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Hiatus

I am regretfully putting Tar-Miriel on hiatus. I love her, but right now, given circumstances in my life, I'm not at a place where I feel comfortable spending the time in her head to be able to write her properly. I feel stressed when I try to do so.

I will do some replies here and there as inspiration and energy allows. I hope to return once I feel able to tackle her again. I think I just need some time to focus on my other muses.

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It’s murder, more or less. Killing people. The fine art of diplomatic assassination. Or blinding, or deafening. Or a weakening of the limbs, or a paralysis or a debilitating cough or impotency. Or early senility, or insanity or… but it doesn’t matter. It’s all been my trade. And it will be yours, if you agree. Just know, from the beginning, that I’m going to be teaching you how to kill people.

Assassins Apprentice - Robin Hobb

(via wolveshavenokings)

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Lord of the Rings Meme  ➔ Five/Six Races  ➔ Eagles

"Eagles! The eagles are coming!"

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adunada's take on Faramir is so well thought out! I love reading their threads and headcanons as well as their ooc discussions. Truly a fandom jewel.

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Oh my gosh, thank you. I don't even know what to say. I've been feeling a little awkward and down about this blog lately because I've not been in the right mindset/mood to be able to write her, so this is a huge confidence boost that comes at a perfect time.

Thank you, too, for the kind words about Nienna. I kind of wish she were real, too! 

Please do write to me, dear, I would love to know you and I promise I'm not scary. <3

lastqueenofnumenor's Tar-Miriel takes my breath away with her love and anger and the beauty with which she's written; her mun's Nienna, giftoftears, leaves me wishing the Valie of compassion existed in our world, and, though I’m too shy to talk to the mun herself, anyone who writes such muses with such skill cannot but be a marvellous person!

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Glaurung and Niënor

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Statues of important First Age Edain women - lost in the Downfall of Númenor.

Adanel - Adanel was a Wise Woman, born into the House of Hador, and married into the House of Bëor. She was one of Andreth’s teachers in lore.

Beleth - Beleth was the eldest child and only daughter of Bregolas, of the House of Bëor. She was Morwen and Rían’s aunt, and the ancestor of Queen Erendis.

Hareth - Hareth was the daughter of Halmir, chieftain of the Haladin. She married into the House of Hador, and her children were Húrin and Huor.

These women were survivors, loremasters, huntresses. In the loss of Beleriand, and of Númenor, few records of their deeds survive, but it’s very likely that the Númenoreans, at least, would have honoured them with statues.

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Our ships go now without the wind, and many are made of metal that sheareth hidden rocks, and they sink not in calm or storm; but they are no longer fair to look upon. Our towers grow ever stronger and climb ever higher, but beauty they leave behind upon earth…our shields are impenetrable, our swords cannot be withstood, our darts are like thunder and pass over leagues unerring.

HoME V, The Lost Road

The first metal-hulled ships in our world were used in 1860. The first skyscrapers were built in the 1880s. If they were in the equivalent of this time period, as suggested by the quote, Akallabeth-era Númenoreans could have had train travel, early telephones, early photography, et cetera. What’s fascinating is that these were Tolkien’s writings up to 1937— at which point the events he described happening for the first time in Númenor had happened for the first time in his own world a bit more than half a century ago. This being Tolkien, the Númenorean industrial revolution and its closeness to the modern world are cast in a negative light, and explained to be a result of Sauron’s influence. However, the thought that Middle-earth— a world meant to be a far-distant past— had at one point nearly caught up to the time of the man who wrote it is still incredibly interesting.

(via silmariien)

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Tar-Miriel: Not all Numenoreans.

Valar: lol

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tiger

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I Still Aten't Dead

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Anonymous said: The heyday of Numenor, 10 & 13?

Here’s a Numenorean city in #13! It’s a bit messy but I think it gets the point across. :) I loved Akallabeth and Sauron’s manipulation of Numenor is one of my favourite things (who cares about the One Ring amirite). Palette #13 is so shiny and golden, it fits Numenor’s high days so well.

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art by croclock

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please love sharks

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The Race of Men Week is an event organised by fyeahtheraceofmen, to encourage people to appreciate Middle-Earth’s Secondborn. If you intend to participate, tag whatever contributions you have with raceofmenweek.

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second age Numenorians totally had tavern brawls about this 

Someone would be singing a random Elwing-Earendil song and then she became a swan and are you drunk???? It was a Seagull, but pfft a queen into a seagull yeah right  but EXCUSE YOU IT WAS A PELICAN 

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minimalist tolkien → rulers of númenor pt. III