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Tolkien South Asian Week Day 7 ✧ Freeform | insp x ↳ Everyone in Middle-Earth is Brown [110/?]: Nimloth

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Liridi deactivated...Farawyns we've lost a captain 🫡

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Tolkien South Asian Week Day 6 ✧ A people, the Noldor | insp ↳ Everyone in Middle-Earth is Brown [109/?]: Fëanor

Though long and hard shall be the road! Say farewell to bondage! But say farewell also to ease! Say farewell to the weak! Say farewell to your treasures! More still shall we make. Journey light: but bring with you your swords! For we will go further than Orome, endure longer than Tulkas: we will never turn back from pursuit. After Morgoth to the ends of the Earth! War shall he have and hatred undying. But when we have conquered and have regained the Silmarils, then we and we alone shall be lords of the unsullied Light, and masters of the bliss and beauty of Arda. No other race shall oust us!

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Boromir Week: Final Shot

You can thank @aranov for the request of Boromir in armor with his hair in a bun.

He's followed Aragorn through Dunharrow and down the river to reach Minas Tirith in it's final hours, and after scything his way across Pelennor like a man possessed, he makes his final stand in front of the lower gate to the city. Here he is in the breaths after, when he turns to see the city in flames---but standing.

Happy @boromir-week to one and all.

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“Do candles pity moths?”

“Or moth candles, when the wind blows them out?”

Pin design - The moth & The candle

(Andreth x Aegnor)

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how the hell did jrrt write the silmarillion without tolkien gateway

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Beleriand according to Thingol

Inspired by the Atlas of Prejudice.

*hides*

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Random Narn Hair Headcanons

random collection of thoughts connected by the fact that they have to do with hair, whether physical appearance headcanons or cultural ones

Nellas has dark brown hair, often kept relatively short and almost always tangled with leaves. (Note: I'm not fully decided on this, I've seen both brown and silver hair Nellas designs and both are cool!).

-On that note I’m similarly divided for Beleg; so many artists

-Aerin and Huor both have reddish blonde hair as a child and teenager that gets lighter as they grow.

-talked about this here but Finduilas teaches Túrin how to braid her hair and it’s something they both find comforting

-Huor was also notable for always, always having his hair covering his eyes unless actively in battle. When fitting for a helmet, tresses had to be literally cut off.

-Many Bëorian woman cut or cover their hair after the death of a spouse however Morwen refused to do so until she received proof of death. I actually have a headcanon that Aerin develops a personal habit of covering her hair post Nírnaeth, especially when alone.

-Niënor's hair color is almost identical to Galdor, her paternal grandfather, which is lighter than his sons'.

-Túrin’s grows unusually fast and is perpetually unkempt. While he was a relatively well behaved child to his parents and household, he would often cry and squirm as a young child when his hair was brushed.

-Morwen’s hair is likewise quite unruly, and the waviest of her family

-Sador has salt and pepper hair that became grey early.

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"In all the days of the Third Age, after the fall of Gil-galad, Master Elrond abode in Imladris, and he gathered there many Elves, and other folk of wisdom and power from among all the kindreds of Middle-earth, and he preserved through many lives of Men the memory of all that had been fair; and the house of Elrond was a refuge for the weary and the oppressed, and a treasury of good counsel and wise lore." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age" "Therefore ere the Third Age was ended the Elves perceived that the Ring of Sapphire was with Elrond, in the fair valley of Rivendell, upon whose house the stars of heaven most brightly shone. . ." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion, "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age"

@arwenindomiel's tolkien south asian week ☸︎ day 3: home ☸︎ RIVENDELL

[ID: an edit comprised of four posters in muted browns, reds, and blues, showing different aspects of nepalese architecture.

1: A multi-terraced wooden building with intricately carved woodwork and lattices. White text in the top left corner backed by a white line reads "rivendell" in all caps, and in smaller text underneath "stronghold and refuge" / 2: A row of carved wooded columns holding up a portico, framed by a white rectangle. Text along the inside of the frame reads "His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all." Some words are emphasized in all caps / 3: A series of stone archways leading to a courtyard with a fountain or cistern. Same format as Image 2, but the text reads "Evil things did not come into that valley" and is only in the upper left and lower right corners of the frame / 4: The roof of a buddhist temple, with a domed under-portion surmounted by a tall golden spire. It is adorned with prayer flags and two painted eyes. Same format as Image 1, but the text is on the opposite side, and reads "imladris" and "valley of the elves" //End ID]

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Tolkien South Asian Week Day 5 ✧ Lineages | insp x ↳ Everyone in Middle-Earth is Brown [108/?]: Elrond & Arwen

Arwen Evenstar remained also, and she said farewell to her brethren. None saw her last parting with Elrond her father, for they went up into the hills and there spoke long together, and bitter was their parting that should endure beyond the ends of the world.

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Realms of Men 2026 | A Middle-Earth Monthly Calendar

May · Umbar was a realm at the Bay of Belfalas, south of Gondor. First established by Númenóreans, it was later inhabited by the Corsairs, who used large fleets of great ships to attack the North.

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Boromir Week, Day 6: Change of Fate

The note from Boromir's horn bounded high and clear, ricocheting off broken, soot-stained stone. A swell of voices rose into the air, cheering and shouting.

“The King of Gondor has returned!” he bellowed, sweeping his arm to Aragorn over his shoulder. “Long live King Elessar Telcontar, heir of Isildur!”

Aragorn was sitting straight and tall on his horse, his mouth set, but his eyes betrayed the barest spark of shell-shock. Boromir wasn’t going to let him think about it. He squeezed his horse’s flanks and started forward. Aragorn’s horse instinctively followed, and behind them the cumbersome train of their friends, comrades, and vanguard fell into step.

They passed through the first gate, which was no more than the stubs of towers, rimed with ash and gouged by ballistae. Still, gate wardens stood on top of the rubble, and the heralds released a peal from their trumpets. First, the two rising notes that signaled peaceful news to the city, and then the short burst that had been preceding Boromir his whole life. The Captain was entering the city. Growing up, Faramir would buzz it through pursed lips whenever Boromir stumbled out of bed or emerged from the jakes. But following after was a ring that hadn’t been heard from the ramparts of Minas Tirith since the second age. A clear swirl of notes, rising into the morning air.

The King was entering the city.

A snippet from a fic I wrote a few years ago. We all know Boromir Lives is my lifeblood, and one of my favorite concepts is Boromir reinventing himself as the pillar that holds up and legitimizes Aragorn as king.

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now the joy that was hidden in the songs we heard is made plain to me.

tolkien south asian week hosted by @arwenindomiel

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@arwenindomiel's tolkien south asian week 2025 day 3: more fair than mortal tongue can tell ✦ LÚTHIEN

Her starlight faded and the night closed o'er the snowdrops glimmering white. Thereafter on a hillock green he saw far off the elven-sheen of shining limb and jewel bright often and oft on moonlit night; and Daeron's pipe awoke once more, and soft she sang as once before.

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Tolkien South Asian Week Day 4 ✧ No living man am I ↳ Everyone in Middle-Earth is Brown [107/?]: Eowyn

Too often have I heard of duty. But am I not of the House of Eorl, a shieldmaiden and not a dry-nurse? Shall I always be left behind when the Riders depart, to mind the house while they win renown, and find food and beds when they return? All your words are but to say you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour you have leave to be burned in the house for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Eorl and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.

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Tolkien South Asian Week Day 3 ✧ More fair than Mortal tongue can tell | insp ↳ Everyone in Middle-Earth is Brown [106/?]: Arwen Undómiel

For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter.

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“I stand upon some dreadful brink, and it is utterly dark in the abyss before my feet, but whether there is any light behind me I cannot tell. For I cannot turn yet.” - Eowyn “The Return of the King” JRR Tolkien