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Arwen + elvish requested by lifesparkleslikeacityatnight
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Any setting where the elves have weaker booze than the dwarves isn't committing to the bit
I mean, we're talking about people whose lifespan is Yes.
"Oh, the weak wine? That is for children. I am two thousand years old, and I daresay one sip from this highball would knock you on your ass for a week."
Look, there's this weird thing people do with high fantasy where they want elves to be immortal/extremely long-lived snooty aristocrats and also somehow incapacitated by imagining the taste of salt too hard. "Orcs and dwarves have the hardest booze" no they don't, they have work in the morning! In any of these settings, elves would pregame harder than hobbits party and everyone else has shit to do tomorrow.
The average high elf builds up the drug tolerance of a mid-70s Hollywood producer and then spends three centuries studying alchemy. While humans seek immortality, the Immortals seek the elusive "philosopher's cocaine."
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Elves: Immortal, wisest, and fairest of all beings.
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@pheebosaur requested:
Hugo Weaving as Elrond THE HOBBIT - THE LORD OF THE RINGS 2001 - 2014 | dir. Peter Jackson
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Tolkienweek 2022 Day 6: faceless / silhouettes
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J.R.R. Tolkien describes the sundering of the Elves in the Third Age.
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minimalist tolkien → ladies of tolkien pt. II
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THE LORD OF THE RINGS (2001 - 2003) costume design by Ngila Dickson & Richard Taylor THE HOBBIT (2012 - 2014) costume design by Bob Buck, Ann Maskrey & Richard Taylor
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edit requests ⚝ the families of elrond + elros ⚝ for Loraliell + @hildorien
Now Elros and Elrond his brother were descended from the Three Houses of the Edain, but in part also both from the Eldar and the Maiar; for Idril of Gondolin and Lúthien daughter of Melian were their fore-mothers. The Valar indeed may not withdraw the gift of death, which comes to Men from Ilúvatar, but in the matter of the Half-elven Ilúvatar gave to them the judgement; and they judged that to the sons of Eärendil should be given choice of their own destiny. And Elrond chose to remain with the Firstborn, and to him the life of the Firstborn was granted. But to Elros, who chose to be a king of Men, still a great span of years was allotted, many times that of the Men of Middle-earth; and all his line, the kings and lords of the royal house, had long life even according to the measure of the Númenóreans. But Elros lived five hundred years, and ruled the Númenóreans four hundred years and ten.
—The Silmarillion, “Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath”
In all the days of the Third Age, after the fall of Gil-galad, Master Elrond abode in Imladris, and he gathered there many Elves, and other folk of wisdom and power from among all the kindreds of Middle-earth, and he preserved through many lives of Men the memory of all that had been fair; and the house of Elrond was a refuge for the weary and the oppressed, and a treasury of good counsel and wise lore. In that house were harboured the Heirs of Isildur, in childhood and old age, because of the kinship of their blood with Elrond himself, and because he knew in his wisdom that one should come of their line to whom a great part was appointed in the last deeds of that Age. And until that time came the shards of Elendil’s sword were given into the keeping of Elrond, when the days of the Dúnedain darkened and they became a wandering people.
—The Silmarillion, “Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age”
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Immortal were the Elves, and their wisdom waxed from age to age, and no sickness nor pestilence brought death to them.
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It’s a big house this, and very peculiar. Always a bit more to discover, and no knowing what you’ll find round a corner. And Elves, sir! Elves here, and Elves there! Some like kings, terrible and splendid; and some as merry as children. And the music and the singing…
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Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the sun.
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➵ lotr locations: Rivendell
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Rivendell, also known as Imladris, was an Elven town and the house of Elrond located in Middle-earth. It is described as "The Last Homely House East of the Sea" in reference to Valinor, which was west of the Great Sea in Aman.