes!’ they called. ‘He is too fat to get through key-holes yet!’”

My #1 regret about the films is that they left out the fact that elves are ridiculous little shits.

thilbobagginshieldshipper:

My Drawing of Merilin From Determamfidd’s Fanfiction Sansukh. I am really not good at colouring so sorry about the bad colouring.
@determamfidd

oh she’s so LOVELYYYYYYY

lksjdhflkahdgsalj her red cloak! her beautiful brown eyes!!! THAT EXPRESSION – the perfect Elven blend of curiosity, sadness and aloofness! oh my goodness, THANK YOU and THANK you and THANK YOU AGAIN

ninayasmijn:

asparklethatisblue:

a language based cultural misunderstanding kept making meetings rather awkward. Because khuzdul4u mentioned how the khuzdul word for friend sounds like goat bleating. UuU

@determamfidd

thilbobagginshieldshipper:

This is another Drawing I did for the amazing Fanfic Sansûkh. It is of Laerophen Thranduilion , his arms and Face are a little mucked up but I tried. @determamfidd

OH HE IS LOVELY LOVELY LOVELY!!! oh my, look at his sweet earnest lil Elfy face, he’s absolutely delightful – aaaah thank you, thank you so so very much!!!

orlandobloom:

elf week day two | favorite female elves

Sorry to bother you, but where do you find your names for your dwarf and elf OCs? I’ve tried a few different naming sites, but none of them really sound like they would really belong in the Tolkien universe like yours do.

Hey Nonnie!

I make ‘em up 🙂 For Dwarven names, I made myself a loose set of rules to follow. It appears that the names from the Völuspá have a certain predictability, and so I improvised from there.

There’s one or two that don’t fit: Genild, for instance.

With the Elven names I make up, I usually trawl the dictionary at Hisweloke with a specific goal in mine. Laerophen’s name means “Tree Song” for example, and I wanted a name that meant ‘whispering of the trees’… so what I did was collect Sindarin branch-words until I was able to find a combination I liked!

(I have a whole flotilla of Elf names I haven’t used yet, heheheh)

fishfingersandscarves:

I was thinking about theater and storytelling and it seemed fitting in my mepoc universe that elves would use bunraku to tell their stories,,pictured are some elves puppeteering Bilbo and Thorin on the parapet of Erebor for an audience in Rivendell (probably)