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Maglor, Minstrel of the Noldor

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Game idea: you've got a series of spells you can use, which you cast by typing them.

But enemy bosses can attack your keyboard. Your "E" key is disabled. FIREBALL is out. ICE9? Also out. Guess they're getting hit with SUMMON FROG.

The bosses can also drop traps on your keys. So if N is trapped, you can cast SUMMON FROG, but the N-trap will go off and you'll take damage.

An advanced late game spell is THESAURUS, which lets you reanalyze a spell. Can't do SUMMON NIGHT WOLF because your N key is broken? THESAURUS it and now it's CREATE DARK DOG.

Another enemy attack would be putting a counter on your keys. So if they put a 1 on your R, you can cast "FIREBALL" but "CIRCLE OF TERROR" is right out.

The two can be combined: a trapped counter only goes off if you type more than the counter. So a trapped 2 on your S means "HEAL SELF" is fine but "TRANSFORM SELF TO SERPENT" will activate the trap and you'll take damage.

One late game boss attacks you by cutting your keyboard in half, and which half works alternates between turns. You gotta figure out which spells you can use that turn.

You could do some fun gimmick-fights. Like a boss sweeps your keyboard off the table and makes you play scrabble instead: you have to spell spells to cast them.

Or wheel of fortune, where you have to get enough money to be able to buy vowels before you can cast spells with vowels in them. The puzzle on the board is a spell the boss is going to cast against you, so it's also a fight against time. If you correctly guess too many letters, they'll solve and you'll get hit with the spell.

I think the way it works is that you fight some mooks and then a boss, and each boss has a new spell they can cast against you.

But you can cast any spell you've seen used against you, so like you start with merely FIREBALL but the first boss hits you with HIGH JUMP, and now you can use that ability out of battle, cause it's a metroidvania of course, and now new areas are accessible.

But bosses can use "forbidden" spells against you, and they do it by typing words you can't.

Like the viking boss hits you with a OÄNDLIG FJÄRIL and you don't have that letter.

(later you can upgrade your keyboard to get access to some forbidden letters, but at great cost: you must sacrifice a letter to gain it, and you don't get to pick which letter the keyboard surgeon will take)

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A Silmarillion fanart from me? In this day and age? Surprising I know

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So in chapter one of ROTK we learn that Denethor loves Boromir more than Faramir because Denethor and Faramir are so alike, and Boromir is different. I feel like this is very much lost in the films, and we end up with the impression that Boromir is the golden child because he is following exactly in his father’s footsteps, thinks the same, and supports all his goals. But in reality, it’s the opposite.

I think this implies a certain level of self-hatred that Denethor carries, which he projects onto Faramir. But what happened to make Denethor devalue the characteristics of their Numenorean heritage? Why doesn’t he value he and Faramir’s foresight, knowledge of lore, and steadiness?

Could it be that Ecthelion treated Denethor like Denethor treats Faramir? Did Denethor learn the behavior from his own father?

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fragment of a númenórean poetry chapbook

(a few pages, labeled 4-6, torn out from a larger folio. loc: archives of minas tirith, hall 7, aisle 13d)

exilic, unheard

you, woman of the fourteenth street, raising herbs on a fifth-floor balcony digging a sun-dry hand into the earth do they taste of ash, those bitter herbs of our mourning because we would not bow down beneath a tyrant's reign sparrows scattered by a heavy blow?

we that you exile shall not touch the soil of that land again or alight upon it, this miscarried age, this year turning to winter

our bones are scattered upon the winds the smoke of our life's breath settles on your windows, king's city when you look out you will see us in the sunlight, glinting

(note on title: an exilic is in the old tradition a lament of exile, first popularised as a form by the high elves of the first age. c.f: gilnir son of duilin, "maglor's noldolantë as an exilic lament and historical lay", 4.a. 126)

love songs for a darker time

if blood is red, then life is white, and if my love for you a rose, duty's the thorn and if the truth is light, and light is song and if 'tis not misfortune to be born! then let my flame burn bright before I fall and let a song more right uncover all

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if die I must, when I die — let me see the stars one last time before I go so I may tell

(verse cuts off, water damage. the rest seems to have been subsequently rewritten in pencil too blurred to read)

(ink on the margin, in poor hand, an epigram of unclear meaning: "shadow falling on the isle of kings/the song is ended" — a child sings)

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Last thing Maedhros does before giving up on finding Elured and Elurin is sing them song. The same one Fingon sang for him.

Only the wind sings back.

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Paladin Problems #20

The Time and The Narrative: This is not a story for you. The corrupt are unpunished and the just are betrayed. Virtues are considered the traits of the the weak and naive, the vicious sneer. Power and fortune prevent compassion and empathy, and foster apathy and envy. Mankind’s nature and destiny are bound with the darkness of either their souls or their lives. What use is there for something like you?

The Paladin:

The Paladin: The Light has never feared the darkness. Why should it start now?

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Thinking of becoming a guy that thinks wolves are the most badass and aspirational animal, but about ants. Like wearing t-shirts about being loyal to my Queen and training to bench 5x my bodyweight. Studying ant warfare. Posting shit like this

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Was in the mood for more silmarillion fanart

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what do I have to do to get Animorphs to be the next tumblr read-a-long book club a la Dracula?

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Anti-Propaganda is not allowed. Please only give reasons to vote for something and not give reasons to vote against something.

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Anti-Propaganda is not allowed. Please only give reasons to vote for something and not give reasons to vote against something.

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All right Silm fandom, I want to hear who your favorite character is. And by “favorite character,” I mean “I have carefully constructed their complex personality and elaborate backstory from 2 lines of canon text”

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I’m doing a lil comic for a scene I liked from Animorphs book 14 so here’s some Cassie doodles and what I imagine her outfit to be like there (lmao is this 90’s enough I changed the shirt like 3 times)

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You can only eat 2 foods for the next 2 years (with no health repercussions)

Spin this wheel twice to figure out what they are!