#i know zero quenya

[that-angry-noldo]

i have lost all my self control i am translating skovoroda to quenya

[utilitycaster]

a brief guide to types of fantasy names

I put some syllables together and they sounded nice

I put some syllables together and I can't say they sounded nice per se but they do sound vaguely like they come from Arthuriana so close enough

reasonably common real-world name but a letter or two is changed or added

extremely apt real-world character descriptor but a letter is changed (you know who you are)

two reasonably common real-world names smashed together in some kind of fantasy name particle accelerator

this means something meaningful in a foreign language (real-world)

this means something meaningful in a foreign language (elaborate conlang, self-created)

this means something meaningful in a foreign language (hey Siri, how do you say Fateful in Quenya? Set alarm for D&D Session Zero for 45 minutes from now.)

real-world names, but exclusively ones that are no longer in common usage, frequently either from the ancient Mediterranean region or else medieval European names

"this is Linda and she fights dragons. fuck you."

referred to only by a series of complex and mysterious titles

rigid naming convention across the board, but within that any one of the above is possible

some kind of pun or overly long memeified joke

I don't know what data set the fantasy name generator runs off of and I'm too afraid to ask but not too afraid to reap the benefits

acronym that I never replaced

Literally just a noun

[thelordofgifs]

Thinking about that line in the Shibboleth of Fëanor that even his sons might not have all adhered to the old-fashioned thorn pronunciation after his death - which immediately raises the question, so which ones did?? Random headcanons only vaguely supported by anything in the text below.

(Disclaimer that this all obviously became somewhat moot when Thingol’s Quenya ban came into play. Using crispy Amrod canon here.)

Maedhros: there are pages I could write on Maedhros’ complicated relationship with his father and his father’s legacy, it absolutely fascinates me. Initially Maedhros is the son of Fëanor who most openly defies his father - he stands aside at Losgar, he goes to parley with Morgoth literally as soon as Fëanor is dead, and, most notably, he gives the crown to Fingolfin. These are not the actions of a dutiful eldest son devoted to his father’s memory, which makes me fairly confident in saying that Maedhros definitely dropped the thorn post-Thangorodrim. It’s a fairly minor gesture of reconciliation compared to dispossessing his entire house, and I really don’t think Maedhros has many fucks left to give about linguistics after decades hanging from a cliff.

How did this change, say, post-Nirnaeth when there were effectively no descendants of Indis left to make nice with? I don’t know, but I rather like playing with the headcanon that Maedhros started using the thorn again in the last century or so of his life, especially when his mental state was particularly bleak.

Maglor: I don’t think Maglor’s feelings about his father were much less complicated than Maedhros’. He’s specifically noted as hanging out with Finrod and being trusted by Maedhros not to cause a scene at the Mereth Aderthad, suggesting that he very much follows Maedhros’ lead in reconciliation with the other side of the family. On the other hand, Maglor has always been rather fascinated by his dead grandmother, and he maintains that people’s names should be pronounced the way they want them to be pronounced. Also, several of his older works contain puns that absolutely hinge on the th/s distinction. He doesn’t drop the thorn.

Celegorm: actually never used the thorn consistently in the first place, a constant source of annoyance for his father. Celegorm values fast and efficient communication over linguistic precision - if foxes don’t have a word for what he wants to express, he’ll borrow one from Dog. Meaning over pedantry. Prescriptivism is stupid. He’s one of the fastest of the sons to pick up Sindarin, and displays zero interest in actually studying it. Post-reconciliation of the Noldor, he uses the thorn when the distinction is necessary for clarity, and doesn’t otherwise. Everyone is used to this.

Caranthir: I could go either way here, not having many headcanons about Caranthir’s relationship with his father. Since he’s not particularly on board with Maedhros’ efforts at diplomacy, let’s say he keeps the thorn, purely because nobody can tell him what to do.

Curufin: absolutely does not drop the thorn, that was his father’s hill to die on which means it’s his too. Is constantly furious with his brothers whenever they mispronounce something, this is personal, how can they just betray everything Fëanor stood for like that?? Will fully march Tyelpë out of the room if non-Fëanorian Quenya is being spoken there, his child’s ears are Pure and will not be Sullied with Improper Language. The Fëanorions are generally annoyed by Thingol’s Ban, but at least it gives Curufin a new target for all his linguistic aggression.

Amras: has never forgiven his father for Losgar and never will. Drops the thorn out of pure spite. 

[queerofthedagger]

get yourself a friend who will listen to you go on an hour-long mad rant about some possible linguistic inconsistency in the worldbuilding of your latest brainrot that has literally zero bearing on that one throwaway line you're writing and overthinking, and who will not only listen but have an absolute blast (affectionately) laughing at you being an absolute goddamn nerd even though only very roughly knowing what you're even talking about. but also if someone could tell me whether Eru is a Quenya/Sindarin/Adûnaic word, if it would have made it into common westron and the Hobbits casual vocabulary, and if it would have theoretically existed before the invention of (Elvish) languages or whether it would have been a different name / no name because technically there was no language. that would be great. like. i know 'Eru Ilúvatar' is somewhat common but Ilúvatar is clearly marked as Quenya whereas Eru seems to have contradicting sources and also yk predates. the creation of elvish languages in the narrative so. anyway

[tearsinthemist]

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[goldcleaver]

IMPORTANT PSA: PLEASE respect peoples’s thoughts on this show, not everyone is going to agree with you and, as long as they’re not being outright disrespectful, that’s ok

just watched the two first episodes

I will say one thing before sharing my thoughts, I think that the stuff amazon did well, they did incredibly well, but the stuff they didn’t manage quite as well on the other hand…

that being said, dumping my thoughts on the first two episodes below:

• practically every male elf has short hair and the female dwarves have no beards

obviously we knew this before the show released but still, it’s quite disappointing to see, like why are we unnecessarily gendering fantasy creatures

• why on god’s green earth did they portray galadriel as a victim of bullying?

especially by random ass kids and not by her millions of cousins? like she’s of the ROYAL HOUSE OF FINWË I doubt random kids would have the guts to bully her, her COUSINS on the other hand…

• Finrod got to keep his name!

pleasant surprise, half expected him to just be “brother” for the rest of the show

• apparently everyone took the boats to middle earth?

this one really rubs me the wrong way bc that way there’s no tension between the hosts of fëanor and fingolfin upon arrival. that makes everything that happens afterwards (i.e maedhros getting captured, fingon rescuing him and uniting their people) fall a little flat

• Dagor bragollach?

is that what that was?

• there’s a lot of focus early on on galadriel wanting to go home?

obviously she ends up not coming along but still, she was really enthusiastic about going to middle earth in the silm?

• zero respect for galadriel’s heritage

this show doesn’t seem to give two shits about galadriel being of the house of finwë (see my point on her getting bullied) and she doesn’t seem to have any kind of authority to whatsoever. like, why is ELROND scolding her? herald or not she’s SO much older than he is

• warrior princess galadriel

WHYYYYY, there are so many things about how she’s portrayed in this that just rub me the wrong way

• elrond speaks quenya!

this one made me ridiculously happy as an elrond geek, wonderful to see (also I can’t stop thinking about the circumstances under which he learnt it)

• “elf-lords only”

as if he isn’t also of the house of finwë. what more do you want of him lmao

• “good friends”

that’s a funny way to say incest vibes, amazon (seriously, it’s gonna get mad uncomfortable when celebrían comes into the picture)

• politician elrond will be the death of me

WHY is he so damn manipulative??? this is about his stunt with durin. that’s not very “kind as summer” of him. elrond is just a kind dude, I don’t know this “politically ambitious” asshole

• elrond wrote gil-galad’s speech!

another decision that was just fantastic. love to see these two being the besties they deserve to be enjoy it while it lasts elrond

• apparently your king can just decide you can go to valinor?

what about the ban huh don’t you need to be uhm idk PARDONED BY THE VALAR or smth

• celebrimbor’s actor

listen, I’m sure he’s a great actor (we haven’t seen him much yet) but he’s just such a far cry from my idea of tyelpe that I’m having a hard time getting past it, and also why is he older than galadriel? tf?

• fëanor’s hammer!

vague references to the house of fëanor was actually on my bingo for season one sooo. actually loved that despite them not having the rights to the content that makes celebrimbor part of his house iirc but this hint was nice!

• aulë references

this is mostly about the dwarves swearing on aulë’s beard. hilarious fr

[fingons-rad-harp]

For the OC questions. Basics no.7, Appearance no. 1, Personality no.2, Background no.1, Relationships no.3, and Fun Fact no.17. For Ària and Ríngilith.

Also, I just realised after rereading Lone Wanderer that Calithil went all 'Lost in the Woods' to apprentice with Radagast and Ríngilith encountered her sad farmer cryptid in a forest cabin on the mountains. I love how all of Thingol's descendants somehow gets lost in a forest and meets someone significant in there. Or in the case of Eluréd and Elurín get thrown in there by the vengeful servants of Ríngilith's cryptid's brother.

hello!! thank you so much for your questions ❤️

What’s their species/subspecies? Do they have any special/magical abilities?

Ríngilith is 6.25% Maia, 81.25% Elf, and 12.5% Human

Ária is 3.125% Maia, 90.625% Elf, and 6.25% Human

Neither of them get the Choice, and they are both subject to the fate of Elves.

As for powers… they are descended from Melian, and thus have some spooky Maia powers, but there’s not that much power in either of them, at least no more than a typical Elf. When that power does manifest, it’s usually subconscious, and they can’t always call on it whenever they want to. I do have a plan for Ríngilith doing cool Maia-y things, but most of Ária’s power comes from songs that Makalaurë teaches her.

What do they look like?

Ríngilith has tan skin and very silver hair, more reminiscent of the Falmari of Aman than the Sindar. Her eyes are dark blue, and she has freckles across her nose that you can’t really see until you get close. She’s about 6 feet tall, average for a Sinda but Makalaurë towers over her (height difference my beloved).

Ária looks mostly like Makalaurë, with dark hair and sharp Fëanárian features. Her eyes, however, are blue like her mother’s. She’s right between her parents in terms of height, on the shorter side of average for a Noldo and the taller side of average for a Sinda.

Which of the 16 Personality Types do they fit into?

i’m not gonna lie i know nothing about these lol

Where were they born? What was their childhood like?

Ríngilith was born in Lórinand to Princess Halloth and her husband Perlaeth of the Falathrim. She was somewhat of a quiet child, always daydreaming and getting lost in stories of adventure. She and her brother Calithil were very close, and played together often. When she got older she became engrossed in her studies, learning both Quenya (much to the chagrin of her father) and Adûnaic. She dreamed of going to Númenor, but her parents feared the return of Sauron and would not allow her to travel so far.

Ária was born in the Ered Nimrais, close to the Firien wood, but she spent most of her childhood in Imladris, where she was raised by both family members and teachers. She practically hero-worshipped Glorfindel, and Arwen, and pretty much everyone else there. She was the only child in the valley besides the Dúnedain, and everyone loved having an elf-child around, even if that child was chaos incarnate. She loved to explore, and ended up finding almost all the secret passages in Imladris, some of which even Elrond had forgotten about. Makalaurë has a constant headache.

What’s their love life like? Do they have any kids?

Ríngilith’s love life is “this is my ex-war criminal husband. don’t worry, he’s harmless, he hasn’t bitten anyone in years.” And she does have a kid, it’s Ária!

Ária’s love life… I honestly can’t make up my mind. I’ve been trying to decide if I ship her with Haldir for months now. If they are together, things get… very complicated after her capture. She just doesn’t trust anyone anymore, and communication would just. drop to zero. I don’t have any kids for her at the moment.

If you had to choose one tarot card to represent them, which would it be?

sorry idk anything about tarot cards either 😔

about calithil… you’re so right lmao i hadn’t even thought of that! i have plans for him in future fics, but he probably won’t appear in lone wanderer unless he just shows up and forces me to write about him

[thecrazyworldbuilder]

Raclis

(Rah-ck-lee-s): a list of intelligent species that are made up by me, both alien and fantasy. This is Episode One, where we gonna see some of the races from the A litera.

(PS: I have a list of 203 fantasy/alien races and most of them are my own creation, while the others are the classical elves, centaurs, orcs and et cetera. The list is arranged in alphabetical order and for now has only the shortest descriptions: these posts will be something like a description paper for every single race. I would love questions asked and will answer them with pleasure.)

Abyss Elves

Once technically normal elves, a large group of them was sent into the Abyss (also called Aumenel) for crimes they didn’t commit. Locked here for eternity, they slowly forgot most of the information about their past. They praise the myths about the sun, the sky, a world where there is no pain and darkness. They started calling each other Foariar (Those who are without sunlight). And slowly evolved into their modern looks. Dark skin, tints of green and purple, turquoise glowing eyes, whitish pink hair. Their blood is dark purple and has an odd scent of mashed tulips.

Fast facts:

- Super good climbers and parkourists due to the terrain of the Abyss.

- Are mostly always ripped athletes. 

- When cut off, their hair will glow a pretty bright light for nearly five hours.

- In sunlight they go into an euphoric state which they hardly resist.

- Are incredible hunters and gatherers: farming in the Abyss is almost impossible.

- Abyss Elves have migrated to many other realms, especially the Spring World.

- They name their realm, Aumenel, means “without sky” in quenya.

Onomasticon: 

(for Spring World Abyss Elves)

Gender-reversed modern european and ancient greek names. (Aurorus, Eugenia, Xenis, Anastasius, Agath)

Anagrams from spanish. (Roucos, Roeherr, Cadoraz, Jerichoter, Viona)

(for Abyss inhabitants)

Quenya and latin hybridisation (Hravai, Ilmarinorum, Incatrix, Terrandil, Indos)

Ada’klo

One of the species from the realm of Emiare, which is bound to the very fabric of time. Ada’klo - as all the other races from the klo family - have something called a cycle: a period of time when they exist. Their cycle is ten years long. Thus, they live for ten years, and afterwards disappear only to appear again after the same ten years without aging anyhow. 

Fast facts: 

- Due to their cycle length they gather at the great Adakloan Temples, where their place of disappearance is kept safe.

- Ada’klo look pretty much like humans, but are slightly different on the inside, anatomically and chemically.

Onomasticon:

Use old english and european names. (Alcott, Demelza, Borden, Terrel, Sacrifice)

Ain’klo

One of the species from the Emiare realm, these members of the klo species family have a one thousand years long cycle. 

Fast facts:

- Have an incredible ancient culture which has many customs, like forced marriage (from both sides), child labour, extreme xenophobia.

- Are dangerous and non educated, will fight to death only to keep their traditions.

Onomasticon:

Use ancient babylonian names and their imitations. (Akki, Marnabu, Nazarat, Buvalu, Irigibel)

Aliquenar

A race which somehow combined all of the main features of elves, dwarves, orcs, humans and halflings. Slightly greenish skin, pointed ears, not-so-long beards, big hairy feet, no need in sleep and the ability to see over the horizon. Like jack of all trades, they have a wide set of talents and opportunities, but are masters of none. Hated among all of the species they combined in themselves, they try to live peacefully in their cities, not willing to make any conflict.

Fast facts:

- Due to the discrimination directed at them from the other races, they have a trait of being shy, polite and quiet.

- Are able to learn magic on the same level as humans.

- A legend has it that they came from a city trapped in the mountains, where all the five races met and after a long long time merged into one by breeding.

- Some may have more standing out traits of a specific compound race: as, orc tusks, elven lack of facial hair and eyelids, dwarvish height or beards, strange sexual dimorphism and others.

Onomasticon:

Use the languages and names of the humans, elves, dwarves and hobbits (orcish names are way more rare), and then, if wanted, merge them together, imitate them. (Legoli, Aiwenson, Thurwise, Kurumiel, Indis)

Alfers

Species of semiquadruped lizards with telepathic minds, which are able to evolve fast, adapting to the stressful situations. Tall two and half meters in the withers (8’2 feet) and long nearly five (16’4 feet), they are agile, omnivore and strong.

Fast facts:

- Alfers evolve fastly not only biologically, but linguistically. Their language changes so fast no one will never understand what they are saying, except some separate words, taken from other languages.

- Alfers are able to speak telepathically, but only talk: not reading thought but hearing the inner monologue of someone, thus communicating.

- They have a high regeneration factor, and are hard to kill.

Onomasticon:

Any possible names, words, abbreviations and anagrams. (Villaissa, Gerdan, Menttor, Seba, Lmne)

Anciento

Race of stickman-like, three eyed beings with high power and unreachable wisdom and intelligence. Can reproduce by giving any other living thing something they call “open intellect”, and then teach them how to turn into an anciento. Well, traditional reproducing is possible too.

Fast facts:

- While reproducing they, ironically, do not know how to turn back into their original state.

- Know a wide spectrum of using life energy for different purposes.

- Are able to fall into an anabiosis state for a long time.

- Are almost instinct.

Onomasticon:

Names are mostly two syllables, unisex, and have no meaning, because of their proverb “You mean nothing at birth: give your name a meaning by yourself”. (Koni, Jaro, Neho, Mibta, Vere)

Androids of Binarica

Robots made by the techno-magic goddess-planet Binarica. Are unique from other robots by their design: solid parts are slowly merging into soft ones, and they look humane but have slightly object-like heads.

Fast facts:

- Were being enslaved for many centuries by other races of Binarica.

- All of them by custom have light-blue photosensors (eyes).

- Follow directives, which can be changed by hacking.

- Feel emotions and have souls.

Onomasticons:

Leet, deites on abbreviations, scientifical termins, or even all at once. (M45 T4R, G3x2x2, S5Z2, Tetratom, Cleleven Zero)

Anmanibes/Ri’be’li

Species from a far realm of jungles and plains, anmanibes have some unique features. First of all, they have no arms. At all. Down to the shoulderblades - no arms. But thye have a compensation for this flaw: the ability for telekinesis, and many other paranormal abilities. Anmanibes (which means “armless”) call themselves Ri’be’li - “the second born children of the gods”. They are digitigrade and have a pretty long lizard-like tail they use for balance. 

Fast facts:

- Ri’be’li are one of my favourite races.

- The paranormal abilities they are known to posess are: channeling (speaking with spirits and other paranormal deities), levitation, telekinesis, telepathy, biolocation, materialisation, atmokinesis, aeromancy, pyromancy, thermokinesis, teleportation, television, precognition, and other.

- Have two pairs of eyelids: one for blinking and one for “television”, or also called telescopic vision.

- Have ears which are suspiciously pointed, like those of elves.

- One myth from their culture says that the ri’be’li were born from the us’ib’tor’tor: a firstborn race in their world. The first ri’be’li was called A’ud’ca, and he was born without arms. His parents abandoned him, but A’ud’ca had the power to bend wills of other people, and slowly he made it so other us’ib’tor’tor could give birth to ri’be’li, and then he somehow, after a long time, made the us’ib’tor’tor race vanish into the sands of history, giving place for ri’be’li to rise.

- Most of them are disgusted by arms and hands in general, calling any creature with arms an a’us’cla (limited).

Onomasticon:

Use latin, then take every syllable and put them in reverse order, placing apostrophy between each syllable. Most names are gender neutral. (Pha’al, Ta’del, Ta’be, O’di’gla, Ra’tet)

[losille2000]

I was tagged.

@cinderella1181 tagged me. I haven’t done one of these in forever, so why not?

Rules: Tag 10 followers you wanna get to know better

Name: Tracy

Sexuality: Straight

Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff (though I am now reticent to describe myself using HP)

Cats or Dogs: Always dogs, but other people’s cats are funny and adorable and I will love them so long as I can give them back at the end of the day, like grandkids.

Current time: 9:46 p.m.

Favorite animal: Any canine, wild or domesticated.

When I made this blog: 2013

Reason for URL: I started online fandom life when LotR first came out in theaters. So... Losille is “Rose” in Quenya Elvish. 2000 was a random number because “Losille” on fanfiction.net was already taken. Mine was created in 2002, after Fellowship came out December 2001, though, so there’s no other correlation than I pressed 3 zeros. And this really dates me. But yeah, the story of my name.

I tag everyone! If you want to do it, do it!

[atimefordragons]

[ T S E S A R E V N A  ... ]

My incomplete audition for Gem Quest, didn’t have the time to participate properly, let alone finish my audition from all the other groups (yeah, I don’t know what time management is and have no idea how to pace myself). 

“В небе далеком горит звезда, | In distant heaven star shines Не одинока и не одна | It's not alone and not the one Каждый себе выбирает путь | Everyone choose their own way И она не даст свернуть | And star won't allow them to turn Не закрывай глаза | Don't close your eyes Смотри она ведет тебя.. | Look, it leads you...”

-  Звезда (Dima Bilan ft Anna Belan)

Real Name: Yekatrina “Katya/Rina” Anatolyevna Raevskaya

Age: 26

FC: Alia Bhatt

Species & Class: Dragonborn & Mage-Knight

Guild: Moonstone

Description of In-Game Powers: (what their fantasy species lets them do, basically, and all the associated drawbacks)

A dragonborn is a cross-bred species, born from the bloodline of either a human or an elf, and a Great Dragon (highly evolved, ancient dragons that can cast spells, and shit, and even speak the human tongue). Because great dragons are rare, most dragonborn are second generation or later. In the case of Tsesarevna, an ice dragon and a human (not a first gen).

Dragonborns have a natural affinity for magic, particularly elemental, even more specifically for the element of the dragon type whose blood they inherited, in the case of Tsesarevna, frozen water related magic, ice, frost, snow.

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Appearance: (optional textual description/notes of wardrobe, features not represented by fc, etc)

Places Most Likely to be Found In-Game: Level 20 - A Midwinter Night’s Dream (I see what you did there Ayz) and Level 38 - Murias Pass (the snow reminds her of home, ya know. The cold never bothered me anyway), also sometimes Level 39 - The Dragon, but she’s technically stuck on that level because she refuses to kill the Dragon, issa zaldrīzo ānogar.

Current Inventory:

History Book: The Dragon King Festival

Strongest character trait: eurovision knowledge Confidence (in herself and some others)

Strengths: Katya is almost surprisingly determined, it contradicts with the rest of her “I’ve never had to work hard to get what I want in my life” type personality, but she is persevering and stubborn, when she wants something, she won’t stop until she gets it. Which in her real life was never very difficult getting.  

Weaknesses: Where to even start? Spoiled Princess Brat (she has never not gotten what she wants in her life, and it shows), impatient, impulsive, not exactly a team player (I mean, she is now, but that shady shit she pulled back when she first started playing kinda got her a rep), arrogant, prideful, kind of a bitch (doesn’t really think of it as a weakness, but ya know, it’s hard to make friends), dragon obsession (refuses to kill dragons, even in order to advance the game, got herself and party members killed early on in the game ‘cause of it), kind of an adrenaline junkie, and reckless af. She doesn’t really consider the consequences of the game, wholeheartedly believes her dad, fam and connections in the real world will get her out soon enough, so has no problem running head first into fire (”I’m too hot to die in a video game”).

Player Stats: (on a scale of 1-10, 1 being the weakest, 10 being the strongest. try to balance it out!)

STRENGTH: 9

DEFENSE: 7

CHARISMA: 3

PSYCHE: 5

WILLPOWER: 9

CAUTIOUSNESS: 2

AGILITY: 5

ENDURANCE: 7

INTELLIGENCE: 8

LUCK: 4

Personality:  “Haven’t you ever seen a princess be a bad bitch before?”

Haha, yeah, but mostly, she’s just a massive nerd. She’s such a fucking nerd. Bitch learned Quenya and Sindarin just for kicks, and her own amusement. Literally no one else in her irl circle even fucking knows what those two things are (Elvish tongues in Tolkien).

As the baby of a two large families, and the only daughter of a Russian oligarch, Katya is incredibly spoiled, and very much self-centered. Something of a downplayed celebutante, she is not quite as present at every single high society, high fashion event in Russia, or elsewhere in Europe, she only goes to a handful. And really only for the free stuff, she loves stuff. Katya maintains a somewhat disinterested high social status, as she is the daughter of a major industrialist, and friends with other, higher profile wealthy Russian heirs and heiresses, and there are benefits (so many), but she isn't quite interested in attaining spotlight or attention. However, she also perceives it as something that is just naturally part of her life. She uses a lot of hand gestures when speaking, and tends to give off a naive-princessy vibe who seems to think the world revolves around her. Which, to be fair, it does in her house -she does know that it doesn’t actually, but ya know, can’t quite turn off that bitch, I’m a princess mindset.

“I don’t skate through life... I walk through life. In really nice shoes.” - Alexis Rose (Schitts’ Creek 3.04)

Notably, she speaks with a vocal fry when speaking English. She says “like” a lot, has a bit of a condescending tone, but, she like, does care. About a lot of stuff, but also humanity in general. Spoiled baby she may be, she does have a moral compass, and was amongst the public figures who signed an open letter against the Saint Petersburg Anti-”Gay Propaganda” bill (it’s some bullshit about “protecting” minors from “non-traditional sexual relationships”). She believes in doing the right thing, that the goal of any organization or even person should just be to decrease the net suffering of humanity, but also, she is a super proud Russian. Very anti-american, thinks they’re all stupid, always says shady shit in Russian whenever she runs into americans online. However, it’s not like she’s a fan of United Russia (Putin’s party), they’re right-wing nutjobs, she does not like them. Her main political party is A Just Russia, who are much less then left than her (officially, they be centre-left), but they’re the only ones (of her favoured parties) who have seats in the State Duma (the lower house of the Federal Assembly, Russia’s legislative body - the Duma is like parliament, or congress, I think, I don’t really know what congress is tbh, house of representatives maybe? Idk, the place where Nancy Pelosi is charge, equivalent to that). Katya also supports Patriots of Russia, a socialist, left-wing party, but they only have seats in regional parliaments, and only one seat in the Federation Council (similar to the senate, the upper house of Russia’s legislative body). There’s also Russia of the Future, but it’s not been formally registered yet. In the 2018 election she voted for the communist party’s candidate just for kicks (it’s different in Russia, there’s was zero possibility of Putin losing, come on, grow up).

As a side note, if this helps with the explainary-stuff, I basically envision her as a slavic-desi cross of Alexis Rose from Schitts’ Creek, and Gina Linetti from Brooklyn-99, also this hindi song; Sheila ki Jawani. The song is basically about owning the fact that you’re super sexy.

Biography: Katya is half-Russian, half-Indian, born to a Russian father, industrialist (and oligarch) Anatoli Ivanovich Raevsky, and an Indian mother, activist and journalist Mishti Syeda Khan. Her parents eventually separated, though technically are still married, when she was about 14, and her mother moved to Manchester in the UK, while Katya remained in Russia with her father. Katya is from a large family, on both sides, and at the time of her birth, was the first baby to be born in quite a few years (the elder cousins were like tween-teen, too old be constantly coddled and cuddled, and too young to make babies), so she was hella spoiled by everyone. The problems her maternal family had with her mother marrying a non-Muslim white boy? Well, we still hate him, but look how cute Rina is.

Despite the... complications between her family members - the whole religion/marrying a shada (white) boy thing, not to mention that Mishti herself is like agnostic at “best”, in general, as the baby, Katya (or Rina as her mother and maternal family call her), get along - well, okay, there’s always the shady auntieji’s, and bullshit drama, but like, that’s just brown families yo. We like that. We’re all 100% those bitches (see ya at Eid Nanu [grandma], ya messy bitch). While there is some distance between Katya and her mother, metaphorically and literally, she really does look up to her mother and her work, and followed in her footsteps, studying journalism at Moscow State University, and moving on to work at Известия (Izvestia), the “national” paper of Russia, formerly the state newspaper of the Soviet Union. Currently, she’s a glorified fact checker, and maintains the website with a handful of other colleagues. She’s also authored small “puff pieces” for Nedelya (a weekly Friday section about leisure actives, culture, that kinda stuff).

Katya is not exactly an avid gamer. She likes games, but it’s not like a 24/7 thing, whereas she is 24/7 thinking about like ASOIAF or Stars Wars (fuck you JJ, you were supposed to destroy the Sith R*ylo, not join them), not to mention Eurovision. Anyone who thinks Eurovision only lasts for a week is a fake fan, and anyone who thinks it’s a one day thing is an american. Ziben ziben ilulu motherfucker. Anyway.... she prefers immersive, high fantasy worlds, she likes the story and plot, so her types of games are The Witcher and Dragon Age Series, Elder Scrolls, that sort of thing. She doesn’t put in daily hours, ‘cause she got other stuff to do, but will dedicate weekends to leveling up her characters in order to accomplish quests and missions quickly and not waste time to get to the story cut scenes. She hates, hates, hatessss microtransactions and those stupid fucking mmorpg phone games which are literally just farmville repackaged with a dragon or an orc; FUCK YOU. What a fucking waste of time, quit advertising as having a plot and story, or cool character customization, ‘cause you don’t have any of that you basic ass bitch!

Gem Quest was regifted to Katya by a coworker, who had gotten it as a present, but didn’t have a VR set (of course she had one, she’s rich, and also she needed it to play Batman: Arkham VR - she’s still waiting on a game that’ll let her make out with Nightwing while playing as a custom character). She got a bit of a bad rep (understatement) in the beginning of the game. Katya hates being stuck because she doesn’t have enough exp or whatever, so she always levels up in the beginning of a game before taking the time to fuck around and do whatever, which, in the case of Gem Quest, means teaming up is the easiest way to do that. So, whenever a party member was holding them back from leveling up, she would straight up kill them in order to move on. She killed her own irl friends, to be fair, she doesn’t do that anymore, that was just in the beginning, but ya know, the rep of being that bitch kinda hard to get of.

G.’s announcement didn’t particularly freak out Katya. Whatever kind of evil Kaiba Corp execs bullshit he was pulling didn’t matter, he still had a body out there in the real world, and there’s no fucking way her dad would let die in a fucking game. There’s perks to being Oligarchs in Russia, and even if she did die in-game and was unable to return to reality, wherever G. and his real body were, motherfucker will die in excruciating pain. Polonium-210 ain’t pleasant, and the Novichok series is so much worse.

Relationships: (OPTIONAL, fill out whenever you want to)

Silverwing - rn. Anastasia “Anya” Gagarina (fc: Anna Belan), a fellow moonstone, and real life friend - well, the younger sister of an ex-boyfriend whom she still gets along with (the sister, not necessarily the ex).

Inferna - I don’t really have any plotting ideas, but Inferna’s whole; “It’s very important that I am both cute and powerful” is so relatable (to me and Katya xp)

Enthroned -

Morningstar -

Extras/Trivia (aka unnecessary information):  

Her mother, and thus maternal family, are from Kolkata, in the state of West Bengal in India, thus making Katya fluent (relatively) in Bengali as well (well, a dialect of it - West Central, you’d think as an actual Bengali person, I’d know the proper name of it, but nope. Idk, shudobasha maybe, but I think that’s for people from Dakha, which is in Bangladesh, not India. Whatever. Not like my dad will check this and be disappointed in me.)

Apart from her native Russian, Hindi, and Bengali, she speaks English, and Japanese (100% learned it because she’s a weeb), as well as the fictional languages; Quenya, Sindarin (and can use the Tengwar script to write them), High Valyrian, Mando’a, Dovazhul, and Klingon. As a teenager she also created a dictionary for ancient “Black Speech”, an in-universe constructed language in Tolkien’s legendarium, but her version is not canon, so it doesn’t count - she’s also forgotten a lot of it. She was a baby, she still has the hard copy she made somewhere in the Raevsky Manor in Saint Petersburg.  

After graduating from MSU, her father bought her, her own apartment in the Kudrinskaya Square Building in Moscow, adjacent to the ones he owned already, which she had lived in when she moved to Moscow for school. 

Katya’s family is religiously mixed (well, she’s the one who’s mixed), her maternal family are largely Muslim, some Hindu (very few though, like, you can count them on one hand), and her paternal family are either Orthodox Christian or atheist (usually depending on how long they were alive and how into the Soviet Regime they were). Katya’s parents are agnostic (Mishti), and atheist (Anatoli), Katya herself is also atheist, but sometimes she’ll say she prays to the Seven or R’hllar, or Lord Jashin, or some other made up nerd ass religion (’cause she that bitch).

But for real, she can be a real bitch about religion. The Soviets got a lot wrong, but banning religion was not one of them <- so she says. She gets super pissed when someone brings up religion during a politics chat, that fake shit should have nothing to do with running a country. 

hates starbucks with every fibre of her being, it’s such an american staple and the first time she saw one in Russia, she nearly had a heart attack.

Will die mad about:

The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker; the fuck was that bullshit? We trusted you JJ! 

the garbage show’s gaslighting and murder of Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, First of Her Name, Rightful Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men. Queen of Meereen, The Prince who was Promised, The Unburnt, Slayer of Lies, Breaker of Shackles, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, and Mother of Dragons.

Hrithik Roshan still being so fucking hot (he’s 45, please like chill a little, holy fuck)

Catarina de Lurton dying 

Former american politician John McCain constantly saying “Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country” - bitch, we’re a thousand years old, how’s your 250 year old failed experiment of a garbage nation going? 

Freud.

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[squirrelwrangler]

Thanks, I didn't know she had violet eyes in canon. If you are in the mood, could you write a little about our wonderful deer lady's husband too? (Also, while true that Tulkas arrived late, there were still millenia between his arrival and the point where they got together, but on the other hand, considering how many of canon valar couples married while in timeless halls (with known maiarin couple in Osse/Uinen getting together after specific incident))

Helinyetille - Eyes of Heartease (aka the flower known as pansy aka violet) is a name for Nessa in one of the older Quenya Grammars.

My best estimate for the slow-burn was that the war against Melkor was the top priority and it wouldn’t do to focus on romance and declarations of love until after the business of defeating Melkor was over- no Will and Elizabeth marriage during a sword-fight in the center of a maelstorm. Time and place, all that. Probably even a self-imposed betrothal test- “I will only ask for her hand after I’m finished what I entered Arda for.”

Tulkas is a cool bro. He’s definitely the grudging holding but for practical reasons, and I like that he, like Námo, seems to have zero tolerance for the bullshit of Morgoth or Fëanor. Though I have to admit my fascination with him- like poking at a sore tooth- is my need to figure out that Golden Beard bit. It’s his name, key characteristic- but if he’s not in a body (human beard or goat or idk, wattle of a giant bird), is there still a beard in his spiritual aural form and what is it? How do you translate a beard into musical notation?

Or just because he is so very pagan european god/divine hero that he has to have a beard?

[adreamingsongbird]

Ooooo can I please have 21? But Victor is the one saying it. Thank you I love you!

21. “Sometimes, being a complete nerd comes in handy.”

“I don’t know,” Viktor laughed, ninety minutes ago as they sat down in the booth. “Pub trivia night, Chris? You know Yuuri and I don’t really get out much!”

“Sure, but we went to school in America,” Phichit grinned. “We know everything about pop culture that there is to know. And also a few things about junk food that Ciao-Ciao isn’t allowed to hear about. They’d ruin his virgin ears.”

And then the caller brought out the prizes, like a coupon for free drinks next week and a free meal and a box of cool erasers and an enormous plush dog. A very big, very soft, very good boy, and Viktor saw the way Yuuri’s eyes zeroed in on it even before he bit his lip and announced in a low voice, “I want it.”

And, well, of course Viktor had to play to win, after that. Which brings them to the present: 

It was, in fact, a great idea to come to pub trivia night on this particular night, because one of the topics on tonight’s round is one of Viktor’s favorite topics: classic Western literature. 

“How come nobody asks about classic Eastern literature,” Yuuri grumbles to Phichit, arms folded as he hunches down in the booth. “I bet I could win if they did that.”

“Because white people suck,” Phichit answers glibly. “As a tax on white people, I’m taking your fries, Chris.”

“What? Hey--”

“Mm, hey Yuuri these curly fries are fucking delish, here, try some!”

“Oh, thanks. Consider these reparations for your crimes, Giacometti.”

“I’ve literally never done anything wrong in my entire life, and both of you know it.”

“Oh ho, really? You wanna bet, white man? My Instagram says otherwise.”

“And for the final question of the night!” the announcer calls. “It’s a tiebreaker between our two lead teams. Does anyone know the name of Finarfin’s third son in Tolkien’s legendarium?”

Viktor slams his hand on the table and shoots to his feet. He already finished his fries and he is going to win that giant dog for his Yuuri, or he’ll eat his own skates. The announcer nods to him, because the other table is stumped, and triumphantly, he declares, “It’s Aegnor, also known as Aikanáro if you want the Telerin-Quenya form!”

(”Literally what the fuck were the words that just came out of your husband’s mouth,” Phichit wants to know. Yuuri doesn’t answer, too busy wiggling with glee as he squishes his new plush dog’s cheeks and beams.)

(Viktor just sniffs delicately and replies, “Sometimes, being a complete nerd comes in handy.”)

[vardasvapors]

What was your "different concept of what going west meant" when you first read it? (Mine was... well, my mom told me it was "the same as dying", back when neither of us had read the silm, and I didn't really believe it but it didn't make me feel better, and I didn't know anything about Aman so for some reason I'd decided that ME was the only worthwhile place to be and I really hated that the Elves were leaving and making it less "cool")

I had zero contact with the movies when I read LOTR and also never asked anyone about it because uh….I guess I maybe thought everyone else in my family’s opinions were bullshit? idk. But anyway, my assumption wasn’t that it was like dying, when I was like 11, and for a period of years after that which I can’t remember now, I thought of going west as like, well I def imprinted on the Earendil Was A Mariner poem (though I skipped it a lot during re-reads) and on Galadriel’s quenya song, but I didn’t like….comprehend it as A Place that was Known and administrated by an organized Population and overseen by the Valar, because I never consciously Sought Out To Figure Out What The West Was, I just kinda assumed.

BUT I thought of it as like, stuff closer in tone to the things I keep quoting under my the tale of earendel tag. it meant an uncharted question mark off the edge of the map, various lands and presences among shadowy isles and unknown things like the sublime/non-horrible equivalent of the chasm gandalf and the balrog fell into. Like, the west being something that was defined more as “places overseas that were not middle earth” rather than “this place.” You had tiny glimpses of some of the things there that song and rumor told of – a white city, a Valhalla-ish golden hall of drinking and revelry, something about death and beren and luthien, a beautiful green country, and maybe if you searched far enough and in strange enough places, you could possibly even cross paths with Elbereth, a star-goddess thing – but the west as defined as not-middle-earth was uncomprehensive and uncohesive and certainly not overseen by anyone.

I kinda assumed (though not like, explicitly thought) that the reason it was A Thing in the book was because it was like….the place where there was still magic, and the reason the elves and Frodo and Bilbo and Gandalf were going there was because Middle Earth now Belonged To Humans/Dwarves/Hobbits and wasn’t really a Fantasy World anymore…? Something along those lines!

Anyway I liked my vague 11-year-old subconscious assumptions! They’re good imo. Tbh nowadays I still like to headcanon that, for the most part, outside of Tol Eressëa and Tirion and Alqualondë and Valimar, post-Akallabêth Aman HAS become more like the way 11-year-old me-imagined “the West,” over the course of the 6,000+ years that have passed, the huge change in the population makeup, and the cataclysmic fundamental restructuring that ensued during the Akallabêth.

[grundyscribbling]

any HC about Gil-galad's mother, if she was Fingon's wife?

Hi, Anon!

I prefer Gil-galad as Orodreth’s son, because it makes the succession of the High Kingship more sensible than Gil-galad as Fingon’s son. (Passing over Fingon’s heir, no matter how young, in favor of Turgon, who has not been seen or heard from aside from the Nirnaeth and goes right back to his hidden kingdom after the battle makes zero sense to me. How effective a High King can he be if only the Noldor of Gondolin know where he is or can interact with him? How do the Noldor outside Gondolin even know he’s High King, or still alive?)

I believe there may be a note in HoME somewhere saying that Orodreth married a lady of the Sindar, but even if there isn’t, that’s my headcanon - that he met and married a lady who was kin to Thingol, and Finduilas as their eldest child is raised as a child of both the Noldor and the Sindar. I also think Orodreth’s wife didn’t have a particularly easy time of it - Thingol’s ban on Quenya made her position very difficult, as she was faced with conflicting loyalties. 

(I’m trying not to go on too much at length, because Orodreth meeting his wife is something I’m working on at the moment, but it’s not ready to post yet. I’ve also thrown some details out about it in Dancing In The Dark  and Heavy the Head.)

[angualupin]

so I was going through a box of papers from my undergrad days (2002-2006), and along with insurance and tax documents I also found a) a lot of calligraphy practice; b) some early attempts at my life-long Quenya translation of the Silmarillion project (note: I have not gotten substantially farther along in this project in the ensuing 12 years); and c) a number of hand-written fanfiction drafts, primarily comics-verse X-Men because that’s what I was writing in those days.

which included the following. I have to say that the lyricism isn’t too bad, but I have zero fucking clue who this fic is supposed to be about. Cable? Scott Summers? Sean Cassidy? like, wtf. I have no idea.

anyway, fic snippet below the cut, if you want to play the “mystery early-naughties obscure marvel comics mutant character guessing game” with me

But you never have been able to tell her no, and when you wake up the sheets are stained with something other than tears. The funny thing about your body is that you could bleed in the night and never know it in the morning.

You think maybe death is too complicated for people like you, that the simplest thing is just to cling to life and that is why no one ever manages to stay dead.

Breathing has become routine but living hasn’t, and it’s been a long time since you remembered what the difference is. You find a reason to continue every day when you wake up but by night you’ve forgotten, so that when she comes to you it is a relief and not a terror.

You hear everything that goes on at the mansion but when she calls to you for real it is not distinguishable from your dreams and so you are deaf to it. Later you wonder if this has saved you or condemned you. Even later you realize there is no difference.

[scion-of-kings]

☯ Tell us all about your favorite muse you’ve ever written and why they meant so much to you.

“Strands of silver gleamed in her dark hair and wrinkles graced her cracked, once ivory skin. But in those final moments of clarity, Thengel saw her as she had been long ago, in the times when they’d met each other: tall and young and fair under the summer skies of the flowery vales of Arnach. But his hands were cold in hers, and her ever steely glance had grown watery and warm that of late.

Her hair had been long and abundant, and had cascaded in waves down her back like a mantle woven with strands of night, and her skin had been fair and velvet-like, coloured by the Sun and the sea. Tall she had been (and still was in her elder days), and svelte and graceful as a forest creature; but strong she’d always been, and harsh and indomitable, despite her noble birth.

And oh, how did Thengel recall her eyes, as grey as the Sea that had seen her first steps. They were beautiful, even when they burned with ire or when cold steel gleamed in them. He could always see in them two bottomless wells of serenity to drown in anew time Meduseld’s duties claimed his judgment and depleted his patience. And that had not changed in all the decades they’d been able to spend together. 

That was the memory about Morwen that Thengel took with him when he left this world to go to his fathers’ halls. The one of the maiden of Arnach, the one of that wild lady from the South; the one of the cheerful lass she’d been and the grave woman she’d grown into. The one of the Queen whose pride and grace had merited her another name: Steelsheen.”

 First of all let’s get something straight: Morwen is my baby and I love her and I go into full fite me mode for her. 

Secondly, the above belongs to a fanfic I was writing about her and Thengel and Rohan/Gondor in their time (and also let me tell you that I hate translating my own texts xD).And yep, to properly answer this ask, my dear Nonnie, Morwen was the first Tolkien muse I ever had when I started to rp online and has a special place in my heart. Through her I met a bunch of wonderful people and despite how things were in that other community I was writing in, I have so many good memories of her, her plots, and some people I came to know that she’ll always be a part of me. 

Also, there are like literally ten sentences about her in the Legendarium and just. Why does she have zero background while she gets to have the most badass name ever? Like, Steelsheen. Dude, Steelsheen. What did she do to be given that name? We don’t know but it was probably awesome and involved a shining piece of steel. So long story short I gave her a personality and enough headcanons to make her look like a proper character and not just a name that appears briefly there in the background. And let me tell you that writing a character that way makes you create some bonds with them that are not easily broken. They are as much a part of you as you’re a part of them. 

Bonus: you’re all calling me Eren as a mun, which means steel in Quenya and… is the first half of the name I’m known by in Tolkien circles: Eren-galad. I’ll leave you all guessing an approximate meaning :3