Tag: tuor

rock-paperback-scissors:

Tuor stood upon the shore, and the sun was like a smoky fire behind the menace of the sky; and it seemed to him that a great wave rose far off and rolled towards the land… Then suddenly as it drew near it curled, and broke, and rushed forward in long arms of foam; but where it had broken there stood dark against the rising storm a living shape of great height and majesty. 

 – Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin, J.R.R. Tolkien

[Inktober day 10: flowing]

Above the noise of the water the sound of his song and the sweet thrilling of the harp were echoed in the stone and multiplied, and went forth and rang in the night-clad hills, until all the empty land was filled with music beneath the stars.

Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin, Unfinished Tales (via crocordile)

the line of Fingolfin has a Problem(TM)

Fingolfin:

Now Hador Lórindol, son of Hathol, son of Magor, son of Malach Aradan,
entered the household of Fingolfin in his youth, and was loved by the King.
Fingolfin therefore gave to him the lordship of Dor-lómin…

Turgon:

Húrin and Huor dwelt as guests in the King’s house
for well nigh a year; and it is said that in this time Húrin learned much
lore of the Elves, and understood also something of the counsels and purposes of
the King. For Turgon took great liking for the sons of Galdor, and spoke
much with them; and he wished indeed to keep them in Gondolin out of love….

Idril:

Great love too had
Idril for Tuor, and the strands of her fate were woven with his even
from that day when first she gazed upon him from a high window as he
stood a way-worn suppliant before the palace of the king.

Eärendil

Then Eärendil said to Elwing: ‘Choose thou, for now I am weary of the
world.’ And Elwing chose to be judged among the Firstborn Children of Ilúvatar,
because of Lúthien; and for her sake Eärendil chose alike, though
his heart was rather with the kindred of Men and the people of his father.

Elrond:

In [the house of Elrond] were harboured the Heirs of Isildur,
in childhood and old age, because of the kinship of their blood with Elrond
himself …. And until [the last deeds of that Age] came the shards of Elendil’s sword were given into the keeping of Elrond,
when the days of the Dúnedain darkened and they became a wandering
people….

Then Aragorn, being now the Heir of Isildur, was taken with his mother to dwell in the house of Elrond; and Elrond took the place of his father and came to love him as a son of his own. But he was called Estel, that is “Hope”…