#lord of the rings ships

[ermbabyel]

Update & new matchup rules~!

Hello everyone~! I took such a long hiatus due to personal reasons, but recently I’ve missed doing ships! My interests have changed and I would like to focus on those interests for now. So…ships are open!

I will finish the ships I’ve had in my inbox, but after that I’m doing a total cleanse and starting new. I apologize to those who have already sent me requests, but it’s been overwhelming to catch up. Although, you can still send your ship through my ask box!

With that being said, here’s the new rules for matchups/shipping

Personality ships…send in the following information…

Your name/nickname

Age

Sexuality

Pronouns

Preferred age range for your ship

Likes/dislikes

Hobbies

Love languages

Ideal type

A summery of your personality

astrology sign

Aesthetic/style

Anything else you can think of

These ships will also be exchanged ships/matchups as said above

Please make this ship as detailed as you can! The more details, the better! For this ship I will include a summary of your relationship, a few headcanons and what they love about you the most!

Only two fandoms for this ship/matchup please~

Fandom list…

Lord of the rings/the hobbit

Demon slayer

JJK

MHA

Hazbin Hotel

Mystic messenger

Obey Me

Stardew Valley

Stray kids

Ateez

I will add more when I feel more comfortable~

I’m also open to exchanges! Just reach out to me through dm’s or my ask~! :3

Thank you so much and I’ll look forward to doing your ship~! 💜

[sillylotrpolls]

Every now and then I get asked about ships, and I usually avoid the question both because I think it's obvious what will win and because "ship wars" just aren't fun. But, fine. Just this once, in honor of Valentine's Day, ~let the ship wars rage~. Hopefully no one sails too far west and triggers the sinking of Númenor.

[rohirriiim]

Miranda Otto as Éowyn and Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS 2002 | dir. Peter Jackson

[unavidas]

a soft celedriel moment 🌿

[velvet4510]

The Eagles saved Fingon & Maedhros from peril.

Then the Eagles saved Beren & Lúthien from peril.

Then the Eagles saved Bilbo & Thorin from peril.

Then the Eagles saved Frodo & Sam from peril.

The Eagles are actually Middle-earth’s first-rate matchmakers.

[zishu-arts]

owie my hand hurts from drawing these OKAY SO:

chodark au where chosen is. dragon hybrid and dark is an overworked researcher who accidentally found her

[thehouroftwilight]

x i will

[sigmalaussene]

Guess what I did

my art

[mlmshipbracket]

ROUND 5: POLL #1 - Finals!

Gigolas art by alba_r_art on instagram

ROUND 5 ALL POLLS [HERE]

PROPAGANDA BELOW

Legolas Greanleaf/Gimli son of Gloin:

Any knife ear who has enough taste to pick a dwarf can’t be that bad and they're both the best from their respective LOTR races

Propaganda by @bowlofstars (tags) [HERE]

Propaganda by @lotreaux (tags) and @shittierpost (screenshot reply) [HERE]

Phoenix Wright/Miles Edgeworth:

One of the best examples of friends to strangers to “enemies” to lovers. Despite being technically enemies they still help each other through the game. The way they talk to each other is extremely telling of their relationship. You can really just feel the tension between these two. The fact Phoenix becomes a lawyer just to have a chance at seeing Edgeworth again(after knowing him for like a few months when they were kids).The whole “unnecessary feelings” line Edgeworth gives. The unwavering trust Phoenix puts in Edgeworth through the last case of the game.

[theweeklydiscourse]

I’m sick of people passing off patronizing and condescending commentary about how naive and impressionable women are as useful and educational. These people will base their analysis of fiction on sexist notions about how easily women are “tempted “ by malevolent villains and then act as if that’s some revolutionary take. They’ll unironically construe the narrative in a way that takes away all agency from the female heroine and frame her decisions as entirely the result of the villain’s manipulation.

They wring their hands about how dangerous it is for women to be exposed to these stories and moan about how terrible it is that hot villains appeal to the “baser instincts” and tempt female viewers further (Yes, I actually saw someone make this argument) It’s truly bizarre to see people agreeing with such patronizingly sexist rhetoric and saying things like “I miss the days when villain romances were cautionary tales and not encouraged.” As if women thirsting after attractive fictional villains is some epidemic that threatens society.

It’s especially irritating when women are the ones saying these things. They want to believe that they are a rare exception that, unlike those other brainless girls, can understand that liking hot villains will threaten their morals and lead them astray…OH THE HORROR!! Please save your dramatic preaching for the next purity conference and stop pretending that your sanctimonious commentary has any substance whatsoever.

[felix-krain]

in honor of the countless times this guy kicked my ass (wym I was underleveled???? lies.)

(sketch version under cut)

[leslaras-art]

Love wins 🤎

[lissomelace]

THE EUROPA CLIPPER LAUNCHED THIS MORNING, AND I AM SO NOT NORMAL ABOUT IT!!!!!

Space is so fucking awesome. We're headed to one of JUPITER'S MOONS!

Every time a launch happens, it makes the latent space enthusiast in the back of my brain jump up and down. It also derailed all my plans for today. I did have plans.

Instead, someone made one comment about how I could now maybe make mission patches on my embroidery machine, and the space thing crossed over with my current hyperfixation (silm) to produce THIS:

Mission patch for the launch of Gil-Estel! A bit messy, but a good place to start!

Design and linguistics details under the cut, because I put WAY too much thought into it and now must talk SOMEONE's ear off about it. Feel free to ignore this bit:

So, to start: Elvish NASA. I chose to call them Vardildi Elengolmo Vilciryamoyë, or VEV. The Followers of Varda, Astronomers and Astronauts. This could very much be totally wrong. Vardildi is Varda+the suffix used in Yavannildi, the followers of Yavanna. Elengolmo comes from the coined word for astronomer, Elengolmë (star-lore), with the -o suffix from nolmo, wise person. Vilciryamoyë takes the vil- from the root of vilya, meaning air, sky. ciryamo is mariner, and yë is the suffix added to the second word meaning 'and'. (I may be very, VERY wrong on this! If anyone has better ideas, I very much welcome input/guidance/constructive criticism)

So I stuck the tengwar for this on either side of the patch. (None of the tengwar is all that legible, though, I'm working on getting that sorted out) Most NASA mission patches don't actually have NASA on them, but I put it on anyway. Here is the tengwar and the start of a logo I made an attempt at (the tehta is supposed to be a shooting star, but that did NOT come through clearly in the embroidery [because it's tiny]):

(Probably going to try to make an elvish NASA patch before too long, honestly)

Most NASA patches (from research I did with great self-restraint here) have the (last) names of the astronauts. Not sure if they also have the name of the craft or if that's generally somewhere else, but I put both--Eärendil Ardamírë (his fathername and mothername) are the tengwar at the bottom of the patch, and Vingilotë is written on the keel of the ship. None of these are legible because they are small, and my machine has limits. It's a work in progress. Also I apologize for the bad lighting in the photo.

NASA patches sometimes also have a mission motto. That's the tengwar across the top of the patch here-- aiya Eärendil elenion ancalima, Hail Eärendil, brightest of stars (a common cry among elves and Frodo [when facing Shelob]).

(I half wanted to do something a bit more funny--maybe something like 'Now I have become Venus,' or 'Do I get to come down?' but this was a bit easier since it comes pre-translated into Quenya and tengwar, and also I have no faith in my Quenya translations that are any longer than a word)

The horizon is flat because Númenor exists, in the middle there between the shore of Middle-Earth and a teensy bit of Valinor and the Enchanted Isles.

The design for the Silmaril is sort of taken from the heraldic device Tolkien designed for the Silmarilli (though it isn't clear), and it is rayed with the six-pointed star from Eärendil's device. (I stuck the moon phases from the same source around the edges as well)

This was really fun, even if it might be the silliest thing I've ever made! It definitely needs some workshopping--i don't mind the black lines framing some sections from the background fabric, but I might try turning all the tengwar into lines of stitches instead-the satin columns really are illegible.

I now need to restrain myself from doing some sort of NASA/Astronaut Earendil AU, because it now sounds kind of fun (I do not have the background knowledge for this)

Sources:

NASA patches here: https://www.shopnasa.com/collections/patches

Quenya translations here: https://www.elfdict.com/

Tengwar transcriptions here: https://www.tecendil.com/

And if you want info on the Europa Clipper mission, here: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/europa-clipper

Embroidery digitization done with Embrilliance Stitchartist 1, embroidery done with a Brother SE630 machine. Thread is Brothread Cotton and YLI cotton bobbin thread, with a little sulky rayon on the Silmaril. Cloth is a black linen from Fabric Wholesale Direct.

[angeban]

rewatched two towers and saw the light

[velvet4510]

[peachblossom-odyssey]

Imagining after Durin IV’s death, his kids go through his things and find a little portrait of Elrond that he kept close to his heart, and the portrait ends up being passed down through descendants for whatever reason until it ends up in Gimli’s hands and the first time he shows Legolas around his home, Legolas is like “Um why do you have a portrait of Lord Elrond?” and Gimli is like “A portrait of WHO”