#@awesome-bluehair

[ruiniel]

Hi there!

I'm a newbie in the tolkien works, I've finished off the hobbit and the lotr books but have no idea where to go next. I've looked at different websites about it but I haven't gotten any clear answers. There's like a million of these books and I feel so lost!

I figured that as a long time fan that you'd know the answers to this question if it's not too much of a bother.

Thanks in advance no pressure!

Augh, anon! This is one of the best things to ask of someone with a lifelong interest in this universe.

I WILL get back to you on this, but.

Was thinking (midnight brain) could we make it a group effort? It feels as though seeing different perspectives from other people in the fandom would be of help here, and since I do want this covered I'm calling on mutuals and followers in the Tolkien fandom.

Please if you deem, I do encourage people to add to this.

Let me try tagging (there are legit so many of us): @arofili @actual-bill-potts @eveningalchemist @goschatewabn @cuarthol @melestasflight @thelordofgifs @outofangband @thegreatstrongbow @potatoobsessed999 @hennethgalad @jamcake-muses @i-did-not-mean-to @glorf1ndel @z-h-i-e @verecunda @naryaflame @mirkwood-hr-department @saurons-pr-department @welcomingdisaster @hirazuki @nuredhel @effervescentdragon @searchingforserendipity25 @cilil @hhimring @chrissystriped @yuzukimist @edensrose @awesome-bluehair-universe @swanmaids @herinke @celebbun @auntieaugury @auroramama @puelhathnofury @kiatheinsomniac @eilinelsghost @asianbutnotjapanese @i-gwarth @batsyforyou @aprilertuileviresse @fishing4stars @elamarth-calmagol @zeladanial @silmarillionwritersguild @silmarillionno @solmarillion @samarqqand @sallysavestheday+ anyone else and ALL the Tolkien visual artists who see this and I forgot to mention (love you all, so many) if you have the inclination to add your journey/experience/recommendations? Anything, we have a good topic here.

[teethburger]

not to sound like a bluehaired wokie but I think it’s pretty awesome that anw shows the dad as being the one who cooks and does housework and the mom as the career oriented one, and it’s not shown as anything weird or unusual

[i-did-not-mean-to]

TRSB 24 Promo

It's I again, the woman with the too-big mouth LOL

On my previous post, a lot of lovely people have replied. So, if you're on the fence about signing up, here are the people who have said that they consider participating:

Hell yeah

@aphrodites-bloody-rose

@scyllas-revenge

@fishing4stars

@arlenianchronicles

@ela-draws

@mulasawala

@the-red-butterfly

@starspray

@greyjedijaneite

@senalishia

@oopsbirdficced

@thatonetimetraveller

@maglor-my-beloved

@between-thepages

@niennawept

@jaz-the-bard

@senalishia

@awesome-bluehair-universe

Maybe (send them a bit of encouragement!)

@chrissystriped

@nighttimepatrons

@littlesweetdressmaker

@cilil

@urwendii

@tethysresort

@sortumavaara

@elentarial

As you can see, there is some amazing talent to be looked at, and I strongly recommend you sign up to see it all!

Let's hold and hype one another up!

As for me, I shall sign up as both an artist and an author, and I have some treats already booked (without even knowing what the art will be) because that's how much faith I have in my friends!

Please check out @tolkienrsb for all the updates, rules, and the FAQ! I promise, it will be worth the nerves and the stress and the anxiety!

What a delicious crop of artists!

PS: Look here! The mods have uploaded the previous galleries! Get your fill of gorgeous art and lovely fics to stoke your hunger for this year!

[spiced-wine-fic]

Writers/artists/creators alike, I want you to share your favorite interaction(s) that you’ve had thanks to the wonderful things you make! Oh wow, well…I’ve made friendships that have lasted since I first posted and read on a fanfic archive which was 2007. Incredible people, learned, intelligent, awesomely clever writers who intimidated the hell out of me (and still do!) but were always so welcoming and genuinely nice people to talk to. I have met some of them in the ‘real world’ and they’re just as brilliant as they are online. And they have given me uncounted hours of free reading, which struck me as amazing and almost unbelievable in 2007 and does to this day. Their works are so good that they could stand beside the best published authors out there. Some of them wrote works that I had wanted to read but hadn’t existed until the authors posted them. It’s impossible to explain that feeling of coming across something you wanted to read since first reading the Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings in the 80’s.

Tagging @lucifers-cuvette, @naryaflame, @elfscribe @nuredhel @awesome-bluehair-universe @jane-ways @edgeoflight @ettelene @gellalaer @virgulesmith @sallysavestheday @auntieaugury @cuarthol @antares0606 @sedailanderekaden @minquelie @thisshadowprevails @pinksiamese @dawnfelagund @sauroff @thenookienostradamus @effervescentdragon @cycas@swanfloatieknightAnd because there can’t be enough good vibes anyone who’d like to participate

[elvenmoans]

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

thanks for the tag @saintstars

Im unsure how interesting this will be given its all OC writing and conlanging! Just doing the 10 most recently opened

Bloodstone Series Start

Leuric Eiltrin

Kyame Curse

Alvwe Grammar

Ólvⱳa Brainstorm

Sennen

Kane when young

Leuric and Hunters

Leuric asking to bottom

no pressure tagging: @they-call-me-apollo @space-arsonist @sinick @thecoolblackwaves @myceliumelium @raointean @remornia @awesome-bluehair-universe

[seasonsofcapri]

New Fic: Beautiful, Beloved, Strong

Title: Beautiful, Beloved, Strong

Ship: Erasmus/Kallias, Erasmus/Torveld, Kallias/Kastor 

Creator: @awesome-bluehair-universe | bluehair (AO3) 

Rating: Mature

Word count : 1,510 words

Warnings/Tags: Slavery, Soul Selling, Love, Mythical Beings & Creatures, References to Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Rough Sex, Abuse, Bad BDSM Etiquette

Prompt #: 34: "Kallias schemes to save Erasmus with no hope of seeing him again--until one day, he does."

Summary: "My prompt for The Seasons of Capri Fest 2023 was: "Kallias schemes to save Erasmus with no hope of seeing him again--until one day, he does." Hope I did it justice! Because Kallias really would do anything for love.

Thanks to @taj_mutthall for beta and for all the kind words and help. Any mistake you see is mine, all mine!"

Read it here on Ao3!

Don’t forget to kudos and comment to show our wonderful creators your love!

[cycas]

Tag thingy

RULES: Post the last sentence you wrote (fanfic / original / anything) and tag as many people as there are words in the sentence.

Thanks for the tag @verecunda.

 All the woods around the Mirrormere were felled for the burning, and the smoke of the dead rose high, even to the peaks of the mountains that still stand tall in our dreams: Baraz, Zirak, Shathûr.

Aaaaah that's 34 tags! I don't think I can really tag 34 people, can I?

@joyfullynervouscreator @grundyscribbling @gellalaer @polutrope @cuarthol @rekishi-aka @swanhild @the-elusive-soleil @thescrapwitch @lathalea @dreamingthroughthenoise @muse-write @searchingforserendipity25 @sotwk @ach-sss-no @chthonion @chrissystriped @potatoobsessed999 @sallysavestheday @quillingmesoftly @anne-wolfe @admirablemonster @radioactive-earthshine @thethermocline @nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui @elfscribe @hhimring @spiced-wine-fic @eirianerisdar @findrahil @elennalore @oldshrewsburyian @awesome-bluehair-universe @lferion

I feel weirdly obnoxious tagging you all, I hope nobody feels too Sackville-Baggins about it :-D

[dreamybasil]

i have found an awesome website for a little headcanon i just gave my sona (the bluehaired basil)

a voice copier <- the hc

he doesnt have his own voice so he just copies others

and do you know what did i just do?

i made alastor sing "мой мармеладный"

попробуй муа, муа, попробуй джага джага~ попробуй у-у, мне это надо-надо оп��ть мне кажется что кружится голова, мой мармеладный.. я не права

[lucifers-cuvette]

Getting to know you...

Rules Suggestion: Tag 10 or more people you want to get to know better.

Tagged by their magnificences @gellalaer and @spiced-wine-fic!

Relationship status: Oh-so-basic heteronormativity! Married for 43 years and produced 2 now-adult spawn.

Favorite color: Deep wine-red, like a cabernet sauvignon or sangiovese wine.

Song stuck in your head: Dancing Barefoot, Patti Smith Group.  Likely from watching the faux-stalgic and soapy series Daisy Jones and The Six. Not as good as Almost Famous, but kind of a guilty pleasure.  On the other hand, I do believe I would fancast Sam Claflin as Sámaril.  Claflin has the right facial structure (cheekbones, jawline. brows) and most importantly, nails that haunted look which comes from apprenticing with Istyar Aulendil. :^D

Favorite food: I have no single favorite since I eat a wide variety of foods, but I’d say fresh, well-seasoned, and prepared with care fit the favorite category.

Last song played: The Land Unknown (Hollow Heart Verses) by Landon Blood. This is the intro music for Season 2 episodes of the podcast Old Gods of Appalachia.

Dream Trip: Retracing my maternal grandfather’s journey by bicycle from Calais to Marseilles to Bordeaux and then by train to Paris and Le Havre.  This was in 1905 when he was 21 years old.  He kept a journal of his adventure.  It’s a fascinating look into another time, and his writing is not half-bad! He later graduated from law school and became a practicing attorney.

Last thing I Googled: Recipe for Jewish-style beef brisket in the Instant Pot. A change from my usual goyishe pot roast.

Tagging (but only if ya wanna): @it-is-almost-legal, @mister-london, @anerea-lantiria, @idrilsscribe, @nuredhel, @vilify, @awesome-bluehair-universe, @eldritchhedgehog, @zeroatthebone (OK, we know each other but I always enjoy your responses to these things), and @samhain-shadows (Heh.  Tagging your dark alter-ego! Please answer accordingly ;^))

[minquelie]

Explore My Bookshelf!

Thank you for tagging me, @spiced-wine-fic 😊 the books you mentioned seem interesting, they will be in my TBR list 😁

An estimate of how many physical books I own: Hundreds of them, of course. Mostly local books.

Favorite author: Tolkien and Jacqueline Carey.

A popular book I've never read and never intend to read: A Song of Ice and Fire Series. While I like the premise, I'm not interested in it. Also the fandom makes me want to stay away from the books. Too many bad takes and fandom wank. Sorry Martin.

A popular book I thought was just meh: Sarah J Maas books. My irl friends like her books but it's a no for me. It's typical YA so no longer fits my taste. I don't typically consume YA books anymore unless it comes from local fantasy authors (and more because I want to support them, no matter the writing quality) or the exceptionally good ones.

Longest book I own: Since I'm currently away from hometown (so, away from my bookshelf) I don't know the actual longest book I own. If I remember correctly, it's Nibiru, an Indonesian fantasy novel.

Longest series I own all the books to: Vandaria Saga, Indonesian fantasy series. 11 books. The story is not the best but pretty solid and I've committed to support local fantasy authors so I wanted to collect all the books. They are fricking hard to find.

Prettiest book I own: Some Tolkien's books with illustrations, so Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Fall of Gondolin. There's also Fantasy Fiesta, Indonesian fantasy short story anthology books. The cover is pretty.

A book or series I wish more people knew about: Kushiel Series and The Sundering Series by Jacqueline Carey, Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik.

Book I'm reading now: Currently rereading Kushiel Series (the Phèdre's trilogy one) because the main antagonist there (Melisande) is the biggest inspiration for my oc Valamorne's personality and mannerisms. I want to study her, why she works as a character.

Books that's been on my TBR list for a while but still haven't got around to it: I want to read Captive Prince! (Haha I blame @awesome-bluehair-universe for regularly posting awesome fanarts about that book) but I need to finish my reread first. Also gothic horror novels. I've heard good things about the genre that may suit my taste but I don't know which one to read first. The list is daunting. Then books by Mercedes Lackey that someone recommended some time ago. Then Malazan Series. I've read the first book but since it's a lot, I read shorter series first.

Do you have any books in a language other than english: Of course. I'm Indonesian so I have lots of Indonesian books.

And lastly, paperback, hardcover, or ebook: I like the feeling of owning and holding a physical book, so either paperback or hardcover. But since my house is small so it's not possible to have too many physical books, ebook is fine too.

Anyone else who want to participate is welcome!

[ruiniel]

5 Foods: 4 you love & 1 you hate

Thanks for the tag, @hirazuki !

*rubs chin* not sure how general/specific this needs to be but I'll go for some favorite dishes that come to mind? No particular order

I like some:

cream of pumpkin soup

Miso ramen - a balm on cold autumn/winter days

Caesar salad - made by moi

Oven baked sweet potato fries

Nothing comes to mind to hate... like you I'm not a picky eater 🙂

0 pressure tags as always: @edensrose @thenookienostradamus @thecupcakemedic @awesome-bluehair-universe @effervescentdragon

[i-did-not-mean-to]

May Mash-up

Ah, my dearest...It's the May Mash-up and I am s t o k e d!!!

You go ahead and send in your requests...I can't wait to get to some of these! Muhahahah...

I will write your blorbo (or mine) in the most ludicrous situations. Crack, fluff, smut...all possible.

Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Ainur, you name it...

This post shall be amended to include less of my babble and (hopefully) more links!!!!

Fire on fire - Coworkers AU - Firefighter - Sick/injured for @linasofia

Mafia AU - Coroner - Soulmates for @awesome-bluehair-universe

Superhero AU - Shoemaker - Trapped in an elevator - Ori for my husband (the devious man!)

Bodyguard AU - Stripper - Childhood friends - Gothmog x Melkor for @melkors-big-tits

Spy AU - Housekeeper - Someone can't tell the truth - Bagginshield for @maalezzo

Mafia AU - Photographer - Someone can't tell the truth - Maglor x OC for @sorisooyaa

[spiced-wine-fic]

9 People you’d like to know better

Thank you for tagging me dear @grundyscribbling 🤗

three non romantic duos:

Raederle and Lyra (Riddle Master of Hed series)

Anomander Rake and Caladan Brood (Malazan Book of the Fallen series) Brother Cadfael and Hugh Beringar (Brother Cadfael series)

a ship that might surprise others: Ah, really have no idea. Can’t imagine any ship surprising anyone on Tumblr 😂

last song: Brother Louis Modern Talking (I keep seeing short reels of people dancing to this and I think Duck me I remember when this was first out!)

last film: Nostalgic mood and rewatched Jaws last weekend. (Still holds up) (Waiting to watch Alien: Romulus )

currently reading: Just finished the Faithful and the Fallen series, just starting Women of Troy by Pat Barker.

currently watching: Nothing really.

currently consuming: Water.

currently craving: A world where vulnerable and marginalised people feel safe 🫂 tagging (if you want to do this, if not no probs) More than nine, oh well. @awesome-bluehair-universe @sallysavestheday @lucifers-cuvette @jane-ways @thescrapwitch @ettelene @joyfullynervouscreator @minquelie @naryaflame @cuarthol @nocompromise-noregrets @pinksiamese

[i-did-not-mean-to]

Stone cold

@awesome-bluehair-universe thank you for this delightful prompt. It was so damn fun to write!!!!

Prompts: Mafia AU - Coroner - Soulmates - Eönwë x Finarfin

Words: 1.5

Characters: Eönwë x Finarfin

Warnings: Graphic description of death, injury, etc

Eönwë shivered slightly. For someone who had grown up in an organisation that was callously called “The Mafia” by most people, he was surprisingly squeamish around dead people.

Nevertheless, he walked on bravely towards the double doors at the end of the gloomy corridor—Manwë had insisted he talk the local coroner out of looking too closely into the body that had been delivered to the morgue this morning.

Shaking his head, Eönwë thought to himself that it was outright reckless how much his boss still tried to cover for his brother. As far as crime and questionable morals went, their little family unit was certainly far from above-board and yet, Melkor still managed to break all the codes and rules they had set up.

And someone else always had to clean up after him. That someone, right now, was Eönwë.

He had an ace up his sleeve, of course; the local gangs were notoriously unstable and spent the whole blessed day shooting at each other. Surely, he could convince the coroner that the man who lay dead as a doornail on a metal slab was but another unfortunate victim of territorial rivalries.

Again, he shuddered at the idea of blaming Thingol for the cold-blooded murder of the poor boy.

Banging his broad hand against the frosted glass of the door, Eönwë waited patiently for an answer.

“Come in,” a melodious voice called.

Shit—this was not what he had imagined finding!

Eönwë froze as soon as he had stepped into the shockingly cold room. First of all, there was the cadaver of the latest victim of Melkor’s insanity. Word on the street was that one of his cronies had cloven the kid’s head with some kind of axe.

Why anyone would run around with such a conspicuous weapon was too much of a philosophical question for poor Eönwë to answer though—he simply—foolishly—hoped that the whole affair was as baffling to the coroner as it was to him.

Swallowing frantically, the young herald of a much greater and more threatening organism tried hard to keep his lunch inside his body.

“Hello,” he said in a choked voice. “I’ve come to inquire about the unfortunate accident.”

His words dried up as the sea-coloured eyes of the coroner settled on him coolly. This was the second problem: the coroner was startlingly handsome and, while a competent enforcer and a trusty herald, Eönwë was hopelessly clumsy in his dealings with people he deemed attractive.

“Accident?” The coroner cocked his head, golden locks spilling across his shoulder in a cascade of underground sunlight. “This young man has been brutally murdered.”

He pointed at the remnants of his skull without betraying any kind of emotion.

“Indeed,” Eönwë croaked nervously. “Yes, yes…” Remembering his duty, he slid a little closer to the stiff man whose unnervingly straight gaze drove flustered heat into his cheeks now. “Do you have any idea who might have done that?”

“A tall man with a heavy bladed hammer?” The answer smacked faintly of sarcasm; Eönwë struggled to school his face into a neutral expression—it would not do to betray Manwë by giving away his own feelings of guilt.

“If you have come to mourn, you can join the weeping ginger upstairs,” the coroner went on calmly. “He’s utterly hysterical and I am almost sure that he’s started shedding like a distressed cat. Or can I do something else for you?”

“I…” Eönwë’s mind went blank; he had expected an elderly person with slipping glasses and a hunched back and not a blindingly good-looking, discomfortingly efficient doctor who made his stomach somersault wildly. “Aren’t you horrified by this?” He flapped his hands at the corpse lying between them like a gruesome chaperone.

“No,” the man replied and took off his latex gloves with an arousing, sharp slapping noise. “Finarfin,” he introduced himself tersely. Before Eönwë could react, Finarfin went on in that dispassionate, well-bred tone. “Both my brothers have died ghastly deaths—one was found burned to a crisp and the other had been beaten to a literal pulp—so, I don’t think anything can shock me anymore.”

Pity welled up in Eönwë’s heart—threatening to drown out his better judgment—as he realised that he was in the company of someone who might have understood what his life had been like. Neither one of them had truly chosen their place and purpose in this world—their tasks had been handed to them, covered in blood and ashes, and they had risen to the challenge as well as they could.

What other choice did they have?

When their eyes met again, over the table and the dead boy, Eönwë felt something shift within his heart. Varda, his boss’ wife, always babbled about “soulmates” and, for the first time ever, Eönwë was inclined to have even the tiniest bit of faith in her confused and confusing beliefs.

She and Manwë were undeniably meant for one another—that, Eönwë did not question or deny. Imperious, haughty, and as ruthless with their enemies as they were gentle and caring to their friends, they were a power-couple if ever there had been one.

Whether or not Varda had been able to foresee their union through consulting tea leaves, the stars, and magic crystals though was an entirely different matter.

Nevertheless, Eönwë could not deny that he felt the unstoppable and irrepressible attraction emanating from that still figure before him; Finarfin struck him as smooth and clean, just another sterile tool made of marble and gold, and yet, there was anger and yearning bubbling just beneath the surface as well.

It surprised the inveterate criminal that he himself suddenly longed to be washed clean of his sins. Indeed, he wanted to stretch out on that cold table and have those elegant, white hands excise every evil deed and bad thought from his body.

Furthermore, he wanted to grab those frightening forceps and break open the shell of compressed and hardened grief Finarfin had wrapped around himself like a cocoon of misery.

“So, no ideas as to the man or the weapon?” he asked cautiously. There was more on the line for him now than just the safety of his people—and Melkor’s for that matter—as this had gotten very personal much too quickly.

Finarfin sighed. “Could have been anyone,” he said with a shrug. “Not as if we ever found the culprit around here. Might have been Gothmog, might have been Mablung, might have been his own brother for all we know.”

At the mention of Melkor’s terrible enforcer, Eönwë flinched which was thankfully interpreted as a disgusted or even fearful reaction rather than as a guilt-laden one.

“So, why does a handsome stranger like you come to the morgue unexpectedly? Did you know the boy?”

Eönwë shook his head hesitantly. “I was just curious, I guess,” he lied through his teeth. “I’d…rather not keep you from your work.”

He bit his lip; he had almost said “I shall leave you to it before it grows cold”, but the lad was stone-cold dead already and he did not want to imply that Finarfin was about to devour him, despite the strange, threateningly gleaming utensils arrayed in front of him.

“You’re welcome to come back any time you like,” Finarfin said in a level voice.

Eönwë thought that it had warmed up a little, but it might well have been that his own mind was simply playing tricks on him.

“Uh, yeah,” he stammered—he still didn’t dare looking down on the cadaver and the mere idea of willingly spending more time with dead people made his stomach churn in rebellion, but he did not refuse out of hand.

“We could also meet somewhere else,” Finarfin added in a now distinctly kinder voice. “If you’re not interested in the work. I feel a bizarre kind of kinship with you. Is that an odd thing to say?”

“Over the lifeless body of a deceased youngster? Maybe,” Eönwë chuckled; he decided then and there to trust Varda and her weird hocus-pocus and to go out on a limb. “But I feel the same, to be honest, and I’d be delighted to have a drink…someplace else…at some other time.”

Finarfin nodded encouragingly.

As Eönwë extricated a sleek, dark blue card from his coat pocket and set it down on a nearby table, he realised that Finarfin would probably guess what kind of people he ran with. His heart gave a painful lurch.

Stepping around the table, Finarfin picked up the card and gazed at it pensively for a few seconds.

“Just my luck, I guess,” he sighed and then visibly pulled himself together. “How does tomorrow at 7 in the pub across the street sound?”

@fellowshipofthefics Here is another one for May then :)

Lots of love from me

-> Masterlist

[spiced-wine-fic]

Ten lines from my last ten fics

I’m counting completed fics or WIP’s here.

What happens when the Light of the Flame Imperishable meets Unlight?

A Time of Thunder

The horn sounded again. And then there was only the wind, bleak in the trees and the snow, and the wild winter night.

Winterthorn

She stopped and looked back. ‘It is,’ she murmured. ‘I’m sure this is Summerland. And of course no-one has ever heard of him. I’m not a bit surprised.’

Requital

Somehow, no-one on that bright Solstice morning, saw them leave.

Solstice Fires

But Nael had not recognised it. His eyes were pure as a dawn sky and as guileless. He simply handed the card back and walked away.

The Once and Future Kings 

‘Very pretty, Eru. But I was not made for this, nor for the tedium of peace; I never was. The Monument is my place, formed out of the ashes of a dead universe. How very apt, no? So, let us see if I can disturb thee a little.’

A Crown of Ash 

‘Yes,’ Tindómion agreed. ‘It blows now from the East.’

The Last Fires of Autumn 

‘As blood-kin,’ Tindómion repeated. ‘Until death takes us, or the High King comes again.’

Blood Kin

He reached out a hand, and Glorfindel clasped it. A warrior’s pact.

A Fire in the Night  

He kissed Tindómion’s brow like a king conferring a blessing, then walked away.

Shattering 

Not sure who’s already done this, so…

tagging @gardensofthemoon @crowandmoonwriting @nuredhel @polutrope @pinksiamese @jane-ways @cycas @naryaflame @awesome-bluehair-universe @edgeoflight @sallysavestheday @auntieaugury @minquelie @cuarthol @sedailanderekaden @nocompromise-noregrets @swanfloatieknight @g-m-kaye @thenookienostradamus @morgulscribe @elennalore @geneeste

[gellalaer]

Pass the happy! When you get this, reply with 5 things that make you happy and send this to the last 10 people in your notifications! ✨

I was tagged by @arizonapoppy. Thank you!

Things that make me happy:

1. Writing

2. Spending time in nature

3. Reading a good book or fanfiction while snuggled in bed.

4. Writing

5. Spending time alone