#similarion

[qprstobin]

I really need st fandom to know that the Hobbit is a kid's book. It's not as dense or as heavy as the rest of Tolkien's writing about Middle Earth. I get not everyone has read it, but I see some of y'all acting like it's on the same level as LOTR with its readability but it's just not lol.

[bed-wed-behead-your-fave]

Celebrimbor from lotr/the silmarillion/shadow of mordor

[emilykaldwen]

I'm on the hunt for some chonky COMPLETED fics. Please and thank you. Looking for good character development, meaty plots.

Susan/Caspian

Jonsa

Jaimsa

I'll even take some LotR/Similarion stuff even though I'm not super familiar with it

Witcher (Geralt/Yennefer, Ciri focused stuff)

Poe/Rey (No Reylo, please, I don't go there)

SW Prequel Stuff (Sabe/Obi-Wan, Anakin/Padme, Hera/Kanan...)

Elena/Elijah

Caroline/Klaus (no Damon/Elena ship stuff pls)

Tyler/Elena

I just, I'm pouring all my time and energy right now into massive plot heavy ten million moving parts fic and I've lost like 20 AO3 bookmarks because people deleted and so I'm on the search for something good. So currently wracking my brain for the things I like that might give me some must reads

[hazedwords]

Quick Question:

Should I start to do character headcannons? I could do reader x character or just simple things that I imagine about the character.

The fandoms I would writing for would be:

Lord of the Rings/Hobbit (I’m not caught up on the Similarion or the Rings of Power)

Harry Potter/Marauders Era

Kimetsu No Yaiba (Demon Slayer)

[fayesdiary]

ohoho, 1, 21, 22, and 25 for the complaints ask game!

Peace was never an option🔪

Complaint ask game

1) The character everyone gets wrong

Camilla. No question. It's so bad even the devs get her wrong.

Although it's understandable when they take a character who has clearly defined positives and flaws as well as a reason for why she is the way she is, and turn her into miss fanservice by quite litterally constantly showing her boobs and ass to your face. Also the Cowmilla comment. (I will forever be salty about her Birthright cutscene. All the other siblings besides Sakura and Elise get cool cutscenes and she gets... that. Just to show off her private parts)

It's just- there is so much more to Camilla than meets the eye, so seeing most of the fanbase as well as the devs view her as nothing more than a sex symbol that may have incestous feelings for Corrin (granted, that one's more on the fandom), and it's just so disappointing and frustrating. Also I may be wrong but I remember people diagnosing her in the early days as in, a derogatory way. Because nothing like vilifying mental illness.

21) Part of canon you think is overhyped

*whispers*... Genealogy's writing.

Don't get me wrong, it has plenty going for it, but at the same time it sometimes won't stop bombarding you with so much exposition at once for things that aren't even necessary at the moment (less of an objective flaw, more of an "my ADHD ass will never remember everything you throw at me this way"), stuff that even gets to the optional dialogue, as usual most of the characters have very little dialogue unless you hit very specific conditions (and don't even get me started on the marriage mechanic), the game kinda peaks at Gen 1.

Not to mention Jugdral is definitely good as a world, yes... But unless you start factoring in outside material and Thracia, it's not as deep as some fans make it up to be. Which is not a problem for me but at the same time look, it ain't no Similarion.

Most of it could easily be fixed with a remake, I'll admit. Provided they don't fuck it up by, say, adding an avatar. (and if I do I will start killing)

22) Your favorite part of canon everyone else ignores

Valla. Or, well, more the idea of Valla than the actual execution, but I will still die on this hill that it could have been so good if the writers actually bothered doing something with it to make it an actual place that people used to live in.

25) Common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

Wildly gestures at everything about Fates

Look, I really like Fates and it's far from a perfect game, but most of the criticism it gets it feels either in bad faith or from someone who hasn't played it for a long time or is just parroting something someone else said because Fates is the acceptable game to clown on.

And oh my god, it's been seven years, consantly whining about a game you didn't like is not constructive criticism, move on.

[vitrines]

rant about lord of the rings under cut. i love it and it makes me eat dirt

something that i don't think about all the time but still consider a huge part of me is the lord of the rings. and i know this is true for a lot of people, because they're damn good movies (i read the books but i know the movies lots better. i am not a superfan i don't know crap i didn't read the similarion i just like funny little stories). but genuinely the music and the scenery and the MESSAGE is so resonant and specifically with frodo and sam good lord. like back when molly ostertang was writing hobbit fic i read it even though i hadn't thought about frodo n sam in years probably and god dang it was good. i really need to read that again btw. and they really are like that. like they really did that and in the books they really had frodo realize that some wounds don't heal and go off and they really had sam not follow him. and they separated them. and i was like that can't be it and checked deep into the footnotes of the last book and i saw that it said after sam had lived out his life he got to go over the sea and it felt like someone punched me in the throat.

i looked it up on quora (the most reliable source ever clearly) jsut to clarify the details of this and i just want to quote something that some random guy said there.

"But given the central theme of Sam’s loyalty to his master Frodo Tolkien would have wanted them to live their last few years together. And I suspect they both would have died together."

GOD. MAN.

of course they would. god god god god god

"don't go where i can't follow" and he goddamn didn't. and he didn't. lotr is about sacrifice and lotr is about love. to me. and it is about devotion in the strongest sense of the word. i wish some day that i could create something as simple and eternal as that. for me fantasy is a way of extending the things that we as humans already feel and basically putting them on drugs and i love love love everything about it so much

i have never had an intense lotr phase and i've never done anything for it but please know i'm always thinking about it. not just sam and frodo eityher i'm thinking about all of them éowen my beloved her and faramir only straight couple with rights ever. and like the scene where faramir charges while pippin sings like the imagery is STUNNING and yeah that's all :3

[yeastussy]

okay i know this might shock some people. but i’m watching lord of the rings for the first time 😵‍💫 i’ve read so many analyses of it tho that im recalling things that aren’t even in the movies as im watching (like lore from the similarion and textual elements). upwards of 7 times probably i’ve turned to my roommate and been like that’s a meme.

[pandalilysbox]

bruh I’ve been alive for over a decade and I still haven’t been sent on an adventure to help Frodo destroy the ring, gotten my Hogwarts letter, had a satyr show up at my house and take me to Camp Half-Blood, discovered I’m an elf from the Lost Cities, gone to Narnia via wardrobe, gotten kidnapped by the School Master to go to the School For Good And Evil, or attended my Choosing Ceremony

ALL I WANT IS TO ESCAPE THIS TERRIBLE WORLD AND GO INTO A DIFFERENT ONE IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK

[smallblueandloud]

Here’s how confusing this book is - it requires detailed charts. (I’m so mad at @tinychildcollector for lending it to me.)

[gimblestank-the-goblin]

The similarion was never finished during Tolkien's life, and is composed of a collection of his writings/plans. It's statements on any of the world of the middle-earth are by definition unfinished an

Not posting this as a reblog because I don't want to screw with somebody else's notes, but the whole "theological implications of Tolkien's orcs" business has some interesting history behind it.

In brief, a big part of why the Lord of the Rings Extended Universe™ is so cagey about what orcs are and where they come from is that later in his life, Tolkien came to believe that orcs as he'd depicted them were problematic – albeit not because of, you know, all the grotesque racial caricature.

Rather, he'd come to the conclusion that the idea of an inherently evil sapient species – a species that's incapable of seeking salvation – was incompatible with Christian ethics. Basically, it's one of those "used the wrong formula and got the right answer" situations.

In his notes and letters, Tolkien played around with several potential solutions to this problem. (Though contrary to the assertions of certain self-proclaimed Tolkien scholars, there's no evidence that he ever seriously planned to re-write his previous works to incorporate these ideas.) In one proposal, orcs are incarnated demons, and "killing" them simply returns them to their naturally immaterial state; in another, orcs are a sort of fleshy automaton remotely operated by the will of Sauron, essentially anticipating the idea of drone warfare.

Of course, this is all just historical trivia; any criticism of The Lord of the Rings must be directed at the books that were actually published, not the books we imagine might have been published if Tolkien had spent a few more years thinking through the implications of what he was writing. However, the direction of his thoughts on the matter is striking for two reasons:

Tolkien's orc conundrum is very nearly word for the word the problem that many contemporary fantasy authors are grappling with fifty years later. They want epic battles with morally clean heroes, and they're running up against exactly the same difficulty that Tolkien himself did – i.e., that describing a human-like species who are ontologically okay to kill is an impossible task.

After all the work he put into solving this impossible problem, one of Tolkien's proposals was literally just "what if they're not really killing the orcs, they're just sending them to the Shadow Realm?"

[oldladyblogs]

I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things

Confession: I saw the movies before I read the book. And on first view, I didn't like the movies--I was too young and the Moria troll scene scared me. But I got a bit older, watched the movies again, and LOVED them. Then I read the books, didn't understand them, and went back to the movies. Got a little older--I remember reading the books first in middle school and then in high school--and something just clicked.

Though Frodo and Sam aren't actually my favorite characters, their love for each other is really inspiring. However you see it (I personally view it as a deep platonic friendship), I've always wanted a love like that in my life. I hope I mean that much to someone one day, and that's the main reason I chose this quote above all others. It's simple yet meaningful and I think it's rather powerful, for all its plainness.

I had a bit of a rough time deciding how I wanted this panel to look. When I first started rereading the books for this project, I thought I'd pick a quote from Gimli, one of my favs, so I was thinking like. A square, dwarfish border with like, axes or something, and a big quote. But the more I read, the more I hated that idea. I finally chose a (slightly modified free pattern) mountain, since Sam and Frodo spend 90% of their time crossing them. Plus, coming from the Midwest, mountains very much represent the ultimate "adventure" for me (that and REALLY big trees. The oceans I couldn't care less about, I have the great lakes which are basically the same thing, especially Michigan). I did make the border a bit more elvish though, since LOTR is like, the epitome of elfness for me and a lot of other people, I assume.

Finished this panel the middle of May 2019, and it was fairly easy from start to finish. It's one of my favorites (the design, the font, and the quote all go together well, I think) and is also one of the few panels that DOESN'T have a mistake on it :)

[higheverweave]

Real Quotes from my fantasy lit class:

(We are discussing Tolkien.)

The presenter: What’s the difference between elves and dwarves I’ll give you a few minutes

Me: ELVES ARE HOT!

(Please ban me.)

[writterings]

thorin in the hobbit movies: *introduced alone and in a majestic way when bilbo opens the door and i think dramatic music plays*

thorin in the hobbit book: *introduced by falling flat on his face and pouting about it so much that our anxiety-ridden hobbit apologizes until he says it’s fine*

[tam-song-the-shade]

Me who for a whole year, pronounced it “Similarion”

Guess who finished reading the Silmarillion today? Me :) I believe it is safe to say that I am a changed person. Well, that and the fact that I should get an award or something for how many times I looked at the Appendices so I could figure out who the heck this random (not so random) character is. So yeah.

Me reading the Silmarillion be like:

Anyways, yeah

[multirem]

OUT: if anyone wants to give me a Thran for my little baby oc elvenqueen i will love you 5ever okay.

[thewhitehotspotlight]

The thing is that Dean is absolutely a big LOTR fan (Led Zepp and literature fan? He's read all the books including the Similarion and extended info. Nerd.) but he rarely rereads or watches the movies because the "Frodo wouldn't have got far without Sam." exchange and the Faramir Boramir storylines wreck him for a few days afterwards.