tolkien writing about elves and sex: “desire soon ceases, and the mind turns to other things”

feanor and nerdanel: lol

Feanor & Silmarils

The man who became a star.

the only way i can sum up my feeling after finishing “The Untamed”. i just love wen ning so much, he is absolutely precious.

tres hunters….. tw*ttr liked this so i am posting it here 🗡️🪓🏹

I need to refill my queue but I've fallen deep into the Wen Ning tag on AO3 and I can't get out.

The thing about characters in the Silm and the other extended histories is that… well there’s not really much there, is there?

There’s usually a handful of key facts; there’s hopefully a family tree; there’s the recorded history of the breadth of a life

But by god, it’s like trying to reverse engineer a character, a personality, a soul out of a Wikipedia page. Those are prompts, those aren’t the typical literary characters we’re acquainted with whose authors dig into they’re heads and record dozens of their conversations in full.

The Silm is a coloring book of characters- there’s structure and outlines and clues, but you get to choose what crayons bring which shapes to life. And let’s be clear, there are more obvious colors to use than others to color those characters in, ones that make more sense and probably more accurately reflect authorial intent.

Like a coloring book tiger, no one can be faulted for using orange and black. But some folks might use purple and red, and usually, they’re just as correct based on what is actually in text, provided we’re staying inside the lines (this metaphor’s getting away from me)

And I must say, as a fanfic writer, it is a dream kind of scenario, there’s a lot to play with. From a creative standpoint, it’s really fun, and I admit I take pride in some of the characterizations I’ve cooked up, because I think they are a different shade from most colors I see. I do it on purpose.

I’ve rambled, and I’m not sure there’s much of a point here. I mostly mean to articulate a thought and to say that I actively enjoy that there’s always a veritable buffet of characterizations for every individual character in this fandom, as different authors choose to highlight different aspects of the scant few details and conversations we have. And some might not be my cup of tea, but it’s cool that they’re there.

Fingolfin

Based on a Chinese Drama costume. I haven't watched the show, in fact I don't know from which show is. But when I saw the outfit, the colours screamed House of Fingolfin, so I went for it.

@feanorianweek day 7- Curufinwë Fëanáro and Nerdanel Istarnië

maglor and maedhros look southward from himring

Arien and the Sun :)

Vingilotë is small and swift and vicious.

The swan ships of the Teleri were tall, high, gilded things, glittering with many-colored banners and lights. They shone under their lanterns like stars in the dark sea. They would be garlanded in flowers for dances, and the music had soaked into their boards and echoed out—until, they say, the very end. They had sung a spinning dance tune, high and forlorn, when they burned. It had faltered as the boards cracked and kindled, and crumbled to ash.

And Vingilotë, their kinswoman, is sleek and sharp and quiet as death. She is fair, yes, fair and graceful. She could not be otherwise, crafted as she was, beloved of Círdan the Shipwright and Eärendil the Mariner. She is fair like the neck of a heron or the edge of a knife.

She was built for a desperate, wretched journey against enchantment and the wrathful sea. She was built in fear and mourning and the cold hope of the doomed.

She is fair and bright and very small amidst the sea.

House lineage

oromë, lord of forests and hunter of beasts

“Nerdanel also was firm of will, but more patient than Fëanor, desiring to understand minds rather than to master them, and at first she restrained him when the fire of his heart grew too hot; but his later deeds grieved her, and they became estranged.” - the silmarillion.

fëanorian kiddos