#feanorions

[sesamenom]

second of seven

[undoplease]

favorite traumatized tall boi. he may have died but he died with style

[tralalalalally]

messy maglor sketch. i feel like im getting closer to how i'd like his design.

[strelkovski]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!!!

I brought you this slightly dumb illustration with Feanorions. I don't think there was snow in Valinor, but for the sake of an art idea, I decided to draw it anyway.

Huan is questioning his life choices.

I like the idea of Caranthir having ruddy birthmark on his face.

[elentarial]

Miscalculation

Dear Morifinwe,

I recently had the privilege of reading your treatise on Dwarven tariffs and found it fascinating reading indeed. I don’t suppose you hear that often. However, I was wondering if you could perhaps clarify the situation on the 36th page, just under the table of tares of standard shipping containers. I was under the impression when one converted between ounces and gallons (which, why aren’t you using liters as a standard unit of liquid measurement??), the multiplier is 0.0078126, but you have it listed as 0.0078125. Does the Naugrim measure alcoholic liquids differently? As you have only two sentences describing the conversion of Dwarvish mead, I can not determine whether it is a typographical error or if I have been misinformed. If the latter is the case, any more explicit suggestion or direction would be appreciated since (as I have pointed out) your explanation in the paper is relatively brief.

Sincerely yours,

Turukano

Dear Turukano,

I am delighted that you enjoyed my protocols for trade in East Beleriand! In regards to your question about whether dwarves measure alcohol differently than other liquids, no Turno, an ounce is an ounce. You have been misinformed. The conversion factor is indeed 0.0078125.

Thank you,

Carnistir Morifinwe,

Dear Moryo,

Thank you for the quick and brief reply. However, I digress, the conversion multiplier is 0.0078126. It was that in Tirion, and it is that now. Please explain your computations. 

Looking forward to your reply,

Turukano

Dear Turno,

I am the one who devised that conversion. I don’t need to prove my work to you because I came up with it in the first place. Any possible discrepancies are due to rounding errors. The conversion is valid.

Carnistir

Dear Moryo,

I am well aware that you first calculated the conversion between ounces and gallons. I sat on the council that granted you the defense of such a claim, and if you will recall, I questioned your math then. You were wrong in Tirion, and you are wrong now.

Awaiting your reply,

Turgon

Turgon,

How delightful to know you remember our time together at the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. I have no recollection of your involvement in my defense, but I really try to avoid thinking of you. Were you there? I thought you were too busy being henpecked by the campus gulls to accomplish anything, research or otherwise.

Carnistir

Moryo,

I generally thought you were one of the better brothers; don’t be an ass. Just admit you are wrong. 

Sincerely,

Turgon Turukano,

 Lord of Nevarast,

 High Prince of the Noldor

My dearest Turukano,

What a lovely title that is. Quite fitting for your already overinflated ego, but I genuinely hate to remind you that you are a second son and not, in fact, the High Prince of anything. Unless, of course, condolences are in order, then I also do not care because I find your brother infuriatingly obnoxious. I would feel for Nelyo, though. 

Yours,

Moryo

Dear Carnistir,

Nelyo…remind me, is that your eldest brother or our grandfather? I can never remember who was born first, him or my father. Regardless, he’s ancient and an inappropriate match for my brother. 

But I beseech you, dearest cousin. Please take a look at your defense from Tirion. I believe there is a note regarding the conversion on the final copy. I don’t have a copy with me, but I am sure you must have kept one for yourself. 

Yours,

Turgon

My darling Turno,

At least we agree on one thing. Fingon and my brother are terrible for one another. 

I do happen to have a copy in my archives. I will check for this mythical correction and have my scribe translate a copy for you. I will enclose it in my next reply, as it’s rather embarrassing to doubt the work of scholars. 

With love,

Moryo

Turukano,

Fuck you. There was no correction; the rate has always been 0.0078125. This exchange has been a complete waste of my time, and I will implore Himring to approve an additional one point five percent tax on all limestone coming from and all other goods going to Vinyamar. 

Sincerely,

Morifinwe

Despite all of Caranthir’s immense irritation, the final letter to Nevarast is returned some months later by an exhausted raven. Shortly thereafter, he receives word from Hithlum that Turgon and one-third of the Noldor forces in West Beleriand have disappeared. 

@silmarillionepistolary

For @cilil (who suggested Caranthir and Tax Day as a prompt) and @dalliansss (who originally did the heavy lifting on building Caranthir’s taxation empire).

Miscalculation (on AO3)

[sunincubeart]

Someone: How long can you draw and mourn the tragic history of the Feanorians?

I: ...yes

Feanor in Hall of Mandos in front of the tapestry with the capture of Maitimo on the rock

[quinthejester]

alright its Amras (first one) and Amrod (second one). my amras picture is based after Amrod died, and the Amrod one is based when he's still alive because, like... he's alive lol

[estel-elrondion]

It's in my nature to be

Kind, gentle and loving,

But knowing this thee

When it comest to matters of defending

Mine friends, mine family

Do not trifle with me!

- Kanafinwe Makalaure Feanorion

[kkshka]

baby Feanor & Míriel ❣️

[g-m-kaye]

Here are six varied sketches I made for unrelated projects or simple, fun warm-up exercises! I think they look pretty together :)

What I was thinking for each sketch:

1. Noldor elves/ Feanor/ 2. I love oak trees!/ 3. I love storms/ 4. THRANDUILION! Legolas and another brother riding through the woods. Inspired partially by encountering and reading the lovely deep-lore fics of @sotwk which centre around Thranduil and his family/ 5. Yes Uve been re-reading the Iliad and re-watching Troy (2004) and it shows lol/ 6. I was thinking about the Anduin river and how it might look from a boat, near the wide shore.

[actual-bill-potts]

So curious what folks think about this!!

[sesamenom]

was looking through some of my old art and found my original feanorion designs (minus parts of curufin and ambarussa)

[eglerieth]

On the Fëanorian accent

There is a great deal of fandom content on the subject of people like Elrond being said to have a “Fëanorian accent” which is based solely on use of the Thúlè. This is a bit ridiculous, as that is the deliberate pronunciation of a single letter, and therefore hardly an accent.

However, I do think that the Fëanorians probably did have their own accent, one that had nothing to do with the Thúlè and everything to do with the fact that they spent thousands of years exploring Valinor with only each other for company, and hundreds more years in Beleriand more or less shunned from other elven peoples. That’s literally how accents form, people.

the list of people who spoke with a Fëanorian accent is as follows:

• Fëanor

• his sons

• (nerdanel?)

• celebrimbor

• the people who followed Fëanor the closest in the flight of the Noldor

• the people of Himring

• Elrond and Elros

• Aradhel. It was a quirk that her many fans easily accepted while in Valinor; in Vinyamar and Gondolin, people diplomatically pretended not to notice

• because of that, Maeglin had a Fëanorian accent when speaking Quenya when he first arrived at Gondolin, but he quickly picked up on how it made people uncomfortable and learned to speak in a Gondolinian accent so as not to associate himself with their bad memories.

• Fingon is an interesting case. He speaks with the most classically mainstream Noldorin accent imaginable. It’s more perfect and precise than even that of Finwë or Fingolfin. His accent is the one actors study when they want to play a Noldo; you know the type. But when he spends too much time around Maedhros, their accents sort of meld into a weird mainstream/Fëanorian hybrid. No one else experience this. Whenever they returned home after time spent together, there’s a lot of drama, especially in the Fëanorian household. Fëanor freaks out every. Single. Time. “WHY DOST THOU SPEAK IN THE SUBPAR MANNER OF HE WHO IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT MY BROTHER?! HAVE I RAISED YOU TO SULLY THYSELF IN SPEECH?! WHY DOTH MY FIRSTBORN REJECT HIS FAMILY SO?!” And then poor Maedhros is like, “Sheesh, Atya, I just spent some time with my dear friend and cousin. I’m not abandoning our family!” The accent wears off a few weeks later anyway. Every time. When the Ambarussa were innocent little elf-lings, they used to tease Maedhros about it, mocking him in an awfully exaggerated Nolofinwëan accent. He would generally slap them upside the head for it, but he took it in good fun. But after a while Fëanor got more obsessive and the twins got older and wiser, and they stopped. Soon after it became a moot point anyway, as the lies of Melkor had started sowing discord and Maedhros stopped spending time with Fingon. Later, in Beleriand, they never resumed teasing him even after Fëanor died and Maedhros and Fingon reconnected, because after Maedhros’s time in Thangoridrim, no one, not even his brothers, dared tease him about anything to his face, partly out of pity and partly because he was now terrifying. But he and Fingon still had that weird hybrid accent every time they spent time together, which is why Thorondor’s first exposure to Quenya was with an accent that only two people in the world had only some of the time. Much like with Aradhel, the people of Gondolin diplomatically overlook the faint Fëanorian accent the King of Eagles occasionally speaks with.

whoever wants to add, feel free!

@nerdy-catfish, @rouxelf

[strelkovski]

Are confused 

[mrgaelrose]

I was writing fanfiction and accidentally stumbled on the idea that one of Maedhros’s crafts should be baking.

He has so many younger siblings to take care of and one of the best ways to get through to an upset kid is by giving them sweets.

Imagine Ambarussa coming to Maedhros crying that Celegorm’s being mean and he gives them little biscuits that he baked himself and listens to them talk about it (then goes to Talk About It with Celegorm)

Imagine Maglor being absolutely devastated after breaking up with a romantic partner and Maedhros baking a whole chocolate cake just for him to help cheer him up.

I just think it’s so sweet and such a perfect fit for his role as Eldest Brother tm.

[grundyscribbling]

It’s @tolkienrsb time! I had a blast both making the art and geeking out with sallysavestheday as she wrote!

Story: When All Other Lights Go Out by sallysavestheday (@sallysavestheday)

Art: Feanorion Nightlight (by me)

Summary: Fëanor and Maedhros craft a gift that lasts for generations.

Rating: G

Characters: Fëanor, Finwë, Nerdanel, Maedhros, Fingon, Maglor, Elrond, Elros, Aragorn, Arwen

Relationships: Fëanor & Finwë; Fëanor/Nerdanel; Fëanor & Sons of Fëanor; Fingon/Maedhros; Maedhros & Maglor; Elrond & Elros & Maedhros & Maglor; Elrond & Maglor; Aragorn/Arwen

Other AO3 Tags: Angst with a Happy Ending; Complicated Family Feels; Parents and Children; Brotherly Love

Word count: 5336