Commission for @skyeventide.bsky.social

maedhros 🤴

I think in this day and age I'm no longer the target audience for hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. I think the slightly cynical and satirical irony of it all no longer hits the same way these days. I need a narrative tone that is both angry and hopeful, and douglas adams didn't live in my times.

Fëanor is finished, now for Fingolfin and completing the tapestry 😊💗 #Tolkien #Tapestry

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

finally reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, only about forty years late

I have this disease where i see pictures and have to draw Neve Gallus (this was a vogue cover i think)

reposting my silmarillion hanukkah meme for the new site

Joyce Carol Oates, I was not familiar with your game

I'm gonna launch neo-decadentism all by myself. I think it had potential.

Maglor and Daeron watching the last ship sailing to Valinor #silmarillion #tolkien #lotr

Huysmans, you write so so so well and you are such a huge huge misogynist

I remember someone saying that Caliban and the witch by Silvia Federici was not good, but I don't remember who it was or why they thought so. Still, I held off on buying it for now

Edmond Dantès would have made it as a make up artist. Pro MUA youtube channel with 10mil followers, easily.

Writing with a pen on paper is all fun and games until you have to copy it on your laptop, aka the most excruciating process that passes through the use of a keyboard known to mankind

tolkien really was like dwarves have a language that they prize highly and have meticulously preserved for millennia as a language of lore and history and it has an ideographic writing system but they also write it in the cirth of daeron—but they were not skilled linguists

conclave was good but for a movie that had so far addressed how men serve an ideal but are not the ideal & need to settle on the least worst and that's a kind of moral defeat, the ending was a mix of caricatural evil, external plot device, and SURPRISE QUEER PROGRESS. idk if it knew itself anymore.

2023, Silmarillion time! the whole Formenos crew probably right after taking the oath, or: photos taken right after disaster #art #silmarillion #tolkien

Something I often notice with sci-fi visuals is that places have a cohesive look, one architectural style, no layering of motifs, no aesthetical clashing of buildings designed centuries and millennia apart. I am too art history pilled for that kind of set design.

look if you ask me what i think about the dwarves in the rings of power i’ll tell you straight up that i think someone should’ve gotten their ass beat for narvi’s character design but you can’t take that as me being a show hater because i regularly chew up john tolkien himself for his dwarf crimes

Edmond Dantès where have you been all my life

aftermath of the nirnaeth arnoediad

The deeply funny thing about "anthony bridgerton" and other bridgerton people is that I assume it's people following a pattern like "feanor silmarillion" or "zevran dragon age". But no. That's actually his surname

www.tumblr.com/alnilamen/76... this amazing artist just shared art based off one of my Maedhros & Maglor fics. kind of dumbstruck honestly, by how haunting & oneiric & soft & terrifying it manages to be. feel so lucky, thanking this artist for ever, i must say

When laura marling sang "guess he had nothing to say, he opened his mouth on judgement day", I kinda felt that.

Reimagining the Feanor-Nerdanel divorce as an argument between a hardcore catholic and the inventor of protestantism

It's Christmas shopping time and online publishers are offering significant sales, so here's a thread with Tolkien-related books on steep discounts, for the Tolkien reader in your life (or for you!). 1/x

Maria of the brotherhood

The silmaril as a creation of feanor being renamed star of earendil with its obvious christological themes as a repurposing of germanic pre-christian world and customs into a syncretic but decidedly christian tradition

[seeing virtually any targaryen art] this is a celegorm or one of the numerous fitzcelegorms he likely left scattered about beleriand

The thesis is finished. Fifty pages on Feanor as a Faustian figure submitted to supervisors. With a thank you to @realtomemanuel.bsky.social for sending me at least two of the papers that built the final bibliography of this work.

Viktor said "there is no prize to perfection, only an end to pursuit" amd I pointed at the screen and screamed

11/11 "We're looking for you. Writing is very solitary and publishing is very frustrating, but let the hope live in you that we're looking for you. Every time we get a submission, there's hope in us that this will be the manuscript that we will fall in love with."

Námo. Re-embodiment of Fëanor #Silmarillion

wuthering heights where heathcliff is white and edgar linton is pakistani feels like such an avoidance of the racism in the text like casting an actor of color but having him play the ineffectual white aristocrat and not the protagonist who is othered and abused and called racial slurs

Letter 131 to Milton waldman is carrying this thesis chapter like atlas

Maeglin sketch

Maglor #Silmarillion

Do you see

It's that time of year youtu.be/DBKwFb9_k1Q?...

Last few figures. I'm trying to be looser and more relaxed, less precious

Antoine Volodine, a writer masterful in introducing what the fuck events and worldbuilding in the most normal, unobtrusive way possible, achieving an oneiric post-apocalypse mood that resembles a shrooms trip the closest out of any author I've ever read

unrest🌹 • #silmarillion #feanor #lordoftherings

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sometimes I get a glimpse on the stuff that goes on in silm tumblr and they honest to god rehash "it's okay to like characters who do bad things" and "feanorian discourse" every two years. it's fascinating, like staring at a real live alien

#TolkienTrewsday: “Christopher” In the preface to The Fall of Gondolin (2018), Christopher Tolkien wrote these words. As a tribute to him, please join me in recognizing how masterfully he achieved this “underlying purpose” and acknowledging the debt we owe him as fans of Middle-earth.

in my heart dragon age the veilguard has x10 the tevinter politics and a mexican standoff between maevaris calpernia and radonis on who gets to rule the country

In The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, after hearing about a massive & deadly scapegoating, the narrator asks why the peasants didn't attack the landlords, their true enemies, & is told, "When your real enemies are too strong, you get weaker enemies," & every day I think about this & also see it