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thesummerestsolstice · 20 days

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Silmarillion concept that has me gnawing on the bars of my enclosure today: all of Elrond's parents are terrifying eldritch beings actually.

Maedhros, with white fire pouring from his eyes, taken from the jaws of death anything but unchanged. Some whisper that he's not elvish anymore, not since his captivity. They can never quite agree on what that makes him, exactly.

Maglor, with a voice no elf ever should've had, beautiful and terrible and powerful enough to shake the mountains. Sailors along Middle-Earth's west coast whisper of a sea wraith, some horrible siren that roams the beaches on the darkest nights.

Earendil, a man made an elf, a star, a maia if some are to be believed. Slayer of dragons, guardian of the void. Someone who's spent so along around the Silmaril and the Ainur that some of that power lives within him now.

Elwing, a skin-changer with a voice and a laugh that sound like they were taken from a bird's throat. A witch who lives in a lighthouse, where the animals flock and the plants grow strangely. None of the Amanyar would admit to being scared of her, but few will venture in sight of her odd little realm.

And then there's Elrond, ring-bearer, Lord of Rivendell, kind as a summer.

Well, let's just say it probably helps that no one is expecting him to be normal. Or elvish. Or entirely comprehensible.

#silmarillion #silm headcanons #elrond #elrond peredhel #maedhros #maglor #earendil #elwing #eldritch peredhel #eldritch elves #kidnap dads #kidnap fam #Elrond and his weird parents #they love him very much they're just also terrifying

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the-dreaming-plastic-dinosaur · 3 months

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Eldritch Maglor and Daeron, and Modern Lindir

This amazing AU from @thescrapwitch has been stuck in my head for a while, and the last one Modern AU is just woaw!

And of course, go read it it's incredible!

#silmarillion #the silmarillion #lord of the rings #maglor #daeron #lindir #eldritch elves #fanart #fanfic

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wilwarin-wilwa · 10 months

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I've seen posts about elves' bodies being absolutely bizarre and fundamentally different from mortals so consider this: elf corpses must be weird. either they weigh less than they should, or perhaps they look translucent, or maybe they decompose differently

#what if elves' corpses don't decompose at all #but when the elf is reborn in aman #their body disappears from wherever it was buried?#tolkien #silmarillion #the silmarillion #silm #elves #elves are weird #eldritch elves #wilwarin-wilwa.txt

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havenotwillnotreadthebooks · 9 months

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Lmao imagine if a couple wanted to get married in Lindon or Imladris and saw Elrond and was like “sure why not” and just, asked him to witness their vows in place of any actual maiar or valar.

Like the relationship between the elves in the Valar-Only-Mildly-Care Place and the Valar/Maiar themselves has got to still be stiff since elves are stupidly stubborn about holding grudges, so imagine if a couple just went “fuck the valinor glowsticks, Lord Elrond has been feeding us well and sheltering us for over a century. He’s got some ainur blood anyway.”

So they ask Elrond to be witness and he agrees thinking they just want a lord’s blessing or something and then-

“[Elvish Marriage Vows] we swear in the name of Lord Elrond Peredhel and Eru Illuvatar [More Marriage Vows]”

And at this point Elrond just has to roll with it but he bluescreens later while Erestor and Glorfindel laugh at him (Celebrian and or Gil-Galad too if they’re around)

Bonus points if It becomes a tradition in Imladris/Lindon even though he neutrally suggests a vala instead every time like

Elrond, trying not to get smited as soon as he steps foot into Valinor: hey Lady Yavanna is pretty cool though, right?

Elven Couple, exiled thousands of years ago and still frost-bitten: yes, pity there were no flowers in the Grinding Ice, my Lord. Anyways, would you mind being a witness to our wedding ceremony?”

Elrond starts glowing slightly and never lives it down. He goes to Valinor and people still ask him out of tradition or genuine respect and the Valar just have to put a small tapestry of Elrond as a patron of unions or something so they can claim some sort of control over the situation.

Elrond is mortified, and nobody lets him live it down.

#silmarillion #silm headcanons #silm hcs #elrond #elrond peredhel #tag.words #eldritch peredhel #somewhat #elrond is so done #the valar are determined to seem in control #and totally not blinded by this sorta-maia gaining more followers than tulkas #Tulkas the Useless as the middle-earth elves say #is rlly trying not to look offended #he is failing

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greatkittydream · 3 months

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Story idea tell me what you think.

Human gets sent to another world

without humans. But has all the other classic fantasy races like orcs elves dwarfs You know the classics. Except they all have shit stamina and the only species that comes close to the Humans ability to eat anything is basically just the dwarfs.

Anyways main character gets picked up by the classic cass of one of One of each species or something. Along the way they figure out all the intriguing little things about humans about Good at just about everything but not perfect at anything.

Example the dwarf Starts crying saying mood Kendred. Because the human enjoys seasoning as much as he does and he's not alone any more. They rolled into a town and he Rented out to the local blacksmith to Constantly Push up and down on the bellows to make the furnace hotter.

He gets there opinion if he should go clean shave or grow a beard and the dwarf and the elf start arguing about what would work best for them.

If the orc and the human start bonding over fighting sports and the similarities and their cultures.

What do you guys think. Basically humans are work horses That can work way longer than other species.

#hfy #humans are eldritch horrors #humans #orcs #elves #dwarf #Humans are work horses #isekai #writing #ideas #wrighting

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anghraine · 1 year

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I think it's interesting that when Gandalf describes Denethor's ability to "perceive, if he bends his will thither, much of what is passing in the minds of men," he ties it less to his wisdom or general insightfulness (though he possesses both) than to his difference from "other men of this time," his near total Númenóreanness, and as bolded here, the active exercise of his will.

Tolkien also attributes Denethor's resilience against Sauron (by contrast with Saruman) to not only his right to use the Anor-stone, but "great strength of will." He notes that Sauron had no servant with greater mental powers than Saruman or Denethor, and Gandalf remarks that Denethor was "too great" to be subdued to Sauron's will.

Denethor and Gandalf have a strange and unsettling silent confrontation, carried on by their gazes, yet it strikes Pippin as like "a line of smouldering fire" and "as if reading each other's mind." Gandalf afterwards says Pippin was stuck between two "terrible old men," lumping Denethor in with himself. Pippin also sees some kind of kinship between Denethor and Gandalf, as Sam saw between Faramir and Gandalf.

In his letters, Tolkien said that the ancient Númenóreans became barely distinguishable from Elves in appearance and in their powers of mind. In Unfinished Tales, he notes that they loved their horses, and when a Númenórean had a strong bond with a horse, it was said that the horse could be summoned "by thought alone."

In LOTR, Faramir—who has inherited Denethor's Númenóreanness/wizardliness—has a reputation for command over both animals and men. When everyone else is thrown by their horses upon being chased by five Nazgûl, he not only keeps his seat, but mysteriously gets his horse to ride back towards the Nazgûl. And during the retreat across the Pelennor, the soldiers in the city conclude that Faramir must be with the men who are managing to retreat in order, repeating Beregond's remark that he has some undefined command over both men and beasts.

Gandalf suggests that this is a result of Faramir pitting himself against the effects of the Nazgûl in some way, but his abilities (whatever they are) are outmatched. In the event, the effect of Faramir's Aura of Courage commanding abilities remains until he's shot and finally falls to the Black Breath.

Faramir also makes repeated references to perceiving or reading things in Gollum's mind. At one point, he describes Gollum's mind as dark and closed, yet unable to prevent Faramir from detecting that he's holding something back about Cirith Ungol specifically. Noticeably, this only happens when Faramir orders Gollum to look at him (which Gollum does "unwillingly"), and the light drains from his eyes as he meets Faramir's. It seems decidedly reminiscent of the later Gandalf vs Denethor duel-by-eye-contact.

Faramir's exact words about Gollum's secrecy are "That much I perceived clearly in his mind," in reference to his earlier questioning of him. He says that he can "read" previous murders in Gollum and Gollum cries out in pain when he tries to lie to him.

When Faramir gives staves to Frodo and Sam, he says that a "virtue" of finding and returning has been placed on them, with zero explanation of what he means by that. He adds a hope that the virtue will not altogether fail under Sauron's power in Mordor. He describes the people who did the woodwork but not who placed the virtues (it doesn't seem inherent to the wood itself, given his phrasing).

We do know that Dúnedain can potentially embed enchantments into items. The Barrow-daggers carried by Merry and Pippin are specifically enchanted against the Witch-king of Angmar by an unknown Dúnadan of the North, and when Merry stabs the Witch-king, the dagger breaks enough spells for Éowyn's ordinary sword to finish the job.

Meanwhile, Aragorn uses his healing powers to help the city, wishing for the presence of Elrond, because he is their eldest of their kind and more powerful. Aragorn, also, has at least some part of this ability to actively exercise his will and mental powers, perhaps an equal share, though he uses it less often.

In the book, he doesn't physically attack the Mouth of Sauron, but instead holds his gaze (again, eye contact is important!). There's another silent struggle that involves no weaponry or any other contact.

He prevails in some way over the Mouth of Sauron (not a warped creature of Sauron in the book, but a cruel Númenórean who has "learned great sorcery"). The Mouth indignantly says he has diplomatic immunity and can't be attacked like this.

But, I mean, maybe they're all just smart and perceptive, it's really unclear.

#eldritch dúnedain WHEN #because i am very aware that this could be deeply unsettling if presented just a bit differently!#but it is wild to me that tolkien can outright say 'this guy is a númenórean who learned sorcery'#and people are still like 'but can númenóreans use magic. i guess we'll never know.'#or have faramir give his whole speech about what gollum's mind looks like to him and what he can see clearly in it #fandom: idk it's just really unclear #gandalf: denethor can see what happens in other people's minds if he exercises his will #fandom: a great mystery ... maybe he's just very wise and insightful???#tolkien: the dúnadan who enchanted the daggers would be happy to know his spells worked and helped defeat the witch-king #fandom: númenórean craftmanship is /skilled/ of course but how can we make this about elves #honestly it seems like people don't /want/ númenóreans to have supernatural abilities and i'm not sure why #humans who have elvish-style powers and appearance yet can never escape their humanity is SUCH a concept #(yes i will harp on this until the end of time)#anghraine babbles #legendarium fanwank #legendarium blogging #long post #húrinionath

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the-lady-auri · 9 months

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Finished commission for @nebulaworm of their archfey cw body horror / Trypophobia

Commissions open, please see pinned

#art #oc #elves #elf #auri's art #commissions open #fey #archfey #mushrooms #eldritch horror #eldritch #trypophobia

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nighttimepatrons · 3 months

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when you were taking a quick bath in the stream but then She fucking gets you!

some Elwë and Melian for you, I honestly would love to turn this into a full actual painting.

#my art #thingol #melian #elu thingol #elwe #artistic nudity #the silmarillion #elves #maia #ainur #middle earth #tolkien #thank you Travellingdragon for the prompt list #this would not exist without you o7 #eldritch maia #my heart longs to turn this into an oil painting

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arlenianchronicles · 2 years

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Drawing these two again after what feels like forever! The concept here is that Finrod is in denial about Bëor dying (and it’d be an even bigger punch to the gut since Bëor is the first mortal friend that Finrod will see die) T_T

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thesummerestsolstice · 8 days

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Hi! I read your fic Myths and Monsters and I must say, I am a bit confused. I understand that these are stories of our predhel being eldritch, but the stories themselves gave me this spinning confusion feel and I was unfortunately unable to enjoy the story to its full extend. If possible, would you be able to explain to me the general plotline of each story? A few sentce summary would suffice. Thank you in advance.

(I'm sorry it took me so long to get to this ask– the last few weeks have been very chaotic for me)

So this is about this fic, which features Elrond and his parents being eldritch in various ways. It has some more poetic language, and the chapters often start in the middle of action scenes, so I can understand how they'd be a little hard to follow.

Chapter plots are under the cut– feel free to check out the fic if you want more eldritch elves and peredhel.

Chapter One: Edoran, the prince of a small mannish kingdom, sets out to visit the Lord of Himring, hoping to get his help in protecting Edoran's people from Morgoth's armies. On his way to Himring, Edoran is attacked by a band of orcs, and is quickly captured. Maedhros appears and fights off the orcs, and Edoran is very appreciative.

Chapter Two: Duniel, a half-elven sailor, has been pretending to be human for years to fit in on a human smuggling ship. When it's revealed that she's a half-elf, the human crew– who have heard all sorts of legends about half-elves being dangerous changelings– turn on her. She runs from them, but they catch up to her. Before they can hurt her, Maglor– now a terrifying spirit of the deep– stops them, before wandering off down the shore.

Chapter Three: Archibald, a sea captain, is at the wheel of his boat one night when he hears some strange things happening on deck. He goes to investigate, and finds nothing. When he goes back to the wheel of his ship, he finds Earendil standing there– though Archibald doesn't know who Earendil is. Earendil says that they're here to protect the ship from getting caught in a storm, and Archibald decides to trust them. They sing together for a while, and then Archibald wakes up– unsure if what just happened was a dream.

Chapter Four: Charles, a mannish lord, and Hugh, a guide, are going hunting in Rivendell. They're both aware that they shouldn't be hunting in "fae woods," as it would be highly disrespectful. Eventually, they see Elwing a strange swan and try to shoot at it, only for it to get away. The hunters give chase, but Hugh trips over something and falls behind Charles. When he catches up, Charles has been caught in one of his own traps, with Elwing the swan terrorizing him. Hugh decides that they're not going to hunt in Rivendell's forests anymore.

Chapter Five. An orcish maiden– who doesn't have a name she likes– is on the run. She was sent away from Mordor because of her inability to fight, and when she went to a local mannish village looking for help, she was instead chased out. On the run from the men and their dogs, she unknowingly wanders into Rivendell. As her pursuers catch up with her, she meets Elrond, who saves her, and invites her to live in Rivendell.

#silmarillion #silm fic #elrond #maedhros #maglor #earendil #elwing #eldritch elves #eldritch peredhel

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raointean · 2 years

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Celebrían: Elrond! Your children are being creepy again!

Elrond: Oh, I see how it is. When they're being cute, they're YOUR children, but when they're being creepy, suddenly they're MY children.

Celebrían: They're walking on the ceiling, Elrond. They didn't get that from me!

#lord of the rings #rings of power #elrond peredhel #celebrían #half elves #eldritch peredhil #co parenting #elladan #elrohir #arwen undomiel #this could be about any of them honestly

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hollowwhisperings · 1 year

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Elven Maturity (Tolkien)

an interesting thing about Tolkien's elves is how historical they are: they are the living history of Middle-Earth as they know it (dwarven records & the avari memories likely differ).

the noldo and silvan elves met in LOTR are OLD. so old that Legolas could very plausibly be interpreted as having suffered being treated as "the baby" for, like, four hundred years.

(i assume that Arwen & her brothers are older simply because their parents became a couple before Thranduil became a king)

the age of Tolkien's elves thusly makes it difficult to discern a true "age of maturity": Galadriel was born before Arda had a sun, Elrond's dad is a star, Elrond married Galadriel's daughter and her grandkids look as old/young as she does when the Fellowship meets them. Arwen was an "adult" by mannish standards when Estel came to live at Imladris but her subsequent move & stay with Grandma Galadriel spares readers the awkward thought of Arwen grooming Aragorn for her husband.

This fixation on Arwen is Key because she is of the Peredhel, the half-elven. The first known peredhel is technically Luthien, born of maia and elf, but it is her child with a human who is the first "true" instance of a peredhel in the sense of a "Schrodinger's Immortal".

The age of elves becomes very pertinent to the modern reader when Dior is seemingly orphaned, married to an elven princess(?), has three kids with her, gets abandoned(?) by his maia grandmother due to his grandfather's violent death & left with said grandfather's throne... by the age of 33. not as in "33 years of The Trees" or "33 years in The Lamps"... 33 solar years. Mannish years. THIRTY THREE.

Dior was the first peredhel to be both mortal (human) and immortal (elf): Luthien was the Tolkien equivalent of a demigod but it's unlikely that that changed the expectations for her, in terms of lifestages or maturity.

Dior though? He was raised by isolationist elves during a Politically Tense period of time and no love story is alluded to, between he and Nimloth. The elves Dior was raised amongst did not think highly of humans nor dwarves (nor other elves) and Dior was the first half demi-god, half human elf known. Did they think that his mannish blood made him quicker to mature & doomed to mortality? Did Dior or any of the persons involved with his marriage have enough experience with ELVEN children, nevermind human children to compare against, to discern how "mature" Dior was or wasn't?

I cannot think of any elven romance that did not take at least a decade or three to result in a promise of "forever" or 'til mortality. This makes the prospect of a 30 year old King Dior, newly father to twin peredhels, a disturbing image.

Then we have Dior's daughter, Elwing, meet the only other peredhel not related to her: Earendil, son of Idril Celebrindal and the human Tuor.

Where Elwing was raised by elves & recently orphaned, Earendil had grown up in Gondolin with both an immortal & mortal parent to mind him. Earendil and Elwing were both 23 when they wed: this I find easier to accept, with the extent of their shared experiences of being refugees and not-wholly elven. that Tuor, a human mortal, is also canonically present helps significantly with my comfort zone: no alarms rang in his head when these two 23 year olds got hitched and thus, by mannish standards, they were two consenting adults.

HOWEVER.

we still do not know what ELVES think makes a wholly mature elf - the Noldor elves that these peredhel live amongst are still adapting to the "quickness" of mortal lifespans, of life beyond Valinor. There is, presumably, still a majority amongst the Noldo who predate the first sunrise: whether the silvans hold alternate expectations of maturity, based on living amongst mortals all this time, is unknown. I would safely consider Earendil to be am adult by human standards: he may have also had the mental faculties of an adult elf as well, thus able to recognise and understand an Eternal Committment.

...Elwing probably doesn't. She was raised amongst elves and likely expected to be exactly like Dior and he like Luthien: part-divine and thus, potentially, mature by default. Her actions upon meeting her childhood nightmares - the Sons of Feanor - seem more in-line with a traumatised youth than a traditionally "wise" elf (or human): she jumped out of a window with a [very definitely cursed] holy lightbulb without much thought to the two small children she left behind.

which... her childhood nightmare was "The Sons Of Feanor Stole My Parents And Brothers": Elwing yeeting herself from a tower does Exactly That, all to keep her "rightful inheritance" (i.e. Luthien's winning a silmaril off Morgoth by sing-off/right of conquest & Elwing being Luthien' direct descendant).

the only way i can read Elwing's actions - did SHE know she could turn into a bird when she yeeted herself? did she ever plan on, y'know, coming back after her understandable panic response? no? straight off to alleged elf heaven? kidnap fam it is then - is as Elwing, young adult of several species and never truly able to be any bar one, being out of her depth and going full maia (as her great-grandmother melian before her).

Elrond taking a few centuries to get together with Celebrian, Arwen then taking a few decades to figure things out with Estel... the difference between these later love stories in contrast to Dior and Elwing (& to elf/elf romances) is Very Striking.

Tolkien's elves can get very, very old. Their societies developed with the core concept of their getting old & living eternally. Elves cannot simply marry on a whim - they had better be certain on their spouse or they're in for a very, very taxing eternity (the Avari have different customs but any cross-cultural exchanging of notes seems to have failed miserably in the face of The Maeglin Situation).

The first [mortal&immortal] peredhel died before the weight of immortality could be felt; the second peredhels all left the realms of mortals very abruptly; the third generation of peredhels had entirely unique circumstances that resulted in Elrond being Elrond, Father Figure to generations of Mortal Men and Designated Sane Voice in every crisis.

I wonder what Elrond would think of his grandfather Dior if he were to ever meet him: Elrond has spent several immortal lifetimes learning all things peredhel. I struggle to think of Dior leaving the halls of Mandos, of Dior adapting easily to life amongst the truly immortal.

And if I consider 33 to be "too young" for a Peredhel to swear eternity to an immortal elf... what does that mean for the wholly elven Maeglin, whose orphaning at 80 solar years lead to his being RAISED in the utterly alien Gondolin? Maeglin, whose tween crush on his cousin (who is, if not "older than the sun" very certainly "old as heck" at this time) became blown entirely out of proportion due to his very existence being a Scandalous Tragedy to the Noldo.

Maeglin dying at 190 is considered "very young for an elf". What humans was Doriath in the habit of noticing for them to consider 30 year old Dior an eligible bachelor?

#in which i wildly and egregiously go ham at probably unintentional implications of king thingol being genuinely monstrous #the peredhel #tolkien meta #tolkien elves #silm #dior of doriath #luthien #elwing #eldritch peredhel #earendil #mundane peredhel #logistics of immortality #maeglin was a baby #dior was even more baby #thingol is sus

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leidensygdom · 2 years

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It’s PortfolioDay on twitter, which is not a thing here on tumblr, but I thought it’d be a good opportunity to do a showcase of some of the art I’m most proud of! I’ll use this for a very short introduction, too:

My nick out here is Sygdom, and I’m a fantasy artist focusing on character design. I’m also an avid TTRPG player, and I’ve been doing a lot of DnD related art of late! I’m also just hella queer and most of my characters also are (if there’s not enough representation in media, homemade is encouraged)

Reblogs on this one would be incredibly appreciated and encouraged, I’d love to reach more people!

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irisseireth · 2 years

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I feel like someone has already said this but: Elves with tapetum lucidum. You know, the membrane that makes some animals' eyes glow in dim light. I just like slightly eldritch Elves and also I think their eyes glowing in the dark would be super funny.

#tolkien #elves #i like sliiiiightly eldritch elves #uncanny valley elves too #this post is sponsored by my cat

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rebuketheviolent · 1 year

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"this song has 13 different parts-"

"get OUTTA here" "get FUCKED"

#txt #arvignarvivex #13 TIMELINES 13 MOONS 13 ELVES POWERING THE ELDRITCH MACHINE 13 FUCKING DAGGERS I HOPE KEITH BAKER FEELS AN OTHERWORLDLY CHILL #AS I CAST MALEVOLENT ENERGIES HIS WAY

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polkanight · 1 year

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random panels that made me proud <3

#art #oc #elves #webcomic #digital #eldritch

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