Tag: cuivienen

wolvesdevour:

Elves: oh wow, existence is new and intriguing? But lo! Who is this rider approaching!?

Melkor: THE WORLD IS FULL OF DANGERS AND YOU SHOULD BE TERRIFIED; also fuck the valaaaaaaaaaar

Elves: AHHHHHHHHH

Oromë, later: oh heyyyyyy you’re awake

Elves: THE RIDERRRRRRRRR AHHHHHHHH

Oromë, in Aman: Dude I have no idea what to do; they’re terrified of everything. Your brother told them some shit…

Manwë: Like what, per chance?

Oromë: That the world is scary and that we’re scary and to be scared of everything because everything is dangerous…

Manwë:

Manwë: he’s not wrong

do you have any thoughts about almaren and the years of the lamps?

gurguliare:

Despite my random anti-BOLT streak a while ago I LOVE Melkor tricking Aule into building the lampposts out of ice. Aule probably thought it would save on server cooling. I also really like the silly-sounding idealized layout of Arda itself, with Almaren at the center, ringed by lake, ringed by land, ringed by sea, ringed by The Walls Of Reality, ringed by trillions of spiders, my perfect bullseye of a Tol Galen callforward.

I … I like the motif of doomed parties? I vaguely headcanon the aftermath of Tulkas and Nessa’s wedding as the moment when Sauron and a bunch of others openly defected, for I can’t remember what timeline reasons besides that I wanted to reference both events in my Finrod/Andreth fic and thought the combination would be funny.

The wiki page reminds me that 1) the Valar decided not to do any further world-renovations post-lamp because the Time Of Sentients approached and they were afraid of fucking things up for the babies and 2) Cuivienen was formed by the fall of one of the lamps, which paired to the first point is the most classique Eru passive-aggression.

Elves began it, of course, waking trees up and teaching them to speak and learn their tree-talk. They always wished to talk to everything, the old Elves did. But then the Great Darkness came, and they passed away over the Sea, or fled into far valleys and hid themselves, and made songs about days that would never come again. Never again.

Treebeard, The Two Towers (via one-small-garden)

Pet peeve for Finwe, oops I forgot to c/p a symbol is my ask invalid

Finwë has a pet peeve for people who were born in Valinor self-satisfiedly saying and presuming cringey, condescending, wrong shit about how life was like in Cuivienen – based on breathtakingly ignorant, myopic, and self-congratulatory armchair ideas of how nomadic hunter-gatherer societies work and what elves’ minds and emotions were capable of without the Valar.

For example, those gross embarrassing people who like to talk about survival of the fittest and how compassion is a weakness and no one who doesn’t live in a cushy advanced civilization would ever care for orphans or badly injured people; or people who think the nuclear family always existed and therefore kids etc whose parents died were just abandoned and starved because obviously people never lived in any other arrangements (even though first elves awoke simultaneously, next to one another, in small clans, and explored the world together in peace before the dark rider, and are immortal and knew each other all their super-long lives), or never befriended animals because back then people were too selfish and stupid to understand how.