#Silm fandom

[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.

[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!

[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

[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.

[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

[carmisse]

🤨

[annatars-nine-rings]

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

[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.

[mascula-sappho]

Maedhros: my father in law and I are respectful colleagues, working towards our mutual goals of defeating Morgoth and keeping our fractured people together.

Fingon: FUCK MY FATHER IN LAW!!! HE RUINED MY HUSBAND'S LIFE!!! I HOPE THAT MOTHERFUCKER ROTS IN MANDOS FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY!!!! HOW DARE HE THINK SILMARILS ARE WORTH MORE THAN MAEDHROS' LIFE??????? I'LL KILL HIM!!! WITH MY BARE HANDS!!!

[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’.

[z-h-i-e]

Every time someone in the Silm fandom has told me this week that AO3 is getting rid of the Quenya names, I have had to stop myself from replying “well yeah, didn’t you hear about that decree from King Thingol in Doriath?”

[drawulan]

Tyelpe

[whiteladyofithilien]

"our most beloved star" is such a fun way to say "that rock my relatives killed a lot of people over that's in the sky now"