#silm ic

[eunoiaastralwings]

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[olorinscombatboots]

do u think that while the noldor were crossing the helcaraxë they had the thing happen where their eyes watered and their tears froze on their eyelashes!!! do u think those crystals of ice reflected the light of the trees in their eyes and for a moment the world was beautiful again and maybe everything wasn't as irreversibly terrible as they thought!!! because i do!!!!!!

[queerofthedagger]

fingon, who was left behind and abandonend by just about anyone in his family at some point, who died alone because maedhros did not return to him in time either. how many times can you be second choice no matter how little it is about you and not have that fester into bitter, bitter anger. how much worse does it get, at some point, that it isn't even about you but you simply matter less than whatever else was more important just then. how long can you cling to the rationale before you always see everyone with one foot already out of the door. how long can you keep loving and loving and loving despite,until there is nothing left to give. and then keep giving anyway because, after all, you know what it's like to be abandonend

[sesamenom]

Festival of the Trees in Rivendell (very much outdated) vs Festival of We Got Another Wine Shipment in Mirkwood (invented three hours ago)

somewhat inspired by this post by @elvinye

[whichgreathousewouldtheybepartof]

Elwing from the Silmarillion

Ways to approach the poll if the character isn’t a royal:

If you think they’d be from a smaller house, go with the Great House that that smaller house is sworn to (ex: House Manderly —> vote Stark)

They don’t have to be a nobleperson, they can be someone working for the house or being ruled by them. Roles could be a sworn-sword, a septa, a butcher, a blacksmith, or even a lowly peasant.

You can consider the region itself. For example, if you feel the character would be from Dorne, pick House Martell.

You can consider the personality of the character. For example, if your character is all about honor, then consider either House Arryn or House Stark.

Last, but not least, be creative with it! For example, there was a comment I read that the character who was the subject of the poll would be pulling a Littlefinger, so they went with either Lannister or Tyrell as that would be that character’s target houses.

[virgil-upinthestars]

fic idea: well-adjusted gay elves from the silmarillion (probably glorfindel and ecthelion) get dropped in the song of ice and fire universe in a reincarnation mishap. one of them's in the north with the starks, the other in essos with dany, witnessing all the mentally ill chaos that happens, nodding and going "okay, okay, what the fuck," and navigating the sheer toxic sociopolitical fuckery of the GOT universe while trying to find each other. is it crack? is it criticism? is it my own experience as a tolkien fan watching/reading a song of ice and fire? the world may never know

[thelien-art]

Aredhel the White Huntress of the Noldor

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

Fingolfin character opinions let's GOOOOO

YAAAAAYYYYY

I feel like this looks kind of underwhelming considering how much he's been on my mind recently lmao

There are definitely fans/writers out there who Get Him and I have been so lucky to find them, but even in my *checks notes* brief 7 months in Silm fandom I've sometimes seen him turned into way more of a saint than he is. He is SO petty and ambitious and a little insane and we should let him be!!

I say “not enough screentime” purely for blorbo appreciation reasons, not for narrative ones; Tolkien accomplished exactly what he needed to with the pagetime he had and there isn't really anything I'd want done differently in canon. I'd take one million more insights into him, but (clearly) what we do have is enough to extrapolate and there's a lot more story to get to.

I very nearly put “works better as part of a dynamic” bc his relationship with Fëanor is SO central to understanding him as a character, but he canonically accomplishes most things on his own or in a much larger collective (and well. he famously doesn't work WELL with Fëanor, I just like holding them up to the light together).

[eri-pl]

Inspired by @winds-of-zephyr416's creepy pencil Morgoth, here's my own creepy pencil Morgoth. It's not as good, but hey, now y'all have two creepy pencil Morgoths instead of just one! (Many types of pencils + the blending thing + precise eraser + yes there is a tiny bit of color pencils there)

[saintstars]

Starting the new year with a angbang

Uncensored here on ao3

[braxix]

Do you think that some of the elves that came over with Fingolfin have missing toes and/or fingers because of the cold and ice? Like frostbite? Fingon arrives to save Maedhros and he's missing parts of various fingers.

[starsofarda]

Ok, listen.

Ice skating Silm AU.

The events in the Silm get described through ice skating routines.

I now have to figure out everything else.

[march-of-the-noldor]

March of the Noldor

What is it?

A month-long event to commiserate the grueling walk the Noldor took, across the Helcaraxe, from Aman to Beleriand.

When is it?

March 1 - March 31

How do I participate?

Post something regarding the march and mention @march-of-the-noldor. Everything made will be reblogged here.

Go forth and create something New!

But this is also a great time to reblog older works relating to the march too!

What is allowed?

EVERYTHING!

Art, fic, meta, moodboards, poems! It's all welcome!

Want to do a character study? Awesome!

Make a collage of the kind of wild life the Noldor might encounter? Amazing!

Talk about the different types of ice the Noldor walked across? Fantastic!

Record a list of new traditions that developed during the walk? Bring it on!

We shall depart on this voyage together!

If you have any questions please ask them! <3

header by Adam Excell - unsplash

[peasant-player]

Last Christmas I gave you my heart ~

Today I give you Finarifin to soothe any needs you have ❤️

Get on a journey and learn to unwrap him under the cut

This elve knows what he is doing and is very supportive on your journey into the spicier world of Love ~ ❤️

Also best hair in the finwe family hands down.

On a less sexy note His skin was darker but my camera hates picking up on that. I would have needed to scale down the light but then his hair would be not so pretty as it is

[sesamenom]

Melkor

inspired by @caenith here

[whichgreathousewouldtheybepartof]

Feanor from The Silmarillion

Ways to approach the poll if the character isn’t a royal:

If you think they’d be from a smaller house, go with the Great House that that smaller house is sworn to (ex: House Manderly —> vote Stark)

They don’t have to be a nobleperson, they can be someone working for the house or being ruled by them. Roles could be a sworn-sword, a septa, a butcher, a blacksmith, or even a lowly peasant.

You can consider the region itself. For example, if you feel the character would be from Dorne, pick House Martell.

You can consider the personality of the character. For example, if your character is all about honor, then consider either House Arryn or House Stark.

Last, but not least, be creative with it! For example, there was a comment I read that the character who was the subject of the poll would be pulling a Littlefinger, so they went with either Lannister or Tyrell as that would be that character’s target houses.