This is Lady Nienna the Lady of Mercy.
Number three of my Valar for determamfidd.
OH BEAUTIFULLLLL
BLUE HAIR YES YES awww Nienna. One of my faves, I love her. Those tears winding around her throat like a brand, oh my gooooooooosh *clutches chest* that is SO creative, I love it!! Thank you thank you so much!
Varda Elbereth Gilthoniel
So I got inspired when I saw the beautiful Aulë and Yavanna that had been made…
YESSSSSSSSS
I absolutely headcanon POC!Varda, absolutely 😀 With galaxies in her eyes and stars beneath her skin, heh. Whoa that hair!! This is awesome, thank you so much! ❤
This is Valar number two for determamfidd. This is my drawing of Mahal (Auze) the Valar of the Dwarves.
OMG! I love love LOVE those ‘cracks’ all over his skin, like stone that has split, that is amaaaazing! And woooooot that topknot! Thank you, thank you SO much!
(Thank you, Nonnie!)
I haven’t really come up with anything for the afterlife for Men, I’m afraid. I’ve been very Dwarf-focused!
askmiddleearth has a really good guide on the different afterlives for Elves, Men (including Hobbits) and Dwarves. Here’s the summary!
Though, the fact that Men (and Hobbits!) go somewhere unknown even to the Valar is sorta intriguing. Perhaps they come to our world? Perhaps you passed Boromir in the street, or Gilraen on the bus today – or do you yourself have odd dreams now and then, of a white tower with pennants flapping in the wind, and the distant call of silver trumpets?
😉
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)
desperately-seeking-something:
There is an aspect of literary criticism known as “death of the author”. It means, basicaly, that once the book (or movie, etc.) is out in the world, then what the author has to say, or would have to say, on the subject is irrelevant.
This is freedom of thought, and for an individual to step up on his or her soapbox and proclaim loudly (or by hiding behind an anon) that you are interpreting it wrong is tantamount to them attempting to slave your mind to their way of thinking.
Tolkien, himself, subscribed to “death of the author”:
“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.“ – J.R.R. Tolkien
So, in claiming that Tolkien “did not intend for it to be seen/interpreted that way” is very much spitting on his words and beliefs in a misguided attempt to try and make your own point.
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!
“What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?”
― Terry Pratchett
– How you write the last sentence of a god damned book!
Hey Nonnie!
I suppose it is possible! However, here’s a thought I had: Dagor Dagorath itself is meant to be the return of Melkor from beyond ‘the door of night’ which frankly makes me think of one of those old lavvy doors with the crescent moon cut into it
sooooo, because all of his servants/cronies/hangers-on are p much defeated long before Melkor returns, I am not sure who it would be who was nicking Elves and twisting them. It would take a long long time to corrupt an Elf sufficiently enough to call them an Orc, I expect. And I don’t know that the newly-returned Melkor would have leisure, what with the whole Ragnarok business.
There’s also the notion that by Dagor Dagorath, all the Elves would have sailed for Aman (or dwindled and disappeared) and so would be under the Valar’s far more direct protection…? Eh.
IDK, those are only some ideas, and no doubt there is more to consider that I can’t think of rn and dun wanna research (I am being tired and grumbly tonight, don’t mind me). Still – don’t let anything I have blabbed about stop you! WRITE THAT DAGOR DAGORATH ANGST FIC, ALL THE ELVES-TO-ORCS, ALL THE TEARS, YESSSS, TO HECK WITH IT.
my kingdom for Morgoth being in the loo all that time, hahahaha
Aw Yiss 