#but the silm overall is actually very lacking in artistic endeavors. i suppose he couldnt find any room next to the angst :/ | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

kanalaure · 10 days ago

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"average artisan has three documented works" factoid actually statistical error. curufinwe feanaro, who lived in formenos & had ten thousand works attributed to him per Year, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

much discussion of curufin "the crafty" never creating anything noteworthy but the fact that we don't have a single canonical named piece of artwork by nerdanel or miriel is like top 10 things i'll fight jirt's reanimated corpse in a car park about

#i do not mean to detract from what you are saying but 1. the memes beckon and 2. i stopped to think about this and--#nerdanel- as mentioned- bupkis. we do get descriptions of her crafts at least. hyper-realistic people and what sounds like abstract art #also as mentioned: curufin is mentioned as the best of the brothers in the forge but we dont even know what type of smithwork he did #also also as mentioned: miriel has the invention of the needle to her name but not what she made with them until she left for vaire's halls #maglor 'the mighty' is the best singer among the noldor but only has *one* song to his name and its the Oh Shit song #daeron does not- to my recollection- have any works attributed to him despite him being named the greatest bard of all time #(while on the subject of singers: elemmire and tinfang barely exist at all and i dont think they're in every draft)#none of cirdan's boats have a name unless you want to count vingilote (which earendil helped with constructing and named)#mahtan has NOTHING attributed to him but a daughter and having a beard even though he's aule's bestie #now there are a *few* attributions:#some of the dwarves- telchar at least- have a dagger or a necklace (group credit). celebrimbor's rings too (prolly bc theyre plot important #but the silm overall is actually very lacking in artistic endeavors. i suppose he couldnt find any room next to the angst :/#(and meanwhile--#feanor: -making the tengwar- -making the palantiri- -making lamps- -making silmarils- -making swords- -writing papers for the lambengolmar-#(also i do think its important to note that galadriel and arwen got credit for their big crafts in the lord of the rings)#silmarillion #silm meta #silm crack #feanorians #finweans #fuck it im not tagging people already in the tags #that'll do

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