vardasvapors:

`I need no map,’ said Gimli, who had come up with Legolas, and was gazing out before him with a strange light in his deep eyes. `There is the land where our fathers worked of old, and we have wrought the image of those mountains into many works of metal and of stone, and into many songs and tales. They stand tall in our dreams: Baraz, Zirak, Shathûr.

`Only once before have I seen them from afar in waking life, but I know them and their names, for under them lies Khazad-dûm, the Dwarrowdelf, that is now called the Black Pit, Moria in the Elvish tongue. Yonder stands Barazinbar, the Redhorn, cruel Caradhras; and beyond him are Silvertine and Cloudyhead: Celebdil the White, and Fanuidhol the Grey, that we call Zirak-zigil and Bundushathûr.

`There the Misty Mountains divide, and between their arms lies the deep-shadowed valley which we cannot forget: Azanulbizar, the Dimrill Dale, which the Elves call Nanduhirion.’

`It is for the Dimrill Dale that we are making,’ said Gandalf. `If we climb the pass that is called the Redhorn Gate, under the far side of Caradhras, we shall come down by the Dimrill Stair into the deep vale of the Dwarves. There lies the Mirrormere, and there the River Silverlode rises in its icy springs.’

`Dark is the water of Kheled-zâram,’ said Gimli, `and cold are the springs of Kibil-nâla. My heart trembles at the thought that I may see them soon.’

-The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, “The Ring Goes South”

Have you every been at all interested in Mythology? Specifically like Greek or Roman? Because I love your depictions of the “gods” of Middle Earth/Arda and wanted to know. I think it’d be cool to think about the Valar meeting other gods like Manwe meeting Zeus or Hephaestus meeting Aule.

OMG yes, I had a period in which I was completely and totally obsessed with mythology, I might have been around 9 or 10? I read mythology encyclopaedias to amuse myself, lmao. I had a really amazing one that’s still hanging around here somewhere, a present from my uncle. It was Cotterell’s one on Norse, Classical and Celtic Myths, and I would read it for HOURS. 

omg Hephaestus and Aule YES. Demeter and Yavanna too! ULMO AND POSEIDON, GROUCHY OCEAN BROS 4 LYFE

Also I get the feeling that Tulkas and Thor would be drinking buddies. 

(Prometheus, Daedalus and Feanor, all bitching together in a corner)