#JRR Tolkien

[echo-bleu]

The tapestries made by the Aubusson manufacture based on the art of JRR Tolkien are currently exhibited at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris until May. @actual-bill-potts and I went there yesterday, they're so beautiful!!

These are all handmade tapestries, each is based on a Tolkien artwork (the Rivendell one has the facsimile on the right for scale).

Under the cut: group ID and bonus details

ID: 7 photos of the tapestries, which are each about 3m high, located in a 13th century monastery. The first is the map of middle earth, the others are illustrations Tolkien made of his books. The bonus photos below are details of the tapestries.

[cookiedoves]

lord of the wings ✨

[glorf1ndel]

March 22 is the marriage anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien and Edith Tolkien! The couple was married in 1916. Edith was the inspiration for Tolkien's epic hero Lúthien Tinúviel, who (among many feats) took down Sauron, stole a Silmaril from Morgoth, rescued her star-crossed lover Beren from death, and lived happily ever after. Now, that's true love. Here's to Edith and the Professor! ♡

[silme-lorien]

somebody take my phone away

[thelien-art]

Day 1: Maedhros for @feanorianweek

Kingship│Angband│Coping

[astral-aromance]

A reborn Nolofinwë and Fëanáro take a walk through the Tirion palace and talk about architecture, Early Fourth Age.

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[atomic-chronoscaph]

Gandalf and Frodo Baggins - art by Donato Giancola

[sapphoismymuse]

“Can you promise that I will come back?” “No. And if you do, you will not be the same.”

"How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold."

Something something coming back to a home that no longer feels like a home

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

Still laughing over the Celeborn -> Teleporno pipeline. The updated history of Galadriel and Celeborn was the last thing Tolkien wrote concerning middle earth, set down in the final month of his life. The final month, and he spent it scratching in some extra notes on his homegirl and her cousincest boyfriend. Unfathomable

[mxliv-oftheendless]

Hey, so a while back, I saw an AMAZING thread from LOTR fans about Frodo cursing Gollum and placing a gea on him and so damning Gollum to inevitably fall into Mount Doom and take the Ring with him—and how this is a recurring theme in the Legendarium where curses and oaths have real power and are not to be messed with. And while again the thread was AWESOME, it also made me think of something.

So we all know how Boromir tries to take the Ring from Frodo in Fellowship of the Ring, and then when Frodo fights back, Boromir screams that he’ll kill them all and curses him and all halflings to darkness. Given how we’ve established that curses have serious power and all of them come to pass—is Boromir laying a curse on Frodo? Because you could argue that it worked on Frodo but all the other hobbits seem to not be damned to darkness (I would argue the Scouring of the Shire doesn’t even count because the hobbits were able to rebuild). So what’s going on? Is it that Boromir didn’t really mean it? Did the curse only fall on Frodo?

[ibrithir-was-here]

Did another redraw of an old Silm piece of the Silm Triplets, added in the Ring Babies as well. Thought I’d give a little overview of both sibling sets in this AU for those just finding it through the redraws

So when I first made these AUs they were pretty wobbly but its firmed up since, so here's the layout of the 'canon' of the AUs xD

Big Credit to @yellow-faerie for helping set some of these points in their fic "All Good Things Come in Threes"

Everything is the same, except that Feanor not only creates the Silmarils but gives them life as well, to his delight and the deep concern of everyone else (though Nerdanel and the boys do love their new additions). Due to their

The girls revert to silmaril form when they feel threatened/sense evil, so when they're stolen as children by Morgoth, they're basically trapped in stone form for years in his crown, and don't age until they're freed.

The fate of the girls is as follows :

Altafinwende/Narewen--Radience of Finwe/Woman of Flame: The silmaril that Maedhros eventually jumps into the fiery chasm with, when he realizes that his own little sister (still in stone form) senses the evil he's done and rejects his touch. In despair, he decides to release them both from their misery and jumps--but she survives to eventually be awakened by the dwarves of Erebor (cuz yeah we're gonna make the Arkenstone into a Silmaril cuz it just works. She lives with them for a time, treasured as a blessing from Mahal, until Smaug comes. She next awakens again when Bilbo takes her out to bargain with Thranduil and ends up staying with around Lake Town/The Lonely Mountain, helping them both rebuild, and she stays until the end of the Third Age

Mirefinwende/Eabariel-- Jewel of Finwe/Sea Traveling Daughter - the silmaril that Maglor throws into the sea, too wrapped in pain and guilt to realize he's just thrown away his baby sister. In this AU though, for fun and angst, and because she's sentient, the Sea returns her to the shore, and Maglor finds her--but is still unable to bear her touch. But he raises her as best he can, traveling the shores together, teaching her song craft. And they stay together until the end of the Third Age

Harmafinwende/Tellumaien-- Treasure of Finwe/Sky Friend-- the silmaril that is rescued by Beren and Luthien. She eventually reveals her elf form to them, and they raise her as their daughter alongside Dior. She rejects returning with her Feanorian brothers when they try to take her back by force, and escapes with her niece Elwing. She is in and out of stone form due to her trauma, taking it again when the Havens fall, and does not awaken again until Earendil takes her onto Valinor. She ends up sailing the sky with Earendil as his companion.

The three are reunited at last at the end of the Third Age, when the other two sail back to Valinor. Since basically all their families are in the Halls of Mandos, they stay with Elrond's household.

Now to the Ring Babies!

Celebrimbor, in his wonderful creativity, manages to accidentally figure out how to reacreate whatever Feanor did to awaken the Silmarils when making the rings, and they too manifest as children. Each one, along with the elemental they're meant to conrrol, has also something of the essence of their intended bearer

Vilya, the youngest and most carefree, has the courage of King Gil-Galad

Nenya, the thoughtful and quite middle child, the cunning of the Lady Galadriel

And to Narya, the eldest, the charm and cleverness of his original intended bearer--Annatar, before he was revealed to be Sauron the Deceiver

Celebrimbor has a few happy years with them, waiting for Annatar to return from his travels--and then several heartbroken, very tense years trying to plan how to protect his children, his city, and ultimately the world when Sauron is revealed to him.

As in canon Celebrimbor is able to send the rings off to safety, in this timeline forced to separate them in the necessity of better insuring Sauron not being able to track them all down and unmake their physical forms to gain their power.

The three Ring Children grow up under the watch of their caretakers/bearers, reuniting with their siblings whenever they're able/it is deemed safe by their gaurdians.

Vilya becomes a member of Gil-Galad's court, and afterwards follows Elrond to Imladris, becoming a captain of his guard.

Nenya is an attendant of Lady Galadriel and serves her faithfully in Lothlorian, being a younger foster sister of sorts to Celebrian while she remains in Middle Earth

Narya helps Ciraden with his ship building as best he can, but doesn't truly feel a deep bond with him. Of all his siblings, he feels the most conflicted with himself and his place in the world, knowing that part of his essence was based on a falsehood perpetrated by the Enemy. Eventually, though, he finds a mentor in Gandalf, becoming a his companion and apprentice. Gandalf helps him feel he can truly help others and trust himself. (He'd be the biggest canon divergance in this AU by dint of being around the Fellowship, though its possible he stays in ring form for a good while when The One is around, so as not to attract undo attention. Only taking physical form in the Two Towers when Gandalf comes back)

The Ring Babies can also take their original ring forms at will, and will resort to them if their physical forms are badly injured enough.

They of course also sail at the end of the Third Age, and are reunited with Celebrimbor in Aman at last.

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Couple of extras here as well

(There's also a couple of AUs of these AUs 😅

The Happy Silvergifting Ending timeline with the Ring Babies where Sauron decides to just stay with Tyelpe and not take over Middle Earth and they raise the babies together--but still have to deal with Ar-Pharazon and Numenor later. With Pharazon capturing Annatar and Narya and Tyelpe and co trying to rescue them.

One where Sauron still decides to be Sauron, but also wants his cake so he takes Tyelpe and the babies back to Mordor with him, which was wonderfully written in "All's Well that Ends Better" by @trashipsinc

With the Silmarils there's an AU where instead of Tellumaien being raised as a sister to Dior its just Dior straight up who was the Silmaril, which makes the attack on Doriath waaay more complicated, as does the whole situation with Elrond and Elros being part Silmaril

And then there's the vauge AU concept of "What if the One Ring gets turned into a Ring Baby" with Malya

So yeah, that's the overview of all these 😅 Feel free to ask any questions you like about them!

[goombanati]

Why would you do this to me?

POV:

When you started off saying, "Tea is at four!" so you don't socialise, but you end it in, "Tea is at four." so you can socialise with whoever is left.

[hibounails]

Lotr nail set

And they glow ✨✨

[silme-lorien]

how much do you think the 3 hunters talked while they were searching for merry and pippin? of course they were busy during the day and tired at night (if they even stopped) but the few times they rested, what do you think they learned about each other? did legolas share songs from mirkwood? did gimli tell them about the beauty and splendor of the dwarf cities hidden in stone? did aragorn tell stories from his years as a ranger? did they talk about boromir and sam and frodo and merry and pippin? or about their families and friends back home? or about the future of middle earth and what they had yet to face?

[thelien-art]

Legolas, my Barbie doll, my baby girl, my-

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