Let's talk about minks. On Roshar, minks are to mammals what chickens are to birds. Small furry mammal. Must be a mink. There was even some description of a lion that was like "a huge mink with extra fur around its head"

Aroace Maedhros is so excellent though…he does not want any part of sex or romance, he wants to be left alone with his battle plans and you can call him if you have useful intel or if you’ve written a sufficiently amusing insulting ballad about one of his family members

Lost Cities Midjourney AI art by Elina Clevergull

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“She was brought back to Imladris, and though healed in body by Elrond, lost all delight in Middle-earth…” — the Lord of the Rings

For Valentine's Day💕

Y'all ever experience Depression™️ and glue an entire pack of googly eyes to your vacuum robot?

any cat owner already knew this

took me 8 months and very approx 380m of embroidery floss, and I'm now finished. going to have it framed soon :)

As entertaining as this theory is, it actually is canon that Maedhros was right-handed:

His body recovered from his torment and became hale, but the shadow of his pain was in his heart; and he lived to wield his sword with left hand more deadly than his right had been.

just saw a painting depicting the oath of feanor where maedhros had his sword in his left hand and while i think it was a choice for the composition of the piece it'd be really fucking funny if maedhros was already left-handed when his right hand got cut off. like morgoth just assumed he was right-handed like the majority of elves (assuming that it's the same for them as for humans) and strapped him up there by his right hand, and maedhros got home and was like well at least i've still got my sword hand.

Maedhros - I still love this one ages later. I guess that means I did good lol.  Enjoy~

(This is a repost. I’m slowly going to bring back some of my favorite pieces pre-dating the theft of my account.)

I was the commissioner! You did a great job bringing my vision of Maedhros to life.

Maedhros - This was a commission from a while ago. I lost part of my hard drive that had the commissioner labeled. Anyway, I love him. Enjoy ~

(This is a repost. I’m slowly going to bring back some of my favorite pieces pre-dating the theft of my account.)

Gil-galad -  last High King of the Ñoldor in Middle-earth A repost from way back when that I think some might enjoy. I’m slowly going to bring back some of my favorite pieces from before I had my account stolen here. Enjoy~

on it boss

Nobody talks about the Shibboleth of Feanor enough.

That is, nobody talks about the Shibboleth of Feanor enough correctly.

  Feanor did not decide to pronounce things weird, what he observed was that over the millennia, language gradually changed, and he Did Not Like That.  Feanor decided that the language Shouldn’t Ever Change for various reasons, including being the fun police, and being emo about his dead mom, but explicitly, one reason that Feanor wanted everyone to try to speak as close as they could to the same way they did when the first elves awoke is so that there wouldn’t be a language barrier if they ever met the Sindar again.

Now, if we assume that most of the Exiles were around Feanor’s age or younger, and if we assume that Feanor froze his version of Quenya at the point that Miriel died, then we can further assume that everyone who spoke mainstream Quenya did so natively from childhood, learning to speak the language with several of the sound changes that Feanor objected to.

Meanwhile, the younger generations of Feanor’s faction will have grown up speaking the old-fashioned, Feanor approved version of Quenya.

We know, specifically, that one sound change that Feanor personally cared about was the s/th merger, because the th appeared in his mother’s name, Miriel s/therinde.  Th is a weird sound, it’s hard to pronounce and is rare across world languages, so it makes sense that Quenya would do away with it.   However, Sindarin kept the th.  And while Feanor’s Quenya wasn’t the same as Sindarin, both because Feanor froze it at an arbitrary point, and because Sindarin changed probably as much as Quenya did, it stands to reason that it would be closer than the standard version.

Which is all to say, that given the ban and general politics in Beleriand, I find it deeply ironic and hilarious that the Feanorians are the ones who naturally find it easiest to learn Sindarin and have the best Sindarin accents.

Or, TLDR, the sons of Feanor are the only Noldorin leaders who can pronounce “Thingol” correctly, and everyone Hates That.

Now THIS is how Boromir should look!

Boromir by Catherine Karina Chmiel

I just come across saint from 6th century named Magloire of Dol and I’m thinking what if it was Maglor? It’s said he killed a dragon and fight in battle against Vikings. Also rescue two children who drowning in sea and miraculously curing people. I think it’s interesting AU. Have nice day. :)

I have to admit, the Wikipedia entry for Magloire of Dol (a Breton saint to later moved to Sark, in the channel islands, REALLY sounds like him! 

I imagine he’d be rather surprised to be sainted, but then, the Vita Sancti Maglorii is from the ninth century rather than the sixth, so perhaps by the time Men decided to call him a Saint, he had moved on from Sark to … somewhere else!

Okay I was doing the math and when Aredhel and Galadriel are born, not only are Turgon and Finrod almost the same age their fathers were at the birth of their firstborn children, but Fingon is actually closer in age to Fingolfin than to Aredhel. Somehow this explains A Lot about how everybody behaves in Beleriand

Inspired by A Thread Unraveled by ScribeofArda.  

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