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ao3feed-tolkien · 2 years

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Dimension Hopping 101 - Guidebook Not Included

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by Lyra-Mira (The_Blaire_Liz_Witch)

Summer vacation, family roadtrips, mysterious landscapes, maybe dimension travel and emotional elves... Just normal things one experiences after finishing another semester at the university. Okay, maybe the last two isn't that normal. It certainly wasn't for those in the minivan. After falling - literally - into another dimension with nothing more than the clothes they brought for a camping trip - now gone wrong - they embark on a journey to get back to their homeworld. Of course, things aren't as easy as they seem... Except this isn't easy, why is everything on fire, who are those dudes with bad dental and why did their ears suddenly start to grow and why is this rock shining? Maybe they shouldn't have listened to twinkly-eyed old men...

WARNING!: This is pure crack-cocain. That halfway through planning became sentient, ate a Xanax and is now having feelings. Also decided to have foreigner names cuz why not.

Words: 5653, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Multi

Characters: Original Elf Character(s), House of Finwë, House of Fëanor, House of Fingolfin - Character, House of Finarfin, Fëanor | Curufinwë, Sons of Fëanor, Nerdanel (Tolkien), Fingolfin | Ñolofinwë, Anairë (Tolkien), Finarfin | Arafinwë, Eärwen (Tolkien), Sons of Elrond, The Fellowship of the Ring, Thorin's Company, Ereinion Gil-galad, Glorfindel (Tolkien), Erestor (Tolkien), Ecthelion of the Fountain

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - Pre-Canon, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Parallel Universes, Post-Canon Fix-It, Reconciliation, Self-Indulgent, Feanor Being Feanor, Copium Starter Pack, House of Finwë Being a Dumpsterfire, Mild Manwë Bashing, Slav Characters, Hungaro-Slav Names, Russingon, Frostburn - Freeform, Canonical Incest, Cousin Incest, Three Sons of Finwë, Family Feels, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Crack Treated Seriously, Everybody Lives, Everybody needs a therapist, Crack That Became Sentient And Grew Feelings, Copious Amount of OCs, Abundant Amount of Song References and Memes, The Author Regrets Nothing, Author Is Sleep Deprived, I'm (not) Sorry Tolkien, Breaking Into Mandos

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ao3feed-thehobbit · 2 years

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Dimension Hopping 101 - Guidebook Not Included

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2F0mJIb

by Lyra-Mira (The_Blaire_Liz_Witch)

WARNING!: This is pure crack-cocain. That halfway through planning became sentient, ate a Xanax and is now having feelings. Also decided to have foreigner names cuz why not.

Words: 5653, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Multi

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2F0mJIb

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #the hobbit

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absynthe--minded · 4 years

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Silmarillion Starter Pack: Quenya Names Edition

Continuing in the vein of yesterday’s recommended reading post, I’m going to try and break down Quenya vs Sindarin names - I know I use the former pretty much exclusively in fics about the Noldor, and I also know that tracking down each individual translation can be a pain.

Noldorin names are (so far as we can tell) three-parted, a little like Anglophonic ones, and each name has a different level of formality associated with it. First is the father-name, which is given to a child by the father and is usually the publicly used name. Second is the mother-name, given to the child by their mother and usually (but not always) associated with casual acquaintance or at least some level of informality. Mother-names can be prophetic in some way, indicating something about the child’s fate. Last is the patronym, which is essentially the family name, and denotes whose child this is (ex: Curufinwë Fëanáro Finwion). Sindarin names, as far as we can see, usually have two parts, the birth name and the patronym (ex: Legolas Thranduilion). Both naming traditions also make use of nicknames/epithets that can be used in place of any of those other options (ex: Beleg Cúthalion, Nelyafinwë Russandol). Generally, elves don’t have the same names if they belong to the same ethnic group, though we have one notable exception to the rule, which is that Fëanor (father-name Curufinwë) named his son Curufin after himself.

(Edit: I’m willing to swear that the patronyms are canon, but I don’t have a source immediately for that; I’m including them because they’re universal, but I cannot confirm with 100% veracity that they’re canonical.)

The names in the published Silmarillion are Sindarin names, except in a few cases. The Noldor who came to Beleriand translated their names into Sindarin, and that’s how they were remembered. Most of the fans tend to use their Quenya names at least occasionally, and personally I find the Quenya a lot more distinctive and easy to remember? But that’s a personal thing. Basically what I’m setting out to do here is detail if someone will likely be referred to with multiple names, and what those names are, so that people who need a reference guide have one. If a mother-name is not known, it’s omitted here.

Elwë Singollo = Elu Thingol

Curufinwë Fëanáro Finwion = Fëanor

Nerdanel Istarnië = Nerdanel

Nelyafinwë Russandol Maitimo Fëanárion = Maedhros (seen here with the epithet ‘Russandol’, indicating his red hair) Accepted fanon holds his intimate friends and family (mostly his brothers) also call him ‘Nelyo’, an affectionate shortening of his father-name. I’ll be including those intimate nicknames where they’re applicable. (edit: thanks to @epilepticgalahad for confirming their canonicity! I didn’t have the right volume of lore on hand)

Kanafinwë Macalaurë Fëanárion, intimate nickname Káno = Maglor

Turcafinwë Tyelkormo Fëanárion, intimate nickname Tyelko or Turko (the latter confirmed by canon, the former fanon-only) = Celegorm

Morifinwë Carnistir Fëanárion, intimate nickname Moryo = Caranthir

Curufinwë Atarinkë Fëanárion, intimate nickname Curvo = Curufin

it’s a very common fan theory that Curufin named his son Celebrimbor after himself, making Celebrimbor’s full Quenya name Curufinwë Tyelperinquar Curufinwion with his intimate nickname being Tyelpë. this isn’t canon, but it’s everywhere, and so it’s included here for simplicity’s sake

Telufinwë Ambarussa Fëanárion, intimate nickname Telvo = Amras

Pityafinwë Ambarussa Fëanárion, intimate nickname Pityo = Amrod. In the most widely accepted version of the story, which is different from the published Silmarillion, Amrod was originally given the same name as his twin brother, as you can see there, but his mother Nerdanel had a vision of his doom and wanted to name him Umbarto (“the doomed/ill-fated”). Fëanor objected to this, changing it to Ambarto (“uplifted/upward”). So Amrod could be called either of those things as well as the rest of his name. You may also see him and his brother referred to as ‘the Ambarussar’ or ‘the Ambarussat’ - the former is just Ambarussa but plural, the latter uses an ending meant to denote a matched pair of things.

Nolofinwë Finwion = Fingolfin. He has two possible mother-names, Ingoldo and Arakáno. The first mother-name is only present in a few early drafts and is of very dubious canonicity, the second appears later. If the second is in fact intended canon, it means that he named his youngest son after himself.

Findekáno Nolofinwion = Fingon. Fan theory likes to hold that his mother-name is Astaldo (“valiant”) since he’s called Fingon the Valiant very often.

Turukáno Nolofinwion = Turgon

Írissë Nolofinwiel = Aredhel

Arakáno Nolofinwion = Argon, the youngest son of Fingolfin, who doesn’t appear in the published Silmarillion but who is present in the drafts and who dies shortly after crossing the Ice.

Írimë Lalwendë Finwiel = Lalwen, a sister of Fingolfin who doesn’t appear in the published Silmarillion but who appears in the drafts and goes to Beleriand with her brother.

Ereinion Artanáro Gil-galad = Gil-galad, last High King of the Noldor, featured prominently in The Lord of the Rings. The published Silmarillion says that he’s Fingon’s son, and Christopher Tolkien himself admitted that this was an editorial error and that Gil-galad’s parentage should have been kept ambiguous. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote that Fingon had no wife or children.

Arafinwë Finwion = Finarfin. Like his brother, he has two potential mother-names, Ingoldo and Ingalaurë. The first is said to be shared with Finrod, the second appears only in very early drafts.

Findaráto Ingoldo Arafinwion = Finrod. If you have to pick someone to name Ingoldo, pick him; that’s way less dubiously canonical.

Angaráto Angamaitë Arafinwion = Angrod. ‘Angamaitë’ is his epithet, not his mother-name, which we don’t know.

Artaresto Angarátion = Orodreth. There are drafts where Orodreth is Arafinwë’s son rather than grandson, and so “Artaresto Arafinwion” is also canonical, but the most common interpretation that I’ve seen has him as Angrod’s son.

Ambaráto Aikanáro Arafinwion = Aegnor

Artanís Nérwen Arafinwiel = Galadriel. Alatáriel is an epithet given to her by Celeborn specifically, so only he uses it, and before she met him it wouldn’t have been used.

That about covers it, I think! I tried to indicate what was canon and what wasn’t, but if there are questions, feel free to ask me!

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