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[alystraea]

Commission for @elamarth-calmagol - Glorfindel and her OC Mallory.

[imoga-pride]

What is the name for a gender that fades away the more you think about it?

sounds like the inverse form of genderfade (it should be noted that genderfade is also a synonym of genderblur and it was recently recoined).

[absynthe--minded]

Here’s a post cataloguing all the instances where it’s either outright said or heavily heavily implied that he died, yeah (citations included)

me: I’m tired of hot takes

also me: I think the biggest reason I don’t accept the published Silm as canon in any form, actually, is because Christopher will just invent entirely new characterizations for people and then unless you read the unedited drafts or the ancillary material you don’t realize he’s totally misrepresented his dad’s characterization choices. There’s two really obvious examples of this and like ten others I can think of immediately. In this essay I will -

[tolkienocweek]

Tolkien OC Week

A fandom event for OCs and underdeveloped characters in Tolkien's world!

This event celebrates both characters of Tolkien's world and our own characters that need more love, by creating and reblogging all kind of fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fanvideos, fancrafts, headcanons, playlists, edits, moodboards etc.

The event is modded by @yellow-faerie, @elamarth-calmagol and @stormxpadme and will take place between 25th August - 31st August 2024 for the fourth year running.

NSFW text entries are allowed and we’ll tag them accordingly when we reblog them, but please put them behind a “read more”.

We'll also be tracking the tag #tolkienocweek during this week!

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Event schedule for 2024:

Day 1 (25th August): World Building

Create a fanwork about an original character, and use them as a jumping off point for worldbuilding. Share a dwarf from the far side of Rhun, consider the existence of an Aina before the creation of Arda, explore Rivendell from the point of view of an outsider, or tell us about the underground punk subculture of Gondolin.

Day 2 (26th August): Canon-OC Relationships

This year, it’s not just about romance. Today, explore a relationship between your OC and a canon character. Your character could be a lover or spouse of someone canonical, lf course, but they could also be a friend, sibling, teacher, servant, fan, or even rival!

Day 3 (27th August): Alternate Universes

Share an OC who isn’t canon compliant at all. Maybe you want to add a fourteenth member of Thorin’s company or give a reborn Celebrimbor children with a surviving and reformed Sauron. Or, maybe you want to do a crossover with your Star Wars OC or let your self-insert narrate a coffee shop AU. Go wild!

Day 4 (28th August): Gaps and Ghosts

Create a fanwork based upon a character that Tolkien either thought up and abandoned, such as Odo Took oe the characters of The New Shadow. Or, create someone he missed creating in the first place, like… um… just about anyone’s mother.

Day 5 (29th August): Non-Humanoid Characters

Middle Earth isn't just elves, Men, hobbits, and dwarves. Today, share a character who is something different entirely: an animal, a dragon, a Maia who doesn't take humanoid form, an ent or huron, or a creature of your own invention.

Day 6 (30th August): Background Characters

This prompt is all about people who are in the background of the action: the low-ranking soldiers, the servants, and the ordinary people living in extraordinary times. Or maybe you want someone who isn't so ordinary, like an advisor in the Council of Elrond who never made it onto the page, or one of the Maiar who sank the Feanorians on the stolen boats. Show us their view of the action!

Day 7 (31st August): Freeform

Did we miss something? Do you have an OC that doesn’t fit into any day, or did you want to do a second fanwork for one of the days? Today, create and share whatever you want, as long as it has to do with original or abandoned characters!

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Since we want to celebrate creations about neglected characters all year long, the mods will occasionally reblog posts and fancreations about OCs and underdeveloped characters. If you would like to see your post on our blog, you're very welcome to tag tolkienocweek. Since tumblr's tagging system is often being faulty, don't hesitate to message us, too!

We are looking forward to see and share all the awesome work you come up with!

[a-dragons-journal]

Sorry if this is a silly question, but regarding these: https://www.tumblr.com/a-dragons-journal/764822893191462912/elamarth-calmagol-boy-am-i-glad-you-asked?source=share

In your opinion, how are these alterhuman? Especially ones like archetropy and hearthomes, I think I'm just not 100% clicking on what makes them not standard humanity things?

Embodying an archetype in your everyday life as a major facet of your identity is absolutely not a standard human experience. Yes, there are humans who do this, but it is not a common or standard thing and many people will probably look at you a little strangely if you try to describe it (especially with more "out-there" archetypes).

Similarly, hearthomes are not a standard human experience either. Yes, everyone's seen a place and briefly yearned for it, but genuinely feeling nostalgic and homesick to the point of physical chest pain for a place you've never been? Having it absorb large parts of your thoughts over the course of years? Getting close to tears (or actually crying) over the knowledge that you'll never physically be there even to visit, in the case of fictional hearthomes? This is not a standard experience. This is an experience that many people will think you a little strange for if you try to describe it to them.

Furthermore, they're alterhuman partially because they arose out of the alterhuman community and its culture. Both of them were coined to be alterhuman terms. This is also true of most of the other terms on that list (the exception being furry lifestylers, but I think we can all agree that walking around on your toes to mimic anthros, fursuiting in daily life, etc. is considered outside society's idea of "normal humanity").

I'm a little brain-foggy right now, and not really sure how to explain it any better; hopefully that helps?

[ruiniel]

Hi there!

I'm a newbie in the tolkien works, I've finished off the hobbit and the lotr books but have no idea where to go next. I've looked at different websites about it but I haven't gotten any clear answers. There's like a million of these books and I feel so lost!

I figured that as a long time fan that you'd know the answers to this question if it's not too much of a bother.

Thanks in advance no pressure!

Augh, anon! This is one of the best things to ask of someone with a lifelong interest in this universe.

I WILL get back to you on this, but.

Was thinking (midnight brain) could we make it a group effort? It feels as though seeing different perspectives from other people in the fandom would be of help here, and since I do want this covered I'm calling on mutuals and followers in the Tolkien fandom.

Please if you deem, I do encourage people to add to this.

Let me try tagging (there are legit so many of us): @arofili @actual-bill-potts @eveningalchemist @goschatewabn @cuarthol @melestasflight @thelordofgifs @outofangband @thegreatstrongbow @potatoobsessed999 @hennethgalad @jamcake-muses @i-did-not-mean-to @glorf1ndel @z-h-i-e @verecunda @naryaflame @mirkwood-hr-department @saurons-pr-department @welcomingdisaster @hirazuki @nuredhel @effervescentdragon @searchingforserendipity25 @cilil @hhimring @chrissystriped @yuzukimist @edensrose @awesome-bluehair-universe @swanmaids @herinke @celebbun @auntieaugury @auroramama @puelhathnofury @kiatheinsomniac @eilinelsghost @asianbutnotjapanese @i-gwarth @batsyforyou @aprilertuileviresse @fishing4stars @elamarth-calmagol @zeladanial @silmarillionwritersguild @silmarillionno @solmarillion @samarqqand @sallysavestheday+ anyone else and ALL the Tolkien visual artists who see this and I forgot to mention (love you all, so many) if you have the inclination to add your journey/experience/recommendations? Anything, we have a good topic here.

[echo-bleu]

Unsure if you already have enough disability pride asks but since Evi showed me LOTR I wanted to add mine to the mix 💕 No worries if you don't get to finishing it!

I was thinking HOH Galadriel, perhaps art of her signing! I read it in a fic I can't remember the name of 💙

[ID: @elamarth-calmagol asked: I don't know if you're still doing disability asks, but could you draw some elves conversing in sign language? I'm feeling Elrond and Celebrian, where Celebrian is deaf and Elrond learned the language to talk to her, but anyone is fine if that doesn't fit your headcanons.]

Thank you both for sending prompts! Since they were similar/easily connected, I decided to make it a two-parter. Galadriel teaching little Celebrían how to sign "silver" and Celebrían in turn teach little Arwen (and Elrond, but Elrond already signs fluently at this point) how to sign "star". Both signs are based on the French Sign Language ones, since that's the one I know a little of.

[ID: digital pencil sketch of Galadriel and little Celebrían sitting side by side on a bench. Galadriel is doing a sign with her hands in fists with the thumbs out, and Celebrían is imitating her, her tongue pocking out. The word "silver" is written underneath.]

[ID: Digital sketch of Elrond and Celebrían sitting cross-legged across from each other, with little Arwen in Elrond's lap. Celebrían, seen from the back, is doing a sign by crossing the index and pointer fingers of both hands. Arwen is imitating her, while Elrond is watching. The word "star" is written underneath.]

In both cases, it's only a still of a moving sign, and the kids aren't signing very accurately, this isn't meant to teach you any sign language.

Disabled characters series

[gellalaer]

Share the first line of ten of your most recent fanfics and then tag ten people.

Don't have ten? Not to worry, just share what you have.

I was tagged by two super authors, @spiced-wine-fic and @sallysavestheday Thank you!

1. “Is this it?” Aegnor asked with an air of excitement.

2. Gellalaer emptied the contents of a small drawstring bag onto her workbench. Gems of all colors and sizes tumbled onto the scrap of velvet she had placed there.

3. “I think right here will do,” said Feanor, shrugging off his backpack and un-stoppering the lid to his water skin. 

4. A cool wind rushed into the King’s pavilion, rustling papers and bringing with it the scent of salt and sea as the flaps were lifted by a guard and a figure entered.

5. Idhren placed a decorative dish filled with sumptuous roasted vegetables drizzling with honey on the dining table. She stepped back to run an appraising eye over the feast she had laid out for Prince Ereinion’s homecoming.

6. The day was warm and a little on the muggy side. It was one of the first of a three month campaign that would see Tirion swelter. 

7. There was a chill to the brisk sea breeze that gusted in off the Belegaer, playfully lifting Eärwen’s silver hair and blowing it across her face. 

8. The wind struck him in the face, leaving a sting not with its chill but with its ferocity and strength as he strode the cliffs above the grinding ice next to his brother-in-law Fingolfin.

9. Music and laughter wafted down the path towards Celebrimbor. It was such a welcome sound and took him back to happier times in Himlad.

10. “One, two, three…,” Fëanor counted. Then he cursed, realising one of his sons was missing. He sighed heavily, running a hand down his face in utter frustration.

Tagging. @grundyscribbling @idrilsscribe @herinke9 @wren-of-the-woods @morgulscribe @starspray @elamarth-calmagol @independence1776 @unnamedelement @antares0606

Phew!

I know I go overboard on posting just one sentence, but I can't help myself. I feel some of them need a bit of context.

[a-startup-of-ferrets]

I posted 452 times in 2022

348 posts created (77%)

104 posts reblogged (23%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@i-am-fert

@elamarth-calmagol

@hansel-and-grendel

@peanut-butter-and-theatre

@a-startup-of-ferrets

I tagged 450 of my posts in 2022

#ferrets - 397 posts

#ferts - 390 posts

#image - 383 posts

#mine - 356 posts

#tchaikovsky the ferret - 277 posts

#beethoven the ferret - 226 posts

#sleeping - 189 posts

#reblog - 90 posts

#playtime - 82 posts

#video - 53 posts

Longest Tag: 22 characters

#tchaikovsky the ferret

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Well, at least my "ferret proof" trash can worked for a year and a half.

Sigh.

134 notes - Posted June 2, 2022

#4

All tuckered out from a busy morning of ferreting

144 notes - Posted November 17, 2022

#3

It's ferret day! I've officially had these two stinky boys for two years!

See the full post

153 notes - Posted November 11, 2022

#2

Boyfriend's daily report from my time in Iceland: "Both extracted, unrepentant, from inside your mattress."

168 notes - Posted August 11, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Wet Weasel Wednesday

See the full post

305 notes - Posted December 7, 2022

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[fluffylandshark]

I'm sorry @elamarth-calmagol that our borders aren't perfect fucking straight like in post colonial nations. You see our borders grew naturally instead of being drawn on maps using a pencil by people who had no business drawing borders there. Those people were europeans too, lazy ones who didn't care about the massive fucking mess that results from straight borders.

Honey I Shrunk La France

[tolkienocweek]

Tolkien OC Week

A fandom event for OCs and underdeveloped characters in Tolkien's world!

This event celebrates both characters of Tolkien's world and our own characters that need more love, by creating and reblogging all kind of fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fanvideos, fancrafts, headcanons, playlists, edits, moodboards etc.

The event is modded by @yellow-faerie, @elamarth-calmagol and @stormxpadme and will take place between 21st August - 27th August 2023 for the third year running.

NSFW text entries are allowed and we’ll tag them accordingly when we reblog them, but please put them behind a “read more”.

We'll also be tracking the tag #tolkienocweek during this week!

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Event schedule for 2023:

Day 1 (21st August): Family members

Tolkien often neglects to mention the family members of major characters: for example, leaving both Celebrimbor and Fili and Kili with only one named parent. In others cases, such as Bilbo's family tree, he gives a name and nothing else. Share a character who fills in a gap in a family tree, or create a speculative family member, such as siblings for Legolas.

Day 2 (22nd August): The Bad Guys

Share an OC who belongs to the wrong side of the story, whether they're knowingly evil, misguided, or just doing their job. Maybe they're an orc or a balrog, an unrepentant kinslayer, a Southron or Easterling soldier, or one of the hobbits who worked with Saruman in the Shire. Explore their life and point of view and why they went down the path they did.

Day 3 (23rd August): Diversity

Share an OC who adds diversity to Tolkien’s world, whether it is their race, gender, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, or another characteristic.

Day 4 (24th August): Forgotten Characters

As Tolkien created his stories, he abandoned some characters, such as Eriol the Mariner, and changed major characteristics of others, such as the idea that Erestor was a half-elven relative of Elrond. Other characters, such as the Dunedain chieftains fostered by Elrond before Aragorn, are forgotten by the fandom. Create a fanwork focusing on one of these forgotten characters or characterizations.

Day 5 (25th August): Shipping

Share an OC that you ship with a canon character. It could be a marriage, queerplatonic relationship, or one-night stand, canon compliant or AU, or any other sort of ship you want!

Day 6 (26th August): Alternate Universes

Share an OC who couldn’t be part of the canonical story, such as Boromir's child in an "everyone lives" scenario, a roommate or professor in a college AU, or a dimension-hopping "tenth walker".

Day 7 (27th August): Freeform

Did you have someone who doesn’t fit any prompts, or too many characters for one of them? Today, share any OC that you want.

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Since we want to celebrate creations about neglected characters all year long, the mods will occasionally reblog posts and fancreations about OCs and underdeveloped characters. If you would like to see your post on our blog, you're very welcome to tag tolkienocweek. Since tumblr's tagging system is often being faulty, don't hesitate to message us, too!

We are looking forward to see and share all the awesome work you come up with!

[fencesandfrogs]

@elamarth-calmagol replied to your post “Anon hold on your ask is going thru peer review bc...”:

From what I've heard you have a pretty messed up relationship. Not to the point that i think you should cut her out of your lufe or something, but enough that you should know it's not normal. Also, like I said last time, she can ne a good person and not a good parent. You seem adament that she's a good person at heart, and I have no reason to disbelieve that. But it doesnt mean she's treating you the right way.

​:( yeah people keep telling me it's messed up and i keep talking about how it's messed up but i'm like. no it's not.

kind-of-jokingness-aside, i rly appreciate outside pov here. i'm feeling very allegory of the cave about this. especially bc the part that's like. the sunlight hurts. that's me when people r nice to me.

and a big feeling right now is this sense that like. idk i'm being overdramatic feeding on attention idk.

right now my goal is to have a good relationship with my mom. for a while it was going rly well and we weren't fighting at all which was nice and i wanted to keep that and now things are tense again and i'm not rly sure how things happened? just like. whoops they were good and now they're not sorry.

i dunno, i want u to know i appreciate this reply! i know i get rambly on these bc i start thinking which makes me sad which is a cycle so b4 i get too far into it i appreciate it.

i feel kind of like. "my mom is a good mom" feels like a fact of life, the way snow is cold. it's definitional. snow is cold. it's frozen water. if it gets too warm it melts. it can't be warm.

and so if everyone is saying my mom isn't a good mom, or even that she's not doing things right/making mistakes/shouldn't do X, then i must be misrepresenting her. because she is a good mom.

i read over some of the posts i've written and they set off the "lie" button in my brain but i don't know how to make them more true. other than the fact that i use yell as a shorthand for something that doesn't rly have a name. like ok maybe i could emphasize more that the only outcome here isn't getting yelled at, i'm just fixating on that bc i really don't want it to happen. i think i've tried to be clear about that, but it's not like this is definite. she might be mad, she might not be. i don't know. i am just trying to avoid her being mad at me.

n i think this whole discussion started because i talked about how i was sending her videos she would think r funny to put her in a good mood and then there was voting and now idk where we stand. and we haven't meaningfully talked since she called me on the phone and that's a whole can of worms i'm not opening right now.

but the point is i feel like if everyone is saying all this, i must be misrepresenting her. but i don't know how to represent her better.

and i don't really know where that leaves me.

[bunjywunjy]

So I asked for another ferret fact a while ago and never got a response. I'm just wondering: are your asks backed up, or did you run out of ferret facts, or did Tumblr eat it, or was it all actually a dream and I never sent it at all? Thanks!

unfortunately I get WAYYYY more asks than I can ever answer, so I prioritize the ones I don’t have to do much research for! or sometimes I forget, I’m only mortal. I do go back into the archive on slow days though, so your ask may appear again at some point.

[falle-ness]

@elamarth-calmagol yeah, yeah.

Every damn night the air strike siren wails and they shell our cities. But of course, sure, the Russian soldiers do not agree with the war, Karen.

If they don't agree with the war, they can surrender or just leave us the fuck alone.

i didnt saw one of these so here is the news

[imoga-pride]

This is probably a weird one, but last night I came up with a xenogender in a dream? I don't know if it already exists or if I genuinely came up with it on my own. Also I swear I'd worded it better in my dream. But it's puzzlegender, like jigsaw puzzles, and it's "a gender that seems chaotic and messy at first, but becomes cohesive when you work on it or think about it for a while." Which sounds kind of cool to me.

nice. I could think of the original meaning of audiogender, but nothing specifically like this.

[alystraea]

Hi! Two things. 1) You're probably my favorite fanartist (though I think I've said that before) and 2) Is it okay to use your works for stimboards, moodboards, etc? With credit, obviously. I wanted to request a stimboard based on the Golden Summer art from @outofangband but they wanted your permission first. (You can message me back if you don't want this on your blog as an ask.)

1) Hey, thank you! *blush* 2) Sure, please go ahead - I love the idea. Thanks so much, @elamarth-calmagol and @outofangband!