Tag: silmarillion

At that moment Elrond came out with Gandalf, and he called the Company to him. ‘This is my last word,’ he said in a low voice. ‘The Ring-bearer is setting out on the Quest of Mount Doom. On him alone is any charge laid; neither to cast away the Ring, nor to deliver it to any servant of the Enemy nor indeed to let any handle it, save members of the Company and the Council, and only then in gravest need. The others go with him as free companions, to help him on his way. You may tarry, or come back, or turn aside into other paths, as chance allows. The further you go, the less easy it will be to withdraw; yet no oath or bond is laid on you to go further than you will. For you do not yet know the strength of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet upon the road.’

‘Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens,’ said Gimli.

‘Maybe,’ said Elrond, ‘but let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.’

‘Yet sworn words may strengthen the quaking heart,’ said Gimli.

‘Or break it,’ said Elrond.

The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Book II, Chapter Three: The Ring Goes South. 

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goblin-bee: #does gimli, does gimli KNOW he goes through life setting off elves’ first-age-related traumas?, does he ACTUALLY know? was he the elf history nerd in the lonely mountain?, did he spend the entire time in rivendell reading up on people he might be likely to meet?, is this all just– incredible long-con trolling?, legolas figures it out when they get back to rivendell and he won’t stop trying to describe the balrog to glorfindel, and resolves then and there to get him to the undying lands somehow because legolas is 100% on board this asshole train.

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I’m so glad for this post because this has been my headcanon for the gifts of galadriel ever since reading the silmarillion

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such a long con but it’s gonna have the most epic payoff

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I am literally dying SOMEONE WRITE THIS BEFORE I DO!!

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allinye:

The Ruling Queens of Númenor were Dúnedain women who ruled the kingdom of Númenor. Out of its twenty-five rulers, only three were female. In the early days of Númenor, succession followed the principle of agnatic primogeniture that is, rule passed to the oldest male offspring of the King. Tar-Aldarion, the sixth ruler of Númenor, had only one child: a daughter, Ancalimë. To prevent the throne from passing to his nephew, Soronto, he changed the law to allow full cognatic primogeniture, under which rule would pass to the oldest child of the ruler, whether male or female. (x)

semper-draca:

Narvi and Celebrimor based on determamfidd’s versions of them from Sansûkh

both of them turned out looking way more fem than they did in the sketch… oops. Also I can’t draw height differences apparently. 

THEIR. TATTOOS.

alksjgflajgfjshfgksjdfgalsdjf

AMAZING, OH MY GOD YES YES I LOVE YES OH HOW PERFECT IS THATTTT

They are so adorable, I can just hear them bickering! Thank you SO much, you are so kind and skilled (what details!! THE DRESS, THE BRAIDS, AHHH) and your expressions are awesome ❤

christmashippo:

1: I said I would make a proper picture of the Pigrog of Khazad-Dûm. Did you think I was lying?

2: I felt like drawing Narvi’s big brother naked, so here you go. I’m not sure where the bedroom-eyes came from. The stretch-marks were fun, as was the scar. His belly should be bigger and there are no tattoos on him now, but I can always draw him again.

3: I’ve made an Elf! A Mirkwood-Elf. Painting the armor was interesting, I tried to give it a sort of camouflage-look and blend the colours. Not entirely happy with the spikes at the shoulders. This one’s a bit old, probably from last year. Also the only one in this batch with much purple in it.

PIGROGGGGG, BOW BEFORE HIS FIREY BACONY GLORY, HE SIZZLES WITH FURY 

And Narvi’s bro, and what a lovely Elf! Awwww, Hippo, they are BEAUTIFUL ❤

mithrilbikini:

hannahinthesnow:

acornshields:

okay everyone but consider: glorfindel comes on the quest of erebor!au

  • “I HAVEN’T SEEN DWARVES IN AGES” “glorfindel pls calm down” “OH MY GOD LOOK AT THIS ONE? HE LOOKS JUST LIKE DURIN IV????” “yes glorfindel that’s great but the rest of us don’t bother to learn dwarf family trees so we have no idea who you are talking about. also that one is snarling maybe you should put him down????”
  • glorfindel training bilbo how to fight 
  • thorin being like “we cannot take *unexperienced* warriors on this quest” “i killed a balrog” “wait WHAT”
  • fili and kili and practically all the dwarves hero-worshipping him
  • glorfindel and bilbo talking in sindarin
  • “so you’ve actually killed dragons?” “nah man that’s thranduil i heard he killed like 27 in the war of the wrath” “WHAT”
  • okay but glorfindel showing up in mirkwood and is chatting up all the elves when they (almost) get captured 
  • legolas is fanboying. a little. okay a lot.
  • glorfindel and thranduil chatting it up while the dwarves are like “eXCUSE ME WE ARE IN CHAINS”
  • glorfindel hiding in a barrel as they go into laketown (somebody draw this please)
  • glorfindel telling the bardlings stories
  • “we should pour gold on the dragon” “no that’s a stupid fuckign idea bro. let’s shoot it” “well alright then”

i’m sorry to say that putting glorfindel in a barrel will probably end up like this 

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ok but that makes it even better