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Translating the Song of Beren and Luthien into Sindarin!
i laid nî ann, in glae nî calen
i saew-lûth tond a bain
a mi i lant - ae! - calad
o giliath mi doath silivren
Tinúviel nî lilt ennas
an linnas o thibin altirad
a galad o giliath nî mi finnathdeith
a mi hammadeith silivren
ennas Beren tùliel o ered ring
a dom ranë nu lais
a mivan i heb-edhil duin nornt
padantë air a nírol
cenë mi i saew-lais
a tírant di elven mellys
po colldeith a rainc-hammadeith
a finnadeith sui dae aphadol
elven nestant taildeid lom
han thar emyn nî amarthan an rain
a e rongantë, thalion a lim
a mabant na aglannim o ithil celair
tre-remmen glad mi Neldoreth
is colui horthant na lilthatail
a lefn Beren air eno an rain
mi i dínen tawar lastad
lhaent ennas rem i rimp law
o tail colui sui melhûn-galadh lais
egor linnas eithela nucae
mi thurin gryd potha
hi thern hoda i saew-thrimpim
a mîn-ar-mîn na fírlaw
na lhoss dannant i neldor-lais
mi i rhîw-taur potha
e cestant ín him, raun haer
mivan lais o íniath nî delch hodant
ar calad o ithil a aglann o el
mí menel sui hell potha
colldeith glînnant mîn i ithilgalad
ir bo amoncaw raud a haer
Tinúviel lilthant, a na taildeith nî hodant
hîth o celeb potha
ir rhîw lúda, ad-tolantë
a linnë leithiant i bragol ethuil
sui orthad amrent, a dannad ross
a medhiant nen gwelch
tírantë i edhellys eithela
os taildeith, a ad-cyrant
anírantë arë an lilt a linnon
or i glae algumri
adribant dîn ach lim tolantë
Tinúviel! Tinúviel!
estannenë in di edhel-enethdeith
a tass dîn darant lastad
min luig tarant dîn, a lûth
glimdeid caedant bo dîn: Beren tolant
a amarth dannant bo Tinúviel
han mi raincë hodant silivren
ir Beren cennant mî hent dîn
mîn i dúaith o fingimdeith
i potha gilgalad o i menel
tírantë ennas cenedrilant silivren
Tinúviel i edhel-bain
alfirin gwen edhel-sael
os Beren hantant gwathui fingimdeith
a rainc sui celeb silivren
annan nî i yr amarth ti colant
thar sarn emyn ring a mith
tre-rynd o ang a morn fen
a taurim o dúath alordolel
i sathantgaer mi ti hodant
a ach na vedui ti ad-govannen
a annan-ia ti gwanwen
mi i taur lindant alnaeras
#eglerieth#tolkien#lotr#silmarillion#lord of the rings#sindarin#elvish#tale of beren and luthien#luthien tinuviel#song of Beren and Luthien#luthien#beren#tinuviel#Silm
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If you don't mind, I would like to ask:
Are there any happy or joyful moments between Noa and Mae?
Such as Mae singing childhood songs, those rhytmic ones? Or dancing around the campfire? Maybe Noa telling humorous tales from his childhood or him having contagious laugh so Mae laughs too?
It's just that they deserve some happy moments too.
I don't mind at all! I agree, they definitely deserve some happy moments :''')
I assume you're asking about my headcanons; I like to imagine Noa would show Mae how to care for the eagles! He'd teach her the clan's songs and the stories behind them; then he finds out she sings pretty well (Freya Allan has a beautiful singing voice btw) and asks about human songs.
So Mae turns to the old children's tunes and nursery rhymes kept alive in the bunker's archives (maybe her mom sang some to her when she was a kid). Maybe Noa finds the meanings funny or confusing, but either way, he's curious about human music XD
I also headcanon that she teaches Noa (plus Soona and Anaya) how to dance! I don't know if Eagle Clan has any dances, but Mae would show them the "swaying side to side" method loll In turn, Noa teaches Mae how to climb better XD
Thanks for the ask! I love thinking about these two <333
#asks#river-town-citizen#the idea of them dancing around a campfire made me think of a more shippy idea loll#my tolkien side is coming out hahahaa#gonna give noa and mae some beren and luthien vibes XD#mae attempts to dance in secret one day because she's self-conscious#but noa finds her and watches in awe#“he peered between the hemlock leaves / and saw in wonder flowers of gold”#“upon her mantle and her sleeves / and her hair like shadow following” - song of beren and luthien#i'm a big tolken fan btw XD beren and luthien are my otp!#kingdom of the planet of the apes#kotpota#planet of the apes#pota#kotpota noa#kotpota mae#noa#mae
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luthien based off edith tolkien
#my art#art#lord of the rings#the silmarillion#the silm art#luthien#beren and luthien#tolkien#j r r tolkien#the song of beren and luthien#i know luthien is already based on edith but i meant i referenced her picture when drawing luthien#specifically the hairstyle and clothing#procreate
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-The Song of Beren and Luthien by J.R.R Tolkien
#The last lines of the beren and luthien song just scream zelink to me#And I've been in a bit of a Zelda mood so here you go#Lotr#Legend of Zelda#Loz#silmarillion#tolkien#Link#Zelda#Zelink#botw zelink#totk zelink
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Pick a ship and a song! 🛳️ 🎵
#I recommend each song!#silm#Silmarillion#lotr#lord of the rings#the hobbit#Beren and Luthien#elwing x earendil#elwing#earendil#glorestor#Russingon#Silvergifting#feanel#feanor#nerdanel#arawen#aragorn#Arwen#samfro#farawyn#bagginshield#Tolkien#Tolkien polls
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Tinúviel the Elven-fair
Immortal maiden Elven-wise
About him cast her shadowy hair
And arms like silver glimmering
(Click for better quality)
#tolkien#lotr#lord of the rings#the silmarillion#the silm#the song of beren and luthien#luthien#luthien tinuviel#tolkien fanart#silmarillion fanart#artists on tumblr#digital art#my art
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nothing lasts forever but it might come back around
beren and lúthien and a very well-earned moment of quiet
#beren#luthien#tolkien fanart#silmarillion fanart#caption from nightingale by the morningsiders. i've got a song and i don’t fear sadness!!!#subcreation#it’s fine it’s fiiiine i can redo it in a few years and be proud of how i’ve improved
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Lúthien Tinúviel
The leaves were long,
the grass was green,
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
And in the glade a light was seen
Of stars in shadow shimmering.
Tinúviel was dancing there
To music of a pipe unseen,
And light of stars was in her hair,
And in her raiment glimmering.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
#tolkien#silm#silmarillion#the silmarillion#beren and luthien#luthien tinuviel#luthien#tinuviel#the song of beren and luthien#the lay of leithian#fanart#tolkien fanart#silm fanart#silmarillion fanart#my art
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if i dont post anything of this wip i'll go insane. what is it about the leithian that makes me want to make animatics for it?
song from @sewn-with-lilies-fair's commission of an english version of the lay of leithian musical's luthien lullaby
#silmarillion#luthien#morgoth#lay of leithian#wip#animatic wip#anyway thank you again sewn-with-lillies-fair for encouraging my public insanity over this song#im posting this bc i took a break from cleaning up sketches to shade lmao#beren#in wolf form#in wolf skin??#i wish more arts involved the insanity of bluthien wearing their enemies skins as disguises#lol the rock opera
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playing with music and storyboarding <3
#silmart#beren and luthien#luthien tinuviel#thingol#tolkien#my art#song is the wanting comes in waves / repaid by the decemberists
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I was researching something completely unrelated but I passingly saw that hemlock means mortality in Victorian and modern flower language. And my brain immediately thought of the ‘Song of Beren and Lúthien’ in FotR, specifically the first stanza:
The leaves were long, the grass was green,
The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,
And in the glade a light was seen
Of stars in shadow shimmering.
Tinúviel was dancing there
To music of a pipe unseen,
And light of stars was in her hair,
And in her raiment glimmering.
Hemlock is the third element im the description of the glade Lúthien is dancing in, even before we learn her name. We have the long leaves, the green grass and the tall hemlock; two elements traditionally associated with spring and youth, and one heavily associated with death. In two verses we know everything there is to know about Lúthien: she’s youthful and she’s going to die.
The hemlock appears again in the second stanza:
There Beren came from mountains cold,
And lost he wandered under leaves,
And where the Elven-river rolled
He walked alone and sorrowing.
He peered between the hemlock-leaves
And saw in wonder flowers of gold
Upon her mantle and her sleeves,
And her hair like shadow following.
This stanza is from Beren’s point of view, looking at Lúthien. And fact he looks at her through the hemlock leaves tells us he is mortal. Beren looks at Lúthien through the lens of a mortal gaze, and thinks her otherworldly. There is an added layer to it because, in Victorian flower language, hemlock not only means mortality but also more specifically ‘you will be my death’. And, indeed, Beren dies in his quest to obtain Lúthien’s hand.
The last occurrence of hemlock in this song is in the fourth stanza:
He heard there oft the flying sound
Of feet as light as linden-leaves,
Or music welling underground,
In hidden hollows quavering.
Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves,
And one by one with sighing sound
Whispering fell the beechen leaves
In the wintry woodland wavering.
I find this stanza more difficult to analyse from a symbolic point of view since it’s mostly a description of autumn and winter coming, but it certainly puts emphasis on the importance of this plant in Beren and Lúthien’s story. As I interpret it, and this is my personal reading, it is an allusion to Beren and Lúthien growing old together and Lúthien choosing to die along Beren.
In The Tale of Tinúviel, the hemlock is also extremely important in the introduction of Tinúviel, and it is more or less a description in much more details of what is hinted at in the Song of Beren and Lúthien from FotR. I can’t put the quote because it’s in French but, very roughly, it says that the hemlock is so tall and dense it looks like Tinúviel is dancing on a white cloud. Then, when Tinúviel sees Beren, she hides under a very tall hemlock and her white dress makes her disappear in the hemlock, looking like moonlight on the flowers. The imagery used in this scene is absolutely beautiful and I can’t make it justice, but what is important is that, upon their first meeting, Tinúviel is metaphorically surrounded by mortality. She is an Elf yet she will die. And Beren, who is an elf too in this version (a Gnome, the proto-Noldor, and I struggle not to picture him as a garden gnome), is doomed to die too from the moment he walks amongst the hemlock in search of Tinúviel.
Last but not least is the Lay of Leithian. Sadly, I don’t have the full Lay of Leithian so I can’t look at the meeting scene but, in an extract given in the French translation of Beren and Lúthien (Christian Bourgois, 2017) it is said that Lúthien wears white roses in her hair (Canto VI, verses 116-117) and there are a few other mentions of unspecified white flowers. White roses mean ‘I am worthy of you’, withered white roses mean ‘transient impressions’, white rosebuds mean ‘girlhood’ and a crown of roses ‘reward of virtue’. I don’t really know what to do with these informations since I don’t have the original text so I can’t say how accurate the translation is, but all of this enhance Lúthien’s ethereal, eternally youthful appearance. It also shows the association of Lúthien with white and light in opposition to Morgoth’s black darkness, I think. But I don’t doubt for a second that the hemlock is an important part of the place where Beren and Lúthien’s meeting.
Anyways, I just love digging this kind of rabbit holes in Tolkien’s poetry, because it gives us so much insight on the characters, and I am almost sure that Tolkien, who grew up in late Victorian England and loved nature, knew of the meaning of hemlock or he wouldn’t have insisted so much on it. I’d love to see if there is a paper out there about flower language/symbolism in Tolkien’s work because I am sure there is so much more of it than what I looked at today.
Sources:
https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Song_of_Beren_and_L%C3%BAthien
https://www.gardeningchannel.com/flower-meanings-dictionary-from-a-to-z-the-secret-victorian-era-language-of-flowers/
J. R. R. Tolkien, Beren et Lúthien, Christian Bourgois, 2017
And as a bonus, the Song of Beren and Lúthien in music by Clamavi de Profundis: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=11_aneHVaz8&list=PLR5qYNG5Nf7WFbZ6wr-rr7gDnALA4C8mQ&index=19&pp=iAQB8AUB
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#tolkien#the silmarillion#lay of leithian#beren and luthien#the lay of leithian#the tale of tinúviel#beren#lúthien#lúthien tinúviel#flower language#hemlock#lotr poetry#tolkien song#tolkien meta#half baked ramblings by a sleep deprived tolkien fan#Youtube
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thinking of rereading the entirety of HoME again. for my health
#‘for my health’ says the woman who has been struggling so much she’s barely read a book in the last half year lmao#silmarillion#(eh close enough)#tolkien#personal#also because I got so viscerally appalled when someone the other day tried to claim that ‘the second age has a lot less written about it tha#n the first age’ like I beG YOUR PARDON LMAO WHOMST#clearly someone hasn’t read unfinished tales 🙂↔️ clearly someone hasn’t read the entirety of HoME 🙂↔️#and like obviously idc idc I’m not a completionist truther read as much or as little of a fandom as you want enjoy what you want etc.#but when I went ‘oh there’s actually a lot in unfinished tales and in the home! it’s rly fascinating and fun and some of my favorites have y#ou had a chance to check it out ever?’ this person rly had the audacity to say they’ve ’read some of the unfinished tales’ like hm. somethin#tells me I don’t believe you lmao#I have never once in my life heard someone call. unfinished tales. the book. titled unfinished tales. ‘the unfinished tales’ like lmao what#anyways. it’s okay to admit you haven’t read something babe I was actually gonna recommend a few parts of that book and HoME you might enjoy#but 💋 okay then 💋#also normally I’d give ppl the benefit of the doubt but this person is Like This TM a lot and always has to outdo others & im over it lmao#but also also anyways. I am not immune to the HoME rereleased editions with that gorgeous artwork they are calling me and I am weak to#resist their siren song 😭😂 they’re so beautiful but each set of like 3-4 books (some have 3 some have 4 and the last one also has an index)#are like. over $100 each lmao ripppp.#I do own a few of the HoME but I don’t own all of them and. aaaaaa I need a complete reread#13 yo me 🤝🏻 late 20s yo me : going ‘hmm life is crazy maybe I need to immerse myself in the obscurent most dense Tolkien lore I possibly can#and yknow what. we’re so right. we’re so right#the history of middle earth#unfinished tales#and that conversation. as weird and posturing as that person was being. did get me reminiscing about my HoME obsessed days and I was like aw#I should revisit that :)#sometime self care is rereading 12 volumes of obscure lore about a fictional world with no one to talk with it about#anyways home my beloved. unfinished tales my beloved. love those books#obviously OBVIOUSLY I love the silmarillion and LOTR and the hobbit and beren and luthien etc etc ad infinitum as well! ofc! I just. I love#all of them ♡ hehe ♡
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everytime you kissed me is such a good song for the fairytale-esque tragedy vibes of thingol/melian, beren/luthien, and dior/nimloth. melian thinking of thingol as she waits for his re-embodiment, luthien thinking of beren as she slowly dies of grief over his death, and nimloth thinking of dior as she laments how she can never reach him beyond the circles of the world
#they kill me :)))#also this song is just so so so beautiful everyone please listen to it i beg#elu thingol#elwe singollo#thingol#melian#melian the maia#thingol x melian#beren#beren erchamion#luthien tinuviel#luthien#lúthien tinúviel#lúthien#beren and luthien#beren x luthien#beren x lúthien#the lay of leithian#nimloth#nimloth of doriath#dior eluchil#dior#dior eluchíl#dior x nimloth#tolkien tag#tolkien#the silmarillion#lotr#jrr tolkien
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Hi! New on Tumblr, finally daring to jump into the abyss and join the insanity! I’m a scientist IRL but mostly an artist and nerd, here to share and enjoy art and nerdy topics! Here’s a selection of some of my favorite pieces, and to see more check out my Cara profile: https://cara.app/nerdylizard
I love Tolkien, Brandon Sanderson, Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, Doctor Who, and more! My OCs are mostly from Lord of the Rings Online, with some D&D, and I absolutely love doing commission art!
#doctor who#brandon sanderson#mistborn#stormlight archive#fanart#stormlight fanart#star trek#river song#dungeons and dragons#critical role#the mighty nein#tolkien#silmarillion#the silmarillion#silm art#maedhros#luthien#varda elentari#elbereth#valar#marvel#captain carter#captain america#finrod#finrod felagund#silm#luthien tinuviel#beren and luthien#beren#lord of the rings
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A Million Dreams' "However big, however small, let me be part of it all. Share your dreams with me. You may be right, you may be wrong, but say that you'll bring me along" has Beren and Lùthien written all over it and I love it for that.
#Such a fantastic song in general#silmarillion#tolkien#beren and luthien#A million dreams#the greatest showman#beren x luthien
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In the midst of the fighting, they were swept apart and Daeron was taken by force. He was brought to Tol-in-Gaurhoth, for Sauron’s machinations ran deep. But in despair, Beren hounded their steps, even to the gates of the fortress.
The Book of Unfinished Tales Tolkien Never Actually Wrote
#the silmarillion#silm crack#daeron#beren#beren x daeron#aus i’ll never write#this is seconds before he’s gagged so he can’t sing himself free#I had a vague idea for this au#something something morgoth was collecting/killing the most powerful elven singers#since they’re threats to him and he could possibly twist them into weapons against the elves#so finrod’s already in prison somehow and allies with daeron#beren gets luthien’s help since Maglor’s on the hitlist#(yes there has to be magluth)#aaaand somehow they all end up defeating morgoth with song#idk#fun stuff#my art#songbird au#tolkien art
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