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Silmarillion AU where everyone’s a pothead

The Chillmarillion

where everyone’s an adrenalin junkie

The Thrillmarillion

Feanor hosts a BBQ after burning the ships

The Grillmarillion

AU where Melkor steals Fëanor’s prized pickle recipe

The Dillmarillion

Battle Royale AU for the Silmarillion

The Killmarillion

ancient tales from Ulmo’s realm

The Gillmarillion

Silmarillion AU set in Ancient Sumeria

The Enlilmarillion 

A.U, where everyone is an aesthete mathematician:
The Phimarillion

Silmarillion AU where everything gets pronounced the way Fëanor wants
The Thilmarillion

AU where everything is the same except Thangorodrim is significantly smaller

The Hillmarillion

Silmarillion

Magical girls

AU

The Frillmarillion

I’m having a bunch of Eomer/Fili/Kili feels. Because Eomer’s position is similar to both of theirs – he’s the king’s nephew, the second heir, and is responsible. Fili and/or Kili could easily have been in his position if things went a little differently in the Hobbit.

(OHGOSH I THOUGHT YOU MEANT SHIPPING THEM AT FIRST WHOOPS HAHAHAHA)

Arrrrrgh. ARRRRGH. *hugs them all* Auuuuuuugh. 

Also Faramir. (Tolkien seems to have a thing for replacing the putative heirs. Meanie.)

baggvinshield:

“None the less it may well be, as the Dwarves now believe, that Sauron by his arts had discovered who had this Ring, the last [of the Seven Dwarf Rings] to remain free, and that the singular misfortunes of the heirs of Durin were largely due to his malice.”

in which Tolkien lays blame for the doom of Durin’s heirs, including Thorin Oakenshield

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Thank you for answering so diligently and patiently our shenanigans <3 You're truly praiseworthy and I'm so glad I found this piece of art you're creating. Today I discovered elven naming customs and I found out they have a "mother-name" (Amilessë), some kind of private name. I wonder if Legolas still remembers his? Do you plan on doing something with it? The system doesn't seem as strict as the dwarven one though. Thaank you! *leaves throwing petals on the ground you walk*

No worries, Nonnie! My pleasure. I try to answer as many as I can, and I always feel a bit guilty when I can’t really give an answer. And sometimes an ask just sits in my inbox for so long that I am embarrassed about answering it after all that time, lol

Oh gosh, yes! The mother-names! God, Valinorean naming conventions, PHEW. So complicated.

Aaaaaaand I totally forgot about them, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE REMINDER! (I found a pretty good breakdown on Legolas’ name here, actually! and it looks as though I have free reign to pick something bwaaahahahaha)

Okay, for those who can’t click the link bc they’re on their phone or whatevs, the mother-name (Amilessë) seems to be a prophetic Quenya name, given to a Valinorean Elf by their mum (i.e. Maitimo = Maedhros; Fëanáro = Fëanor). It’s usually used amongst family and close friends. There are four different names for a High Elf! The mother-name (Amilessë), the father-name (essi/Ataressë), the chosen name (Cilmessë) which the Elf picks for themselves, and the after-name (Epessë) – such as Elrond’s ‘Half-Elven’ (Elrond Peredhil).

I think? I could be barking up the wrong mallorn here. Any lore-masters out there want to give us their insight?

whats elvish dancing like?

The dances of Elves are REALLY varied, in my little headcanon! They have
different ones for each season, being so connected to nature, and these would also differ by the people. Noldor
dances are more energetic on the whole than Vanyar dances, and Sindar dances
are the biggest and have the most elaborate patterns. Still, they’d all have
SOME similarities, so…

Autumn dances are the most spectacular: mad and stormy, with fluttering hand
movements and spinning lifts together to symbolise the falling leaves. Summer’s
dances are slow and langorous, lazy in the heat, usually for courting couples
and the like. Spring dances are the most beautiful, with huge circle/pattern
dances that can switch between graceful, airy, floating to whirling in joy that
the leaves come again and the earth wakes once more. Winter dances are the most
intricate: tiny little footsteps symbolising the drifting of the snow and the
creeping of the ice.

We’re talking about a people who are tremendously strong, light and
tireless, so I expect their dances go on for hours and hours and hours. I also think that there would be a lot
of lifting and throwing of each other. Perhaps special clothes, made to trail
in the air after them, could be worn.

Anyway, there’s some of my ideas!

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I have a lot of followers who haven’t read the silmarillion so I was wondering what you think its about based on what you’ve seen on tumblr?

YES PLEASE.

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So I’ve actually read part of it, but I didn’t understand most of it. So here’s what I’ve got out of the rest:

  • There are about fifty elves whose names all begin with “Fin”
  • I mean, I know elves are obsessed with their hair, but COME ON
  • All of these Fin-elves are related to one another
  • But they’re not, like, brothers. Because that would be too easy.
  • Somebody accidentally murders his best friend
  • Somebody accidentally sleeps with his own sister
  • These might be the same person
  • He has really awful luck
  • There’s this elf-chick named Luthien and she falls in love with a mortal named Beren, and he gets his hand bitten off and dies, but she pulls a successful Orpheus and gets him back
  • This is the only happy ending in the whole goddamn book
  • Everybody else dies
  • Except Galadriel
  • There are these big glowy jewels and these brothers were like, WE WANT THEM
  • And they’re kind of heroes, but they’re also kind of assholes, and they may or may not have burnt up some really pretty ships and they DEFINITELY killed some other elves and everything ends VERY BADLY
  • There’s one guy who gets chained to a rock by his hand and another guy gets him down by CUTTING OFF HIS HAND. I don’t remember reading this part, it’s just that it’s in ALL the fanart. Also, the fanart would have you believe they’re lovers, but I’m pretty sure they’re JUST COUSINS.
  • There are two cities that are important, called Gondolin and Nargorthrond, but I don’t know anything about them, partly because they were NOWHERE TO BE SEEN ON THE FUCKING MAP OF BELERIAND IN THE FRONT OF THE BOOK WTF
  • Same goes for all the places in the Undying Land. They’re not on the map either. I’m not sure the map has anything to do with the book. It might just be for decoration.

Hi, I love Sansûkh and it’s gotten me thinking about, well, mixed-race children. I think in the area of Elves we might have an answer, if the child chooses mortality they got to their mortal side’s fate. So what about half-Dwarf children? What do you think?

Oh boy, this is a puzzler.

So, I am not sure, is the short answer. But I like that theory! Ah, Eru bless the Peredhil, they solve so many problems! 🙂

So, yeah – I am totally guessing here, but I think they’d probably be able to choose the same way Elrond and Elros and Arwen and the twins did/do. I suppose that if a half-elven, half-dwarven child were raised by Elves, they would be more likely to adopt an Elven mindset and identify with their Elven heritage more closely than with their Dwarven side. And therefore they’d choose the Elven allotted span/place in the Halls of Mandos (and possible? re-embodiment) over a place in the Dwarven Afterlife, and vice versa.

*shrugs helplessly* IDK!