e geil mi dhúath thiliol

Her outfit is so colorful! This is delightful!

So you guys think that Post-Canon Celebrimbor ever made stuff and then had to double-take when someone recognized the design from Angband?

Like,

Maedhros, squinting at a doorknob: Hey, why do we have a door from Angband in the house?

Others: what? 😀😨

Celebrimbor, who learned a better doorknob design from Annatar and never thought about the origins of the technique: …ah.

This is either crack or angst potential. Either way, I can totally see Celebrimbor making stuff, except some of it is just designs used in Angband, so every now and again Celebrimbor gets a hysterical elf trying to figure out why a stool is deeply unsettling.

Alternatively; Mordor has a coffee machine. The maker’s mark is scratched and ineligible. However, everyone knows that it’s not Sauron’s creation.

Charlie Beren and Lucien, with Snoopy as Huan of course. is that anything.

fundamentally I think the correct expansion of this cast is:

Luthien inspired moodboard for anon

Ides of March, but instead of Caesar, it's Annatar

my luminous mama

Other people have been sharing their beautiful fiber arts projects and I love love them. Deciding to share my current (and foreseeable) WIP.

Perhaps a lack luster picture, but here is my ode to the line of Luthien.

lowkey so strange how tolkien wrote so many characters who just like bonded with friends and never fell in love but nobody ever points out the aroace-ness of that

While I doubt he adapted much of Elvish culture this is still a lil 👀

I vaguely remember that theory that by making the one ring Sauron "married himself to Arda"

But then, considering that Arda is Morgoth's ring, was Sauron married with Melkor?

in all honesty even if you don’t look at it from a shipper standpoint...

That’s the most likely case scenario, because who else would Sauron tie the knot with?

I mean... Spouses are the heirs of the first order right? So that would be a very valid claim on Melkor’s status as the dark lord and self proclaimed ruler of Arda

in reference to this post:

admittedly i'm not the right person to make this meme since i'm not really well-versed in the lore lol

i knew what this post was going to be even before i clicked the link-

crack headcanon: Cirdan is Ulmo. Evidence: idk they seem pretty similar personality-wise? They're both usually depicted with beards? They like the ocean a lot? Also Nówë can be translated as idea/imagined person which is a cool name but also one that's very apt to blurt out when you really hadn't thought this far ahead and "Oh, elves usually have more than one name? Of course of course I'm just kidding around (thank Eru) call me Cirdan. Please."

Where could you go with this? Well personally I think it would be very funny if it's like an open secret in the Falas- yep that's our Lord Cirdan, try not to make him mad if you plan to go sailing tomorrow- no reason in particular. Yeah he gets a lot of messages from Lord Ulmo to pass on- he's very close to him. Yes he's chatting with some fish- he just does that sometimes. Even funnier is if the Valar have no idea that one of the Aratar is chilling in Middle Earth building ships and making sure all the sailing elves stay as safe as possible. Also: Celebrimbor sends him Narya and he's immediately like "Mmm Nope I literally Cannot Ethically Keep This also it's the fire ring??" and passes it off to Gandalf as soon as possible.

On the other hand you could make it more angsty- with Ulmo never abandoning the elves who didn't go to Valinor, doing even more than in canon as he creates the persona of Cirdan and just. Does His Best, loophole-ing through the non-interference mandate. Specifically painful in the Sirion era- when Turgon sends his ships and even if Ulmo was allowed to let them cross the sea they still wouldn't make it past the Pelori. I do think he snatches all the sailors (save Voronwe) up and puts them in stasis until Earendil makes it through and he's like "Thank Eru" and spits them all up in Valinor to general disarray.

Another benefit- the sheer juicy potential of Tuor (and Voronwe)-Ulmo/Cirdan interactions post tFoG, the pure vibes of Earendil's (sea-lover/friend) friendly mentor-student relationship with Cirdan and his favor from Ulmo being secretly one and the same, Elwing growing up learning from the Vala who would help save her life (I feel like she'd know. She might not know but she'd Know.)

...Honestly this has a lot more potential than I expected when my brain randomly spit this at me. Anyone else have ideas to add to this?

The way I went with

"Pff ,yeah sure"

To

"Omg yeah, sure!!"

While reading your post is astounding.

I like it

I keep it.

100% drawing cirdan as a slightly eldritch elve.

But how did this start because ilmondid moved a island to valinor in the beginning and cirdan stayed at the shore.

You could it make a little bit angst.

Like the first cirdan drowned?

And ulmo moved by OG cirdans wish to help the elves and love for the sea and Ulmos own wishes to help and love for the elves mingled together and:

Ulmo/cirdan just pop out of the ocean on the shore like a little eldritch accident.

It would also work well with the "he came to them in a dream" part that finrod and turgon had about ulmo!

And his power waned it the rivers because he is simple kinda a little stuck in a little elven body sry 😔 ~

Not that he minds but ppl where questioning his beard so he just made a little lie that:

"very old elves like me grow beards"

like there are not very old elves in valinor that then should have beards too?

THE EUROPA CLIPPER LAUNCHED THIS MORNING, AND I AM SO NOT NORMAL ABOUT IT!!!!!

Space is so fucking awesome. We're headed to one of JUPITER'S MOONS!

Every time a launch happens, it makes the latent space enthusiast in the back of my brain jump up and down. It also derailed all my plans for today. I did have plans.

Instead, someone made one comment about how I could now maybe make mission patches on my embroidery machine, and the space thing crossed over with my current hyperfixation (silm) to produce THIS:

Mission patch for the launch of Gil-Estel! A bit messy, but a good place to start!

Design and linguistics details under the cut, because I put WAY too much thought into it and now must talk SOMEONE's ear off about it. Feel free to ignore this bit:

Ok, because I have literally no self restraint: elvish NASA patches:

(Also, check if you're in the right place and have clear skies to see the comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas! I saw it last night and it's SO COOL!)

gimli, legolas, boromir, and aragorn in that order

Today is a big day on the Spanish internet. Valentine's day in Spanish is "día de San Valentín", which sounds almost the same as "Sam va lentín", which is how, in some parts of Spain , you would say "Sam goes slowly".

Hence, since a few years ago, every February 14th, the Spanish internet is full of "wait for me mr. Frodo" style memes. One of our holiest days of the year.

oh and the post would probably make more sense if I actually shared any meme right?

You can't even picture how many variations of the meme people post today. It's all very silly and I love it. g