RAEDA WEDDING- 😤

Finally caught up with Raeda week! I had a blast drawing these designs-

Watching and Dreaming sketchdump and Things I Noticed

Eda and Raine exchanged earrings they are married your honor

Darius gay panic is canon

Titan Luz is truly King's sibling (also genderqueer Titan dad let's gooooo

Belos was melted by the rain like the evil witch he is

Hunter is now a palisman carver like his ancestor Caleb

The Hexside Crew have Flapjack tatoos, and Hunter's tatoo replaces his coven sigil as his core belief and pride

Waffles is adorable

Kill me now and I'd be happy

LOOK AT THEM!!!! HOW ARE THEY SO CUTE!!!!!!!

RAINE SEEING HARPY EDA I CANT

Drew this after s2A dropped and apparently never posted it 😭 anyway, I love this one so much!

Okay but the fact that Raine was listening to Eda about how much she cared for her kids, and them not being able to tell her right away they are a rebel with Darius and co and just STARING AT HER LIKE THIS:

WHILE THEIR BELOVED WAS IN PAIN-!

And desperately ASKING THEIR HELP-!

I AM IN PAIN YOUR HONOR

Posting TOH Incorrect Quotes in Place of Episodes Until For the Future, Week 6:

Raine: *entering room slightly disheveled* Sorry I’m late, I was doing things.

Eda: *following behind grinning smugly* I’m things.

How I hope The Owl House will end

Luz: we're back to save everyone uwu

*sees the collector watching cocomelon and laughing scrunkigly in a beautiful garden, where all the owl house at just vibing, hooty is telling all his MLP au ideas to the duolingo owl (they're happily together)

King: LUZZZZ I'M SO GLAD TO SEE YOU AGAIN, MY BIG SISTER IS BACKK:D

*everyone hugs and cries*

Luz: I'm so happy to see yall guys again, but wth did happen there-

King: oh yeah uhm-

(explains how they adopted the collector and just gave him an ipad to deweponize him, raine and eda got married, and now they can spend THE WHOLE TWO EPISODES ON A BEACH JUST VIBING HAHAHAHAAJAH FUCK YOU DISNEY:)

Hunter: uhmmm *nervous*, h-hi Willow-

Willow: oh, hi hunty (giggles)

HUNTER FACE IS SWELLED BY TOMATO SAUCEE

HUNTER: DID YOU JUST CALL ME HAHAAJAJ YOU WILLYSCHWILLYBOMAWOLLOWUWU

*the both kiss HAHAAJAJ*

Luz and Amity attend prom in the human realm and they dance to line without a hook and do the season1 Grom dance:>

The series ends with all the found family taking the photo, Luz and Amity closing the photo album and ending the bedtime story for their kids<3

Quick doodle of my favorite ship <3

ones in a dream I met you

Finrod & the Edain

Commissioned from @bluebeardcrypt

Absolutely in love with this depiction of Finrod and Bëor! They stand on each side of the “gulf that divides [the] kindreds,” each reaching out of his own to meet in Light. Finrod standing amidst the stars of the Eldar, Bëor standing before the rising sun, “Vása, the Heart of Fire, that awakens and consumes; for the Sun was set as a sign for the awakening of Men and the waning of the Elves.”

I’m still in awe of how well @bluebeardcrypt rendered this from my rambling description 😂 Absolutely gorgeous.

(Quotes from the Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth and The Silmarillion, respectively.)

Struggled with this one the most this far!

Day 4 - Future!

Some angst for your soul. I won't apologize 👀

A Conversation between a dwarf, an elf and a man

Dwarf: Well how are we supposed to tell your genders apart? None of you have beards!

Elf: How do you expect us to be able to tell your genders apart? All of you have beards!

Man: None of us can find any way of distinguishing between any of your genders!

Dwarf *gesturing to their beard* and Elf *gesturing to their hair*: The braid work you moron!

Raine: Ok, but how do we sneak past the guards without them seeing me?

Eda, thinking: Hmm. How small can you make yourself, Rainestorm?

Raine, curling up into a ball: This small. Why?

Eda: *picks them up and stuffs them into her hair*

Eda: Problem solved! Let’s go.

Raine, hair in their mouth: How much stuff do you have up here?!

🎶Monstera Melody 🎻

Reading Tolkien’s annotated translation of Beowulf, and learning all kinds of things about LOTR and the Silm from it!

First:

Leave here your warlike shields [from Beowulf]

[Tolkien’s commentary; bold mine:] Note the prohibition of weapons or accoutrements of battle in the hall. To walk in with spear and shield was like walking in nowadays with your hat on. The basis of these rules was of course fear and prudence among the ever-present dangers of a heroic age, but they were made part of the ritual, of good manners. Compare the prohibition against drawing a sword in the officers’ mess. Swords of course also were dangerous; but they were evidently regarded as part of a knight’s attire, and he would not in any case be willing to lay aside his sword, a thing of great cost and often an heirloom.

This gives me some perspective around Tolkien’s probable intended tone for the moment in Meduseld in The Two Towers where Aragon strongly protests against being told to leave Andúril (a sword of very great value and ancientry, and very much an heirloom) with the door-warden. From a contemporary perspective it’s easy to read it as Aragorn being unnecessarily prideful and combative, but this passage strongly indicates that Tolkien intends it to be Théoden who is being unreasonable in that event, an indication - along with many others in the scene, prior to Gandalf dislodging Saruman’s influence - that Théoden is being discourteous and behaving in a manner unworthy of a king who is recieving heroes offering aid. (The fact of Meduseld being a ‘golden hall’ like famous Heorot in Beowulf may be deliberate to strengthen the parallel.)

Second (immediately following the above commentary):

But against this danger [from swords] very severe laws existed protecting the ‘peace’ of a king’s hall. It was death in Scandanavia to cause a brawl in the king’s hall. Among the laws of the West Saxon king Ine is found: ‘If any man fight in the king’s house, he shall forfeit all his estate, and it shall be for the king to judge whether he be put to death or not.’

This adds context to the incident in the story of Túrin in The Silmarillion where Saeros taunts Túrin in Menegroth and Túrin responds by throwing a heavy drinking-vessel at him and injuring him (it’s indicated the injury is serious, so I’d take it along the lines of him giving him a broken nose and knocking out some teeth.) It is stated in at least some versions of the story that death is the punishment for drawing weapons in the king’s hall, in line with the historical customs mentioned here. This gives a further emphasis that what actually happens - Túrin is not punished at all and Mablung strongly reprimands Saeros for provoking him - illustrates that Túrin is, Saeros’ behaviour notwithstanding, in very high favour in Menegroth. (Saeros as the king’s counsellor is also in roughly the same position as Unferth in Beowulf, who taunts the titular character - Beowulf responds heatedly but without violence. Tolkien may be setting up a deliberate contrast here.)

Third:

The word hádor is an adjective meaning ‘clear, bright’…it is almost always found in reference to the sky (or the sun or stars). But that association is in description of brightness…

This was one a lightbulb moment: oh, in the name of Hador Goldenhead (the ancestor of Húrin, Túrin, and Tuor in The Silmarillion), ‘Goldenhead’ isn’t an additional name/epessë so much as it’s a glossed translation of ‘Hador’! The guy with bright, golden hair.

Fourth: Going back to the Rohirrim - Edoras, the name of their capital city/royal court, is basically just the Old English for ‘courts’:

under was very frequently used in describing position within, or movement to within, a confined space, especially of enclosures or prisons, ‘within four walls’. Cf. in under eoderas (eoderas being the outer fences of the courts), ‘in amid the courts’….‘eoder’ means both ‘fence (protection)’ and ‘fenced enclosure, a court’.

I’m also learning a lot about Beowulf - Tolkien’s notes are clarifying a lot of tone and nuances, not to mention the political/diplomatic relationships between the different kingdoms, which were confusing me - but it’s amazing how much it reveals about ways that Tolkien’s knowledge informed his legendarium!

Posting TOH Incorrect Quotes in Place of Episodes Until For the Future, Week 12:

Eda: Should I get the rainbow boxer-briefs?

Raine: As your partner, this is a level of gay that even I can’t handle.