OOOOH my first reaction was to agree that yeah, Thranduil’s daemon would be his Elk… but it keeps popping into my mind that perhaps he is one of those rare people whose daemon takes humanoid form? And then a notion struck me that perhaps… Galion…?
Galadriel – a jewelled dragonfly, iridescent as white opal
Arwen – white-naped crane
Elrond – emerald tree boa
Celebrimbor – CROW CROW CROW CROW CROW SMARTEST OF BURDS
Celeborn – Crested goshawk
Glorfindel – PEACOCK HEHEHEH
Haldir – Ocellated lizard
Luthien Tinuviel – Luna Moth
Beren – GOLDEN EAGLE 😀
Elu Thingol – cougar
Feanor – Silvery gibbon (he gets a PRIMATE, goddamn genius that he was… but one that is hella territorial and defensive)
Gollum – naked mole rat
Denethor – chameleon
Saruman – Ladybird Mimic Spider
Radagast – HEDGEHOG
Okay, I can’t think of anyone else right at this moment, so if there’s anyone in particular I may have missed that you really wanted to see, just prod me and I will put on my thinking cap!
My favorite Celebrimbor headcanon is that he was, in fact, suspicious of Annatar. He noticed the things that didn’t make sense, he was very conscious that he was being directed in a particular direction, he often picked up on parts of Annatar’s story that felt off…
But he knows that Fëanor was famous for being too suspicious to collaborate with anyone, for distrusting everyone who tried to correct him, for working alone and never taking advice or direction, and so Celebrimbor distrusts all his own instincts, he’s internalized very very deeply that his intuitions are Fëanorian and suspect and evil and that the right thing to do is overriding them.
Printed in the late 16th century this small book from the National Library of Sweden is an example of sixfold dos-à-dos binding, where six books are conjoined into a single publication but can be read individually with the help of six perfectly placed clasps. This particular book was printed in Germany and like almost all books at the time is a religious devotional text.
@determamfidd please take a moment to imagine: the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit, The Silmarilion, and Sansukh. I am imagining it, and it is a beautiful thing.
I can’t even imagine it, it’s just too gorgeous for my imagination to handle
Those who have not read the Silmarillion and think Frodo is getting on that boat to live forever, and those who have read the Silmarillion and know that he’s off to die.
“[In the West] you would but wither and grow weary the sooner, as moths in a light too strong and steadfast.”
In some ways you could consider a mortal sailing into the West to be a form of self-euthanasia
Frodo was probably dead by the time Sam got there and that makes me cru
I tend to think the primary purpose of being in the Tolkien fandom is just to remind each other of the tragic beauty of everything in Middle-earth and cry
I can accept that mortals die in the West, but I will NEVER believe that Frodo didn’t get to see Sam again, and I honestly don’t think that’s what Tolkien intended either.
Aw Yiss 