#ossiriand

[foedhrass]

While the previous photos of my newest Tolkien cosplay (Ndani-tharo/Denethor of the Nandor) showcase the colors of the costume, this edit is closer to how it probably would have looked, since Ndanitharo lived and died before the Sun and the Moon first rose. I imagine the elves would have been able to see better than we do in a moonless night, so I didn’t edit everything just grey or excessively dark. ;)

Cosplay & edit: Foedhrass

Photo: little_solnyshka

[outofangband]

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The Ered Luin (on the Beleiand side) and its foothills

Part of my mountains of Beleriand series! Ered Wethrin, Ered Gorgoroth (my favorite so far I think!!)

I want to write more in depth environmental headcanons but I think the Ered Luin were more green and lush, given the milder climate in Ossiriand. The bottom middle picture I imagine as being closer to THargelion

[ladyofthestarlight]

Valaros in Ossiriand, memories from someone’s mind

[aureentuluva70]

Luthien is often made into this sheltered princess who doesn't know much about the outside world(for understandable reasons, it fits with the fairytale trope, we're never really told much on her life before she met Beren anyway, etc) but the Girdle of Melian never existed until the early years of the First Age so I like to imagine that before the creation of the girdle she was a passionate explorer, wandering to the farthest corners of Beleriand, from the rivers of Ossiriand to the shores of Cirdan's Havens, from dark Nan Elmoth to the birch forests of Nimbrethil, to the piney woodland hills of Dorthonion and the misty lake of Mithrim. She only chooses to stay in Doriath after the Girdle has been raised out of love for her parents and other kindred, and even then she spends most of her time in the woods of Neldoreth rather than the halls of Menegroth, for it is in the wild that she feels the most free.

[elentarial]

@sindarweek Day 8: Original Characters

Sirvrethil S. “river princess”

Born in Neldoreth, between the Esgalduin and Mindeb rivers, Sirvrethil had an uncanny penchant for herb lore and anatomy. While Doriath had healers aplenty in Menegroth, Sirvrethil found purpose in tending to the king’s horses and practicing her skill on lamed beasts. While visiting her mother’s people in Ossiriand, Sirvrethil found better employment first under Lord Ambarussa and then Lord Caranthir.

Eventually she was taken to Himring because of her skill with bone-setting and muscular ailments. While generally her patients were horses, it was not uncommon for Sirvrethil to be called upon as a healer for the Lord of Himring. She remained in Maedhros’ retinue in one capacity or another until after the Nirnaeth.

Sirvrethil parted ways with the Fëanorians at Amon Ereb and made her way to Sirion to join up with the rest of her people after the fall of Menegroth.

[foerodens]

A small waterfall in a lush green forest running over mossy stones.

Photo: Foe Rodens

Fine art prints and more of this photo available in my Society 6 shop, and as stickers, notebooks, cups and more in my Redbubble shop.

[albuum]

Любимая кочка на ракитовом острове. Favorite hummock on willow island.

Келегорм и Куруфин. Оссирианд. Нолдор в Оссирианде. Celegorm and Curufin. Ossiriand. Noldor in Ossiriand.

Такое - "Как может всё стать по-прежнему, когда все так плохо?" Such - "How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened".

[whats-in-a-sentence]

In the willow-meads of Tasarinan I walked in the Spring.

Ah! the sight and smell of the Spring in Nan-tasarion!

And I said that was good.

I wandered in the Summer in the elm-woods of Ossiriand.

Ah! the light and the music in the Summer by the Seven Rivers of Ossir!

And I thought that was best.

To the beeches of Neldoreth I came in the Autumn.

Ah! the gold and the red and the sighing of leaves in the Autumn in Taur-na-neldor!

It was more than my desire.

To the pine-trees upon the highland of Dorthonion I climbed in the Winter.

Ah! the wind and the whiteness and the black branches of Winter upon Orod-na-Thôn!

My voice went up and sang in the sky.

And now all those lands lie under the wave,

And I walk in Ambaróna, in Tauremorna, in Aldalómë,

In my own land, in the country of Fangorn,

Where the roots are long,

And the years lie thicker than the leaves

In Tauremornalómë.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" - J.R.R. Tolkien

[melestasflight]

A Noldo Arrives at Ossiriand

second art submission for @fall-for-tolkien Scribbles & Drabbles 2022, inspired by the Redwood forests of California.

In Ossiriand dwelt the Green-elves, in the protection of their rivers; for after Sirion Ulmo loved Gelion above all the waters of the western world. The woodcraft of the Elves of Ossiriand was such that a stranger might pass through their land from end to end and see none of them. They were clad in green in spring and summer, and the sound of their singing could be heard even across the waters of Gelion; wherefore the Noldor named that country Lindon, the land of music, and the mountains beyond they named Ered Lindon, for they first saw them from Ossiriand.

[arofili]

tolkien south asian week day three | faceless ♦ laiquendi | the green-elves | @arwenindomiel

In Ossiriand dwelt the Green-elves, in the protection of their rivers; for after Sirion Ulmo loved Gelion above all the waters of the western world. The woodcraft of the Elves of Ossiriand was such that a stranger might pass through their land from end to end and see none of them. They were clad in green in spring and summer, and the sound of their singing could be heard even across the waters of Gelion; wherefore the Noldor named that country Lindon, the land of music, and the mountains beyond they named Ered Lindon, for they first saw them from Ossiriand.

—The Silmarillion, “Of Beleriand and its Realms”​

[foedhrass]

My unexpected new cosplay, definitely the most obscure elf I've cosplayed so far: Ndanitharo/Denethor, lord of the Nandor that dwelt in Ossiriand. I prefer the Primitive Elvish version of his name (Ndani-tharo) over the Sindarin name since the Nandor were a different group of elves (all belonging to the Teleri). Also of course to avoid confusion regarding the well known Denethor from the 3rd Age.

Ndanitharo doesn’t have a big role in the Silmarillion, but since I play a Nando OC in our Gondolin & Dragons DnD, I had a bit of headcanon backstory involving him.

Photo by Noldorheart on IG.

[outofangband]

To go with my boards and posts on natural dyes, here is part one of a project on various fibers and fabrics in Beleriand! I’m going to make companion posts to go into more detail but here are some general thoughts!

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The first row is one species of nettle, stinging nettle. Different species of Nettle are used throughout Beleriand for cloth, medicine and culinary purposes. It’s most prominently used for cloth by the Sindar of Mithrim but is also used in Doriath and in Ossiriand. Nettle fiber is very good for temperate climates as the thread is hollow and can be used to insulate heat and to keep cool. Nettle fiber is surprisingly easy to utilize.

Sheep wool is used mostly by the humans of Beleriand, primarily the Haladin and Hadorians (the Bëorians mostly use wool from goats, alpacas and rabbits). For the Haladin, sheep are mostly kept southwest of the forest, near the Talath Dirnen. For the Hadorians especially, sheep raising, sheering and wool work is highly prioritized. People of all ages take part in it.

Flax is used in Nevrast and Ossiriand as well as sometimes In Nargothrond and by the Falathrim. It is somewhat more common East of the Ered Luin where warmer weather is more consistent in some places.

[ladyofthestarlight]

Istalind Aedhriel the Snake, wife of Amras and daughter of Findis. She accompanied Feanor´s kin to Beleriand and there she married her husband and went to live in Ossiriand. Not much its known of her life, apart from her wickedness and undying love for her husband.

-my art

[aureentuluva70]

Beren as Lord of the Green Elves content please!!!

[polutrope]

For the mother's day prompts: Nimloth and her mama? Any age, any stage. What's in your headcanon box? 🙂

It was easy for Nimloth to choose Ossiriand, the homeland of her mother. Thither had Deilwidh led her often, to visit her tree-dwelling kinsfolk in the land of whispering reeds. For Deilwidh had not been afraid, as others of her people were, to step beyond the circle of Melian’s protection.

Nimloth was not afraid when her heart leapt towards the King's grandchild, who was then a modest son of the riverlands overawed by his first sight of the realm that was his inheritance.

It was easy to choose Dior, and to forsake the forest where she passed years wanting for nothing and yet ever unfulfilled, awaiting she knew not what. For she knew, then, and could not but smile when she parted from her mother, her closest companion, to take up a new life.

But as unhappy chance leads her back to Menegroth as Queen of a diminished people, she wishes she had known, for all it would change nothing, that Deilwidh’s parting kiss pressed to her temple would be the last.

[brighter-arda]

Rivers of Ossiriand

For day 2 of @tolkienofcolourweek

Part 22 of toi's indigenous tolkien series

[Image description: seven panels, all except the first panel are divided by a line shaped like the river

1. a hualapai woman standing in a river. on left is white lilies and text = Gelion

2. a black woman sitting on a rock in water. on right is a river between rocks, text = Ascar

3. young southeast asian woman. on left is a tree and river, text = Thalos

4. a southeast asian woman washing herself in a stream. on right is water under trees, text = Legolin

5. a black woman in a white dress underwater. on left is blue water, text = Brilthor

6. tajik woman with black braids. on right are white water flowers, text = Duilwen

7. brown latina woman wading in water. on left is a river in mountains, text = Adurant]