ATLAS OF ARDA ↣ MIRKWOOD

“There lies the fastness of Southern Mirkwood,” said Haldir. “It is clad in a forest of dark fir, where the trees strive one against another and their branches rot and wither. In the midst upon a stony height stands Dol Guldur, where long the hidden Enemy had his dwelling. We fear that now it is inhabited again, and with power sevenfold. A black cloud lies often over it of late.”

I am a princess on the way to my throne.

Many a man of arms misreads patience and quiet. She did much good among us at much cost. Her heart was not faint, and patience will break at the last.

They dared not touch her, though, for they feared her; proud and fair as a queen, before sorrow marred her. Witchwife they called her, and shunned her. Witchwife: it is but “elf-friend” in the new language.

In truth little fear was seen in her face or her bearing. Tall and strong she seemed; for of great stature were those of Hador’s house, and thus clad in Elvish raiment she matched well with the guards.

Aerin, Morwen, Nienor

Ancalimë, like her father, was resolute in pursuing her policies; and like him she was obstinate, taking the opposite course to any that was counselled. She had something of her mother’s coldness and sense of personal injury; and deep in her heart, almost but not quite forgotten, was the firmness with which Aldarion had unclasped her hand and set her down when he was in haste to be gone.

'But they were all of them deceived, for another ring was made. Deep in the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged a master ring, and into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.'

'One ring to rule them all'

@secondageweek day iv · sauron and his minions — the dark lord and the ringmaker

O spring-time and summer-time, and spring again after!

"Goldberry represents the actual seasonal changes in [riverlands]" - The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 210

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On those journeys Elwing did not go, for she might not endure the cold and the pathless voids, and she loved rather the earth and the sweet winds that blow on sea and hill. Therefore there was built for her a white tower northward upon the borders of the Sundering Seas and thither at times all the sea-birds of the earth repaired. And it is said that Elwing learned the tongues of birds, who herself had once worn their shape and they taught her the craft of flight, and her wings were of white and silver-grey. - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, "Of the Voyage of Earendil and the War of Wrath"

[ID: A picspam consisting of 12 images, mostly white.

1: Seagulls in flight / 2: A bird with orange feathers spreading its wings / 3: the model Ashley Radjarame, who has brown skin and black hair. In this image, she is wearing a golden necklace and earrings / 4: Text reading "Elwing" / 5: A ray of light breaking through clouds / 6: a group of puffins / 7: a group on mandarin ducks / 8: waves on the beache / 9: Text reading "And it is said that Elwing learned the tongues of birds, who herself had once worn their shape" / 10: a bird with long, orange tail feathers in flight / 11: Pearls / 12: A person holding a white cloth billowing in the wind /End ID]

Selina Dalton and Jeremiah Malcolm in MR MALCOLM’S LIST (2022)

May I, a mere mortal, beg of the goddess Selen the honour of this dance?

FARAMIR & ÉOWYN in THE LORD OF THE RINGS

And to the Warden of the Houses Faramir said: 'Here is the Lady Éowyn of Rohan, and now she is healed.' And the Warden said: 'Then I release her from my charge and bid her farewell, and may she suffer never hurt nor sickness again. I commend her to the care of the Steward of the City, until her brother returns.' But Éowyn said: 'Yet now that I have leave to depart, I would remain. For this House has become to me of all dwellings the most blessed.'

@maliagf's 3k Celebration Day 4: Favorite Film ⇢ The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), dir. Andrew Adamson

Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen. May your wisdom grace us until the stars rain down from the heavens.

fairest of them all

And high and noble as was Elemmakil, greater and more lordly was Ecthelion, Lord of the Fountains, at that time Warden of the Great Gate. All in silver was he clad, and upon his shining helm there was set a spike of steel pointed with a diamond; and as his esquire took his shield it shimmered as if it were bedewed with drops of rain, that were indeed a thousand studs of crystal.

» In that vast shadow once of yore Fingolfin stood: his shield he bore with field of heaven's blue and star of crystal shining pale afar.

→ High King Fingolfin || Ñolofinwë Arakáno

After a few years Gilraen took leave of Elrond and returned to her own people in Eriador, and lived alone; and she seldom saw her son again, for he spent many years in far countries. But on a time, when Aragorn had returned to the North, he came to her, and she said to him before he went: ‘This is our last parting, Estel, my son. I am aged by care, even as one of lesser Men; and now that it draws near I cannot face the darkness of our time that gathers upon Middle-earth. I shall leave it soon.’ Aragorn tried to comfort her, saying: ‘Yet there may be a light beyond the darkness; and if so, I would have you see it and be glad.’ But she answered only with this linnod: O´ nen i-Estel Edain, u´-chebin estel anim

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