cycas:

Elves dancing through the woods by the distant light of Telperion.  From left to right: Turgon, little Angrod, Finrod, Maglor, and then more grandchildren of Finwe are off dancing in the background.   Another painting of Valinor before it all went wrong! 

#GOD I LOVE #honestly no judgement here but @ fandom can I !! have slightly less high-fantasy-videogame elves and a little more of This  #more fae-adjacent kind of visual interpretation of tolkien characters  #I don’t know I just. occasionally (aka Always At All Times) long for more approaches to the legendarium that are less… #god what’s a good translation for ‘nitido’ in english.  #like.. clear as in ‘neatly defined’ in a way that detracts from its evocative qualities  #i just love narrative that does that elusive sort of hinting at additional imperceptible meanings/imagery behind it   #and there’s Something about using fairy-story (in tolkien’s sense of the term) elements to depict that that just… fits.. #ugh  #me @ me: what use are 15+ years of english if you can’t convey the right concept when you need to (via @lunavagantt)

nacroy:

I like to think that Sauron, when he was bored, used to strip and stroll around Angbnd stark naked, with a sword/mace/bow/whatever weapon was near him, in hand, and kill whomever dared to look at him (except Melkor ofc). Sometimes he would walk around the slaves and orcs and bother them just to see them struggle to not look at him, and always when he was doing that the whole stronghold was like