Tag: silmarillion

3to5secondrush:

but for real tho I get very “:T” when people pull the ‘authorial intent’ card with Tolkien all the time, like. The man hated allegory, he intimately understood how ‘myth’ works and wanted to leave his work open for other people to come throw their own paint on the canvas. And you’re STILL going to clutch your pearls over a black elf or intersex dwarves? …Why?

the man is dead! you aren’t going to hurt his feelings! YOU ARE FREE

(and yes a lot of it will veer wildly away from canon info we have about certain things and some folks like to stick closer to the lines AND THAT’S FINE. But if you ever find yourself at the point of writing an op-ed about how Galadriel couldn’t possibly be dark-skinned because Reasons and that TRUE FANS would never portray her that way, then please 1. go boil your head and 2. remove yourself from my vicinity because I need more dark-skinned dwarves and hobbit lesbians and I’ve heard plenty of bleating about ‘authorial intent’ and ‘anglo-saxon myyyyth’ to last me until I die)

I realized something when I was re-reading LOTR/The Hobbit/ & the Silmarillion. Most of the elves are described as pale, so it’s possible that most are white, but both the hobbits and dwarves have mentions of a lot of racial diversity, and the men do as well. POC dwarves and hobbits! Sorry, I was really excited and my cousin said that it didn’t matter, but representation always matters.

(I…. probably take a lot of liberties with Tolkien’s fave word to describe Elves, hahaha. Well, ‘fair’ can also mean ‘beautiful’! 😉 PLUS, there’s that amazing resource that is askmiddleearth’s series on racism! It confirms and/or suggests alllllll sorts of possibilities!

That’s awesome Nonnie! And yes, it matters. I agree with you. It matters so much.

do you have any silm ships?

angbang wait who said that

I have seen some very sweet Fingon/Maedhros art which makes me go “AWWWWWWW” i love you so much i think i’ll make your dad king lol

I am a bit of a sucker for the ultimate magical Orpheus-inspired epic self-insertness that is Luthien/Beren.(IT IS SO MAGIC, LUTHIEN THE SPARKLY SORCERESS, ALL THE MAGICAL LADIEEEEES)

I like all forms of Celebrimbor + Narvi: bros, romantic, queerplatonic, bickering craft-geniuses who can only really talk to each other bc nobody else is on their level, all of it. Just all the Celebrimbor and Narvi.

Beleg/Turin is made of so much angst and woe. OMFG, I am having a sniffle just thinking about it. 

Uh, can’t think of anymore rn, though I am sure I have some! 

bcfurs:

5ummit:

I stumbled across this post the other day, and even though it’s really neat, I noticed a couple errors in the math and the image is way too small to read. So I completely remade it because I’m a giant nerd (and the OP’s blog has been deleted so I have no way of getting in touch with them). I mean, normally I wouldn’t care enough to do something like this, but bloodlines are very important in Tolkienverse which makes me, in turn, very interested in the exact breakdowns.

Also because—ever since I read Silm—I’ve wanted to know exactly how ‘elven’ Elrond actually is because I knew for sure it wasn’t literally half. It turns out Elrond is 56.25% elf, 37.5% human, and 6.25% maiar. The more you know.

BRUH

Do you think Maglor is still alive near the end of the third age, and if so do you think the lotr characters would have ever met him? how would that have gone?? (oh man. how would Gimli meeting Feanor have gone. Forgetting to eat while arguing about which way of cutting gems is prettier?)

Ooooh, gosh. I don’t know. I really don’t, Nonnie. Part of me wants to say ‘YES MAGLOR LIIIIIVES;’ and the other part wants to say ‘that boy, he is SO DEAD.”

(plus, if he’s dead, the possibility exists that he mooched around in Mandos for a while and then was re-embodied in Aman. HUZZAH)

Silm 80s music. Finrod taking his boombox to compete in “songs of mastery” with Sauron. Luthien singing catchy pop songs to lull Sauron to sleep. Also Ulmo as being a patron of music. Just water being the radio of Middle-Earth.

With Maglor as Freddie Mercury? YUP

DJs Osse and Uinen host ME’s version of Countdown/MTV/Top of the Pops. 

also how how how did I forget the neon omfg, fluoro everywhere, everything looking like a packet of highlighters threw up on it