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“How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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I'm convinced mama dragons carry their babies around in their mouth for protection, like how crocodiles do...

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What a beautiful thing to feel this young again.

Maedhros closes his eyes as a wave of warmth rises through their shared bond. Doubts wash away, leaving him marvelling at the sensation. To see his memories, hear his thoughts, feel his emotions.

It casts the world in kaleidoscopic perspective. Gods, how he missed him. Missed this.

How effortlessly Fingon tears down his defences – the walls Maedhros built so carefully to shield his mind and cage his shadows. But to whom, if not Fingon, could he lay bare his scarred heart?

No constraints. No illusions. Just them. Just this, once again.

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Some traditional art. This was literally self-indulgence and I don't deny it. A depiction of how I would imagine my two favourite people in all of Arda if they were in a live-action Silmarillion show 🔥🌟

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LotR + Blades

Next

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Maedhros.

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The Fall of Fingolfin

His hopeless challenge dauntless cried Fingolfin there: Come, open wide,dark king, your ghastly brazen doors! Come forth, whom earth and heaven abhors! Come forth, O monstrous craven lord, and fight with thine own hand and sword, thou wielder of hosts of banded thralls, thou tyrant leaguered with strong walls, thou foe of Gods and elvish race! I wait thee here. Come! Show thy face!

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Morifinwë

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I made a 75 question medium/high difficulty TES Lore exam for anyone who is bored. Access it here

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Day of Judgment! Day of doom!

When will you dawn and end my night?

When will the blow of annihilation resound

which shall crack the world asunder?

When all the dead rise again,

then shall I pass into the void.

You stars above, cease your course!

Eternal extinction fall on me!

(Richard Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer)

Me and @the-symphony-of-lydia-brown went to see the Flying Dutchman opera by Richard Wagner. I got inspired again to paint some Tolkien art. Have this Maglor

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The Rescue of Maedhros by Jenny Dolfen

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had a revelation

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Melkor: I fear no man…

Melkor: *points to Fingolfin* but that thing…

Melkor: it scares me

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me: i wanna talk about my ocs

someone: ok tell me about your ocs

me, suddenly convinced that every single thing about my ocs is stupid and cringy and probably offensive: i. have them

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Figured I might es well star posting the Valar Series I did over the summer :)

(throws art and hides)

I offer you:

Manwë

Varda

Ulmo

Yavannah

There's more but these are my favourites.

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“Maitimo,” he said, “Nelyo, I am sorry. I lost everyone.”

So, so moved and delighted by this beautiful illustration I commissioned from @starshadeemilyart for the final chapter of And Love Grew.

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Because I didn’t give him a helm in The Big Drawing, he gets a helm now. I don’t think he believes in safety, though.