once again thinking about sauron and just the sheer pain of his existence and the fact that he would never win ever no matter what he did and how even if he ever tried to be good he couldn't be-
Concept: Someone who is a jewel thief in Middle-earth. They have started six wars and twelve family feuds that then escalated into small wars.
wow Tolkien himself just appeared at my house and said Galadriel is black and Númenor is Egypt holy shit we should listen to him
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If you’re ever feeling down, read this paradigm for “banana” in Icelandic. read it aloud. you will feel better
“Bananarnir” sounds like the third, and worst, of the sons of Denethor.
“Bananarnir would have remembered his father’s need. Bananarnir would have brought me a kingly gift.”
Hmm, Boromir and Faramir both end in ‘mir’, which means jewel – although it’s not at all clear where the rest of Faramir’s name came from, so really there’s nothing stopping Denethor from just naming a son Bananarnir if he feels like it. But if we want to simultaneously take this unduly seriously and commit Linguistics Crimes…
- bana(th)+nar+nir: beauty-rat-sorrow
- bana(th)+narn+nir: beauty-tale-sorrow
- ban(d)+a+nar+nir: prison and rat sorrow
- ban(d)+a+narn+nir: prison and story sorrow
- bana(th)+narn+ir: beauty-tale-sexual desire
- ban(d)+a+narn+ir: prison and story sexual desire
So, it is possible (though I wouldn’t say justifiable) to interpret Bananarnir as being named after ‘the sorrow of being stuck in prison with rats’ or else perhaps ‘bondage kink’.
If you don’t think Sauron has a tongue piercing you’re wrong <3
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//in trying to find out if The Children of Húrin was ever translated into Icelandic (there are quite a lot of name changes in Hobbitinn) I have instead found something more interesting:
[id: screenshot of a wikipedia subheading “In science” with the text “In 1999, Finnish entomologist Lauri Kaila named three species of moth, Elachista turinella, Elachista morwenella, and Elachista nienorella, after Túrin, Morwen, and Niënor respectively.” end id]
Oh ho ho, my friends, it gets so much better. Please enjoy this list of THIRTY-SEVEN (37) Tolkien-inspired moth names from the same researcher, all painstakingly extracted from the Wikipedia article on this genus. I wish I were this dedicated of a fan.
Also:
- The Children of Húrin gets even more names. Túrin even gets Dagnir and Neithan in there.
- How many goddamn moth species can a single person name in ONE YEAR? I wish my 1999 was that productive.
- Special honors for most obscure reference goes to Elachista ibunella, who’s named after Ibûn the fucking petty-dwarf, who I also had to look up to double-check.
Elachista aerinella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista amrodella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista aranella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista aredhella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista arthadella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista bregorella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista caranthirella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista celegormella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista curufinella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista daeronella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista dagnirella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista diorella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista eilinella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista finarfinella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista galadella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista gildorella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista gorlimella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista guilinella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista haldarella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista ibunella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista indisella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista maglorella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista marachella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista miriella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista morwenella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista neithanella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista nienorella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista olorinella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista ragnorella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista rianella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista serindella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista tauronella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista telcharella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista telerella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista turgonella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista tuorella: Kaila, 1999
Elachista turinella: Kaila, 1999
This is the nerdiest thing I've ever seen and I'm living for it
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Constructing geographic edifices that challenge the boundaries of hilldom and devising exciting new dooms to meet upon them.
Best way I’ve ever seen academia described.
Fandom, academia, and Minecraft.
Anonymous asked:
Mairon for the character ask?
*evil laughter* why of course my dear anon
- 1-3 things I enjoy about them
1. Lava monster vibes
2. Done™️
3. Wolf guy!!
- Something interesting about them based on tenuous circumstantial evidence
Definitely a major deity in terms of how many people worship him. Also a little sociopathic.
- A question I have about them
Good sir, what the fuck??? Why are you basically invincible???
- A random relevant line I like
“But the Temple itself was unshaken, and Sauron stood there upon the pinnacle and defied the lightning and was unharmed; and in that hour men called him a god and did all that he would.” (The Silmarillion, The Akallabêth, page 277).
- My preferred version, if there is more than one version of their story (or part of their story)
I think the Akallabêth and LOTR are the best versions of him. He’s his scariest and unhinged then like damn
- Favorite relationship(s)
Hmmm…romantically with Melkor, feel like he and Thuringwethil have a cool dynamic, don’t want to know what he had going on with the Nazgûl but it is interesting to explore, and also I’m actually in love with how terrifyingly good he is at tricking people into liking him so Celebrimbor and Ar-Pharazôn, too.
- How would they react to Tom Bombadil
He would back slowly away, then either run for the hills or spy on him.
- Optional: Something about them that I think people forget
He is not pretty in the Third Age he is Terrifying and probably has Too Many Eyes or some such thing. Nor does he have to be white??? Like no. I’m incapable of imagining most Silm characters as white except like…Melkor…and honestly I’m just Done. Fair means hot, yeah, but have ANY OF YOU considered that that means something different in every different culture?? Beauty standards are variable. *deep breath* Okay rant over.
No no no no Sauron is not gaslight gatekeep girlboss he’s backflip backstab break stuff
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My husband sent me this on Facebook. (We don’t know who made it. If the originator makes themselves known, I’ll credit)
esthelle18
If we take “The Adventures of Tom Bombadil” to be canon, then not only does Tom scare off horrific demon-monsters with his rhymes, but his daily schedule includes coming home, finding said demon-monsters in his own bedroom, and ordering them off the property like it’s their cute little ritual.
If you think about it, the tra-la-lally Elves were of Elrond’s house, many of whom were survivors of Eregion or followed him to build a new home in Rivendell after Gil-Galad fell (the rest of Gil-Galad’s people presumably remained with Círdan in Mithlond).
Many of these elves had once sung the battle-songs of Beleriand and the later in the Second Age.
Perhaps there is also power in the tra-la-lally songs of the jolly valley.
Tom Bombadil and The Elves Rivendell: We are gonna sing songs so aweful, Morgoth and Sauron and their monsters can’t stand to be in the same corner of the country least their ears bleed.
It’s always been about song battles anyway
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Inktober Day 16-20
Compass
Collide
Moon
Loop
Sprout
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Why do all statues fit so PERFECTLY with Tolkien’s universe
like
wtf
and also
and then there’s
what is it. did tolkien know this would happen. im dying
Why do all statues fit so PERFECTLY with Tolkien’s universe
like
wtf
Me: oh wow a new Tolkien book! I think I’ll go and check out the preview!
The book: elf sex elf sex elf sex—
Me, an asexual:
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Fuck whatever the amazon show has going on, just from hearing about excerpts I think the Nature of Middle Earth book will have a far more significant impact on the silm fandom and especially fanfic writers, have yall seen this? Tolkien wrote this himself with his own two hands, there are birth timetables and AGE EQUATIONS in here, there is even more sex talk in here. Did you hate LaCE? Just you wait.
Being an aroace Tolkien fan is so much fun because the book will go “and he was hot” and I’ll go “yeah whatever. more importantly: does he have a sword” and the best part is I’m talking about the weapon. Because I really like swords.
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If you write an elves in modern times story it should include them sending everyone phone pictures of every single sunset and flower they encounter every day simply because they cannot understand most members of the group chat will in fact not appreciate that.
What do I base this on? Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth of course. You are canonically required to make elves just a little annoying to most human beings, especially if they gain access to the sort of technology that would make those differences glaringly obvious.
And those among us who have known the Eldar, and maybe have loved them, say on our side: "There is no weariness in the eyes of the Elves." And we find that they do not understand the saying that goes among men: too often seen is seen no longer. And they wonder much that in the tongues of men the same word may mean both "long-known" and "stale"
Maglor would spam the group chat with sunset pictures change my mind.
Modern day Maglor in a group chat with Celeborn and Thranduil. They don't talk. It's just years worth of
Maglor: sends picture of sunset
Thranduil: sends picture of a squirrel
Celeborn: 😍😍😍
Sends picture of dog
@galadhremmin how dare you hide this in the comments! This is perfect