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thelien-art · 9 months

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The Fall of Númenor;

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transsexualhamlet · 10 months

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love the illustrations in this book so much. the face of a man who knows his famous tornado blowjob will do the trick yet again

#rowan screams into the void #literally losing it he's so smug #the fall of numenor #sauron

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serene-faerie · 3 months

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After watching the Lay of Leithian rock opera, I was inspired to make this poll:

Please reblog this poll for more answers!

#the silmarillion #the silm fandom #silmarillion #silm polls #jrr tolkien #tolkien #tolkien polls #fëanor #the children of húrin #narn i chin hurin #the fall of gondolin #eärendil #fingolfin #celebrimbor #the fall of numenor #akallabeth #turin turambar #lay of leithian rock opera #lol the rock opera

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atane-is-here · 7 months

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Akallabeth, before the fall

Pride & Humility

@deadlysinsofangbang

#tolkien #my art #fanart #mairon #sauron #melkor #morgoth #the lord of the rings #the silmarillion #akallabeth #the fall of numenor #temple of morgoth

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msrandonstuff · 2 months

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btw do I need to read the silmarillion before i read the books of the children of hurin or about the fall of numenor? i rlly wanna read them now that I finished the lotr but idk if id be missing too much vital info about the lore and everything if i jumped straight to them before reading the silm

#like i also wanna read the ones about the fall of gondolin and luthien and beren #but by what i saw people saying they are more a collection of the different versions the tales had??? (correct me if im wrong)#but i really wanna read them (specially the children of húrin one) before the silm but dont wanna miss much stuff lore wise so...... idk #children of hurin #hurin #silm #silmarillion #the fall of numenor #numenor #lotr #tolkien

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searchingforserendipity25 · 6 months

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Hold His Own | on ao3.

Elros and his family, for @nolofinweanweek.

Elros left his children the tools and the means to commit all the mistakes of his forefathers, and new ones besides; and he was not sorry for it in the slightest. (All of them come to him in the dark once at least, crying and seasick, wanting to be held and sang to quietness. There was a wave, little Vardamir said it first; and his children after him, too, weeping and afraid as he had vowed they never would be. A wave, and it was angry, and it came for everything).

In his old age, Tar-Minyatur looked little older than his grandson's children. Silver was in his hair, and the silver of his eyes a little dulled; but his mind was sharp still, and eager. He walked the quays every day, and bent his back on harvesting seasons.

Only his son's growing weakness kept him from venturing out on the fishing vessels that scoured Ulmo's realm for fat tunas and rich whales - and all his children and their children were raised more on tales of the first eventful seal-hunting expeditions up and down the shores of Númenor than on tales of Beleriand.

Sirion, Doriath, Gondolin and Hithlum - those came later, when they learned their letters and their histories. His brother, in love with lore and the keeping of lore, would argue against it, and no doubt rear his children in the wisdom of Melian's line and the solemnity of eternal memory.

Elros was mortal. He raised his people to love themselves first of all, their cities and language and ways. They sang new songs every season, composed new and useless rhythms with dizzying speed - and the king of Elenna, who had grown among enemies, and made war on Melkor, delighted above all things in this speedy work, the restless pettiness of every day's effort.

The work of one's hands was rarely more beautiful than when it was raised up to protect against wind, hail and spray - than when towers were raised on strong foundations, and around them cities raised on beautiful lines.

He wrote his deeds and thoughts in treatises and decrees, the lore made to be read by lore masters in centuries to come. It was important to keep the past alive, and prepare for the future, study portents and ignore not foresight - Yet not, Elros wrote in the letters he tossed at the waves, Mithlond-bound, at the expense of this year's seaweed nurseries.

Vardamir was hungry enough to learn, and Tindómiel cared mostly for the business of the ships and the studies of the stars - Atanalcar went pearl-diving most of the summer, every summer of his life, and Manwendil liked riding best of all, and was a friend to the sea-birds that brought him small tokens of sea-glass and feathers.

Elros left his children the tools and the means to commit all the mistakes of his forefathers, and new ones besides; and he was not sorry for it in the slightest.

(All of them come to him in the dark once at least, crying and seasick, wanting to be held and sang to quietness. There was a wave, little Vardamir said it first; and his children after him, too, weeping and afraid as he had vowed they never would be. A wave, and it was angry, and it came for everything).

He soothes them all. Lullabies, half-forgotten and half-improvised, sweet with Menegroth's lilting rhymes; a few tries at the harp, and their little heads rested trustingly on his shoulder, asleep without fear again.

Dreams were only dreams, in the morning. None of them saw bloodshed before their coming of age; none of them would shed blood unjustly, for greed.

Tar-Minyatur knew this, because they were his children. He knew also that their children were like to have children themselves, and for all the friendship of the sea, an island was only so large and plentiful as the number of its people allowed them to be.

The gulls brought gifts to him, too. Perhaps they would do so to his descendants, too, five or ten births down the line, if not twenty. Did birds lose the keenness of their memory, as old men did?

The king's windows were always open, to the fresh star-lit light of the evening, when the weather allowed. In his last years, his bones turned into tyrants even on warm nights, but Tar-Minyatur found time to evade his minders, to bring out his bowl of seaweed and dumplings to the parapets of his towers and speak to Gil-Estel all the same.

All the old people of the island did, when they were soon to die. That last bearing of witness, some of the Edain held, was what stars were for, and this one most of all.

They may choose to tear them down in time, and build them anew, wrote Tar-Minyatur, silver-haired and trembling with the cold of an open window, young still in a way his brother would never be again.

He had taken to reading old philosophical texts with his son's grandchildren, now that they were old enough to be interested in these things, to know death and be a little angry at it, and petulant about the old king's way of teasing them. They went off to complain to Vardamir, who explained everything a little better, a little more sensibly.

No one had called him Elros in many years. All the same, the king wrote: Let them be as they would! That will be their choice! But they shall choose, and choose to look onwards, not back into the unalterable past. The best gift I can give them is to give them some stone and soil to stand upon, and the will to go onwards as they would, with the years they have to live.

Tar-Minyatur raised his children to know this. Great and terrible things came of that, and he foresaw many, if not most; but then, one must think of this day's effort most of all. The future would come, as certain as the tides and the summer storms. It was enough to leave behind strong foundations, and something of estel to pass onwards. All wise old men in Elenna knew this, and held it to be true.

#elros #elrond #vardamir #tindomiel #silm fic #nolofinweanweek #nolofinwëans #the fall of numenor #my fics #tolkien fanfiction

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caenith · 6 months

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Thank you, Erendis, for saying it out loud.

#tolkien #unfinished tales #the fall of numenor #Erendis #Yes I am mentally a 12 years old boy

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lowcountry-gothic · 1 year

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The Fall of Númenor, by Alan Lee. From The Fall of Númenor: And Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-Earth, by J.R.R. Tolkien.

#art #alan lee #tolkien #the fall of numenor #numenor

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thebitchkingofangmar · 1 year

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so the Silmarillion says the sea still carries the echo of the music of Iluvatar and the Ainur, and all I can think about now is Mairon/Sauron watching the gigantic waves during the fall of Númenor unable to hear anything else around him but the sea singing: It is as it should be, Maia of Aulë over and over again. A chorus with no trace of Melkor’s songs.

Not “Sauron”, not “Lieutenant of Morgoth”, no mention of Melkor. Maia of Aulë. What he was in the beginning. What gives him structure and creation and mastery over his own hard work. It would deal him incommensurable manage, it deals ME incommensurable damage as I think about it, to watch all that hubris, displayed with such love for the work well done, sink with the statues built on blood of his Lord Melkor.

No wonder he laughs at the face of God. I am unwell about this

#the silmarillion #mairon #sauron #the fall of numenor #tolkien #originals.txt #melkor #morgoth #angbang #i am seriously unwell the brainrot is incurable #tolkien foundation let me adapt the silmarillion. i can be normal about it and not at all gay and brown about it haha i can be trusted with #adapting the silmarillion on screen #maia of aulë commentary series

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who-needs-words · 18 days

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Wrote a ficlet for @sesamenom ’s reverse gondolin AU. Inspiration willing I plan to write more.

#eli writes #ar pharazôn #witch king of angmar #gandalf #pippin #lotr fanfic #lotr fic #technically also #silm fic #lotr #lord of the rings #Tolkien #the fall of numenor #reverse gondolin au

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whiteladyofithilien · 3 months

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It's been a while since a book has made me yell at the characters in it but here we are thanks to Ar-Pharazôn making his dumbass decisions.

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etakyeldud · 1 year

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Was anyone going to tell me that Númenor had dancing bears??? Not bears forced to dance - just bears that decided to dance sometimes.

"Many of the bears were quite tame. They never dwelt in or near the homes of Men, but they would often visit them, in the casual manner of one householder calling upon another... Most strange of all were the bear-dances. The bears, the black bears especially, had curious dances of their own... At times the bears would perform dances for the entertainment of their human friends."

The Fall of Númenor

#dancing bears of numenor #what a time to be alive #I would very much like a bear friend who occasionally called upon me casually and danced if they felt like it #the fall of numenor #trop

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dougielombax · 10 months

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Ar-Pharazon fucked around, and found out.

#personal stuff #dougie rambles #the silmarillion #the fall of numenor #LOTR #jrr tolkien #middle earth #pharazôn

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atane-is-here · 1 year

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Pharazon and his shady court wizard

#ar pharazon #tar mairon #Two old hags sticking their heads together #zigur #the fall of numenor #akallabeth #silmarillion #tolkien #lotr #mairon #sauron #sauron in numenor #my art #fanart

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yourlocalnetizen · 2 years

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The reason Elendil was the superior descendant of Elros is because he was literally named Elwing & Earendil's ship name and those two were a power couple.

#elendil #the fall of numenor #elros #elwing #earendil #the silmarillion

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glorfindelridesagain · 2 years

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I’m calling it now, Halbrand from the Rings of Power series becomes 1 of the Nine.

1. He’s destined to be king of the Southlands.

2. This will make him “a great king of men”.

3. We know he’s gone by the Fall of Numenor because the Southlands become Gondor and Mordor.

4. I have a feeling Galadriel will put in a good word for him with Celebrimbor so he gets one.

So Ringwraith alert!

#Halbrand #The Rings of Power #LOTR #The Lord of the Rings #lord of the rings #The Southlands #Fan Theory #Ringwraiths #Nazgul #The Nine #Minas Morgul #Tolkien #Middle Earth #The Fall of Numenor #JRR Tolkien

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