#sillmaril

[theghostofdash]

Color tests, a Work in progress, some swatches and texture tests for my Beren and Lithuanian piece of the loyal hound Huan and the wolf Carcaroth who went mad having eaten a sillmaril. Mild gore warning for berets severed hand rip.

June 12 2019

[awesome-bluehair-universe]

[kassylin]

I had a friend (many years ago, 10-15?). We were both Tolkien lovers, but she was also an incredible writer. What also amazed (and amused) me, that her sole focus was on Sauron. He was her muse and absolutely favourite character. I used to listen to her rant about him for hours. How complicated and interesting this Tolkien's creation was. And then she wrote a book. It was like The Sillmarils and LOTR together, but all that happened in the plot was in favour of him. Sauron (it was released as a physical copy). I thought about her all the time while watching the show. Because I do not know why, but they captured everything she told he was. Or maybe it was Charlie, who is unrecognizable in his role, lost to Sauron. I saw the same with Henry Cavill and his Witcher. There was no Henry left in that old powerful creature. And Charlie does the same.

We didn't get the exact look that Sauron had. All we know he would appear gorgeous and beautiful. She used the image of a Korean actor in her book, but Charlie... Ok, I will talk about his work later. I just hope that she knows, that her thoughts of him, this image she loved and created many years ago is alive and so so loved.

Fuck. I wish I could tell her this myself, face to face. To see her smug, glorious face. I wish I could still call her my friend.

That's the image of him she had (well, one of his forms from her book).

[stilltrails]

While Maglor and Maedhros won’t be in The Rings of Power, I think Elrond’s obsession with both Feanor and Celebrimbor from an artistic perspective is most likely an allusion to him being raised by the Feanorians. 

He admires them from a distance, and most likely grew up listening to stories about Feanor and being surrounded by his work. Celebirmbor too. 

I think his natural relationship with Celebrimbor, his understanding of Celebrimbors essentially saying, “I know the Sillmarils destroyed everything but no sacrifice no victory tee hee”, and eventually giving up the Mitrhil Durin gave him (parallels to Maedhros, the silmaril, the fiery chasm”), screams a child raised by very questionable and complex feanorians upbrining XD and he probably loved it. 

[cosmic-walkers]

I love the idea of Earendil / Maglor and your posts and headcanons about the two are wonderful. My question though is on the oath and the silmaril? Would Maglor's oath not compel him to kill Earendil and attempt to take the Silmaril from Vingilot?

Thank you! I'm really glad and in my personal headcanon, Maglor is kind of like Maedhros in the sense where Maedhros gave Luthien permission to keep the Silmaril due to her bravery. Maglor thinks the same way, and even if he and Earendil are together (and yes, Maglor does board Vingilot sometimes), Maglor still sees the Sillmaril out of his reach. And to him, it is no longer a silmaril, it is a star and out of his reach. And that actually makes Maglor happy, that it's something he cannot pursue (because it will burn his hands anyway). And again like the whole Luthien and Maedhros situation, to him Earendil's bravery and using the Silmaril to not just find Valinor, but to lead the eagles to Middle Earth (and I believe he also led part of the host of valinor), and to fight in the war itself is extremely brave and worth keeping the Silmaril in his eyes. Plus he knows that Earendil isn't gonna give the Silmaril to anyone else.

By the time they get together in my Aus it is like the early part of the 2nd age, so Maglor kind of abandons the oath any way.

But thanks for asking this!

[awesome-bluehair-universe]

The Sillmarils. Because I want to make everyone and their gods jealous. And the One Ring, as a bonus.

I tried not to repeat myself too much from the previous poll but the movies are pretty of accurate when it come to jewellery so 🤷🏻‍♀️

[indlinde]

“And thus it came to pass that the Sílmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.”- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Thus I present to you the Silmarils within their long homes!

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[loopy777]

A world building question. One of my planned stories is a Tolkien What if set in a universe where Sauron ultimately went west to face judgement, and so in turn this butterflied away the fall of numenor. This in turn caused a second age that essentially never ended, stretching on, and on, and on for years beyond count.

However, due to different events not related to to the numenoreans, the lands of Valinor got a second great shroud put over them, to make certain that none save elves, or one who carried a silmaril as Earendil had, could ever pass by way of sea ships.

My question is this. How would you advice me to handle the flat nature of the world in the age of Planes and airships? Should i treat the void beyond like it's space, or could one actually fly through it without worry so long as one has the fuel? Or should i treat the void like it's always been like space, and so essentially around the world there is a horizontal atmosphere?

I had a little trouble parsing the two options, so I asked for more detail and got the following:

All right so a bit of clarification about the Tolkien second age void question.

My question is, do you think should i treat the void like actual space, aka. Ridiculously hostile, and impossible to traverse without at least 21th century tech, or should i treat it more like, say, the disney movie Treasure planet treats space?

Obviously im not gonna go in the direction as that movie did, with a massive interplanetary trade network or something, but i kinda like the idea of people using flying balloons to explore the sides of Arda, beyond the outer encircling sea where nothing lives, and there is no buoyancy (Specifically made that way, presumably so you can't literally sail off the map.).

Also a bit of expansion on why I'm asking this question.

The way i have always thought of this, is that the point where Eru bend the world into a circle was turning point, not just in making the world much more mundane, and the magic leaving it, but also making the world much more... Clarified and built on a much less fantastical base.

For example. Earendil the evening star. In the context of the first and second ages, Earendil is a man in a flying boat who lights up the night sky, and brought hope to the world after the battle of unnumbered tears, to reawaken the free people in preparations of the war of wrath.

However, as the second age ended, and Eru realigned the universe to fit it, Earendil's physical nature was changed, as while he remained in the night sky, the man on his ship with his sillmarill became the very physical planet Venus, and would presumably remain as such until the Tolkien version of Ragnarok.

Now, one of the things i wanted to explore here, is a world where this never happens. Arda does go through changes, but the world remains the way it was originally made, with a flat top, all the way to the encircling sea, numenor never falls into the sea, though its golden age does not last forever, the elves, though they never quite regain the kind of energy and drive they had before the first dawn, and the first age, never begin to truly fade away as they did into the fourth age, and magic remains much more common even as technology advances.

Hence why i'm trying to figure out how such a world would progress once it reaches the kind of tech where the natural boundaries of the encircling seas suddenly isn't so impassable anymore (Also, you might have realized this story is heavily inspired by the steampunk, prototype numenor that Tolkien eventually abandoned in favor of his finalized version.)

I'm very glad I asked, because this speaks directly to how I like to do my worldbuilding: its primary purpose is to support the needs of the story, its secondary purpose is to provide color and texture, and its lowest priority is to delight the audience. Any worldbuilding that satisfies all three objectives is solid gold. Anything that delights but otherwise adds nothing is on the chopping block if I need to reduce words or tighten the pacing. Anything that enables the story but accomplishes nothing else will get to stay but will be pushed as far into the background as possible. Texture that adds nothing else can be written into something completely different at a moment's notice.

So, considering that one of the main goals of this story is explore a different kind of setting, I like the idea of the 'fake space' that can be explored without a pressurized airtight capsule and strong understanding of momentum. For one, Tolkien was purposefully trying to create a Mythology, not a History, complete with the mythological-style explanation for stars. I think your idea works for how the end of the third age and the loss of magic retcons the fantastical into the mundane, but that's also where the story Tolkien was telling ends, aside from the distant ragnarok. As long as you're exploring the world in your own story, I like the idea of keeping things a bit separate from reality, especially if it makes for good spectacle.

And as far as spectacle goes, I love the idea of a steampunk setting where space exploration is based on older ideas from back when no one thought it would be a vacuum. Elves In Space is a great title, but Elves in NASA pressure suits flying Saturn V rockets doesn't really do anything that actual stories of actual Apollo missions doesn't. Doing something different and creative is a draw on its own, even aside from the Tolkien links.

I also think there's some story possibility where this kind of space exploration creates a kind of Tower Of Babel situation where humanity and/or elves is going a bit beyond what Eru wanted of them and so they might have another set of limiters coming like a vacuum space that's lacking gravity.

Plus, I admit, I just personally like the style of retro space opera that stuff like the Duck Dodgers cartoons pulled from, so I always advocate for it.

[lidianight]

The best friends of girls...diamonds? But they're only pathetic shatters of glass in comparison to the sillmarils. And books about them of course. #book #bookstagram #tolkien #bookworm #unfinishedtales #jrrtolkien #myprecious #mylove #love #bookshelf #like #l4l #instagood #goodvibes #instadaily #instagram

[awesome-bluehair-universe]

Morgoth getting the Sillmarils.

[shmaug-blog]

sillmaril answered your question: Does anyone have any idea of an actor that would...

how about Jensen Ackles as Deadpool? :D

Hey, that is not a bad choice at all! His height is close to Deadpool's and he is a great actor. He can even do voice acting.. (As Red Hood. I really liked him there). Body type is goood... Face is similar. Why haven't I thought of Jensen before? He'd certainly be a great choice! IMO, it's probably the best choice so far. Hahah. 

[eonweheraldodemanwe]

Love the detail of Beren's hand and the Sillmarill.

Huan, the hound of the Valinors last fight with Carcharoth

[silentx13-posts]

https://youtu.be/cd3OO-ViVS8

I’m going to just drop this here.

“And thus it came to pass that the Sílmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.”- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

Thus I present to you the Silmarils within their long homes!

Like and Reblog if you can !

This took hours to create