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these HI pics have me SICK to my stomach please i can’t take it 😭😭 they were just KIDS.

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"Elrond knew all about runes of every kind. That day he looked at the swords they had brought from the trolls' lair, and he said: 'These are not troll-make. They are old swords, very old swords of the High Elves of the West, my kin. They were made in Gondolin for the Goblin-wars. They must have come from a dragon's hoard or goblin plunder, for dragons and goblins destroyed that city many ages ago'.."

Chapter 3, A Short Rest. "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Elrond's outfit is based off of a melange of ancient dress, most notably Assyrian, with some medieval dagging in there to evoke the shape of leaves. Gandalf is based largely on the Quechua people who inhabit the Andean region of South America with some Viking touches here and there.

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Me asking to talk about The Pitt with my mutuals:

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"And it is told of Maglor that he could not endure the pain with which the Silmaril tormented him; and he cast it at last into the Sea"

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【enjoltaire Middle Earth AU 】

 Dol Amroth swan-knights! Enjolras x deserted Harad soldier! Grantaire

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The tides of Belfalas crashed into his soul; for the first time in his life, Grantaire felt alive.

"I do not believe in liberty, or justice, or the will of the free peoples. I believe in you."

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cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

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The Valar's mistake did not lie in seeing a possibility of good in Melkor. Rather, their mistake lay in not seeing the equal possibility of him remaining evil.

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So many people who say they like the Silmarillion (even that they love it) will still call it boring, dense, dry, et cetera, and it honestly just makes me sad. I never found it boring in the slightest. Like, it’s fine if you think it’s boring, or you find all the names off-putting, or you couldn’t get into it or whatever. I just wish it wasn’t so hard to find other people who actually love the Silmarillion the way it is, who DON’T find it boring, who love it unapologetically. The Silmarillion is one of the most interesting books I’ve ever read, if not THE most interesting book. It’s not boring, it’s exciting! It’s moving! It’s completely enthralling! I can literally read a single sentence from it and it will make me tear up because it’s so beautiful. There are so many scenes in it that are so good that just THINKING about them gives me chills. It’s literally my favorite thing. I read it for the first time 15 years ago and no book (other than LOTR) has ever made such a deep impression on me. The Silmarillion is boring TO YOU. I love it though

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this from the guy who wrote the sting pain index, a scale he constructed after letting himself be stung by insects

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What I’m getting from the Silmarillion is the plot is “Almost everyone dies. Everyone who lives, every victory, contributed somehow to the birth of Elrond.” 

Elrond is the end goal. I am convinced Elrond is the most important character in Tolkien’s entire universe.

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omg I just remembered that to love another person is to see the face of god

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so @potatoobsessed999 and i finished our reread of the hobbit last night and i’m now fully and completely convinced that

arkenstone’s a silmaril

areknstone is maedhros’ silmaril specifically

and this COULD be a post about how the arkenstone is described exactly the same as the silmarils are, or how thorin talks about it in the exact same way that the feanorians do, but for the moment i am skipping all of that because listen to me. just for a second here accept this as canon into your hearts because if this is so then that would mean.

that bard, a king who had his home destroyed by a great evil from the north and was willing to hold the glowing beautiful stone ransom to protect his people, willingly laid maedhros’ silmaril to rest with thorin, a king who had his home destroyed by a great evil from the north and who sought to retrieve the glowing beautiful stone that was the last remaining thing he had of his father.

and i just think that’s such a potent ending for the damn thing. there is the peace that was never achieved in the silmarillion. there is the sympathy that was never achieved in the silmarillion. the silmarils cannot come home to the feanorians, but they can come home to durin’s folk. they can find their home with a different people of aule. with a different people who have faced horror and death in their own home. with a different son who has lost his father who had lost his father, left to hold his people together. and it can do that because instead of being fought over, it was in the end given up freely.

and i just think that’s nice, actually.

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help i got cast in a play and one of the other actors said their favorite book is the silmarillion so i was like :o and later i showed him my silm tattoo and he freaked out..

and then we did an improv warmup game where in a group you had to cross to the other side of the room while pretending you’re in a blizzard. and i was in a group with him and said “it’s like crossing the helcaraxë” and he laughed and said “we’re killing feanor when we get across”

i’m just in shock bc in my 10+ years of silmarillion adoration i’ve never met another irl silm head in the wild 😭

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I am a naughty little serf. I love to wallow in my sloth and indolence, and to disobey the gentry

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the most delusional and insane thing i've ever done is: after working on a spirk fic for hours without seeing sun or touching grass, yell "JIM" to call for my real human boyfriend (who is 100% not named jim)