#queer silmarillion

[echo-bleu]

Hello, your art is beautiful!!! Could I request aro/ace or genderqueer Finrod for the PRIDE ask game? Thank you 💖

Thank you so much @curiouselleth!

I wanted to include all the flags because Finrod deserves it, plus they're my flags as well. But it was a challenge to come up with a palette that would make it work. I chose to use the separate aro and ace flags rather than the aroace one, which I did for Elladan and Elrohir previously, because they just mesh better with the genderqueer colours.

[ID: Digital painting of Finrod, from the side, his eyes closed, holding a bouquet of purple and white lilac close to his chest and smelling it. He is wearing a dark green corset vest with green and white sun patterns, a light green shirt with puffy sleeves, a silver circle with a large green stone, several earrings and piercings, and his hair is pulled up in a net of thin braids around his head, adorned with silver chains and green gems, and a large bun bound by a comb in the shape of a silver bird. The background is a blurry purple-ish bookshelf, and there is a light purple border with stylized lyres in the corners.]

The flag aren't really distinguished from each other, but all the colours are there!

(ID: the asexual, aromantic and genderqueer flags.]

I really love these headcanons for Finrod! I meant to do something much less elaborate but it grew on me so much.

Previous Trans Finrod | Queer characters series

[tar-thelien]

Look I´m a full believer that you should ship what you want and not harass others for their ships BUT

Lately on the Sauron/Mairon tag I´ve seen some people say he wouldn´t be interested in men!??!? Like I´m sorry to break it to you but he literally saw the most beautiful woman to ever exist and instead of thinking about his own desires he instantly thought "my boss would be so proud of me if I gave her to him."

WHAT´S NOT GAY ABOUT THAT CREATURE!?!??!?

Also on a smaller note the few posts that say Sauron could NEVER be gay are literally calling people weird for shipping him with men?? So, could we please just go back to shipping the mass murder with who we want to and stop bothering others with who they ship him with?? No?

So ship who you want and have fun, talk with those who ship the same and all that, but don´t go in and accuse others for having the wrong ship :)

EDIT: just to make sure everyone understands I DON´T IN ANY WAY SUPPORT PEOPLE WHO POLICE SHIPS OR SHAME PEOPLE FOR THEIR SHIP OR ACCUSING THEM OF NOT FOLLOWING CANON ETC ship who you want and don´t bother people who have another ship and try to "teach" them about your ship if they don´t ask for it.

[hamletphase]

i can't find the post now but i saw something about miriel being disabled pre giving birth and was inspired <3

[thelien-art]

Hello! May I please request Daeron/Maglor with rainbow flag? Daeron is trans and bi, Maglor is broadly queer. Thank you! I love seeing your Pride artworks every year.

+ trans for Anon + ace for @tiesanjiaoshenanigans

Thank you <3<3<3 - used this as an excuse to try some half Maia Daeron design :):)

🏳️‍🌈CELEBRATE PRIDE WITH ME🏳️‍🌈 - send in a character or a ship with a pride flag and I´ll draw it

[a-litt1e-emo]

I just realized I never posted this!

This is my redesign of Mairon’s “default form!” This is the first body he uses, and by far his favorite.

Transcript + extra notes (for those who can’t read my atrocious handwriting) and timelapse under the cut!

Transcript:

Mairon

- ig this is his “true form

- it’s always been his default (no shift to “evil aesthetic)

- eyes are fiery like the forge (again, not just the “evil aesthetic”)

- piercings & clothing made to look dwarvish (since he was under Aulë)

- sleeve tattoo of eyes to represent the “all seeing” thing (also creation & beauty- observation ig) (he got the tattoo (the normal way- he didn’t just shapeshift it on) after joining Melkor) (also I hc that body changes done the normal way (like piercings & tattoos, but also scars, amputations, etc) appear no matter what form they’re in- putting Annatar/Halbrand in an awkward situation where he can’t roll up his sleeves bc tattoos are Not Normal for anyone who isn’t a dwarf)

- bonus hc for those who made it this far: Mairon is genderfluid and uses he/him pronouns! (bc I love queering up my favorites)

Timelapse (featuring self-indulgent doodle and a bonus drawing of Annatar (I’ll post Annatar + notes later dw):

[rhinocio]

it was always you

[brighter-arda]

Haleth moodboard in lesbian pride colours

[Images:

1: a hand dripping blood holding a flower

2: pink sunset

3: trees in bright orange light like a fire

4: a woman with freckles and curly brown hair

5: "Haleth", pink background

6: blood stained hands tinted pink

7: kindling on fire

8: dagger on fabric

9: coat with fur hood]

[not-so-legendary-legendarium]

Quick question for the Fandom:

Your opinion and canon knowledge are both well accepted for answer

[drawulan]

Danmei couple arts!

Please, consider commissioning art from me! You can feed a starving artist that way 😸

I also draw NSFW 🔞💦!

(Reposts are highly appreciated)

[buck1eys]

LOTR PEOPLE just thinking about a Possession AU where Éowyn and Faramir are PhD students at different universities researching this early medieval Old English text called Þāra Hringa Hlāford and they develop an academic rivalry about whether a certain two figures in the narrative were getting it on or not. This debate is much encouraged by a certain reincarnated Prof. G. L. Findel who knows an enemies to lovers moment when he sees one and gets them together for some field study

[mag-lore]

Aredhel x Galadriel for @awesomevictoriau !!

[echo-bleu]

Forgiveness, can you imagine?

[ID: Digital painting of Fëanor and Nerdanel in profile. Nerdanel, a light-skinned female elf with long red hair, is leaning her chin on the top of Fëanor's head, who is a very light-skinned male elf with long black hair. Fëanor has extensive scarring on the side of his face and his ear. They are both wearing earrings in the colours of the trans flag. Glowing snow or dust falls around them, and the background has indistinct dark mountains and lights.]

Reposting it without the ask so I can pin it + get it into the tags, but the prompt is here.

T4T Nerdanel and Fëanor reunited in Dagor Dagorath. I wanted to achieve a less detailed and more textured feel, and I'm pretty happy with the result!

Queer characters series | Disabled characters series

[annoyinglandmagazine]

I have a very specific take on the first meetings of Elrond and Celebrian that I am very obsessed with. So picture this. Celebrian during the Last Alliance is a pretty senior commanding officer within some of her parents forces and when she accompanies her mother to Imladris for the White Council she’s still largely fulfilling some of those duties for most of her stay, she’s out for a lot of the official events on patrols and such. She also spends most of the time around Imladris in her uniform, she has status of her own thank you very much she doesn’t need to introduce herself as Galadriel’s daughter to garner respect (Galadriel herself of course approves of this very wholeheartedly).

So in general she’d appear fairly masculine ( this was definitely not deliberate butch presentation to signal to queer elleths what are you talking about?), it’s mainly ambiguous on her part but she got her mother’s tall genes and built up a decent bit of lean muscle so people will draw their own conclusions. And while she’s in the training yard she hears someone humming what sounds like a Song of Power to enhance the stock of healing herbs kept nearby. She spots a stunning raven elleth in the corner that she was relatively certain she would be able to lift off her feet with shocking ease by the size of her.

Her conclusions were correct, the elf maid had a healer’s apron fastened over her dress and was most likely come from the Healing Halls, she was surprised she hadn’t seen her before though she hadn’t now until she’d started singing so maybe she was just good at blending it the background. She most certainly did not flex her sweat soaked muscles a little more than necessary with the next thrust, though the elleth most certainly seemed to think she had because she snorted to herself. Celebrian threw her a wink as she strode over to lean against a pillar.

She gets the name of Elwen, though she does not give one herself to the other’s great amusement. They flirt rather outrageously over the following weeks when they run into each other, sparring on occasion (and for such a tiny thing, by the Valar that Elwen was vicious. She was only two victories off drawing even with her, not that she was keeping track). Elrond was always fond of the anonymity offered by indulging his femininity, it was frankly shocking how few people recognised him when he did so, it was a pleasant way to both fulfil the need for a change that could not be ignored for long stretches of time and to experience things (and people) without the constant expectations to be a thousand different things at once. The opportunity for affairs of every nature without sullying the propriety of his reputation too thoroughly was another advantage.

So this all culminates in the first proper banquet Celebrian attends. ‘Lord Elrond, oh there you are, I was wondering if you’ve met my daughter Celebrian?’

Queue Celebrian going ‘oh shit, oh shit, I’ve been absolutely scandalous to one of my mother’s friends, oh Valar she’s going to kill me.’

And Elrond going ‘fuck, of all people you had to pick Galadriel’s daughter? Galadriel’s going to kill me, they will never find the body. Was that indecent corset really necessary?’

Galadriel finds this whole story hilarious when they tell her several centuries later (she knew the whole time and was just stirring shit up). Elrond and Celebrian are both bi so it works out anyways once they figure out exactly what happened.

[i-looove-dillydallying]

On the one hand I like (and understand) the Samwise Gamgee x Frodo Baggins ship, but on the other hand I think it’s a real shame of intimate, 100% platonic healthy male friendship rep that is so desperately needed in todays society where toxic masculinity runs rampant

[queeringclassiclit]

Fingon & Maedhros

from The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien

[who-canceled-roger-rabbit]

Oh to hear Ungoliant's voice echoing from the Unlight all around me, calling me her "little morsel"