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Beleg with dark hair and red boots! Because of this art by Tolkien:

~ J. R. R. Tolkien - Beleg finds Gwindor in Taur-na-Fúin (titled Fangorn Forest because that was its early name)

LOOK AT THOSE STYLISH 14TH CENT. RED POULAINES!

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I decided to sketch elves a little bit 😁

Young Thingol and Melian

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Inspired by a poll, everyone who follows me gets to look at a rock per day for the month of October! 

Day 18: Today’s rock is a “meteorite”.  LOL, we found the thing up on the hills while hiking.  Heavy and black, pitted with a shiny rind.  Definitely metal…  So then we had to go look up “how do you tell if it is a meteorite?” online.  In this case, it was a pretty fast test…

High density – yes

Magnetic – yes

Weird shape – yes, but maybe not the regmaglypts that are described

Fusion crust – well…a crust but not a fusion crust

Lack of light colored crystals – yes

Lack of bubbles – uh oh, this has lots of bubbles

Lack of streak on streak plate – uh oh, this one had a red streak (hematite)

Internal structure shows Widmanstätten patterns – NOPE!  Just a bubbly silvery inside!  I did have a great time sanding off a corner on my tool grinder, though. 

It turns out our potential meteorite was a piece of iron slag left over from smelting.  The debris had been dumped in the desert sometime in the last 120 years and since been scattered through the gullies!  We still like the rock though! 

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It's a unique type of frustration when you agree that a character is deeply flawed but other people keep missing what's actually wrong with them and assigning them new flaws that they don't even have it's like free my man he did none of that. He did a bunch of other shit tho.

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Telperinquar

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when you’re rúmil of tirion and the tiny prince of the noldor keeps barging into your house to Yell About Orthography so finally you give up and make him some tea

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d i o r

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Lúthien Tinúviel

So it turns out the digital equivalent of drawing terribly on nice paper but well on scraps is doing a small rubbishy sketch with not many pixels to save memory but then it goes really well

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Actually life is beautiful because the sound I make while trying to breathe around hot food sounds like my dog trying to eat an apple. When I yawn my cat tries to put his face in my mouth like a little dentist man and when he yawns I put my finger in his obligate-carnivore trapzone and we both know he will not hurt me. When I do not fold my clothes, they do not hold it against me.

I am demonstrably sad, and lonely, and full of fear. But there are other people who will hold my hand, who will point out the hawk overhead, who will give you That Look in a public place. The other day at a coffee shop a child said "look! It's snowing!" so all of us strangers went to go look out the windows. It wasn't the first snow and it won't be the last but wasn't it lovely, like that?

How wonderful to live in a world where birds and frogs both say beep! How wonderful to have an ocean of beautiful sharks with their dinosaur teeth! How wonderful the moon and her changing face, how wonderful the bees and their dancing to communicate, how wonderful shrimp and their forbidden layers of vision! How wonderful, you, and what you will give the world! The way we love things enough to spend entire blogs devoted to them? How people will let me explain my Pokemon team to them? How we will both jump at the scare in the movie, how we laugh so loudly, how it feels to give someone your baking? How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting.

This is the process of getting better. With wonderful people and wonderful strangers and wonderful friends: I am getting better, slowly. Thank you, whoever you are. In some way, you've been wonderful, and left a wonderful place in the world to ripple out to me. In some small way - isn't it beautiful - I promise, you've been helping.

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Ilúvatar and Ainulindalë

Valar

The Two Trees of Valinor

Thingol and Melian

Ulmo, Ossë and Tol Eressëa

Fëanor and The Silmarils

The Flight of the Noldor

Maedhros and Fingon

The Fall of Fingolfin

Beren and Lúthien

Art by Wavesheep. Part I | Part II | Part III.

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smiley boy to go with the other smiley boy

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Celebrian & Arwen

I think she´s underrated... like a lot, she has such a good character story.

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i love her, your honor

…I want to just draw a fashion zine of just Miss Piggy, oh my god. she is so underrated and underutilized, where is my succession-like muppets satire thing LOL I want it so bad. let me do it disney call me pls

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Kings of the Noldor

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Second and third age art of an angelic girl child Elwing, sad eyes raised to the heavens, nauglamir wrapped around her neck suspiciously like a noose

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i know where it's at