#it's me. nereb and dungalef. vagueposting. lmao

[nereb-and-dungalef]

Oml I hate Amazon as much as anyone but "fake fans joining from Amazon is the reason people ship Silvergifting" is just so wrong on so many levels

Firstly, on this blog we ship Sauron with anyone we want please and thank you 👍

Even with the Amazon series, which doesn't even adapt the Silm, I highly doubt there even are any fake Silmarillion fans on Tumblr, esp with the fandom (at least as it was when I first joined it) being barely comprehensible even for people who read the damn book

If people are actually joining the fandom for the TV show, good on them. Hopefully they'll realize that the Silmarillion is much richer and more full of meaning than a serialized tv show designed to make an exploitative corporation look good. (I welcome new fans but will always be a Jeff Bezos anti.)

I too was a cringe teenager when I first read the Silmarillion even if it was for more "pure" reasons like uhhhh, impressing my crush who was really into LotR. The Russingon fanfic I wrote was hilariously incompliant with canon, I really didn't know shit, and even having been in the fandom for going on six years, there are still characters whose names I have to look up. I don't think you could find anyone who actually knows Everything About Tolkien's Universe, literally even Christopher Tolkien got a ton of flack for mistakes in the published Silmarillion. So yeah, imo the only thing required to be a True Silmarillion Fan is to just, y'know, enjoy the Silmarillion.

And that includes shipping problematic ships for whatever reason, because it's fun and juicy, because it's angsty and sad, because you're interested in the implications, because you wanna fuck Sauron personally, whatever, you are literally allowed to imagine toxic relationships existing lmao?? Pretty off the wall that anyone would try to call Silvergifting shippers fake fans, people have been shipping that at least for longer than I've been in the fandom.

TL;DR Amazon is bad, new fans are good, ship whoever you want with Sauron, gatekeeping is stupid, uh, go watch the Finrod and Lay of Leithian rock operas they're really good, yeah