#Silm fandom

[eri-pl]

#skill issue#find yourself in a book only fandom#'yeah I just knew it was fëanor before reading the tags' 'mmm he's extremely finrod-y'#ofc the inverse is 'what do you mean the 'maedhros' on my dashboard is sauron???'#therese comments ← those tags. Yes.

Curufin looks like Melkor in Aman, Melkor in Aman looks like Feanor. Glorfindel looks like Finrod, Finrod looks like Celegorm. Gilgalad looks like anyone, anyone looks like Sauron.

Actually fanart and fanfic are often compared but the funniest point of comparison is how you express that you like it. Like it's pretty common and welcome praise to tell a writer they get the voice of a character perfectly or whatever but if you told a fanartist "this is great I can really tell this is that character" you would sound insane

[olorinscombatboots]

the silmarillion

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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

[perlen-gold]

Melkor: Mairon’s mad at me :(

Thuringwethil: Because you stole the silmarils?

Melkor: No, that’s not it.

Thuringwethil: Because you got yourself in jail for a couple of thousand years without any conjugal visits?

Melkor: No.

Thuringwethil: Because you got robbed 'cause you got distracted by Luthien’s two hot arguments?

Melkor: No.

Thuringwethil: Because you crept into his forge again and hid all his tools?

Melkor: N- well, yes, but that’s not it.

Thuringwethil: Because you left the window open and it rained and every stack of documents on his desk got soaking wet?

Melkor: No.

Thuringwethil: Because you read his mail and scrawled stupid side comments and doodled wangs all over it?

Melkor: No.

Thuringwethil: Trouble with “performance” in bed?

Melkor: What- NO!

Thuringwethil: Did you ignore his safeword?

Melkor: What’s a safeword??

Thuringwethil: You forget to clean the toys?

Melkor: I AM all the toys he needs!!!

Thuringwethil: Because you screamed and killed the spider that was actually his friend?

Melkor: Wait, they were friends?!

Thuringwethil: Well, I really don’t know why he would be cross with you, Lord Melkor.

Melkor:

Melkor:

Melkor: I ... I said his ring ... you know, the one he’s just made ... well, I said it reminded me a bit … a bit ... of Voldemort’s horcruxes.

Thuringwethil:

Thuringwethil: You better call for a really good divorce lawyer immediately.

[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’.

[drawulan]

[velvet4510]

Friendly reminder that literally nobody forced Fëanor and his sons to swear an Oath that they would become mass murderers if this didn’t happen or that didn’t happen. They chose of their own free will to make the most violent possible vow. This is why I can’t stand defensive takes from stans that are like “the Oath MADE them do it” because who MADE them swear such an Oath in the first place? Nothing and nobody!!!!