#silm tarot card

[adwendoodles]

As part of my revamped tarot cards series, obviously I had to touch up the wheel of fortune! As a bonus I started playing around with just making it a ‘normal print’ (i.e. actually painting something behind the border)

The changes for those curious are:

1. FINGON’S HAIR omg i’ve hated it since I made it bc back in 2020 when i started this I was paralyzed by trying to make things realistic... also established fandom designs. also the fact that i’d never really drawn either of them. fingon still changes as my mood dictates tbh, but I love this big floofy hair for him

2. the armor. fingon’s became a bit more decorated. i also added fire reflections to both. some hints of red to mae as well. is it fire? is it dried blood? we shant know

(also as a bonus, ive decided that this is both of them towards the end of their lives... both consumed by fire... so yes, it is dried blood)

3. darkened fingons skin a bit bc it was too bright before.

4. improved the fire and other changes

[joetamy]

My current project! Silmarillion Tarot Cards I really want to make a full set eventually, though I would have to start small. I really look forwards to this! Feel free to share ideas and such, I am still very early into this, but I would love to make this idea come true ✨

[thepinkseat-askthemoonbunny]

Moodboard for my girl Tirien, the Noldor seeress who's seen some shit.

(none of these pictures belong to me)

[captainadwen]

well well well, if it isnt all the extra work i have to do because i didn’t have a super clear concept at the start and didnt do full lineart or block in all the colors

[vzzarellet]

I'm in love with your Silm characters as tarot cards! The art style is gorgeous and I hope you'll post more of these <333

Hello! I study at the university now and I don't have enough time to come up with the design of tarot cards and draw them. I will definitely return to drawing them as soon as my schedule takes a more understandable and "adequate" form. Thank you for your kind words! <3

[shrikeseams]

Silmarillion Tarot Thoughts

Welp, I went and got myself jazzed up about a project that I told myself I wasn't going to do. So here, have the Silmarillion tarot correspondences that I would use if I had any interest in illustrating a Silm tarot deck. I'm starting with the major arcana, then doing aces and court cards, then each minor arcana. All tarot keywords are shamelessly stolen from the Biddy Tarot website. Credit/blame to @Fickes (Who has a film-inspired LOTR tarot deck) and …I know there's at least one other artist I've seen doing Silm tarot art on tumblr, but I do not remember who and they aren't in my drafts.

0 The fool: I've seen Fingon here, but I kinda want him somewhere else.         Sooo, if you have a suggestion lemme know.

Beginnings, innocence, spontaneity, a free spirit. Recklessness, risk-taking

1 magician: Feanor. Who else?        

Manifestation, resourcefulness, power, inspired action. Manipulation, poor planning, untapped talents

2 high priestess: Melian        

Intuition, sacred knowledge, divine feminine, the subconscious mind. Secrets, disconnected from intuition, withdrawal and silence

3 empress: Luthien        

Femininity, beauty, nature, nurturing, abundance. Creative block, dependence on others.

4 emperor: Elu Thingol        

Authority, establishment, structure, a father figure. Domination, excessive control, lack of discipline, inflexibility.

5 hierophant: Mahtan? (or Melian. Theoretically this could also be Ingwe? If I'm allowing valar then Ulmo's an option.)

Spiritual wisdom, religious beliefs, conformity, tradition, institutions. Personal beliefs, freedom, challenging the status quo. (Ofteny interpreted as some kind of teacher or instructor.)

6 the lovers: Finwe & Miriel & Indis        

Love, harmony, relationships, values alignment, choices. Self-love, disharmony, imbalance, misalignment of values.

7 Chariot: Fingolfin on his way to fight Morgoth, OR the crossing of the Helcaraxe        

Control, willpower, success, action, determination. Self-discipline, opposition, lack of direction.

8 strength: Luthien & Huan        

Strength, courage, persuasion, influence, compassion. Inner strength, self-doubt, low energy, raw emotion.

9 the hermit: Maglor (If this weren't focused on the First Age this would be Tom Bombadil.)        

Soul-searching, introspection, being alone, inner guidance. Isolation, loneliness, withdrawal.

10 wheel of fortune: I feel like… the Ring of Doom is the best fit? I'm accepting alternatives though.         

Good luck, karma, life cycles, destiny, a turning point. Bad luck, resistance to change, breaking cycles.

11 justice: The Doom of the Noldor        

Justice, fairness, truth, cause and effect, law. Unfairness, lack of accountability, dishonesty.

12 hanged man: Hurin & Huor getting a sweet Eagle ride home from Gondolin        

Pause, surrender, letting go, new perspectives. Delays, resistance, stalling, indecision.

13 death: Beren! If you disagree… I don't care. This one pleases me too much. Transformation! Mortality! It's perfect.         

Endings, change, transformation, transition. Resistance to change, personal transformation, inner purging.

14 temperance: Elrond & Elros. IDK, the sense of balance seems to fit.   

Balance, moderation, patience, purpose. Imbalance, excess, self-healing, re-alignment.

15 the devil: Glaurung with Turin and Nienor. Second choice: Aredhel and Eol. (Either Sauron or Morgoth would work but.. IDK, but feels Too Obvious.)        

Shadow self, attachment, addiction, restriction, sexuality. Releasing limiting beliefs, exploring dark thoughts, detachment.

16 the tower: The Fall of Gondolin fits best both thematically and visually, but I would also accept The Darkening or the kinslaying at Alqualonde.      

Sudden change, upheaval, chaos, revelation, awakening. Personal transformation, fear of change, averting disaster.

17 the star: Earendil in Vingelot, OR Elwing and Earendil's reunion.         

Hope, faith, purpose, renewal, spirituality. Lack of faith, despair, self-trust, disconnection.

18 moon: My gut says Nan Elmoth, but IDK. Tillion would be the easy way out, but that's so incredibly boring.

Illusion, fear, anxiety, subconscious, intuition. Release of fear, repressed emotion, inner confusion.

19 the sun: Finrod 'discovering' Men.         

Positivity, fun, warmth, success, vitality. Inner child, feeling down, overly optimistic.

20 judgment: Turgon and Finrod dreaming of their hidden cities        

Judgement, rebirth, inner calling, absolution. Self-doubt, inner critic, ignoring the call.

21 the world: This has to be The Music or Arda, but I have no idea how you'd make that visual.

Completion, integration, accomplishment, travel. Seeking personal closure, short-cuts, delays

[nixiegenesis]

I always love when people do silm tarot and depict feanor as the fool LMAO. Cause they depict him as angry right and are obviously like “ah yeah he was a fool!”

But, had they actually any knowledge in the tarot, they would know that the meaning of the fool card is actually sort of positive? Depending on how it’s drawn of course but it represents new beginnings, having faith in the future, being inexperienced, not knowing what to expect, having beginner's luck, improvisation and believing in the universe.

I guess in a way that is Fëanor! But not in the way the OP meant lol.

[vardasvapors]

bunch of replies

ivanaskye replied to your post“its 5am and my gf and i are trying to google a believable theory for...”

we found something tho!!! apparently there’s a possibility that it is.... to comfort baby. when baby stops drinking milk... might still need comfort.., of boob

so REALLY WORRIED TODDLERS are a human-only thing, probably, and the solution was (according to one hypothesis)................ comfort boobies

which as far as I am concerned has very good explanatory potential because humans differ from other apes in many ways including 1) having longer childhoods and 2) being smarter and therefore more ancious

THIS IS THE CUTEST THING esp bc i, too, require comfort boob

thepioden replied to your post “its 5am and my gf and i are trying to google a believable theory for...”

As a biologist: if something seems weird and dumb you can probably blame either sexual selection or genetic drift.

‘it’s sexy’ is an insufficient answer tho :(((( wanna kno......why that kink developed......kinks for Hooge Chest Cysts......

actualmermaid replied to your post “its 5am and my gf and i are trying to google a believable theory for...”

tity good

a compelling point

bamboocounting replied to your post “s— since— since.......? since......when.....is elrond.....a character...”

hfffhdjkshj

berrysphase replied to your post “s— since— since.......? since......when.....is elrond.....a character...”

????????? ?? ?

ivanaskye replied to your post “s— since— since.......? since......when.....is elrond.....a character...”

wh h-how.... could anyone have come to that conclusion.....

nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui replied to your post “s— since— since.......? since......when.....is elrond.....a character...”

bzuh? who says he's unloved and neglected? he's practically another self-insert?

I KNOW RIGHT????? god i understand why ppl have a special love for characters who ARE unfairly underused and underappreciated by their authors or other fans (this is the fastest way to make me love a character i formerly didn’t care about) but THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. also like...........if this is what ur looking for, elros is.........Right There.......

irisseireth replied to your post “s— since— since.......? since......when.....is elrond.....a character...”

More like unloved by Peter Jackson

sdghfyusdgcsdjhcgfsdf THIS IS TRUE and it’s painfully obvious that a large number of silm fans who like to style themselves as More Knowledgable Than LOTR Fans Bc They’ve Read The Silm have never......read lotr......>_>

actualmermaid replied to your post “s— since— since.......? since......when.....is elrond.....a character...”

Struggling to think of who jrrt could have lived MORE than elrond

yeah like.......galadriel? there’s galadriel. 

actualmermaid replied to your post “bamboocounting: @vardasvapors this one was my favorite book cover as...”

Yes!!!!! One of the best Pern books w great cover art!!!!!

eeeeee i’m glad i will keep in mind if i ever finish my to-read list T_T

thelioninmybed replied to your post “can one play magic the gathering with modified tarot cards”

Temperance is OP and should be nerfed

ADD3MANA

ivanaskye replied to your post “can one play magic the gathering with modified tarot cards”

What I keep getting stuck on is which ones are the lands.... I think what you MIGHT have to do is, combine multiple tarot decks into your magic tarot deck hell, and one of the deck’s minor arcana can be lands (used, of course, to play minor arcana from the other decks.) Which doesn’t answer how major arcana fit in UM

what about skirting this problem by making it yu-gi-oh instead of magic the gathering

bamboocounting replied to your post “can one play magic the gathering with modified tarot cards”

how do you normally play it?

VALID POINT

l33tsaber replied to your post “can one play magic the gathering with modified tarot cards”

Conversely, I want to see someone do a tarot spread with the MTG Unglued set.

this is very funny now that ivana explained it to me!!!! i would like this for my birthday

thepioden replied to your post “can one play magic the gathering with modified tarot cards”

As long as one is not a coward

HMMMMMMMMMMMM

simaethae replied to your post “gurguliare replied to your post:                    gurguliare...”

ok but are we really going to have a discussion about pern without mentioning all the magic-companion-animal-facilitated dubcon

i kept trying to rephrase or clarify that but i'm just going to let it stand

THE. WHAT. how is it facilitated. is this like pokemon.

garden-ghoul replied to your post “simaethae replied to your quote “   the descendants of terraformers,...”

mostly fond of "kid me did not have a normal gauge for Too Much Philosophy" because I can so clearly see that being the case

no i’m fond of me!!!!!!!! and yes it was the case bc i didn’t know the difference between ‘this is deep and fresh’ and ‘this is deep but everyone has said it fifty million times and it’s a cliche’ so i was always v impressed

[crackinthecup]

A couple of memes that @kashyuri-art tagged me in (thank you, lovely <3):

(1) Tag people you want to get to know better.

Relationship status: Happily taken

Lipstick or chapstick: Normally chapstick, bright red lipstick for special occasions

Last song I listened to: Hallelujah - John Owen-Jones

Top 3 shows: Based on what I’ve watched recently, American Horror Story, Hannibal, and Don’t Tell the Bride

Top 3 ships: Angbang, Hannigram, Victuuri

Tagging: Anyone who sees this and would like to give it a go!

(2) RULES: Tell your followers 11 random facts about yourself, and tag 11 people in return! Tag backs are allowed, but you mustn’t repeat any of the facts you mentioned previously! The facts can be absolutely anything! Whatever springs to mind!

1. I wanted to be an archaeologist when I was a kid.

2. I briefly did horse-riding when I was younger. It came to an abrupt end when a horse bolted with me, but I still think horses are amazing and get excited whenever I see one.

3. I know how to read tarot cards.

4. I’ve been dealing with various mental health things for the past 7-8 years.

5. I used to draw a lot when I was a kid.

6. I’ve had surgery three times.

7. One time, shortly after I’d moved to Bath, I was convinced my friend and I were lost, when she pointed out that we were just round the corner from our house (in my tenuous defense, I hadn’t yet explored that part of town :P).

8. I used to be terrible at reading maps, but my map-reading abilities drastically improved after I read the Lord of the Rings and the Silm.

9. I used to take voice lessons.

10. I also used to do ballet, and ironically enough, these days I don’t really enjoy dancing.

11. I want to one day have a cat named Melkor.

Tagging @markedasinfernal, @angbang-in-angband, @feanope, @daemonrolling, @crysdrawsthings, and anyone else who wants a go at this!

[ambiguityisnoonesfriend]

Chocolate Box 2018 Letter

Dear Cupid,

I am very easy to please. All my prompts and ideas are vague suggestions. As long as the relationships I request are the focus, I’m going to be thrilled with whatever you come up with.

The Silmarillion

Nienor/Turin: 

I am deeply into the tragedy of these two doomed characters. I eat up the identity porn aspect and the places where things could have gone differently. What would have happened if Niënor's enchantment was never broken? What if it was broken after their child was born? How would they have dealt with what they did and didn't know if they didn't suicide out of their problems? I am not interested in AUs where they aren’t related. I am heavily interested in AUs where everything went very differently, either in a happily ever after where they never find out (I know, I know, no one gets a HEA in the Silm and I am okay with that), or one of their near-misses of finding each other earlier on didn’t miss, or even Turin didn’t fuck up one of the several times he fucked up, and everything went in a different direction.

Star Wars Prequel Trilogy

Depa & Mace, Depa & Mace & Obi-Wan:

I am ridiculously obsessed with Depa, and her interpersonal relationships with others. Mace was her Master and her best friend once upon a time, and it's implied heavily in the Kanan comic that Obi-Wan was also good  friends with her. I'd love to see more about her younger days, maybe back when she was a Padawan to one of the greatest Jedi Masters of all time, or spending time with her fellow younglings, or both. As an art prompt, I would be ecstatic for something like Little Depa in her robes beside Adult Mace with or without goofy Little Obi-Wan.

I'd also be interested in seeing her as an adult, and how that transition went with Mace from teacher and student to friend and equal. I'm open to either Legends continuity or the new continuity, and I'd be fascinated to see a reimagining of the Shatterpoint plot or fallout in the new continuity. Not the whole novel, obviously, but maybe a scene of what went differently between them to make her ending what we got in this continuity instead of the old one.

I'm more interested in the friendship aspects of these three characters but I also don't mind if it gets mildly shippy.

Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Rey/Kylo: 

I went into TLJ expecting to get nothing for this pairing except maybe one dream sequence. I came out loving them even more. I love this pairing for all the potential. They are opposites. They are exactly the same. Each is incredibly jealous of the other. They keep being drawn together like two ends of a stretched spring, and the only question is if they’ll fuck, fight to the death, or both. My fondest hope is both. I love all variations of dubcon for these two, from The Force Made Them Do It and Sex Pollen, to Forced To Work Together For Reasons. I tend to believe Finn is the most important person in Rey's life, which could be wonderfully angsty for her as she can't figure out why she's linked to Kylo instead, or a situation where Kylo is forced to save Finn to make Rey happy.  Force bond sex also very welcome!

Leia & Ben, Leia & Ben & Han: The pain and the angst and the love in this broken family is the gift that keeps on tearing my heart out and I love it. Ben didn't hate Han, so what caused the rift that led to everything between/among them even before he went away with Luke? What would the final fallout be between Leia and Kylo after TLJ?

Luke/Leia: I was ready for this ship to be sunk in the movie. I was not expecting to walk out shipping it even harder. I want all the angsty history post-ROTJ. Luke Denying his feelings. Leia denying hers. The times denying those feelings failed. I ship the trio, so Han can know, or he can be in the dark, or he can participate, or he can be completely absent. Emphasis on how they know it's a bad idea but they can't not love each other, whatever twisted form that love winds up taking. Were they also Force bonded, and did this turn into Force bond sex, which might be why Luke went oh hell no later?

Star Wars Rebels:

Let me begin with saying I am deeply into "Everybody lives and everything is fine and no one has to die I can't hear you" right now as the final ending for this series. For ships, I am super committed to Kanan/Hera or else no mention of ships at all for either. For background ships, I prefer Sabine/Ketsu and Zeb/Kallus, otherwise please no other ships.  Rebels specific DNW: no character death, except for what was canon in ANH (Alderaan, Obi-Wan, etc)

Kanan/Hera, Kanan/Hera & Chopper, Hera & Chopper:

It's strongly implied that Chopper was Hera's only friend before Kanan came along. She would have met him when she was around eight to ten years old, and given the timing and the history with Cham, Chopper was likely her only support when her mother died. If this were an 80s movie, the pair of them would have a heartwarming relationship where he was her cuddly friend. Instead he's an astromech who swears all the time and she's a driven, closed-off radical intent on overthrowing the government. How did they grow together, and what happened when she brought aboard an alcoholic drifter who is suddenly competing with Chopper for her attention?

Kanan & Hera & Sabine & Ezra, Hera & Sabine, Kanan & Sabine:

I appreciate the complaints about found family tropes in fanfiction, and how it's frequently substituted  with a severe lack of boundaries and unrealistic closeness. That said, this show went there first from the pilot. I love the semi-functional family unit where at any one point someone might act as parent, sibling, or military direct superior. I love how Hera and Kanan are very hands-on with Ezra and very hands-off with Sabine. I'd love to see more of them interacting on this level, especially now that there's so little time left for them to just be together. The show has given us plenty of Kanan & Ezra, so more of a focus on how Kanan and Hera have parented Sabine or the two kids together is preferred. Zeb and Chopper are more than welcome to come along.

Kanan & Depa: 

They had less than a year together as master and student. What would have happened without Order 66? How would their relationship have grown? What would he say to her Force ghost considering the life he's lived here and the choices he's made? How would she react, and would those reactions surprise him or put him on the defensive?

Ezra/Leia, Ezra/Luke, Ezra/Luke/Leia:

I love the idea of Ezra and Luke meeting up after the original trilogy and finding someone who understands what it's like to be them. I love the idea of Leia and Ezra dating briefly during the early Rebellion days with an emphasis on bad dates or failsex. I love the concept of the younger Rebels post ANH all living on the same bases and dating one another.

Likes: toppy women and partners who are turned on by toppy women, humor, endings with hope intact, functional relationships, dysfunctional relationships, secret relationships that aren’t really a secret, canon divergence AUs such as what if they got there five minutes sooner, porn, fluff, friends with benefits, kidfic and pregnancy including mpreg and fpreg (do not like: pregnancy or kidfic with Rey and Kylo, do love: weird preg “because aliens”)

Specific porn likes: failsex including interrupted during or instead of sex, cunnilingus, both slash and het anal, light bondage, sex pollen, aliens make them do it, the Force or similar makes them do it, mental connections during sex, mental connections as a substitute for sex, using the Force during sex including light Force choking, Force ghost sex

Specific art likes: two or three panel simple line comics, playing card or tarot card type imagery, setting a scene, magic and metaphor

Do not want: noncon (as above, yes for dubcon and sex pollen), scat, watersports, omegaverse, unrequested ships except as mentioned, non-canon AUs such as coffeeshops, Poe, DJ, Holdo, Lux, Fëanor 

[adwendoodles]

finally finished the redone strength card!

I screen recorded me doing part of this because... i’ve always wanted to try. it could be better but if you’re curious, here is the link

[adwendoodles]

I suspect this is one of the cards that I’ll never be satisfied with, but I have to stop working on it at one point so - redo of the high priestess card!

[adwendoodles]

Another card that I can probably edit more details for but shall wait to nitpick for now. This was also the first one I’ve completed since getting my new art tablet so gotta calibrate those colors...!

Anyway, crablor is still crablor.

[captainadwen]

Why r my silm tarot cards doing rounds again who reblgged them

[adwendoodles]

Am calling this done just because if I don’t, who knows when I’ll stop fiddling! Anyway, finally finished the re-draw of my chariot silm tarot card, so the set is, once again, complete!

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[adwendoodles]

Revamped Annatauron card, because if I don’t stop fiddling I’ll never get to the rest

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