all-things-devours:

And on the evening of Midsummer Aragorn, Arathorn’s son, and Arwen daughter of Elrond went to the fair hill, Cerin Amroth, in the midst of the land, and they walked unshod upon the undying grass with elanor and niphredil about their feet.

At some point as a teenager I read this passage in Appendix A and confused the word unshod with unclad, and was Shocked that a Good Christian Author like Tolkien would write about a man and a woman frolicking naked on a hill together before they were married!! Then I reread the passage years later and realized what a dope I’d been

gemennair:

Celebrían (and Arwen) requested by anon!

I imagined this scene to be Celebrían brushing Arwen’s hair while she tells her many tales from bygone age, most likely the Lay of Leithian.

Thank you for the request! Hope you like it!

pierrevanderweerd:

After spending almost a week on the three poses for Arwen, I don’t think I’ll be drawing braids for a while. I wasn’t sure what I wanted Arwen’s poses to be, since not a lot about her is mentioned. She supposedly resembled Lúthien, so I did a pose of Arwen dancing (something Lúthien did as well.) Of course I looked a lot at ballet for inspiration, but making it all work with Arwen’s unique proportions proved itself to be a big challenge (even more so for the other two poses). Anyway, here’s the first pose. I’m now going to start working on Legolas… finally!

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whetstonefires:

i just saw someone argue that the ‘reality’ of aragorn and arwen would be more in the nature of a political alliance than a fairy-tale romance and i’m like.

arright now my friend explain to me what anybody besides aragorn stood to gain from that marriage that would lead to its arrangement. what on middle earth anyone in elrond’s family stood to gain from marrying back into Elros’ line at the expense of Arwen’s otherwise perpetual life.

what would that negotiation look like. why would that be a thing.

because i am coming up with zero theories.

elrond’s whole cohort is in the process of leaving the entire relevant continent! elrond himself made the conscious decision not to at any stage press any of his multiple potential hereditary claims to kingship.

even galadriel is offski, and celeborn does not give a single flying fuck about Gondor except inasmuch as his granddaughter is going to rule it. aragorn has nothing to bring to this marriage but himself.

and a kingdom, admittedly, but considering the codicil of ‘will get to rule it for less than 200 years and then die’ i think that was categorized more under ‘least you can do’ than actual inducement. conceivably arwen could really really want to be a queen, enough to die for the privilege, but that’s. far-fetched, and not exactly an arranged political marriage anymore.

you would really have to seriously rewrite massive swathes of the worldbuilding for that idea to make the slightest sense. what definition of ‘realism’ is being applied here because i…don’t think it’s a useful one in the lotr setting.