#script ring

[ruffalomark]

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[braxix]

Gil-Galad: Where's Celebrimbor?

Elrond: Pretty sure he fell in the hole.

Gil-Galad: What hole- oh Iluvatar. What is that?!

Elrond: It's a hole.

Gil-Galad: I can see that. What's it doing there.

Elrond: Well I woke up this morning... And then there was a hole.

Gil-Galad: Are you going to do anything about it? Call the police?

Elrond: I called Annatar.

Gil-Galad: And where is he?

Elrond: He's in the hole.

[starleska]

ohh you're not slick Russell!!! we see how 'The Harvest Bringer' includes the word Harbinger 👀 but the question is...if Henry Arbinger was the Harbinger for Maestro...and Harriet Arbinger was the Harbinger for Sutekh...is Mr. Ring-A-Ding the Harbinger for someone else? and if so...who? 😱

[iaconite]

the terrifying truth behind this interaction is how genuine sauron is. he was using celebrimbor's words to taunt him, but he also learn something new from the conversation they had. the sacrifice he talked about is how he has to give up the perfection of his vessel, a piece of his flesh and blood to craft a ring that is on par with the mithril. stooping himself low by "blessing" the nine ring bearers with his power and bind them to his will. his gratefulness layered with insult towards celebrimbor. he taught his own enemy in his own kingdom. opening doors for him to have power over other beings.

[quietwingsinthesky]

the thing is, i don’t disagree that what and how you choose to write about things is a reflection of you, the writer, and cannot be divorced from your beliefs and biases. but to assume that anyone can perfectly pick out your beliefs from a piece of fiction you’ve written is an extremely weird and paranoid thing to claim, especially if you’re positing that the secret truth is that the writer is a dangerous person and they’re “revealing” that through fiction that upsets you, personally. at the end of the day, the artist is not the art, and no matter how upsetting, no matter how much you dislike it, no matter how much it disgusts you, you don’t know the person who made it and you can only guess how who they are shaped what they made.

like, really, is it more likely that the secret “belief” that’s being revealed when you’re reading something that is really upsetting to you is that the author is a secret Bad Person™️ who wants all of this fantasy to happen in real life, or that the author knows it’s a safe and normal thing to create upsetting works of fiction and so did that.

[hyperionwitch-art]

It's just a ring. Misquoting Evelyn Carnahan, what harm ever came from putting on a ring?

YES I know it's been months and months since I had a comic, but my secret is that I just wrote like 4 scripts and I'm RARING to go. Now I just have to balance that with cosplay work. :P In the meantime, enjoy another scene I've had in my head for a while and finally got to put on paper!

(Was this entire comic born out of a desire to reference this scene from Ocean's Eleven? I'll never tell.)

Tev/Dren Masterpost

[starillion]

yeeting my recently written namárië scripts here

script on the left is the original version in lotr whereas the one on the right is one rewritten by me

below is translation of my version of namárië

Ai, fanyarë ata lanta mornienna

Ai, the sky slips to darkness again

Anar nútala Númenna lintavë

as the sun sets swiftly West

yassë calanen or Valmar tírë!

where with light over Valmar looks!

Á nyarë nin, nó oantielyë

Tell me before you go -

Tilion hya, ortala sí

or Tilion as you ascend -

manen caitëa Valmar han ceninya

how Valmar lies beyond my sight!

carpa umelyë, hehtainan er

but you do not tell me and I am left alone :

Sí manna maquetinyë quentar et márello?

Now to whom shall I ask the tidings of home?

An ciryar avánier hópallo sira

For ships have gone extinct from havens hither

lá ecë quenen atalelya Númenna

and none may pass again to the West.

Caitala tára, lá cimë nin lolossë

High it lies, Oiolossë hears me not

naltar elenion nírenyassë

and the stars alone reflect my tears [reflection of tears in my eyes]

altainë yéninen, oiolemyala.

deepened by long years and undepleted.

Mornië-nóressë, tárala queten

In the shadow lands I stand and cry

Sí vanwa ná, oialë vanwa, Valimar!

now lost, forever lost is Valimar!

Namárië, nai hiruvalyë Valimar!

Farewell! May you find Valimar!

Nai elyë hiruva, namárië!

Maybe you shall find it, farewell!

[copwef]

I doubt anyone will, but if you wanna use this just message me and credit me!

[vamprisms]

"they had mpreg in middle-earth"

- J.R.R. Tolkien

[dozydawn]

[quirkle2]

space/saturn imagery ritsu i love you

[mimmy14]

Starting another drawing of Annatar while watching RoP 😁

[merrysithmas]

Theory about The Hobbit:

okay i will venture to say: it's pretty obvious they were forced to shoehorn in OC Elf in the last two Hobbit films because it's sooooo clear they chopped the script and gave a majority of Legolas' scenes with Thranduil, and Bilbo's scenes with Thranduil & Kili, to her.

That's why Thranduil's arc seems so disjointed and incomplete and emotionally unsatisfying. It's because it's obvious he was originally supposed to be a foil to Bilbo in regards to the dwarves and Thorin. And also to have a more coherent arc with Legolas. See the following points ->

• Thranduil, the king replete with riches, who had everything to give, who was too paranoid to leave his own kingdom and hoarded all his resources, turned the genocided dwarves away because he saw no "real" reason to help them. Whereas Bilbo, who also had zero reason to help the dwarves, gave absolutely everything he had (including his heart which was broken in the end for the rest of his life) to help reclaim Erebor because he empathized with the dwarves' suffering. They did not have a home. Something that meant everything to Bilbo and that he prized above all else - he did this despite being actively mocked and dismissed by the dwarves themselves for the majority of the films.

• Legolas obviously was supposed to be at odds with his father regarding this isolation, slowly coming to terms with the wrongness of it and questioning his father's positions (the scenes they gave to OC Elf in Mirkwood). He would've come off much more like a past version of his LOTR self that way instead of an angry jock (Lol what...). Baby Legolas beginning to question the isolation of Mirkwood and develop his fiery personality & willingness to help the world at large in The Fellowship.

• Also!! the way they gave Legolas an OC Mom and focused a lot on Kili's dynamic with his mom makes me think originally Bilbo was the one talking to Kili when he was in his jail cell in Mirkwood, during the 2 weeks that passed when they were there - with Legolas overhearing as he did in the film but perhaps thinking Kili was talking to another dwarf. Remember Bilbo also had a special connection to his mother and would relate with Kili on this (a hint it was scripted together). Gandalf also mentioned Bilbo running off into forests to sneak away and see grand sights when he was a boy the same way OC Elf describes sneaking off to see the stars to Kili. Legolas witnessing this convo about Kili's mom would further link Legolas' compassion with the dwarves and explain his aid of them in the barrel escape.

• Furthermore, the last scene with Thranduil comforting OC Elf at Kili's death I believe wholeheartedly was originally a Bilbo and Thranduil scene, the foils brought together at last.

Thranduil who had all the ability to help Thorin's company - but did not for greed and bad blood - coming upon a scene of Thorin and both his heirs brutally butchered, their massacred bodies surrounding the small broken Hobbit who had given everything he had to help them for no reason - but it just seemingly wasn't enough. Thranduil and Bilbo, both recluses, Bilbo asking this cold 6000 year old elf for some semblance of comfort - "Why does it hurt so much? If this is love, I don't want it. Take it from me."

And Thranduil's compassion actually surfacing at that heartwrenching question is BELIEVABLE as opposed to the awk AF moment between him and OC Elf. He sees what he has become when juxtaposed to someone so "simple" - Hobbit with a heart so giving and grand despite his small place in the world and Thranduil's "great" one. Thranduil then he goes on to have more compassion for Legolas and his future, telling him to find Aragorn.

Just from a film editing point it's also obvious Bilbo's scene with Thorin's death was supposed to continue with Thranduil walking in on him there with Thorin, Fili, and Kili (also sidenote: they shouldve all died near one another which inspired Bilbo's notation in his book that they died defending Thorin with "body and sword"). With Thranduil theoretically walking in after for a scene with Bilbo and Kili (and Kili's stone from Dis) that would mesh.

• Lastly, that moment with Thranduil is a full circle moment for Bilbo, who sees what going outside your door can do. He loved, he lost. He really loved. He has trouble articulating it to Balin, but finally before reentering his home in Bag End at the auction, he finds them. He was my friend. Bilbo finally made a friend. And would spend the rest of his life better for it. (Unlike Thranduil, who was made worse for his losses).

• And Bilbo and Thorin's friendship (mithril!) would eventually play a part in saving the entire world via Frodo.

So yeah, it's my belief that it is obvious they chopped up the script and stuck in OC Elf bc of studio demand, ironically giving many of the "emotional" script moments to their awkward stock Strong Female Character Who Is So Strong and taking them away from male characters (Legolas and Bilbo), which they did so masterfully in the LOTR trilogy - showing male emotionality.

[perhaps-relax]

maaan idk i really like both of their takes on the character, but i kinda wish they weren't so different.

Like...Joseph Mawle's Adar is so sad and meek and gentle, the embodiment of grief and violation that hurts to look at. He can't be anything other than a mistake, so all he can hope to do is protect himself and his kind from the violence their very existence seems to permit. Yet he doesn't begrudge the rest of the world from rejecting the orcs or trying to wipe them out. He knows there this is the inevitable conflict he will have to live with, forever. So he hides his ugliness from the world that would punish it, even if he's made peace with the half-existence it brings.

But Sam Hazeldine's Adar is not even slightly apologetic. This Adar wants the world to look at him and know him and fear him. Why should they have to hide, what is so special about the Valar's creations anyway if they can be so easily corrupted? Even if his motivation is still only to provide a home for orc kind, there is unshakable charisma and confidence in the pivot towards revenge. Maybe its just the direction of his character arc as of the last episode, but that righteous fury seems in opposition to the seclusion he's promised his children.

There's a tainted elf who wants to find a hole to die in, and there's an orc who wants to kill the world for its hypocrisy. The transition would have been really interesting if it was actually intentional.

[starillion]

Noldolantë

original work by maglor, reinterpreted & translated to english by tumblr user starillion

irë nalvë vë ir lië manen tullelvë istar? when we were like one family how could we have known?

nyérer ar macili serceón hiluvas më, yéni voro swords painted with sorrow and blood - that which would follow us for eons.

ondo enampanaina ar nilmi carinë ulaco umavë er realms rebuilt and friendships made but evil was far from gone.

tenn' aurë írë mahtanelmes ar sintanelvë until one day we assailed it and were crushed.

ú-nómi varnë i cotumo oir ar maptanes marelmar encarimë protected by no lands the enemy was (ever existant) and he seized the earth rebuilt.

ardar tarë ar mindoni hallë lantaner nu atsar moringotton no noble kingdoms nor towers high were left in the enemy's wake.

ata túlë mornië imbi noselva caivor ar oricuvar minomë callor and the strife between kin yet again left corpses and cowards in our camp.

tenna termi endaquetaina nossi leryaina i cotumo vélala endamarya at last our pleas were heeded and earth refound by hands of others we once defied.

below is ao3 link for this & my other poetry!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34054858

and here goes rambles (as always)

this was originally written for a collab with /narnia144 on twitter about a year and a half ago. decided to revise it a bit though i'm too lazy to rewrite it all over again

about the ink used in tengwar scripts! the first & third pics are versions written in robert oster fire & ice while the second (and by my standards, the prettier version) is written in wearingeul(글입다) the phantom of the opera. i am so in love with this ink rn the swatch is heavenly beautiful

[thedeadtravelfast]