swampdiamonds replied to your post: ✭ elros

I love this. elros the whittling king!

thank u! it seemed to fit someone i hc as very home/homemaking-oriented but also like psychologically restless and full of IDEAS

ivanaskye replied to your post: “ elros”

HIS DUMB BROTHER’S ENDLESS STIRIES…

sibling culture is Real AF

hirilelfwraith replied to your post: “drawing ppl fucking but like, in a lowkey way, is v hypnotic and…”

honestly mood

yessssss i’m glad u also appreciate the Calming Porn

radiantanor replied to your post: “@radiantanor when I first moved out of Vermont to go to college in a…”

lol yeah in germany we only say hello in small villages where most people know each other anyway, or sometimes when on a walk in a forest or smth (but not always!). that’s not so different from slavic countries though, it’s just actually important to greet people in villages over there but not in cities either

yeah tbh we don’t do it in crowded areas in the city (’’’’city’’’’) where ppl are walking around a lot etc either, but you DEF do it when u sit down next to someone!

elesianne replied to your post: “@radiantanor when I first moved out of Vermont to go to college in a…”

I know you probably weren’t looking for any serious insights, but the way I’d put it is that Europe (northern, central & eastern anyway, southern Europe is different) is a place where allowing other people space & quiet is seen as as more normal & also polite than engaging them. That said, people who pass each other on country roads usually greet each other. But only in the countryside in my experience

nyarnamaitar replied to your post: “@radiantanor when I first moved out of Vermont to go to college in a…”

Oh My God, this is hilarious, Belgians are the absolute worst when it comes to saying hi to random bypassers. I promise most of us are not mean, just reserved! XD

haha yeah i was only poking fun – it DOES makes perfect sense tbh, it’s just that it’s so counterintuitive and bizarre to picture myself doing anything like that…one of those funny things 🙂

simaethae replied to your post: simaethae replied to your post: meme replies
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“lazy nihilism” yes i love 🙂

Reminds me that
Sauron’s final fate to be a shadow who can still observe the world ish
but can’t actually do anything to affect it is…probably such a
uniquely bad thing for him…

hirilelfwraith replied to your post: concept: saruman cosplay made entirely out of…

I seriously considered it but it turns out that holo fabric is
Fuckin Expensive and I am but a humble college student. Also it wasn’t
specifically for the meme but I thought you would get a kick out of it

I DEFINITELY GOT A KICK OUT OF IT. I loooooooove Saruman, so much. He’s a gift that keeps on giving.

crocordile replied to your post: Gondolin?

vardas, what an excellent post, whoa

I know Beren’s (… and Thingol’s wrt Melian) story is the official
‘stepped into the fairy king’s realm’, but H&H visiting Gondolin
also has a dash oh that, don’t you think? 🙂 I love it very much too! I
love that they come back with such fine clothes that everyone is like
…. making very educated guesses abt where they were hahahaha

omg
thank you!!! And YEAH TOTALLY I think there’s definitely a lot of that
with their story too, just with a very different sort of,
tone/atmosphere/feeling to it, less “stumbled into a strange liminal
space slightly out of the right dimension full of enchantments and
suspicion” and more “got dropped in the middle of a pocket world full of
absurdly colorful characters where everyone is JUST GOING ABOUT THEIR
BUSINESS AND THINK YOU’RE THE WEIRD ONES” or something…

also I love like…Turgon being so…something
that he literally doesn’t think to go “hmm maybe I should make it
actually look like they’ve been starving in the wilderness?” or if he
does think it, doesn’t follow through on it. Or like…actually that ask
Lion had on her blog a few days ago makes me wonder if maybe Turgon
made it transparent on purpose as a sign to let
Fingolfin/Fingon/Finrod/whoever know he was still doing fine and was
friendly with the Edain while trusting H&H would keep the actual
location/identifying details of Gondolin secret.

concept: saruman cosplay made entirely out of silver/white holo fabric

IS THIS FOR THE MEME bc IDK if I have at least three thoughts about this but:

1. DO IT DO IT take pics and tag me pls

2. Given Saruman’s ability to make false words seem true and beautiful and delude people with his voice and stuff, holo fabric sounds like exactly the right visual match for this sort of thing.

3. Gonna claim right now that this is a 100% canon-compliant design because Saruman smoked too much pipeweed and thought it looked amazing while stoned and then when the high wore off he couldn’t admit even to himself that it was fucking ridiculous so he kept on sticking with it.

4. He wears it to the White Council to try to float a lowkey prototypical test of his Many Colors doctrine but everyone there is too busy goggling at Gandalf’s many-colored smoke rings to give a shit, so he decides Gandalf did it on purpose to make him look bad and then later that night he lies in bed getting really angry about this while elves keep singing suspiciously about rainbows outside his window.

meme replies

actualmermaid replied to your post: gurguliare replied to your post: …

3rd age thuringwethil just chilling in mirkwood, eating spiders and minding her own business

“Why is everyone making so much damn noise over there. Who’s singing that horrible song anyway. What’s an Attercop. Ugghhh.”

hirilelfwraith replied to your post: thoughts on thuringwethil?? ik you didn’t list “a…

I’m imagining sauron lying with his head in her lap getting drunk
and going on long weepy monologues while she absently pets his hair and
ignores him

“But I don’t know, I really like the world you know…? I don’t wanna destroy the world, but idk I‘m right, right? it would be worse for the world if I got locked up for ages, right? But that’s what the Boss said and I can’t believe he totally just fucked everything up like that I still feel so betrayed, how could this happen to me, I made my mistakes–”

“Mm hm, Mm hm”

yavieriel replied to your post: crocordile replied to your post: …

Edgy Teleri teenagers writing Maedhros/Maglor incest as like, a
~statement~. They scoff at how shallow and naive all the Tuor/Idril and
Luthien/Beren shippers are and how cliche and boring het romance is.
There are arguments over whether Turin/Nienor or Turin/Beleg is more
transgressive (= better). (Now I have to invent Telerin Goth fashion
don’t I. It probably involves, like, shark teeth and fishnets.)

LITERAL FISHNETS YES

crocordile replied to your post: crocordile replied to your post: …

Just headcanon tbh, since these children are mixed noldor and teleri
and we have Finrod be very Noldor, and Galadriel have her identity
issues, I like the idea of one of the kids feeling more connected to the
other side 🙂 A friend suggested that might also be why Angrod gets
sent as an emissary to Thingol in the first place when a diplomatic
beast like Finrod would prolly be better hahahaha maybe he just had the
Teleri face and Teleri vibe?

Yeah that makes a lot of sense! And I definitely really like variety among mixed siblings ❤

valaraukars replied to your post: thoughts on thuringwethil?? ik you didn’t list "a…

This is an excellent post btw 10/10

Why was I not tagged in this post, am I not being obnoxious enough with my thuringwethil stanning

I will keep this in mind next time!! 😀

thelioninmybed replied to your post:
thoughts on thuringwethil?? ik you didn’t list "a…

"retires from being actively evil without redeeming
herself or learning anything” <3 <3 <3

Lol prob one of those things Sauron absolutely cannot fathom. “But

simaethae replied to your post:
thoughts on thuringwethil?? ik you didn’t list “a…

i love this so much omg <3333

I’M GLAD YOU APPROVE

Sauron & Thuringwethil’s really stupid non-excellent adventure, new fic

valaraukars replied to your post: gurguliare replied to your post: …

I love all the comments on these posts too

YOU GUYS ARE GREAT

thelioninmybed replied to your post:
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no I’m 100% here for Feanor finding exciting new ways to project his insecurities onto his kids tho

thelioninmybed replied to your post: thelioninmybed replied to your post:
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“You played against me for years without saying so. An excuse to see
my son?” “An excuse to see you,” said Maedhros and suggestively ran his
tongue over his king.

Plot twist: he swallows it by accident and then kills Fingolfin in embarrassment to make sure he can’t tattle to anyone and the plot is totally different

thelioninmybed replied to your post: thelioninmybed replied to your post:
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brb revising chessfic with this new timeline + the Yugioh references in mind

I was gonna be all ‘screw the jewels I have money’ but literally no one in the silm would ever say that so….

“screw the rules i have an oath”…..that doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.

AU where everything is exactly the same but instead of the silmarils, Morgoth stole all five cards of Exodia.

simaethae replied to your post: Galadriel (+loneliness?)

…are there any other amanyar born in valinor
still in middle earth at all? the only older character i can think of is
cirdan

….maybe glorfindel but that’s kind of a weird one. hmm.

I have no doubt that Gildor Inglorion and most of his other companions in Three is Company (and probably a number of the ppl from Rivendell, esp the elves who show up in the Grey Havens) are exiles, but yeeaaahhh a very limited pool! (This is another big reason I’m so picky about interpretations of galadriel’s arc i think. a representative microcosm in part, not just a personal story). And Glorfindel has….not the same sort of shared dynamic at all, if anything he’s probably more like the istari as far as valinor relationships go…

simaethae replied to your post: crocordile replied to your post: …

i mean salt aside, imo seeing other people get it Wrong (even in
inoffensive ways) is super inspirational, like, no, *this* is how it
should be – 🙂

YES it is really just a good way of solidifying one’s opinions or getting to think about something you never really paid attention to before because you previously had no definite interpretation, but THAT one is DEFINITELY wrong 🙂 I guess it serves the same function as like….brainstorming with friends, but with added motivation to develop Your Own Version or smth

hirilelfwraith replied to your post: okay but now that we have done feanor + parenting…

I WROTE A FIC BASED OFF THAT PICTURE archiveofourown.org/wor…

Ahhhhh! This is so great! Yeah that was definitely the kind of like, barely-reconcilable but honest dissonance on both their parts which that art put me in mind of, esp the bit with the hands… ❤