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maedhros ✵ maglor

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War of the Rohirrim spoilers:

I understand that Hama had to die. I do. I understand that he absolutely had to die in the specific the way that he did, because Hama as a character represents the valor and honor of the people of Rohan (exemplified in his mastery of song, which is how those values are upheld in the community and passed along to the next generation), and Wulf, who rejects these values, had to kill him in a dishonorable way to represent his attempt to destroy the values of the Eorlingas and prove that valor and honor are worthless. And I understand that Hama’s instrument being passed to others represents that that valor and honor did not die with him, and could not be destroyed by Wulf. I understand this! I do! But also, have you considered: it made me sad

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i have always pictured the tumblr inbox as a physical mailbox so it's kind of a wonder to me that we don't have gimmick blogs of people sending like jury duty notices and bank statements or something

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míriel þerindë

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Just saw War of the Rohirrim and. Y’ALL. I know it’s almost out of theaters but if you can still go see it GO SEE IT. It was absolutely amazing. They used some of the Howard Shore soundtrack, and the painted backgrounds were so gorgeous, and the characters were complex and fascinating, and it had an ineffable Rohan feel to it that sat at the heart of the whole thing. It felt like the filmmakers really understood and loved the Rohirrim. And Héra was absolutely not an Éowyn clone, which was my main fear before I saw it! She’s a young woman in similar circumstances to Éowyn, facing similar social pressures, but she herself is so distinctly a different person who makes different choices in response to that! And she is absolutely awesome!! I loved this movie SO MUCH.

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Do you think a Dracula adaptation set in the modern day could work?

It'd need some logistical tweaking. Lots of updating in the tech department.

Considering the speed at which transactions and travel happen and how the surveillance state has expanded, there'd need to be some major tweaks in how Dracula and the Drac Attack Pack operate through their respective roles.

There'd definitely be good scare potential in discovering Dracula is literally impossible to capture by camera or voice recording; a fact that might be hinted at early on when this esteemed client refuses/is unable to do anything so simple as phone or video call with Hawkins. Everything is down to text and human go-betweens to get around the technological barrier. Jonathan could have a heart-stopping moment when

Trying to sneakily record via phone leads to Dracula never appearing and his voice being static -> Jonathan has to keep things on paper, old school

He wakes up one day to find all of his tech missing alongside the traveling paraphernalia. Not enough that the weather/castle aura keeps blocking any signal. Everything is just gone.

Bonus points if it's Jonathan's smartphone that gets the shaving mirror treatment, and young Mr. Harker has to watch his employer-captor hurl his actual phone out the window where it shatters into meaningless plastic on the stone.

Fun times.

It'd also be interesting to stretch Stoker's original 'vampires can't be depicted' idea and expand that to the gang literally being incapable of using electronics to type out or record anything about Dracula. Some magic interference keeps either glitching things out, or worse, turning the computers into dead bricks. They have to resort to paper and analog recording.

Other bells and whistles would need to be addressed, other character dynamics switched up for the 21st century, but I think it could be done

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we are the Cows

and wen the sky

haf sent its chylde

from clouds up high

down to our playce

of field and grayne

we say well come

we lik the playne

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Nelyo scribble.

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more tolkien guys: turgon, bëor, ecthelion, & andróg

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lómion in captivity ⛓️‍💥

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Anyway if you see this you have to reblog and tag with a delight from ur day -- even the littlest thing counts

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Elros: How did you lose your hand

Maedhros: didn’t eat my vegetables

Elrond: that doesn’t feel scientifically possible

Maedhros: don’t eat your vegetables see how you feel when you lose a hand

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I also read "Thou speakest of thraldom. If thraldom it be, thou canst not escape it: for Manwe is King of Arda, and not of Aman only" as evidence for Mandos's awkwardness.

Like. I honestly don't think this is him trying to be threatening. I think it's him laying out a perfectly logical argument - "look, if Manwe were a tyrant, you'd still be under his tyranny wherever you were, so complaining about being in Valinor is stupid and makes no sense" - and completely failing to understand that this is in fact the least helpful and most-likely-to-aggravate-the-situation thing he could possibly say.

Okay, the only proof of Námo being an awkward introvert is him saying, "Not the first" when Fëanáro was having a breakdown as to how he would be the first elf killed in Aman.

Like, just read that passage. He doesn't talk at all, except those three words, and revels in the side-eyes everyone gives him. But of course, no one thinks of it until Finwë is declared dead.

But still. Námo, the Doomsayer of The Valar, The Lord of The Dead, Lord of The Halls of Mandos, One of The Kings of Arda, is definitely an awkward introvert.

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Please never forget the huge number of people who Lúthien Tinúviel saved.

Of course, her getting the Silmaril eventually allowed Elwing and Eärendil to bring salvation to all of Middle-earth years later; we all know that. But that’s not what I’m referring to.

Never think that Beren was the only person saved by Lúthien’s direct actions during her lifetime. An entire tower full of Sauron’s captives in Tol-in-Gaurhoth were saved and set free when she took control of the island.

She didn’t just grab her boyfriend and run. She tore open all of the dungeons and enabled dozens, if not hundreds, of people to escape with their lives. If it weren’t for her, all of those prisoners would’ve died in torment.

Lúthien is far more than a devoted girlfriend; she’s a true hero of Middle-earth who single-handedly saved at least a dozen lives!!!

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Here's a little silmaril-based commission I finished up recently! some progress shots etc. We start with the text and blocking out of the borders:

then it's all about the colour and layering and detail etc etc

I did a custom blend for the metallic here, it came out pretty okay! The idea is that when the light doesn't hit the page, it's a sort of pale blue, but the shimmer suspended in the ink is a gold-base, so it changes colour in the light:

once again, I'm not going to make prints of this commission since I'm not looking for a case with the tolkien estate

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“Fingolfin is crowned king next to a spotted horse and the Two Trees” by unknown artist