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enough ranting in people’s tags time to make my own post about celegorm because i think Smart Celegorm needs a caveat called He’s smart BUT to make him smart in a way that another character already is smart just makes him less distinctive of a character which is also kind of boring if you think about it. Because i feel like people see the complaint that too many fanon takes on celegorm is that he is a big dumb brute and they think “yes time to make him a court savvy master manipulator who schemes” and it’s like ok cool but you just made curufin again. We don’t need two curufins we need curufin and celegorm.

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‘gay boromir’, much like ‘gay theodred’, is a redundant phrase

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the cousins hanging out :)

eowyn is shy coz she doesnt rlly remember theodred

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@mace-waz-here gave me this fun prompt to draw Boromir losing to Faramir while playing cards xD

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húrin thalion is your dad who functions fine in society and even excels in socialising but also he is very obviously the source of your autism. he will go to his grave undiagnosed and he has had the same hyperfixation since you were born.

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I deeply love all of the little echoes between the Silmarillion and LOTR, but this is one of my faves:

Last of all Húrin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Húrin cried: ‘Aurë entuluva! Day shall come again!’

-Húrin at the Battle of Unnumbered Tears (C. 20, the Silmarillion)

"Hail, Lord of the Mark," said Éomer. "The dark night has passed, and day has come again."

-Éomer at the Battle of Helm's Deep (C. 6, Two Towers)

Naturally, I adore the fact that Éomer is the echo of Húrin, almost definitely the single most badass human of the entire First Age (and arguably of the first two ages!). What an honor for our horse boy! The echoing quote could easily have gone instead to Aragorn or an elf, both of whom are descendants of traditions that go all the way back to those First Age events where Húrin did his thing. But instead, the line went to the heir of a newer, younger people—a people who are, in many ways, more representative of the future of Middle Earth than the old, historical communities that have been in decline or fading for some time. So I love that choice of pairing. Húrin and Éomer feels less expected but more fitting to me.

Of course, the outcomes for these two are starkly different. Húrin is facing a crushing defeat and is about to be subjected to the wrath and punishment of Morgoth himself, which leaves him permanently destroyed emotionally. Éomer has just come out of an unexpected victory and is headed for another, at the end of which he can rebuild a happy life and even come to carry the royal title of Éomer Éadig, the Blessed. But I think that's the point of the echo.

Húrin did all that was possible (and arguably more!) for a human to do in the circumstances he faced, and in the end it wasn't enough. He never gets to enjoy a new morning. But that doesn’t mean he was wrong. Day does come again. It comes for Éomer. Because if there is one thing Tolkien wants us to know, it’s that you never give in to despair. You keep going and you try again, because eventually someone will find that sunrise and live to enjoy its warmth and brightness.

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King Théoden

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hey friends where is that picture of boromir with the gondor flag except its a pride flag?

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Aragorn, the Chieftain of the Dúnedain

I based the Northern Dúnedain dress mainly on ancient Turkic peoples of the Eurasian Steppe and Late Romans, since I see Arnor as the Western Rome to Gondor's Eastern Rome, but the Northern Dúnedain have long been nomads in a cold climate. There's also a bit of medieval Egyptian and Iron Age Baltic influences.

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Middle-earth Meme

↳ [¼] Men: Éomer

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Beloved king

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i have flippantly expressed this before but like. it is so bizarre to me when people depict túrin as white. imo he has the most clearly racialised story of any figure in the legendarium, and multiple points in his story can be read as him being of mixed race: his earlier childhood, where he struggles to relate to his blonde-haired blue-eyed father, then his time in doriath as a misfit targeted specifically by racial bigotry, then his migratory, multi-named existence where he can never quite find his place anywhere.

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the prince has begun practicing curtseying in the mirror. which could mean nothing.

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Éowyn, disguised as Dernhelm, among the Riders of Rohan ⚔️

Based on Eugéne Grasset’s “Jeanne chevauchant au milieu des hommes d’armes” (1894)

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people have already responded with solid in-universe reasoning but to approach it symbolically:

of course it’s empty. there is nothing waiting here for pharazôn and his army because there is no way to achieve their goal. imho it is an incredible moment of dread and anticlimax combined - giant army storms the forbidden land, transgressing the legendary, infamous boundary between their world and the other - and there is nothing there but empty land and eerie silence. what good is a conqueror if there is nothing to conquer? pharazôn’s language of violence and dominance is rendered utterly impotent and pointless, just like his quest for immortality.

Wait, who lived in Tirion in late SA? I would assume the Noldor... So why did they all run away when Pharazôn's fleet came???

Hmm theoretically those were the chill Noldor (Finarfin etc) because the more murderous Noldor were not allowed back in Valinor proper and stayed on Tol Eresea but I hate this "fact" (idk how canon is that) so let's ignore it.

And even if so... I have a hard time imagining Finarfin, Finrod, probably Nerdanel etc running away from an army of Men.

Ok maybe they all (or at least many) had A Bad Feeling About This and their hearts told them to leave etc. And maybe the Numenorians were just so much much more numerous. I don't know. This is a weird moment. Also I don't see why we need Tirion to be empty in this scene.

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somewhat horny: i have to get Fucked!

quite a bit horny: can we pretend i’m an elven prince and the necromancer’s curse turns me into a demon on the full moon and the only way to cure me is to have my Womb filled by a chivalrous knight . and can you make sure you say soem shit like ‘forsooth’ and ‘by my honor’ and stuff. mngh

hornier than anyone has ever been: i need to kiss someone and get married

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SILM COUSIN SHIPS! russingon, curufinrod, celegorm/aredhel

russingon:

a classic obviously. they complement each other so nicely in the narrative. inextricable t4t legends but honestly i don’t have much to say about them because the canon text is already so good

curufinrod:

ok so i like them in a very specific way and it involves celegorm. finrod is kind of the exact opposite of celegorm in my mind. they are foils. so curufin is kind of compelled by how different finrod is to his codependent brother, especially when they’re all in the claustrophobic proximity of nargothrond.

finrod though, i think, loves curufin in a totally uncomplicated way; he knows perfectly way that curufin is kind of a monster who’s scheming all sorts of unpleasant things, but it doesn’t matter to him. he definitely finds it entertaining and endearing for the most part. family!

one big thing though: i have an unfailing headcanon that finrod basically thought he was asexual until he met the race of men and then realised oh wait no, he just has a very specific type that recently started existing. so that’s probably fun for curufin to hear about lmao

celegorm/aredhel

no romantic shipping here, BUT i think aredhel 100% had a crush on him growing up until she realises she actually just wants his gender. complicated. is it attraction, or some strange unnamed envy?