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my entry for the TRSB2020

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Feanor and Nerdanel.

"come closer, my love”, he whispered.

she smirked.

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#Celegorm #silmarillion postkanon #fantasy #elves #Formenos #Arda #Valinor #Aman #tolkien #Келегорм

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Elwing fleeing from the havens of Sirion

Finally picked up the silmarillion omg so I decided to post my art on here!

I'm especially fascinated by Elwing so here have her fleeing Sirion!

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Here's a few more ^-^

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Got ‘em there

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My modest contribution to the silm fandom ~why has no one ever done that before I wonder

Also hyperactive Fingon my beloved

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Ooo, in case you haven’t drawn her already I’d love to see Miriel in your style! Or if not, then perhaps some of the other Fëanorian / related-to-Finwë ladies <3

Míriel (or at least how I see her <3)

it’s a shame we didn’t get to see much of her, I find her very interesting

also as I see from other requests people want to see more women and here I was drawing only men basically :D

I will draw and post the rest soon!

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inside me are two wolves

One thinks that maglor was so overcome by grief and tragedy that he never stopped wandering the seaside singing haunting mourning songs until he eventually faded or the sea took him

The other thinks that maglors decision to not follow maedhros into death was a deliberate choice. That he thought about drowning himself, but saw the sun rise, felt her rays on his face and the wind in his hair and that he decided that he didn't want to die. That, no, the story of the house of fëanor will not end as a perfect tragedy. One son will continue to live and find joy in that broken world

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Findekano lost in thought

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Findecáno Astaldo Ñolofinwion, Fingon. My personal interpretation, as per Light.

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Having intense Círdan brainrot thanks to @nimphelos fantastic artwork so sharing one of the ballpoint illustrations from one of my current WIPs: a “longform essay journalism” piece in which the motor-mouthed amateur historian Legolas (as seen in Cast in Stone) and long-suffering woodcut illustrator Gimli attempt to record the long shadow of the kinslaying at Sirion i.e they go around interviewing people in TA Middle Earth and Aman about it and put together something stylistically similar to, say, a The New Yorker or The Atavist style essay-article.

Círdan is one of the people Legolas interviews, and obviously takes the opportunity bring up Losgar + his trusty ship in a bottle. Enjoy a snippet!

The historical record of the kinslayings also bore the marks of design, the stamp of the Eldar’s craft. Alqualönde, Doriath and Sirion moved through history with the precision of ritual, choreographed and bound by the laws of ancestry, palatability and binary even as it broke them. Like old Beleriand itself, violence lingered not in the songs and maps, which tend to occlude and bear undeniable hallmarks of the craftsperson, but in preserved artefact. Reconstructions had no historical value. Or so I thought.

More than any scholar I had met, including and perhaps especially the archivists of Imladris, Círdan the Shipwright understood the grain of things: how much memory timber could be expected to hold, how a mishandled curve in a hull carried the inheritance of a full-fleet of burned ships that didn’t miscurve. He knew the difference between restoration and reverence, and told me that for him, craft was the truest form of archival practice: not the preservation of history as it was, but a reassembly conscious of its own absences.

When Gimli complimented him on the craftsmanship of the old Teleri vessel-in-a-bottle on his mantelpiece and told him how realistic it seemed, Círdan rolled his eyes, then did so again when I asked him why. “Because it’s still, Legolas. Ships are not meant to be still. This ship shouldn’t be here on my dusty mantelpiece, it should bob around fearlessly on the waves, fleet as it had been in life.”

He passed it across to me and let us look closely at the thing itself. Mist had not yet cleared the bottle’s interior, but I recognised the jagged coastline of Losgar. Masts tilted as though in wind, and impossibly precise figures no larger than ants moved along the decks: a helmsman’s posture, a sailor’s slack arm mid-turn. When I held the bottle in shadow, smoke seemed to be sculpted into the glass itself, feathering up around the burnt rigging.

Gimli and I leaned closer. One side, blackened nearly to vanishing, held a gilded figurehead unfamiliar to me, its angles catching a sliver of afternoon light. Then the light shifted. Shadows fell inward, and the flame vanished from the prow. All that remained were the ribs of wood and thread, and an unburnt ship in a cold bottle.

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Factual data: so... in the Númenórean legal system iirc (might have been Gondor, but I'll assume it's similar) the King cannot change the law, but can do whatever he wishes within its bounds, presumably as long as the populace won't outright rebel. At the same time, there is at least one instance of the law changing (Aldarion and Ancalimë) — and still the king cannot go against it in others (Gimilzôr and sons). There is also a council of the scepter which doesn't seem to do much.

Possible hypothesis: the assent of the council is necessary to modify the law. I will assume it is not settled by simple majority vote, or Gimilzôr shouldn't have had much trouble with making his younger son his heir... presumably there exists a principle allowing a minority to block any change. Probably not as strong as the old Polish liberum veto, or nothing would get done, but one that allows the Lord of Andunië + two or three supporters to keep him from doing so (note to self: investigate possibilities of conflict between young Pharazon and Númendil + Amandil in the fanfic, since Númendil's father would certainly have been involved)

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it’s my bday and this maedhros is my gift to myself 🤣🤣

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Prompts 2025

Day one: Valinor | Under the Light of the Trees | First Meeting

Day two: The Exile of the Ñoldor | Helcaraxë

Day three: Gondolin | A Moment of Peace

Day four: War | Mourning | Grief

Day five: Unsent Letters | Yearning

Day six: Reunion | Nostalgia

Day seven: Freeform | AU

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𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓

Hello everyone and welcome to the first year of Glorthelion week! An entire week dedicated to Glorfindel and Ecthelion relationship.

The event will run on Tumblr from November 10th to November 17th. All creations are welcome, as long as it is created by you. Don't forget to tag #glorthelionweek and mention the blog (to make sure I can see your creation in case tags don't work).

Prompts are not mandatory! You can follow them, be inspired by them or let your imagination go wild and create whatever you want! Event rules can be found here.

Prompts 2025:

↳ Day one: Valinor | Under the Light of the Trees | First Meeting

↳ Day two: The Exile of the Ñoldor | Helcaraxë

↳ Day three: Gondolin | A Moment of Peace

↳ Day four: War | Mourning | Grief

↳ Day five: Unsent Letters | Yearning

↳ Day six: Reunion | Nostalgia

↳ Day seven: Freeform | AU

Happy creating!

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Re-embodiment is hard you guys ☹️