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[tlotrgifs]

Lord of the Rings → PSD #59-68  ↳ 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8  - 9 - 10

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[tathrin]

Reblogging again to add @nocompromise-noregrets​‘s tags and the link to the site they mentioned:

#yes this #the twins are always described separately #it's really interesting once you start noticing it #also ansereg.com has compiled all their appearances in canon #i was delighted to discover that site was still there when i came back to the fandom! 

https://ansereg.com/

It's always weird when (some) people talk about the choice of the half-Elven as if they evolve like Pokémon upon choosing their ultimate fates.

Elros didn't become exclusively human. He chose to retain the gift of Men and to be counted among Men as far as that ultimate fate went, but he remained a half-Elf. He didn't gain a beard (even descendants as remote as Aragorn, Boromir, and Faramir can't because of Elros) or most Mannish qualities he didn't already possess and he lived half a millennium.

Elrond chose to be counted among Elves in terms of immortality, but he isn't exclusively an Elf. He's described as both Elf and Man, and as the eldest of Aragorn's people. Elrond's marriage to a full Elf produces peredhel children. Two of them are given names signifying Elf+(human)Man, names which Tolkien translated as "Elf-knight" (in Númenórean Sindarin) and "Elf-Númenórean." Elrond's sons are always distinguished from Elves in LOTR.

Arwen doesn't morph into a human woman when she swears her vows with Aragorn; she still looks like f!Elrond and ageless years afterwards, and she would be very long-lived even if you only counted her married life. She is probably the most emphatically Elvish of any peredhel, but she's still a peredhel. Elwing and Eärendil are, too. Peredhil are peredhil are peredhil.

[dungeoncrawlerr]

could u make whimsical/wizard stamps? lol sorry for the weird request ty

never apologize for giving me an excuse to make wizard stamps.

[patrick-stewart]

Legolas Headers (requested by @glorfindelfinarfin) - 6 headers (640x360) | 4 different border versions under the cut - all versions + 2 extra border options here - please like or reblog if you take one - credit isn’t required but it’s appreciated - requests are open for other headers!

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Arwen

Carcanet - archaic: an ornamental necklace, chain, collar, or headband

Celestial - ethereal, otherworldly

Coalesce - to unite into a whole

Eidolon - ideal

Eyewater - archaic: tears

Fulgent - radiant

Gossamer - extremely light, delicate, or tenuous

Lambent - softly bright or radiant; marked by lightness or brilliance especially of expression

Lavaliere - a pendant on a fine chain that is worn as a necklace

Lilaceous - of or resembling the color lilac

Numinous - appealing to the higher emotions or to the aesthetic sense; spiritual; mysterious

Perenniality - the quality of being persistent, enduring

Pur autre vie - for another's life

Recherché - exquisite; rare

Rivière - a necklace of precious stones

Rosewater - affectedly nice or delicate

Salutiferous - producing a beneficial effect; remedial

Scintillation - rapid changes in the brightness of a celestial body

Troth - loyal or pledged faithfulness; fidelity

Venust - archaic: beautiful, graceful, elegant

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[mushroomates]

what if the real reason the eagles didn’t take frodo to mordor from the get go is because no one bothered reaching out. like i know the real reason but just imagine if it all could have worked out in the end if gandalf had just sent that awkward text (scroll)

frodo: you couldn’t have done this in the first place?????

eagle: i mean, you didn’t ask 🙄💁

[daydreaming-cephalopods]

LOTR/The Hobbit Blinkies

…honestly they’re mostly Legolas blinkies.

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[outofangband]

Sindarin numbers:

Cardinal numbers In order of one to twelve:

Min, tâg, neledh, canad, leben, eneg, odog, tolodh, neder, caen, minib, ýneg

Meneg: thousand 

Minui: First

Tadui: second

Nelui: third

Canthui: fourth

Levnui: fifth

Enchui: sixth

Othui: seventh

Tollui: eighth

Nedrui: ninth

Paenui: tenth

nelchaenen: thirtieth

See also:

arnediad: countless

[physalian]

On eating your “Realism” cake and having it too

Inspired by another post I didn't want to hijack twice.

TL;DR, people are able to suspend their disbelief for many things, but once you invite them to start questioning things, if you have not done the groundwork, your lore might fall apart.

Example I love to use is Cars to Cars 2.

People were not nitpicking how car society works after Cars. It’s a kids movie about anthropomorphic vehicles, and for the most part, it kind of made sense. The courthouse in Radiator Springs was built for vehicles, Doc was a “doctor” but really a fancy mechanic, and the plot was about cars racing, doing car things.

Yeah you could wonder things like, how did they build the buildings? Why do they have both sentient aircraft (the helicopter and blimp) but also planes being piloted by cars (the flyover of the jets above the big race)? But these were negligible background details that didn’t matter to the plot.

Cars didn’t have to be ‘realistic’ and wasn’t pretending to be.

Cars 2 was when people got all up in arms nitpicking the hell out of every little thing, because in this movie, zero thought was given to the worldbuilding beyond “idk it’s earth but with humans instead of cars” except now it matters to the plot.

Why is Mater able to eat wasabi? Why does wasabi exist? Why is there a car pope? Why is there a car queen? How do cars have parents? What was the point of that one car with their eyes in the headlights? Are sentient battleships born or made into a life of combat? Are all commercial planes forced to be pack mules for their whole existence? How does the car class system work? Why do lemons exist?

All of this taking away from the grand prix plot that made much more sense for the universe, instead of the spy movie. Now, to try and solve the mystery and engage with the story, we have to think about all those incongruous details. All those details, the car queen and car pope would have been funny background gags if the movie was just about the grand prix.

It’s still a kids movie, but now with all these details that don’t add up and cannot be ignored. Cars could be enjoyed by everyone. Cars 2 was made for money kids who weren’t supposed to think about all that.

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If you as the author and your story take the tone of “this is for fun don’t think too hard” people will have a good time if they’re entertained and anyone who nitpicks can be met with, well, Dead Dove: What did you expect? It’s exactly what it says on the tin.

You can absolutely make shit up as you go along. I read a book that had dinosaurs on Mars. Why? Because it’s fun. There was a tiny scientific explanation given, but the plot did not rest on how and why these dinosaurs exist on Mars. The story never asked the audience to consider logic, nor did it have its characters questioning the worldbuilding.

You do not have to be “realistic,” in that way, to be good.

But once you start bringing attention to the elephant in the room, you need to have done your homework.

So, example.

I have a novel in which the sun does not shine, permanently, across the entire northern hemisphere of earth. This is fantasy, not sci-fi.

Option one: Ignore all the catastrophic consequences of such an apocalypse. How it works, why it happened, all that noise does not matter to the plot or the characters. No one ever questions it, no one’s choices ever depend on it. It’s just a fun aesthetic choice, in the same way that animals can talk to humans in Disney movies and no one questions it. Why and how they can talk does not matter, only that they can and we are now entertained by Mushu’s antics.

Option two: Okay, so I’ve taken the sun away from half the planet. I now need to think about the following: How does that affect the weather for the other half? What happens to all the plants and animals that lived in the North? How would one survive in that wasteland without easy access to food? What food could grow there without sunlight? By what other means can I get nutrients for plants and animals without sunlight, so people can eat, so communities can exist?

I went with option two. The plot of the book is very much tied to this lack of sunlight and the hazardous environment the characters are stuck in. The characters are wondering how it works and how they can overcome it constantly. I did my homework, I gave them a way to survive and even thrive up there. I am thus calling this post-apocalyptic setting “realistic”.

It’s still fantasy, so my explanation is still “because magic”, where the sun isn’t gone it’s just being blocked by a big magic blanket, to put it simply, but the consequences are based in realism. That way, my audience can follow along and understand how the world works and anticipate why characters do the things they do in their environment.

So if a geologist or climatologist reads my book and goes “um actually” and they point out that I’m wrong, I have to own that. I have to say “yeah I didn’t consider that, it’s a good point, but I can’t change the manuscript so to enjoy the book, try not to think about it.”

What I cannot do is protest all criticisms of my “realism” by going “it’s fantasy you’re not supposed to take it seriously” while turning around and also saying how smart I am and how clever and authentic my worldbuilding is.

Can’t eat your realism cake and have it too.

And this is only talking about the lore. I haven’t even touched escapist fantasy relationships.

A more famous example: Gandalf’s magic in Lord of the Rings.

Have not read the books in a hot minute so I’m referencing the movies as I’m more familiar with them.

Gandalf is a wizard. He can do an unexplained number of spells pretty much as the plot demands. What he cannot do is never given a hard limit, which tends to break most magic systems.

And yet. “Why didn’t Gandalf save the day?” isn’t a question that destroys the story.

Gandalf is a shepherd, not the hero. He can lead the race of Men to water, but he can’t make them drink. If he came in and started forcing all the power-hungry men to sit down, shut up, and cooperate, what magic Gandalf can and cannot do would be paramount to understanding the story. He can only nudge people in what he thinks is the right direction, but the choice to act is up to them.

Which is pretty heavily implied throughout the films.

As for his magic, Gandalf both never wins without consequence, and isn’t an aggressive character who resorts to his magic at every turn.

He took down the Balrog, but the Balrog got him, too

He warded off the nazgul with the big light beam outside Minas Tirith, but a lot of Gondorian soldiers still died, and he didn’t do any damage to the fellbeasts

He likes fun times and magic tricks, like the fireworks, more than spells for combat

He’s forgetful, like with the password to the door of Moria

He is not all-powerful

All this means that in any life or death situation, the weight of the plot does not rest solely on his shoulders.

So Tolkein isn’t “realistic” in that he consulted physicists about every little thing, but he’s “realistic” in that all the worldbuilding decisions and lore realistically fit the story. The choices of the characters, the behaviors of the different kingdoms, the perspectives of the different races all make sense for the world they live in.

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It is nearly impossible, as a lone writer, to cover every potential plot hole that a reader could point out. It’s fiction, after all, and sometimes characters make choices because that’s what’s entertaining and the other option of “just go home” or “X did this because they forgot Y” is not entertaining.

But if you have, say, the series that inspired this post, with a world where winter shows up when the plot demands and lasts for years, you can either say “eh that’s just a thing that happens, it’s not important I just thought it was neat and a cool setting” and people will shrug it off.

Or you can say “this is absolutely critical to the entire story and impacts every society within my world” but don’t do your homework on what those impacts are, people can and will call you out on it.

[webthingiesformetouse]

silly blinkies i have found in various ancient websites

[tlotrgifs]

Lord of the Rings Aragorn → PSD #35-46  ↳ 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8  - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12

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[sisterofthesouth]

signs of the shadow lord are all over noradz even before we see the brand on reece’s face because noradz has anachronistically modern technology such as:

industrial kitchens

glass jars

a system of metal catwalks above the kitchen

gloves that cling to the skin (latex gloves)

conveyor belts

[stelacole]

psd coloring : 𝐏𝐒𝐃 𝟎𝟏𝟎 : 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒

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[okteavia]

The Hobbit icons - Bilbo Baggins icons - 300x300 - 12 DFD (download from dash) icons of Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit - The Battle of Five Armies - The Lord of the Rings content - J.R.R. Tolkien) | Feel free to use them on any platform, but please like or reblog if you save any.

[patrick-stewart]

Lord of the Rings icons - 6 icons that each have 10 different color options - 200x200 - all icons can be seen here since they cant all fit under the cut - please like or reblog if you take one - credit isn’t required but it’s appreciated - requests are open for other icons!

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Aragorn

Argentate - silver

Aubade - a song or poem of lovers parting at dawn

Austere - stern and cold in appearance or manner

Avidity - an urgent desire or interest

Breviloquent - marked by brevity of speech

Cinereous - gray tinged with black

Cogent - appealing forcibly to the mind or reason

Desiderium - an ardent desire or longing

Distingué - distinguished especially in manner or bearing

Éclat - brilliance; conspicuous success

Falchion - archaic: sword

Firewater - strong alcoholic liquor

Forfend - protect, preserve

Homeric - of epic proportions; heroic

Oppugn - to fight against

Reticence - the quality or state of being inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech; reserved

Theion, (to) - “the divine”; a quality that belongs to both gods and exceptional mortals

Uberrimae fidei - of the utmost or perfect good faith

Valor - strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness

Vespertine - active, flowering, or flourishing in the evening

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