andie, she/her, 26, united states. this blog is full of Tolkien. also other art, photos, fandoms, and big-eyes-emoji stuff, but mostly Tolkien. i tag! my girlfriend is bright ivanaskye, who is a lot, but not too much
lol not with my actual relatives, but when I’m inconvenienced I say
“[person] didn’t die for this” (usually someone I know who’s an
annoyingly self-congratulating ~straight LGBT ally~)
OH. that makes…..a lot more sense. uhhh i did not have any suspicions about turin anon but anyway anon ID’ing is an unreliable and fun-ruining endeavor so nvm ^_^
(where is the feanor mashup) I haven’t seen much of that dynamic,
it’s just the word-choice that invites visions of …two ft tall wigs as
ancient noldorin helmets/things for seabirds to land on
tbh i prefer to believe those helmets existed in canon ANYWAY but there are a couple references to gil galad being descended from feanor in some of the early sketches of when the post-first-age timeline and the beginning of LOTR were like just getting started i think? it was before the rings existed so it must have obviously been one of tolkien’s signature crochet-moved of weaving a smaller fractal strand through a loop in the past and forward into the subsequent story – the outline has the same Catch-22 for the elves of living-in-middle-earth vs saving-middle-earth as with the Three Rings, and the elves kamikaze’ing themselves to destroy Sauron:
“And it is said that in Beleriand there arose a king, who was of
Númenorean race, and he was named Elendil, that is Elf-friend. And he
took counsel with the elves that remained in Middle-Earth (and these
abode then mostly in Beleriand); and he made a league with Gil-galad the
Elf-king who was descended from Fëanor. And their armies were joined,
and passed the mountains and came into inner lands far from the Sea. And
they came at last even to Mordor the Black Country, where Sauron, that
is in the Gnomish tongue named Thû, had rebuilt his fortresses. And they
encompassed the stronghold until Thû came out in person, and Elendil
and Gil-galad wrestled with him; and both were slain. But Thû was thrown
down, and his bodily shape destroyed, and his servants were dispelled,
and the host of Beleriand destroyed his dwelling; but Thû’s spirit fled
far away, and was hidden in waste places, and took no shape again for
many ages. But it is sung sadly by the Elves that the war with Thû
hastened the fading of the Eldar, decreed by the Gods; for Thû had power
beyond their measure….and the Elves expended their strength and
substance in the assault upon him. And this was the last of the services
of the Firstborn to Men…” (“The Fall of Numenor”, The Lost Road and Other Writings, HOME IV)
Are you sure he wouldn’t let Bilbo compile them. He let Bilbo sing THOSE SONGS in HIS HALL I think tbh he is a very oddly accommodating friend on these things
hey anon this is true. i’m not 100% convinced he’d give a shit.
how do you manage to be a FLUNKY to a person of mysterious and indistinct lineage dragging some measure of life out of the ravaged world
for fear of strengthening my reputation as a whiny grump i SHOULD probably clarify i have 0 antipathy and a great deal of amusement at characterizing elrond as gg’s flunky, my only beef is with the notion he spent all 3400 years totally focused on this. i mean i know i’m a really impressive procrastinator but if i was born in 1400 BC i’m PRETTY sure even i would STILL have found the time and opportunity to experience 10x as much random Stuff as all the human characters in the legendarium put together by now.
otoh what if ‘gil-galad’ is a made-up person who everyone kicked the can to in order to deflect blame for ‘_____’ throughout the 2nd age. i want more weird gil-galad conspiracy theories. hey do ppl also know that gil-galad was once ‘a descendent of feanor,’ like, some kind of celebrimbor mashup
I’m pretty sure the only creatures who woke up in the night and loved it were……like….bats and wolves….right….i’m not missing any incarnates here….am i…..
sugvsdhjfsdjnimtr i was literally in the middle of writing a vagueblog post about the very same complaint, though throught the perspective of LaCE debate hahahahaha
Vdvffnvsshfj if you’re not being ironic, I totally identify with this post fdvfgj drinking coffee at night somehow makes me calm???
No me too!! I also like, get so tired I can’t sleep? Like it takes too much executive function to drop out of zombie mode and fall asleep. But if i have coffee I perk up and then flop down and the momentum of the flop lets me fall through to sleep…..like bouncing on a giant block of Jello
anyway at this point i’m a little confused bc… basically it’s just a book about people?… but w/ev i respect your human kink even if i don’t understand it 😉
noooooo that’s the whole point…the Knowledge that they are elves and shit, combined with the Observation that there is Nothing Unhuman About Them….it’s the worst. It’s also the #1 thing that makes me go ‘this is really good why the FUCK am i reading this’ when i’m reading house of finwe silm fic
gogol actually loves frances hardinge it’s just sometimes hard to tell
NOT THAT I GO BY GOGOL’S TASTE i just can’t remember which roast goes with which author. this is the one who always looks out of her pictures with a really unimpressed expression…?
also i like the raven cycle VERY much, ymmv, it’s Very YA but i…
love… it… fiendish also is not THAT creepy and it is very VERY not
cynical
i feel like i may have accidentally oversold my cynicism antipathy but i’m glad to know, thank u!
it’s the series I posted about yesterday like they LOST the MAIN CHARACTER’s DEAD BODY
I KNOOOOWWWWW all the osmosis has been so enjoyable (^v^) tho my favorite might have been @kareenvorbarra‘s “Vorkosigan Saga Characters As Onion Headlines” or whatever, i love
I have read uprooted! I personally much preferred the first half of
the book where it solidly played into the horror aspect, but less the
second half where it started to Explain things and went more fantasy.
But u would probably be pretty down for the whole “sentient forest”
aspect. There was an element of memory loss in one thing in the book
that I was not a fan of tho, ofc,
ephal ephalak idon hi-akallabeth 