#and Manwë

[wroniec]

Brothers

[mateiru]

Manwë and Varda from The Silmarillion

[nervmaup]

Melkor, Manwë, Mandos, Yavanna

I've heard that my Melkor looked pretty much like Janosik. Well, I can't agree but it's still a nice comlement

[fukutomichi]

The Rings of Power | Season 2 | Aug 29 - Oct 3, 2024 "You truly are the Great Deceiver. You can deceive even yourself." - Celebrimbor

[anattmar]

🐥

[quixoticanarchy]

also it’s sort of funny how Manwë sends a messenger to be like “hey do NOT go into exile that will be BAD and end BADLY. oh except fëanor you’re exiled anyway bc of the oath. but yeah it’ll still end badly” like what did you expect him to do. obviously not mass murder, which fair, I also wouldn’t expect that per se, but “something rash bc he’s pretty short on options” should’ve been.. foreseeable? I know it’s said Manwë cannot understand evil but it seems he also cannot understand like. a cornered animal

[verecunda]

This came to me in a vision.

[olenris]

Quick sketch <3

My headcanon on Manwë and Melkor's appearance.

Before they were enemies, they were brothers, so I chose a sky theme for their design. Manwë looks like a sunrise and clouds, and Melkor looks like the northern lights.

Should I make another art of them?

[urwendii]

Manwë: A new visitor has arrived on our shores. Please ensure that he states his reason for trespassing. But be courteous, Herald mine.

Eönwë: yes my Lord.

Eönwë, to himself: alright, alright you can do this. Just remember what you read about Humans. Be normal, be casual. Normal yes. You can do this.

Ëarendil: Hi

Eönwë: HAIL ËARENDIL BEARER OF LIGHT BEFORE THE SUN AND MOON! SPLENDOUR OF THE CHILDREN OF EARTH, STAR IN THE DARKNESS, JEWEL IN THE SUNSET, RADIANT IN THE MORNING!

Manwë: ....I may have given him too much poetry to read.

[thranduilofsmirkwood]

[whosthatsilmcharacter]

(All art used with EXPRESS permission from the artist)

P.P.S. sorry I haven't posted in a while. It's been a rough week 😅

[vizual-demon]

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

(2012) dir. Peter Jackson

[crownedwithstars]

The idea that only Ulmo or Nienna care about Middle-earth and do anything to help Eruhini is a strange misconception because Tolkien pretty clearly shows that at least Manwë is watching very closely what's going on and sometimes even interferes? It's just that the Valar mostly seem to work through the elements they represent, which if you think about it is pretty neat.

Like there are various instances where the wind acts up suddenly, causing storms or rising in just the right moment (as in ROTK, clearing the air for the Rohirrim and speeding Aragorn's journey as he sails for Minas Tirith)

And even more obviously, the Eagles. Tolkien specifically says that the Eagles are Manwë's advocates in Middle-earth, providing miraculous aid when all else fails. Without the Eagles, Beren and Lúthien's quest would have failed and Huor would not have got to Gondolin (which then would have prevented Eärendil's success or even meant he was never born). They give crucial aid to Gandalf more than once. The Eagles also help Fingon to save Maedhros, because Manwë "would not wholly abandon the Noldor". Tolkien recognises that the Eagles are "deus ex machina", and in this case, the meaning is quite literal.

Then there are the Istari, envoys of the Valar: while there is proof of only Gandalf's success, even just the efforts of one of the Wizards was enough to bring down Sauron.

As for Ulmo, you could argue that he is responsible for the whole Eärendil and Elwing arc - and that it was a job between him and Manwë. It's Manwë's Eagles that bring Huor to Gondolin, and Ulmo later sends Huor's son Tuor into the hidden city. Tuor and Eärendil both get sea-longing in their hearts. During the flight of the survivors of Gondolin, Eagles are again present and bring up the body of Glorfindel, making you wonder whether they would have interfered more in the Balrog fight if Glorfindel had not stepped up to protect the refugees - and Eärendil, the fated saviour of Middle-earth. Also, Ulmo rescues Elwing when she casts herself into the sea, turning her into a bird so that she can fly to find Eärendil. Water and air and birds keep showing up in the stories of Eärendil and Elwing and if that's not proof of Manwë and Ulmo's plotting, I don't know what is. I mean, it's even said in the first pages of the Silmarillion that they are fast friends and closely allied from the beginning! Eärendil becoming a star also in a weird way even combines the elements of Ulmo, Manwë, and Varda: bearing the Silmaril, Eärendil sails an immortal ship in the sea of heaven and stars, forever as a sign of hope to the Children of Ilúvatar.

What about the other Valar? If we keep in mind that they chiefly work through the elements they represent, their abilities to interfere are limited (and this is a self-imposed limitation clearly). Yavanna's creation of the Ents proves to be a pretty great one in The Two Towers, although you can argue to what degree she is influencing the events. More obviously In Shelob's lair, Sam calls for Varda, and the light of the phial of Galadriel comes alive in his hand and smites the great spider, helping Sam to defeat the monster. Also, during Sam and Frodo's desperate march through the hellscape that is Mordor, Sam yearns for a little bit of light and water to hearten him - and lo and behold, he gets these exact things as if Varda and Ulmo personally delivered.

In other words, the Valar are a lot more active in Middle-earth than they get credit for, and they work in subtle and indirect ways because only then can they make sure they don't accidentally kill a lot of the Children.

[ylieke]

[suriquesse]

for @manweweek. ⤷ day one: family | breath & air

[lime-bucket]

Hey divas can we give the manwë is a doormat for melkor fanon a rest?

Like yeah maybe it wasnt a brain move to free the powerful & probably unstable valar without a strong parole into heaven,& mayyybe that decision was clouded with some brotherly sentiments

But i think sending bigass eagles to scar the dark lord,attack his twisted creations & aid his sworn enemies not once but several times should be enough of an indictment on what manwë felt towards melkor throughout the the story

Or the fact at the end manwe had melkor's legs cut off & thrown to the void & refused his demands for forgiveness,cuz by that time he had no illusions left on his brothers nature

I get manwë isnt that well liked in the fandom like melkor but cmon guys lets use the littlest of media comprehension & not act in fix it AU fics that manwe would have stayed a pushover for melkor or wouldve desired still his companionship