#there WILL be elvish history!!! on feanor's own fucking terms!!!!

[nyenyerle]

#when thinking abt fëanor as devoted to craft one must not forget the tengwar! #writing preserves oral speech the same way the silmarils preserve the light of the trees! #in a society where the trees are not expected to die and everyone remembers everything forever this seems extremely unnecessary! #UNLESS you are the only guy ever who has experienced your mother Dying and then. i don’t want to say being overwritten but there’s def some #sort of erasure of memory going on there #i don’t think it’s a coincidence either that parallel to tengwar as able to create a written record miriel ends up Preserving Memory via the #visual record of weaving. but also if i think too hard abt text/textile stuff i’ll explode #anyway. which member of this family invented darkroom photography. i need to know!!! - @catilinas

Suppose: Feanor grows up devoted to mastering his artistry and his craft not just because it’s an inherently Noldorin thing to be an artist/creator but because to him it’s an inherently Miriel thing. The more elevated his craft becomes, the closer he feels he is to his mother. When the Silmarils are stolen, the theft compounds not only the murder of Feanor’s father, but inflicts a second loss of his mother, and the Valar—of course—realize none of this. But Melkor did.

[nyenyerle]

#my other thought about textile is that sarati is written from top to bottom #so when feanor made the tengwar which is written horizontally... that's like noldor vs. vaire the weaver #there WILL be elvish history!!! on feanor's own fucking terms!!!! those mataphysical looms in mandos arent real and can't hurt you

guess who just learned about the etymology of subtle a year after saying this