look I don’t want to tell anyone what to do but if you go down that path you will wake up a thousand years later and all your great-grandchildren will be dead
are you kidding me I have to give this fic a title?!! wasn’t it enough that I wrote the damn thing
the other side
Oft have you seen a swan superbly frowning,
And with proud breast his own white shadow crowning;
He slants his neck beneath the waters bright
So silently, it seems a beam of light
Come from the Galaxy.
—from John Keats, To Charles Cowden Clarke
oh, that’s good stuff!
Appreciation post for Rúmil of Tirion
This is a character I don’t understand how he doesn’t have more love in the Tolkien community. But if you don’t know who he is;
“Rúmil, most renowned of the masters of the lore of speech, first devised letters and began recording in writing the tongues of the Eldar and their songs and wisdom.” – Morgoth’s Ring, The Annals of Aman
To say the least, Rúmil was a loremaster of the Ñoldor and fashioned their first alphabet, the Sarati. He also wrote the Ainulindalë, which is the first section of the Silmarillion that describes the creation of the universe, alongside the Valar and the Maiar.
He was also stated to have once been a slave under the tyranny of Morgoth, but managed to escape. He kept account some of the greatest accomplishments of his people and was said to possess many followers of his own and even Fëanor looked upon him as a figure of authority.
It is also stated through the History of Middle Earth that Rúmil created numerous maps and resources of the geography of Middle Earth, and his reasons for even writing the histories was not merely to immortalize the tale but also strive to authorize the truth.
To say the least, Rúmil is almost the incarnation of the Silmarillion and Middle-Earth itself, as well as a mimicry of Tolkien’s character.
Such is a reason Rúmil of Tirion is one of my most adored characters of the lore and it’s a shame he’s so often passed over in comparison.
“Folks, there’s nothing left from the Linguistics division. We lost all the indigenous languages collection: the recordings since 1958, the chants in all the languages for which there are no native speakers alive anymore, the Curt Niemuendaju archives: papers, photos, negatives, the original ethnic-historic-linguistic map localizing all the ethnic groups in Brazil, the only record that we had from 1945. The ethnological and archeological references of all ethnic groups in Brazil since the 16th century… An irreparable loss of our historic memory. It just hurts so much to see all in ashes.”
— Cira Gonda, translated by Diogo Almeida, about the fire at Brazil’s National Museum.
Let the serpent sleep, Huang Yong Ping
ephal ephalak idon hi-akallabeth 