#listen im getting lost in the etymology and shit this is fun i was googling all the names of places i didnt recognize | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

holytrickster · 2 years ago

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the way i started trying to ..start. the silmarillion again and i got so distracted writing my silly little notes in it and then i went down a google rabbit hole about the heraldic devices in it and then about the writing systems that come even before early tengwar and suddenly i look down at the book and I'm not even on the ainulindalë yet 😂

#ooo where is avallónë? oh supposedly the palantír in the tower hills can see the one in the tower of avallónë? SICK #my post #silm #i think this means im enjoying it though #i still dont get why lúthien's device is on the cover beyond..yknow. beren yoinking the silmaril and losing a hand for it #i mean u have the little star thingys around it representing the silmarils from the actual device for the silmarils but i couldnt find anyt #..anything on google for why that specifically as opposed to the actual device for them? i dont have a problem with it yknow im just curi #.. curious. obsessed with the way i phrased that though like ah yes i have beef with jrr tolkien #me reading the children of húrin: im not mad im just disappointed #but in like a tragic way #listen im getting lost in the etymology and shit this is fun i was googling all the names of places i didnt recognize #like #tolkien gateway is dangerous for me bc ill spend so much time just reading #like i was reading abt taliska the other night #or like..i didn't know how freaking close the númenoreans could get without actually beinf able to even reach tol eressëa #like idk i just learn shit all the time? I always think i lnow a lot and then i read about it and im like holy cow ok i understabd why..#..why tolkien scholars are like. a thing actually #like the post abt people arguing whether rohan had bees and then they were like oh shit wait they had mead halls...they had mead...#like can that be me going oh shit the rohirrim have bees

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