Tag: simaethae

simaethae replied to your post:                   simaethae replied to your post: gurguliare replied…                

   embraassing sincerity: i really appreciate getting to read your
tolkien conversations! imagine tumblr still let me put heart emoticons
in replies! 🙂    

I will imagine it! Remember that time tumblr took away replies? What the fuck would I have done……….chatlogs maybe. terrible….reblog chains…..i love jerryrigging a terrible system

garden-ghoul replied to your post:                   I think the best thing about like, slowly…                

   YELL    

I’m so glad I can’t tell if this is a yell of delight or rage

simaethae replied to your post:
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   i always have colour but it’s definitely not photorealism    

COOL! 😀 My thing that never goes away is, like, backgrounds. No images that are just, a person, nope, it’s gotta also automatically fill in a bunch of vague impressionist atmosphere/setting bullshit

simaethae replied to your post: yavieriel replied to your post:                   garden-ghoul replied…

     this is fascinating, how do brains work                

I unfortunately am only knowledgeable about how brains work on drugs so you got me man. i only know that it exists. O.o

garden-ghoul replied to your post:                  4-FOOT-6 IS THE TALLEST A HOBBIT HAS EVER BEEN….                

   I agree I need a link to this    

simaethae replied to your post:                   4-FOOT-6 IS THE TALLEST A HOBBIT HAS EVER BEEN….              

                   what, link pls??                

actualmermaid replied to your post:                  4-FOOT-6 IS THE TALLEST A HOBBIT HAS EVER BEEN….                

   NEED    

SORRY GUYS I googled around trying to find it but turned up nothing. But lol tbh I don’t think it was actually that amazeballs, just that the concept was great.

simaethae
replied to your post: meme, thoughts about how the characters look?

1) yes, SUPER here for uncanny valley orcs; 2) wait
what, are there people who don’t have mental images of all the
characters, how do you know what’s happening if you can’t…see it in
your head…?

    i mean, it might be more or less detailed and
sometimes my mental images shift over time but. genuinely curious about
how else people can experience reading??                

Yeah I’m just…??? IDK!! I guess I’ve heard it described as, people’s faces being a blur, like how those characters who never really emote or do many actions other than speaking look, but for everybody? I always feel a bit like, but what about when a character’s expression is referred to? Don’t you have to…see it…when the text says ‘he smiled’ or ‘she looked piercingly’ or whatever… IDK, I’m not really sure…..anyway yeah some of my mental images do shift over time but usually like, with the addition of new revelations/realizations, or information…the Silm was a trip. The first time I read it I forgot continually who was who until I discovered the more elaborate physical descriptions taken from the HOME etc.

simaethae replied to your post:thearrogantemu replied to your post:            …

maybe he also like, did stuff with the mithril tho? the numenorean
industrial revolution that never happened…? i’m just like, characters
with this sort of mix of traits are so interesting – maybe that kind of
Enlightenment thing of being progressive and humane and intelligent in
his own country while still being a shitty colonialist oppressor
overseas…?

   also, wiki-ing, looks like tar-vanimelde was his daughter – i wonder
if you could angle that into like, a numenorean cultural renaissance
period wrt her interests. hmm.    

Oooh yessss!! I’m…tbh I was only half-kidding when I said ‘what role does boredom play in such long-lived people’s lives’ bc ngl I’m so interested in the potential for…dynamism, progress, sincere development and renaissance from a normal year-to-year timeframe, taking place during the (very long) span of each generation and/or dyanastic period…where the “decline” or whatever is only visible in the very, very, very long term, and evident really only in hindsight…like things going through this big involved complex promising arc over the course of decades and then only eventually, but quite obscurely and indirectly, ending up a step further down than it was before, lather rinse repeat for 3300 years. I mean, even the rulers aside, the population was…still a population with its own free will, with all of its ups and downs and shifts and surging forths…also dksjfhkjsfds people need to stop making semi-industrial Numenor so interestingggg….I mean, tbh “super lightweight super hard material” honestly seems 500% more fascinating for tech possibilities than for armor and weaponry…

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

        I def headcanon him treating Vani as the most precious thing in the world hahaha                

gdufhjkssdk whhhyyyy do you do these things to me I do not want to be interested in these ppl’s home lives hahaha okay that’s a blatant lie I’m always here for slightly-unsettlingly humanized lofty figures across the board

simaethae replied to your post:
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   i mean, “star-flame” is also KIND OF a weighted name in this
context! the King’s Men simultaneously latching on to and rejecting
their elven heritage is the BEST    

RIGHT DEFINITELY, the phrasing of the account of the Earendil-guided voyage, the silver flame in the paths of the sun…Anyway ahhhh I think there was prob a lot of Earendil-positivity w the KM? Like, yeah, he became immortal! that’s how it’s supposed to go! And probably ideas like, omg he tricked the Valar/called them on their bluff to make them go take down Morgoth or something….like the Devil Went Down to Georgia type of thing, and meanwhile the Faithful’s account of that story is one of exaggerated clarity and piety compared to Earendil’s own somewhat i-have-no-idea-what-i’m-doing-let-me-stumble-around-tirion-freaking-out experience…? like, to give themselves greater reassurance and inspiration in the face of persecution…

simaethae replied to your post:                   garden-ghoul replied to your post:              …                

   speculation: the King’s Men *are* all really big Feanor fans, of the
“the Noldor threw off the yoke of the Valar’s repression” type, because
that’s where you end up if you’re into wanting to be an Elf but also
hate all the actual Elves who visit    

   maybe the King’s Men wrote bad historical rpf about Maglor and
Maedhros teaching Elros his True Heritage as an honorary Noldo :(((    

   wow i actually feel a lot better about the Discourse if I imagine it’s being written by disaffected Numenoreans tho haha   

😀  …and yeah exactly on the tricky tension of hating all actual
elves but loving the idealized simplified idea of elves/of being elves!…lol also
I’m like 150% certain actualfax Maglor would be like “you’re a big fan of what now…pls…….no…?” if he ever heard it. convenient
that he’s MIA this whole time.

garden-ghoul replied to your post:               numenorean scholarship?                

   the fact that tolkien feels he needs to explain the lack of numenor
content is so… like dude, are you claiming to have collected ALL THE
HISTORY THERE IS? if not it’s like…. it’s fine if you cherry-pick. ur a
historiographer with a limited lifespan. chill.    

l m a o YES.

This was also v close my thoughts while reading “the Problem of Ros.” Like, dude. Dude. You speak english. ENGLISH. Are you, an English speaker, really trying to tell us there’s any “problem” that needs to be “solved” about the idea of languages breaking grammatical rules or making no sense. Calm down.

thelioninmybed replied to your post:                   gurguliare: replied to your post: numenorean…                

   Omg that is such a good internal hc I love it    

Thank you!! So much room for speculation in this chunk of canon, I love it.

simaethae replied to your post:                   gurguliare: replied to your post: numenorean…                

   speculation about how elrond stole elros’ immortality, which makes no sense and is very hurtful to elrond?    

hdkshjfbksjhfkdsk!!! ^^^

elrond just “*…..*” at the numenoreans’ RPF. lol it must be awkward and unbearable to be trying to mind your realm/help hold back Sauron in ME while the numenoreans are conquering and stealing everything and ruining everyone’s lives, and everyone else is very justifiably spewing hatred at them, meanwhile you’re just like [internally screaming]

simaethae replied to your post:                  numenorean scholarship?                

   omg i love that take on gimilzor, filing that away to keep thinking
about. the idea of the founding of numenor getting reinterpreted over
and over through the lens of the present is just so good    

Yes!! Though the other interpretation is probably just that it means the same thing as that recorded Quenya name, Telemnar/silver-flame, and that the “gimil” element that means “star” has connotations of silver. But otoh, it could be something similar to Inziladun taking the name Palantir – a purposeful statement, not a translation of his other name…? It seems weird for Gimilzor and a lot of the other later kings to even HAVE a Quenya name recorded tbh…I wonder if Inziladun had a hand in that…ahhh language and politics….

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.

simaethae replied to your post: meme replies

  excuse Sauron is a pro at failing to redeem himself or learn anything       

THIS IS OF COURSE ENTIRELY TRUE BUT there is a particularly laid-back consistency and/or foresight and/or lazy nihilism about just dropping out and never coming up in the first place with different strategies and goals due to observing how dumb your boss’s goal and strategy were, and only later destroying and backlogging all your own objectives in the interests of spite, revenge, and other assorted pettiness, that I think Sauron is prob incapable of.

Also!

Thuringwethil: If you never TRY to learn from your mistakes in the first place, you can never FAIL!