#fall of numenor

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Ar-Pharazôn & Tar-Mairon; Zigûr

Still not over Mairon walking around calling himself "King Excellent the Wizard"

While Opals have many positive symbolisms, the Opal are also said to absorb and reflect your feelings and thoughts, then intensify them, directing them back to you. - whether that is good or not is up to you, they are also said to bring unluck to certain people.

[naarisz]

Fall of Númenor team: Ar-Pharazôn, Tar-Míriel, Elendil, Isildur and Sauron.

[4thheorlingas]

The Fall of Númenor

[serene-faerie]

Thinking about the gradual corruption of the Lay of Leithian in late-age Númenor.

The King's Men tell the story of a Beren who is "bewitched" by Lúthien's dancing. He is enamoured not by Lúthien's singing, but by her Elven beauty. They speak of a Beren who rescues Lúthien from her treehouse, stealing her away from Doriath. To the King's Men, Lúthien is a damsel in distress, oppressed by the ways of the evil Elves, and Beren is just a mortal man who "liberates" her. The King's Men erase Beren's genuine love and respect for Lúthien. They get rid of Beren's oath to Thingol. And most of all, they erase Lúthien's agency in the tale; they erase her own brave deeds like fighting Sauron and singing Morgoth to sleep. Instead, they give the credit to Beren alone. At this period, Elves aren't yet completely hated, but they are exoticized and fetishized by the King's Men. And they exoticize Lúthien so much until she is just a submissive Elven princess who is nothing more than a prize for Beren to "win".

The King's Men erase the sacrifice of Finrod Felagund and the ten brave Elves of Nargothrond. They ignore the hunting of Carcharoth, Beren protecting Thingol at the cost of his own life, and Lúthien's pleading song to Námo. To the King's Men, the Quest for the Silmaril ends when Beren takes the Silmaril from Morgoth, then brings it to Thingol and Melian. To the King's Men, Lúthien's immortality was stripped from her by her cruel parents, and she was banished from Doriath for daring to love a mortal man. They erase Lúthien's own choice, they ignore how Thingol and Melian accepted Beren in the end. And fundamentally, the King's Men misunderstand the lesson of the Leithian, that Lúthien chose mortality of her own free will for love.

Under the King's Men, the Lay of Leithian is stripped of everything that made it so beautiful and poignant. It's no longer a story of love and hope, but a story about a submissive Elven princess who runs away with a strong mortal man to escape the tyranny of the Eldar.

But thankfully, the true Lay of Leithian was well-preserved by the Faithful Númenóreans.

[dandexllions]

"You speak ill of the Queen again, it'll be you, suffers an infirmity. Have i made myself plain? Or need we settle this through other means?"

- Valandil, Rings of Power S2

Their relationship was one of the things I really liked about the Númenor storyline. The Queen and her Knight.

After a volcano eruption, Míriel risked her life walking through the flames to rescue Valandil from the rubble. His face was the last thing she saw before she went blind. They sat among the ashes and he held her in his arms. Valandil led his Queen out of that hell, and she held onto his shoulder.

Elendil tells Míriel that Valandil told him prayers ascend for her night and day in the Old Quarter. Valandil wanted Elendil to tell her because he really cared about her.

He would never allow anyone to insult his Queen.

[lena-point]

the stone doesn't even do anything...

[princessfantaghiro]

Waiting, very impatiently, for Sauron!Zigûr 🖤

CREDITS FOR WONDERFUL ❤️@haladrielnation ❤️

[hopeforchanges]

Happy new year ya filthy animals 💗 leaving you on January 1st with a gentle nudge to go read the fall of Numenor, it's a gem.

"relics of positive purposes" is sending me. Tolkien torturing the English language to convince the audience that Sauron is not the ultimate evil in Middle-earth by writing an entire book that can be basically summarized as "hear me out guys".

[tanoraqui]

[kicks open your door fully 2 years after my original post about it] ALRIGHT, TIME FOR THE "CELEBRIMBOR & ANNATAR DESTROY NÚMENOR AS A COUPLE" AU!

The Rise and Fall of Empires

A key lesson of the First Age was: Do NOT, under any circumstances, let a bunch of grief-enraged Noldor onto your continent, particularly not led by the House of Fëanor. The Númenorean Empire has failed to learn from history. (Also the Noldor, particularly the House of Fëanor, have acquired a notable Maia who is...mostly no longer evil. Officially speaking.)

Chapter 1. Pivot Point (A Prologue)

Mairon went to Mount Doom to forge his One Ring and he found that it was…lonely. Control, yes, he needed control, and power, yes, he needed power, because without these he couldn’t create the perfect, orderly world of which he dreamed (his orders, obviously). But it was just…

It had been pleasant, working with the Gwaith-i-Mírdain these last 400 years. It had been a reprise of the glorious company-in-creation that he’d had once upon a time in Aulë’s forges, before he found greater purpose with a greater master. It was disordered, yes, but now and then the hammers struck in time and the ideas shouted across trestle tables clicked together, and a metaphorical butterfly flapped its wings and the world changed.  

And at the center of it was Celebrimbor Curufinion, who was… who was…

[keep reading on ao3]

[galliaestomnis]

[ ... ]"if any mortals have claim to the Ring, it is the men of Numenor, and not Halflings"

Boromir to Frodo, The Fellowship of the Ring, JRR Tolkien

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Tar-Miriel & the Fall of Numenor

This took way too long to finish... (began in October...)

The Ibizan hound is a hunting hound, known for its speed, agility, and adaptability, representing power and resilience, making it an emblem of determination and perseverance. Here it´s lying down with its tail tugged under it and glances up.

The Pharaoh hound is also a hunting hound, used more for small game and hard terrain, it symbolizes a trustworthy companion and shows that justice will fall on those who deserve it. Here it´s looking oblivious to the side joining Miriel in her naivety.

Dogs in ancient Egypt were often associated with the afterlife through Anubis and were thought to act as companions and guides to humans in the afterlife. Both the Ibizan and Pharaoh hounds are rare breeds.

White chrysanthemums sorrow, and Iris for hope.

The scarab on the dagger for the circle of life and rebirth

[heyblue]

[eri-pl]

...because Denethor turned out to be too good. :D

[dandexllions]

"And last of all the mounting wave...took to its bosom Tar-Míriel the Queen, fairer than silver or ivory or pearls. Too late she strove to ascend the steep ways of the Meneltarma to the holy place; for the waters overtook her, and her cry was lost in the roaring of the wind".

- Akallabêth

[tar-thelien]

For science.

[princessfantaghiro]

Eru Ilúvatar to Sauron, after Numenor: