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“Frodo deserved all honour because he spent every drop of his power of will and body, and that was just sufficient to bring him to the destined point, and no further. Few others, possibly no others of his time, would have got so far.”

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J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter 192; The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (via ringbearerfrodo)

#also i highly recommend reading this whole letter #and there are several others where tolkien talks about frodo #and describes him as essentially a victim of ongoing psychological torture #and he gets really pissed at people who blame frodo or say he failed #comparing that to blaming a torture victim who ‘breaks’ and spills secrets after weeks of torture #it’s both an interesting take on frodo’s character #and also (imo) some very interesting insight into the way tolkien himself thought about frodo #because he’s not a civilian talking about torture survivors #he’s very much speaking as a war veteran (tags via @fialleril)

(via joannalannister)

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you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

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The April 29 prompt is lambë (tongue)

Tengwar challenge guidelines and past prompts | SWG challenge guidelines

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Evil have been all your ways, son of Húrin.

Thankless fosterling, outlaw, slayer of your friend, thief of love, usurper of Nargothrond, captain foolhardy, and deserter of your kin.

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He's plotting something. :)

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My SILMARILLION people!

What are yalls favourite fics surrounding mahaedros and maglor? And elrond and elros? AND Elwing and Earandil aaaaaaand Glorfindel and Gilgalad

Aaaaaand the Akallabeth! What's yalls favourite Numenorean fics???

I just finished the SILMARILLION and need to let my brain go craazzzy

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Ambarussa Appreciation

I have said before that I think Amrod and Amras have much untapped imaginative potential. But that's not to say there are no intrepid creators who have done marvellous work with the sixth and seventh sons of Fëanor. Here are some of them! Feel free to reblog this with additions of your own.

Fics

A Kind of Mercy by @aipilosse (T, 0.8k). Amras & Amrod. A haunting character study.

truth in a mirror by athenakarthagonensis (E, 4.4k). Amrod/OMC. Stunning prose and a dangerous lightly-toasted Amrod. The unique Green-elf POV is excellent.

The White Tower by Anna_Wing (not rated, 11.2k). Post-canon Elwing-focused fic (fascinating worldbuilding and musings on the nature of the Oath), but interesting and refreshing to see her interacting with the 'forgotten' Kinslayers.

Who By Fire by me (M, 4.9k). Amrod/Fingolfin. Two grief-raw souls connect at Mithrim. Lightly-toasted Amrod. cw: past attempted suicide, mental instability, injury, animal death.

The Same Blood by me (T, 1k). Amras and Amrod's relationship feels the strain of what they have been through. Follow-up to the previous fic.

as a mist of light, chapter 12 by @swanmaids (T, ficlet). Amras finds a way to cope after the fire. Crispy Amrod. cw: self harm.

We Shared Everything by @cuarthol (M, 2.2k). Amras and Amrod shared everything, until they didn't. Crispy Amrod. Fantastic use of first person (plural and singular).

Dénouement by @sallysavestheday (G, 0.9k). Amrod/Aredhel, post-canon. Two people who were killed by people they love find understanding in each other. Crispy Amrod.

A Name by @skyeventide (G, 1k). Beautiful and impactful musings on identity, pulling from the convoluted and complex names associated with these two. Lightly-toasted Amrod.

The Seven Trials of Fingon the Valiant, chapter 6 by me and @melestasflight (T, ~2k). Something lighter! The twins seduce Fingon.

Art

There is actually a pretty rich array of fanart of Amrod and Amras. Here are just a few of my favourites.

Amras and Amrod by @wisesnail

Amras and Amrod by @welcomingdisaster

Amrod threatens Elrond and Elros by @runawaymun, a chilling commission for my fic And Love Grew

Amrod by @myceliumelium

Amras and Maedhros by @redbootsindoriath

Amrod by @tabukomi

Ambarussa by @thelien-art

Ambarussa by @spvce-oddity

Maedhros, Celegorm, Amrod, Amras by @albuum

Any finally some HoMe quotes about the twins, who get so little in the published Silm.

325 [525] Torment fell upon Maidros and his brethren, because of their unfulfilled oath. Damrod and Díriel resolved to win the Silmaril, if Eärendel would not give it up willingly. […] 329 [529] Here Damrod and Díriel ravaged Sirion, and were slain. Maidros and Maglor were there, but they were sick at heart.  From 'The Later Annals of Beleriand' in The Lost Road

"The two twins were both red-haired. Nerdanel gave them both the name Ambarussa - for they were much alike and remained so while they lived. When Fëanor begged that their names should at least be different Nerdanel looked strange, and after a while said: 'Then let one be called [Ambarto >] Umbarto, but which, time will decide."

"The twins called each other Ambarussa. The name Ambarto/Umbarto was used by [?no one]. The twins remained alike, but the elder grew darker in hair, and was more dear to his father. After childhood they [?were not to be] confused…" From 'The Shibboleth of Fëanor' in The Peoples of Middle-earth

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not romantic nor platonic but a secret third thing (so closely linked in the narrative that the author shuffled our character traits many times trying to decide which of us is which)

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Maedhros for character design if you feel like it, please.

Maedhros

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old gil galad (ft cirdan) pieces

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✨ moodboard for kanafinwë makalaurë ✨

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... And you can now read the whole horrible thing in Two Half-Kings and a Full Lake Between.

I think Regent Maglor should get to kick Celegorm's ass. In a hand-to-hand fight, no magic, no Song. Just physically overpower his much larger younger brother in front of his soldiers.

As a treat.

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Snippet Saturday

I was tagged by @polutrope to share a little bit of something I've been working on - thanks a lot for the tag!

A short and (relatively) not nsfw excerpt from the sex math gangbang, ft Maglor gently herding Amarie and Curufin's wife towards a threesome and getting waylaid by the pleasures of wordplay:

He kissed Amarië’s bare shoulder. “There is no injury more delightful than the wounds of love.” “But I don’t —” “And no sweeter bliss,” he said, peppering kisses to her throat, “than to be injured by love’s barbs.” “Love’s barbs, really?” said Amanyë.  “Hush,” he said, with his mouth pressed behind her ear. His breath was wonderfully hot, but warmer still was his tongue against her earlobe.  “Stings. Darts. Sceptres. Gaudy sceptres, even, judging by your tastes.” “I,” Amanyë declared, “am ravishing.” “Ravished, more like.” “Your conjugation is incorrect,” she said. “Curufinwë is ravished, my swains were ravishing and I am and will be ravishing.” “Sweet sister,” Makalaurë said, between nibbling at Amarië’s ear. “I fear I must put you over my lap and teach you the difference between declension and conjugation.” “I’ll conjugate and declench you first!” Amarië arrived at a decision, moved by a desire to escape a rapidly deteriorating lesson in grammar. “Will you both stop your awful puns,” she said, her voice trembling only a little, with the magnitude of what she was about to say,  “and fuck me already?”

I've lost track of who has and hasn't done this, so if you want to share a snippet of what you've been working on please do and please tag me!

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Okay but which Silm ships would be most likely to give/receive roadhead or horseback?

Thank you for asking this v important question, obviously I had thoughts (a lot of them) abt this, tho mostly abt people who have done it rather than specific ships. Beginning with the premise that you have to fundamentally be a little (a lot) insane to try this, and also have little (no) instinct for self-preservation:

1. Feanor/Nerdanel: when Tolkien writes that Nerdanel was the only person who was ever able to temper Feanor, what it meant was that Nerdanel gamely gave Feanor roadhead/horsebackhead and Feanor was like "wow a woman who can do that can do anything and is both wise and not to be trifled with". They invented at least 4 positions for horsebackhead. All 4 went into an "anonymously" published sex manual that was v formative for many of the younger members of the House of Finwë. Only her sons ever learned who actually wrote it because Nerdanel once told the story of how they invented horsebackhead. This is also why none of them barring Curufin ever had kids.

2. Celegorm tries it at home: I suspect you can fill in whoever you like from Orome and those who follow him here. But for my money, Celegorm did it with the man himself.

3. Fingon tries this at home: the man who went to Angband with a harp and a bow could do anything, I think. The question is with who, because I don't see Maedhros as that kind of risk-taker in his youth. Post-Angband though? Definitely. If Fingon and Celegorm got along ever in their youth, I think they would have. Possibly competitive attempts at it by leaning over and blowing the other while riding side by side? I also think Fingon/Hurin is a good candidate for this.

4. Maglor tries this in the army: listen, he ostensibly led Beleriand's cavalry on probably one of the most challenging patrols for 400 years. No way he hasn't tried it. I think he also got creative enough to do horseback cunnilingus. Has also written a song about it, which seems like it's thanking Orome for the wondrous horse, but you know.

5. Beleg/Mablung, successfully doing convergent evolution in Middle Earth: Beleg specifically does not have a sense of self-preservation. He definitely was the one who leaned over and Mablung went with the flow. It was great and then lots of young Sindar tried it at home and that was not so great for them. Beleg definitely tried it once on Turin and it didn't go well (Turin jolted Beleg and unfortunately got teeth), but this is because Turin is a walking self-fulfilling prophecy of fucking up a good thing for himself.

6. Curufin/Curufin's wife: canonically a strong and cunning horseman who also attempts the jackass move of kidnapping Luthien on a moving horse. Pre-Beleriand you know he was doing some fucked up roleplay with his wife in an attempt to demonstrate he was Feanor 2.0. If he ever returns from the Halls of Mandos I know in my heart that he's doing weird kinky roleplay reenactments of being unhorsed and choked by Beren because he's coping with his trauma or whatever. Someone has to be willing enough to choke him and suck his dick while riding a horse while getting kidnapped.

7. Celeborn/Galadriel: probably the longest married couple in Middle Earth? No way they didn't try it in Doriath to compare notes on Sindar versus Noldor styles in horsebackhead. Initial results were inconclusive so they had to try a few times to get it right. There's a middle Earth sex manual "anonymously" written by them giving advice to young married elves on the many sports and pleasures a newly married couple might indulge in. No, Galadriel is not like Feanor at all, why do you ask?

8. Sauron/Celebrimbor: @caracalliope sold me last night on it as a dubcon situation ft. Sauron's infamous evil black horses and then I thought of Celebrimbor wearing an O ring necklace that Sauron tugs into his mouth and uses as a gag/bridle with bit and well. That's how it goes.

9. Miriel/Finwë: he was a high-hearted young prince, she was a stubborn broideress, what more can I say? Okay but seriously, remember in the Great Journey where Orome finally throws his hands up and let's the elves have bad weather so they stop fucking and having kids and actually get to the sea so they can go to Valinor? I think that whole era was the elves' "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" era and that entire generation did some fucked up incredible sex stuff that they didn't write down, but nevertheless Finwë does find it very funny that his son thinks he invented horsebackhead.

10. Fingolfin: I DON'T KNOW WITH WHO but I know he has. He faced down literal Morgoth. His sword is sharp, his lance is keen, his jewels bright and hard as diamond if you follow my meaning. He can do anything.