#elvenkin

[nevui-penim-miruvorrr]

Eöl and BabyMaeglin!

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[sea-glass-siren]

If you're seeing this, your name has been stolen. I don't make the rules.

[once-divine-beast]

✨about me✨

i thought i should make an introduction post telling you guys about who i am/was so here is some information about me :)

currently i am a 19 year old human but i used to be a fae god of animals (particularly "unwanted" animals [ex rats, mice, snakes, opossums]), music, theater, abandoned places, the fall and spring, androgyny, and anything whimsical and fun. i was a shapeshifting fae who could change into any animal, i could also shift what age i looked. For the most part i took the form of a three tailed fox.

i was not a very commonly worshipped god but my followers were very loyal and devoted, because i was a god of unwanted animals and abandoned places i tended to attract people who felt unwanted or abandoned. some of the offerings i was often given were sweets, perfume, pretty rocks, jewelry, bells, raw meat, and people would also perform for me (songs or plays and stuff like that).

unfortunately i haven't remembered my past name yet, but in the meantime feel free to call me Faegan.

:)

[elfcultureis]

elf culture is making me a special little cup o tea and sharing it with the tree outside my window

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[elluendifad]

I havent been able to find the linde elimonte thing you mentioned that you sing as part of practice do you have a link?

Linde elenlote, or song of the starflower,(link to info on trientalis borealis, the starflower itself) maps the points of the seven pointed star. like most ritual stars, you can map several different things to it. we primarily map first the weekdays, then the directions. the valar in pairs are linked to and thereby called by intoning the directions. there are some slight differences in the practice of linde elenlote depending on who is doing it/which org they learned it from. i will link both esp/michel de cygne and t-e/wal's videos on this.

esp weekdays video

esp directions video

t-e/wal open enderi ritual video starting at 17 minutes. very long but gives you an idea on how people have been doing this since the 90s. (they have also published lots of videos over the years and i recommend you go dig around in them and have fun! i would love to hear what resonates with you and what doesn't along your journey.) i have some personal practice differences, in that i intone differently for the directions. i do them in a slightly different order, as well, as if i were following a 7 pointed star starting at the top. i also don't call eru's name before beginning, i breathe with the all instead. i will usually only call ea at the end if i am specifically doing a spell or working power, not for just worship.

so this can essentially be used for both maps. i gave each of these a sorta arbitrary color. yellow- east/rómen, varda and manwe, wednesday/heavensday/menelya indigo- above/vilya, este and irmo, monday/moonday/isilya green- within/center/enda, vána and orome, saturday/starsday/elenya teal- below/undo, nienna and ulmo, thursday/seasday/earenya red- south/hyarmen, yavanna and aule, tuesday/treesday/aldúya orange- west/númen, vaire and námo, sunday/anarya purple- north/formen, nessa and tulkas, friday/powersday/valanya so weekday intoning would go green, orange, indigo, red, yellow, teal, purple, return to green but intone arda. directions intoning goes yellow, teal, purple, green, orange, indigo, red, return to yellow but intone illúve. you'll generally also turn yourself or at least your hand the corresponding physical direction for each point.

you can do like t-e/wal does in their rituals and stop to say something to each vala pair at each direction, but i will usually save this for the end when i give an offering and only to the valar of the holiday, month, and day. not everybody every time.

[noidontneedahand]

During these past months there have been ups and downs and luckily an increase in my mental health and I kinfirmed Maedhros even more to the point in which I can safely say I’m a Maedhros IRL

[ithriel-coins]

home <3 a self indulgent elfkin stimboard !

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[elfkin-culture-is]

elfkin culture is wearing pointy ears and random people asking if you are a real elf, to which you can correctly respond "yes :)"

elfkin culture is random small children getting very excited that they get to meet a real elf in person!

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[theelven-forest]

How am I to deal with all these memories, all these feelings, shifts both phantom and psychological, the likes, the hates, the urges to do hobbies i no longer can so?

How am I to deal with handfuls of lives stuffed to the brim into one body? How am I to live feeling torn apart longing for any of the places better than this one that I once called home?

Im hanging by a thread trying to manage eons of sorrows, loves, neglect, hatred, trauma, and emotions into one lifetime. Im at my tipping point, how am I to hang on any longer when even just one memory of one life I’ve lived brings me to tears. I cannot cope with this heartache much longer all I wish is to return home, to any of my homes but this one.

I do not wish this sorrow upon anyone. I feel for you, my friends and kin, if you do and know there are more out there dealing with sorrows much like your own.

[bappledilk]

Nothing compares to the feeling of sitting outside in the rain.  The sound, the smell, the cool humidity and occasional breeze, seeing the small splashes of the raindrops as they hit the ground.  I love everything about it, it makes me feel at peace.

[a-raven-shaped-void]

I am homesick for a place only described in fantasy

[nevui-penim-miruvorrr]

Maeglin as a child

COMISSIONS OPEN !

10$-ONE character CHEST UP with color( every fandom, oc’s, etc)

15$ ONE character WAIST UP with color

20$ TWO  characters CHEST UP with color( every fandom, oc’s, etc)

25$ TWO characters WAIST UP with COLOR

30$-ONE character  FULL BODY WITH COLOR

50$-TWO characters  FULL BODY   with COLOR

60$-i don’t want put the word with nsxx or i will be flagged lol  + COLOR + FULL BODY  

i don’t do, mechas,background or armors too complicated

*only paypal

[sea-glass-siren]

For any elfkin or elvenkind out there, how did you figure out that's what you were?

[citizenoftmrrwlnd]

stimboard for : a christmas elf requested by @sugarcookiied

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[elfcultureis]

Elven culture is hating how pretentious and holier-than-thou some other elves are. Get over yourselves. Please. You are not superior to everyone else just because you look down on and judge everyone else for not being "elven enough". You too are in a human body right now, friends.

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[elluendifad]

what do you think are good resources for someone who wants to get into Elf Religion?

there's quite a lot floating around out there, luckily! most of the effort comes in hunting it down and winnowing out what works best for you! there's also lots and lots of mixed or multi-source elf stuff out there, i just work primarily with tolkien sourced stuff. i can't comment much on other sources, so what i list here will be tolkien based or tolkien adjacent at the least! reading the fullness of the legendarium, not just the silm but also HoME and other texts, will also help you find what feels right.

so before we get to the long stuff, i really recommend you go through t-e/wal's website first and look at the statement of faith, valar page, and loa page. that's a pretty good summary of the most basic parts as far as belief goes. practice is something you can make unique to you! t-e/wal has a very modern-festival-paganism vibe to their rituals. i-v is doing modern western 'shamanism' (quotes bc that is a stolen name and i don't condone its use, but the alternative 'imaginal gnosis' is unwieldy and not commonly used).

if you already have your own favorite magical practices, you could find ways to adapt them to the loa and the valar! have fun with it! some of us do lots of magic, some of us mostly do worship. it can be as complicated or as simple as you want. this list comes from a collection i have been working on since 2022 and lists both orgs and individuals posting their own experiences.

T-e or wal : a shortening for Tie Eldalieva which changed its name to Way of Arda's Lore in 2024, which is a religious organization based in the usa for tolkien religionists. They (meaning a few of their loremasters with high overlap wth I-v) have worked on the loa and astronomy of the legendarium extensively. their resources are great and pretty universally used and tweaked by tolkien spiritualists of all kinds.

main website link https://elvenspirituality.com/

facebook , old name and older content https://www.facebook.com/elvenspirituality

facebook, new name and newer content https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559024296013

youtube link https://www.youtube.com/@elvenspiritualpath

they currently have years of public virtual rituals and discussions on essays or white papers written by their lore masters. their membership overlap with i-v means i-v lore masters will sometimes appear in their videos.

I-v : a shortening for Ilsalunte Valion, a gnostic group closely related to T-e but with different motivations which has done a lot of the imaginal work and loremastery to make tolkien religion a rich possibility for many people. Their approach is less public, but deeper and more personal, than T-e. they focus a lot on gnosis and meditative exploration and use different ritual techniques than t-e/wal.

ilsalunte-valion main website http://westofwest.org/

the main feature is the forum, which you will need to register as a member to see most of.

Dave, a founding member and loremaster of both t-e/wal and i-v has a collection of more recent writing that is relevant to both organizations and people curious about them. found here https://hackmd.io/@EriolElwin/rJrwhaDaR

hewal : a shortening for High Elven Wisdom and Love, which is the youtube channel of Kmberiel Eventide. Kimber-el/Kimberel/Kimberiel is a starseed and mystic, and overlaps with tolkien religion enough that she joined and assisted T-e in getting legal religious recognition before parting and going her own way again.

while hewal has been inactive for several years, some of her videos are tolkien-specific and she made and posted the vala-specific informational videos for t-e/wal when she joined them. in those videos (still on t-e/wal's youtube and i think on hers as well) she goes through each mention of the vala in the legendarium texts book by book. this can be very helpful for someone that isn't absorbing the same summaries from the tolkien gateway website.

hewal youtube tolkien specific playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbW2r96baVJy1_ItxeeuFKrfde3HdgAH8

she has tolkien relevant videos not in that playlist so make sure to snoop around.

ES : a shortening for Elven Scholar, which is the youtube channel for Earendil Spindelilus, who was once of T-e but does his own work for loremastery and runs an online school. looks like he stopped posting youtube videos about a year ago, but his facebook group and school still have some activity.

youtube channel here https://www.youtube.com/@ElvenScholarMusings

his online school http://www.elvenscholar.org/

warning: there are no state or federal agencies that license herbalism in the united states. his claims that his courses will award you the title 'certified herbalist' are vanity titles only. all those interested in herbalism should thoroughly investigate the legal licensure status of herbalism, naturopathy, and nutrition and dietetics for their nation and state. (afair naturopathy and nutrition/dietetics are licensed in the usa and cannot be practiced without legal license.) if your nation and state has no licensure process for herbalism, look for the self-regulatory bodies developed by professionals of that field and learn the base standards of education assumed for that field by that body. in the united states, this would be the american herbalists' guild and the american botanical council.

this last one is a little controversial in that alyras was formerly a founder and treasurer of t-e, and due to usa incorporation laws, was considered the only remaining board member of t-e when they ousted her, which is the reason t-e had to change their name to wal legally. i don't understand the situation but the tea is spilled lmao. i do still use and enjoy her reference book with lots of modification and ignoring what i dont care for. she also uses ai generated images for her website, which really rubs me the wrong way. i think her urls being so visually similar to t-e/wal's is on purpose.

her work is very new age and also centered in music. i do enjoy the tambour drones a lot for meditation!

her org website https://yanaeldalieva.org/about.html

there should be a link for her handbook somewhere in there, which is a gift in exchange for donation. dm me if you need help finding it, as the website has been re-arranged since i last saw it.

alyras/yana eldalieva facebook https://www.facebook.com/elvenspiritualpath

alyras youtube https://www.youtube.com/@elvenspiritualpathmusic/videos