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Hey so OP I don’t know if you know the Russian rock opera version of the Lay of Leithian but if not it’s absolutely worth a listen!

I need Silmarillion operas to exist...

So many tales from The Silmarillion would be absolutely phenomenal as an opera or better yet, a cycle of operas. If I had to choose, my two dream adaptations would be:

1. The Children of Hurin: Epic tragedy is what opera is all about! This story is so Wagnerian--doomed hero, cursed weapons, dragons, death, betrayal...(And unlike Wagner's operas, when the siblings realize they have committed incest, they are appropriately horrified.)

2. The Lay of Luthien: Again, this tragic romance would be perfect in an opera! Star crossed lovers...epic quests...magic... I mean, singing is pivotal to the plot! Sauron and Finrod literally battle by singing! Luthien uses song to cast spells numerous times, even enchanting Morgoth himself! It just makes sense, people.

If there are any opera composers out there up to the task, I would gladly offer my services as a librettist. (Manifesting my super niche dream job via Tumblr lol)

Any other opera fans out there in the Tolkien fandom?

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I think the position of Heir™️ is a role that carries a lot of weight in their family. (Ironically, I think this is Fëanor’s fault; there is no real status in being first in line when the head of the family isn’t supposed to die. But when Fëanor starts making a huge stink about inheritances re: Fingolfin, all of a sudden the Heir™️ is a position that matters.)

As a result, I’ve always viewed Maedhros and Fingon’s relationship, however you classify it, starting as political allies to manage their fathers. They don’t even have to like each other much in the beginning. Allies is good enough to work from. As heirs and later as heads of houses, their word has a lot of weight.

There’s a lot of evidence for the - shall we say - father-wrangling and division-bridging in canon. Maedhros standing aside at Losgar, Fingon retrieving Maedhros, Maedhros ceding the crown to Fingolfin’s line.

People who don't ship them, how do you exactly think Fingon and Maedhros became close, and what is it that they share aside from a grandparent? I've recently realised that as much as I love their friendship narratively speaking, I only have the vaguest image of what it looked like when not currently the ground of Tragedy and Despair...

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AHAHAHA I’m so glad it made you laugh! I’m getting like… the string board conspiracy theory meme guy vibes from this. Incredible

Also while I’ve got your ear THANK YOU for this story, it’s truly amazing and it’s unusual that a Maedhros story can give me a whole new set of feels to go feral about.

hello @erynalasse my tumblr app is not letting me answer this via inbox, possibly because of length or my signal idk, but i need you to know that this brought me so much joy to read

and while Elros is sadly very much dead, i can absolutely picture this list being constructed by the Comrade in one of his more delirious, manic moments post-Elros (probably before he broke down the door) and kept thinking about it until i had to sketch this during my changeover 😭 thank you so much i’m still giggling

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Just two princes of the Noldor, enjoying the treelight (and each other) 💕

Only thing I have for @russingon-week , but at least this old wip is done now.

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ok how are you people putting commas in your tags

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Hey @chthonion you have some explaining to do

There would never be a better time to strike at Maedhros than right now, with his heart broken open. There would never be a better time to get past his defenses than right now, after bringing back the only person who ever made him feel worth loving after Alqualondë, after Thangorodrim, after everything—

- The Harrowing, chapter 30, “Courage”

Maedhros raises his head, which is the only confirmation Annatar needs to know that he’s won. His gray-green eyes, half-obscured by the unkempt tangle of his hair, are a mess of tears and misery. He does not even try to pull his hand away; he only looks up, through a mask of pain, and in his eyes Annatar can see the grieving, self-effacing yearning that Sauron-the-torturer always used to aim for: the moment that a prisoner imagines the possibility of reprieve, and will suffer any degradation, submit to any agony, to reach it.

It is the expression of a person already in the process of shattering, and in this moment, Annatar knows, anything is possible, because this is the moment when nothing remains to prevent change from taking root.

- The Harrowing, Chapter 50, “The Hostage of Númenor”

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I think the funniest possible explanation for all the missing or nameless wives in the Finwëan family tree is that there is an equal number of nameless husbands (of men), and whoever recorded the family trees didn’t have sexist goggles on so much as they had Finwëan bloodline goggles on

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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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yes, kind of, absolutely not, absolutely yes (my job), yes, yes, yes

let’s settle this shit but do NOT reblog if you’re gonna be modest about it like a little BITCH. anyway privilege check tell me which ones apply to you: hot, funny, can dance, can do math, can spell, can drive, can cook

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headcanon that maglor doesn’t write any lyrics to his compositions. melodies flow like water and come second nature to him but putting words behind the music is difficult.

maedhros is the skilled wordsmith of the family and writes the lyrics and poems to maglor’s songs

so after the first age, maglor only plays the melodies and it takes him a long time to start singing again and his first isolated work is the noldolantë

also it is one of maedhros’s works that fingon sang when he rescued him

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When I got to the scene in the newest chapter of The Harrowing by @chthonion, where we see Maedhros facing away as Annatar comes in...it painted such a clear visual in my mind I had to draw it! It didn’t quite turn out as it was in my head, but still: Here is a Maedhros facing away (having a crisis) \o/

(My second digital drawing ever and it's fanart hahaha)

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Revised Oath of Feanor Because I noticed the top and bottom bit were missing. Genius. Brilliant, I say.

“Be he foe or friend, be he foul or clean, brood of Morgoth or bright Vala, Elda or Maia or Aftercomer, Man yet unborn upon Middle-Earth, Neither law nor love, nor league of swords, dread nor danger nor Doom itself, shall defend him from Feanor, and Feanaro’s kin, whoso hideth or hoardeth, or in hand taketh, finding keepeth or afar casteth a Silmaril. This swear we all: death we will deal him ere Day’s ending, woe unto world’s end! Our word heareth thou, Eru Allfather! To the everlasting Darkness doom us if our deed faileth. On the holy mountain hear in witness and our vow remember, Manwe and Varda!”

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The Devil Went Down to Georgia and The Battle of Sauron and Finrod Felagund are opposites:

both include challenging the devil to a musical battle

which goes well for Johnny and poorly for Finrod

in this essay i will

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i love the silm fandom and idc that i’m getting sappy on main. i love that we call maedhros nelyo and maitimo and russandol. i love that we call maglor kano and celegorm tyelko. i love that we affectionately call it silm and not the silmarillion. i love that we write heartwrenching fics and then the cutest, fluffiest oneshots right after. i love scrolling through my dash and seeing the most beautiful fanart known to man because if we don’t have a screen adaptation you better know the artists are gonna make one themselves. i love seeing edits that are literally just animated fanart and phonk music but that are on another plane of reality. i love headcanons. i love fanon. i love the canon. i love that we can all read silm and though we might have different opinions on characters and themes and blorbos we all are united in our overwhelming, indescribable love for it. i love how we all collectively defend maedhros. i love seeing the most unhinged ship tags ever on fics and them being actually really well written. i love that i’ve never read a single badly written silm fic in my life. i love that we can make shitposts about our fav kinslayers and then 2k word essays on the length of turgon’s sword right after. i love russingon. i love beleg and turin. i love how we took material that has such rigid, archaic language and made it our own, brought it to life. idc i love this fandom so much y’all are everything.

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Rivendell has the distinct honor of never hosting Saruman, though I think I’d prefer the lifestyle and vibe of the Shire more.

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If Morgoth is a Thought of Eru Ilúvatar, and Morgoth is the original corruption of Arda, then I don’t think Eru is as omnibenevolent as Tolkien would want us to think.

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Being in the silm fandom is so fun, because Tolkien basically went-

[grabs 98% of Elven Royalty, Mannish Royalty, and a Maia]

[APPROACH THE BLENDER]

[BZZZZZZZZZZZ]

[Pours Elrond into an elf-shape mold, but Off]

[APPROACH THE OVEN]

[Bakes Elrond with the heat of The Horrors for 6000+ minutes]

[D I N G]

[Puts Elrond on a plate]

And that’s the recipe for one of the most popular blorbos.