#Silm fandom

[somepinkthing]

celegorm: hard boiled eggs are disgusting! I almost died eating one. The crunchy-soft mix is absolutely disgusting. It's like eating a ravioli covered with chips

maglor: you should have soft boiled it

maedhros: you're supposed to remove the shell??

caranthir: i hate this family

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

Elf names got more complicated as parents strove to create new ones instead of handling the political whiplash of reusing an old one. So if you meet an elf called ‘silver-river-water-voice’ they’re pretty young, but if some guy says ‘hi I’m Tree’ you best believe that bitch is ancient.

[nelyos-right-hand]

I think there's no better fandom to be a nerd in than the Tolkien fandom. Mostly thanks to the professor himself. People I know be like "You're learning a language just because of a book?! Girl, you're so obsessed!"

Well, at least I'm just learning a language, not inventing one! And at least it's just one language, not ten! You think my hour long rants are annoying? You can be glad my current obsession-level is maybe 5% of Tolkien's, or we'd be having an entirely different conversation right now.

Really, Tolkien was the worst of all of us, and no one can tell me otherwise. You can also see in the way he wrote his characters that he was just fangirling the entire time. I literally see him waking his wife in the middle of the night, like "I can't sleep, I just keep thinking about Fingon, he's so cool and epic and tragic and aahhhhhh!". I also think nothing makes a better story than the author being just as much in love with the characters as the fans are.

[drawulan]

Finyo

refs, that guy from pinterest fits my headcanon so well, love him as Finyo

[cats-spilled-wine]

Aaaaaand that's a wrap! I'm done with drawing the Fëanorians; at least in the same style and as companion pieces.

Here's Fëanor, on his way to commit the crime he's so infamous for. And I am so incredibly happy with my progress. Because, um, when you look at my art of Maedhros and the others, they all look incredibly... thin. So either advanced stick figures or disturbingly underfed elves... I will leave it to your imaginations.

Edit: Also, I just realised "Trouble" by Adam Jensen goes with this perfectly

P.S. Guys, thank y'all for all these nice tags you reblog with; if they were comments, I would've responded😭 but as it is, I can only say I am reading all your commentary with a face-splitting grin and clapping my hands from giddiness-overload. Your responses always make my day, even if it already is great!

[storkofyore]

Nerdanel and her sons ✨

[serregon]

what annoys me most about the silm fandom is the tendency to take opinions on controversial characters to one extreme side or the other, brushing all nuance and complexity aside. Fëanor is either an abusive father who never loved his sons and a genocidal fascist, or he’s the world’s greatest hero and every single death at his hands was fully justifiable and actually someone else’s fault. Thingol is either an abusive father and a cartoonish caricature of a conservative racist and misogynist who committed cultural genocide by banning Quenya, or he’s the holiest king ever who never made any short-sighted decisions and actually never played an antagonistic role in B&L and asking for a silmaril was actually the smartest political move ever

like idk man if you hate ambiguities and complexities that create multifaceted characters with both flaws and virtues then why are you reading the ambiguities and complexities book

[mascula-sappho]

the canonical hottest man in the Silmarillion is a depressed amputee and I think that is beautiful

[magkinetix]

Elwing and Maedhros parallels... oh I am unwell.

One must imagine this image upside down, so that they are both falling, having both jumped with a silmaril. Unfortunately it just looked goofy like that.

[velvet4510]

One problem I have with Tolkien’s approach toward Galadriel's characterization in The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales is that her desire for her own kingdom to rule is painted as a bad thing that she needs to let go of. She’s “proud” for wanting that kind of position and needs to be humbled enough to realize she shouldn’t. But the text never depicts Fingolfin or Fingon or Turgon or Finrod or Aragorn - or any of the male characters who become rulers - as wrong for having the same aspiration.

[perlen-gold]

Someone: Oh, Sauron, it's okay. None of this is your fault!

Sauron: No, it really isn't.

Someone: You were tortured by Morgoth!

Sauron: Oh yes, I was tortured. Terribly, terribly so.

Someone: Your evil master forced you to do such horrible things!

Sauron: Oh, he did! *wipes away a tear* And horrible they were indeed!

Someone: All of this is just a result of your trauma!

Sauron: Oh yes, I am very much traumatized! Poor me!!!

Someone: You're just a victim yourself!!!

Sauron: A poor, endearing, gorgeous-looking, totally not responsible victim I am!!!

Melkor: Wait... So ... all the sex we had ... you told me it was great and it wasn't??!

Sauron: Oh no, it was wonderful.

Melkor: ... So ... that time when you asked me to take you REALLY hard on the war table actually traumatized you??

Sauron: Oh no, darling, I very much enjoyed that.

Melkor: ... So ... when you slayed elves and humans in my name you actually suffered??!

Sauron: Oh no, I very much enjoyed that, too.

Melkor: ... So ... when we married I was actually FORCING you to forge our rings????

Sauron: Oh no, that was quite fun, I had even made them in advance, I had been waiting for your proposal for ages. You really took your time, you're so shy.

Melkor: ??? So ... all of this is just one of your lies again????

Sauron: Ah, my lord, believe me, watching you playing Tic-Tac-Toe and losing against Húrin time and time again was nothing but utter torture and trauma.

[jolidei]

🤨

[eloquentsisyphianturmoil]

‘To beat the enemy you must think like the enemy’ is so vast because for Maedhros it meant ‘become a stone cold killer’ and for Finrod it meant ‘bite’.

[annatars-nine-rings]

Art commission of Melkor and Námo done for me by the wonderful @yenyenyen19

[drawulan]

[twailia2455]

The Silmarillion fandom is collapsing.

Has anyone else noticed a lot of people leaving the silmarillion just general Tolkien fandom? Especially on tumblr. One of my favourite Silm blogs deleted their whole account and just disappeared. I’m seeing a lot of amazing creators put out their farewell statements. I absolutely don’t blame anyone who is choosing to leave and especially if it’s just because they’re not happy anymore or are moving on to other things. But I’m noticing that a lot of people are being very negative and some creators have explicitly stated that this has impacted them leaving and losing love and interest for something that once made them so happy because of all the negativity aimed at them. It’s so sad. Also wtf this is a hobby and some people are so demanding with creators like they’re not creating things unpaid and in their free time. Hating on people for what they love and find comfort in or calling them weird for liking and having different takes on certain FICTIONAL characters is disgusting and you’re absolutely the problem if you do that.

To any creators seeing this I just want you to know how much your work is and contribution is appreciated. Especially since it’s not that big of a fandom on here.